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Google Tasks

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What is Google Tasks?

Google Tasks, also available via a mobile app, aims to allow users to manage, capture, and edit tasks from anywhere, at anytime, with to-dos that sync across all devices. Integrates with Gmail and Google Calendar.

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What users are saying about Google Tasks.
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Google Task Manager Is Top-Notch

Incentivized
Shannen SorensonView profile
Insurance Broker in Sales at Hometown Insurance Center (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Google Tasks helps to keep my priority business ventures on track. Integrated with Google Calendar, I can easily add tasks and due dates, shift priorities, and manage projected timelines. Rather than writing everything down in a planner or loose Post-it notes, Google Tasks keeps my desk clear and reduces the need for printed materials. Google is my go-to for staying on track!

Pros

  • Daily reminders
  • Managing project timelines
  • To do list at your fingertips
  • Easily add tasks and check them off as you go

Cons

  • program visual aesthetics could be improved
  • Timer function
  • Adding multiple reminders

Return on Investment

  • freed up time that can be spent on other tasks
  • simplifies workstation startup operations
  • keeps projects moving forward

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft To Do

Other Software Used

Google Analytics, HawkSoft, Microsoft 365

Simple and clean task manager.

Verified User
Employee (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Google Tasks is great for simple tasks that I want to integrate with my Android phone and my Google account. It's a simple interface that doesn't get too complicated, and is a great place for me to write down what I need to get done and easily check them off without worrying about complex features.

Pros

  • Easy to add tasks.
  • Syncs with my android phone.
  • Desktop version.

Cons

  • Not a lot of complex features.
  • Not as visually appealing as some other apps.

Return on Investment

  • Easy to add stuff (and thus not forget stuff).
  • Seamless android and desktop integration.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Remember the Milk and monday.com

Other Software Used

Wrike

Easy and Free

Incentivized
Ann Korb
in Sales at entspannter erfolgreich (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Great integrated with other google products.
  • Easily accessible.
  • Works great in a team.

Cons

  • Different layout options.
  • More features in the tasks directly without switching platforms.

Most Important Features

  • To do lists.
  • Real time sharing.

Return on Investment

  • Tasks were not missed.
  • Less time spen[t] on emails.

Alternatives Considered

TickTick and Todoist: To-Do List & Task Manager

Other Software Used

TickTick, Todoist: To-Do List & Task Manager, Trello

Google Tasks is Ease, Integrated and Straightforward

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Google Tasks to summarize important topics that I need to address in important meetings, and to organize my appointments. I work as Software Engineer and Google Tasks also help me organize my projects tasks.

Pros

  • Summarize Topics
  • Schedule Appointments
  • General Notes
  • Project Managment

Cons

  • Subtasks
  • Recurrence
  • Mobile and Desktop Sync

Return on Investment

  • More speed to get daily tasks organize
  • Easy way to track notes and don't forget anything

Usability

Alternatives Considered

ClickUp, TickTick and Microsoft To Do

Great for personal use, not for company collaboration

Incentivized
Ethan Whitted
Project Manager in Product Management at Soma Games (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Google Tasks for keeping track of my personal tasks. As an organizational tool used in collaboration with other team members it does not work very well because it is too individual and not sophisticated enough. (Which is exactly how I want it for keeping track of my personal tasks.) A more complex project management tool like ClickUp is better for group task creation and management. I see other members within our team also using Google Tasks for their own personal task creation and management.

Pros

  • Simplicity
  • Integration with phones and other Google apps
  • Tactile feedback for checking off tasks
  • Keeping a history of past tasks/ adding details to existing tasks

Cons

  • No dedicated website, must be accessed through locations like Gmail's sidebar
  • The phone widget is buggy on certain phone models such as the Xiaomi Mi Note 10 Pro

Return on Investment

  • Personally, has managed over 1280 tasks for me in the past couple of years that I have been able to check off thanks to the app
  • Has accurately allowed me personally to schedule out tasks into the future that I want to get done but don't have the mental space currently to be trying to remember or do

Alternatives Considered

ClickUp