With the Gmail interface update, Google has also renewed another of its oldest, albeit less known and less used online services than Gmail: Google Tasks. Google Tasks is a web application with almost 10 years of service, which has always remained a bit in the shadows and always integrated even if not too visibly, in Gmail and in Google Calendar.
As I wrote in a guide 7 years ago, Google Tasks can be used to create lists of activities, events and online appointments, even if up to now it has always been weakened as there was no mobile app.
A little surprise Google has decided to dust off the old Tasks, give it a renewed general, make it more visible in the new Gmail (as a button on the bar on the right) and finally provide Google Tasks applications for Android smartphones and tablets, for iPhone and for iPad, so as to become a valid alternative to other agenda and reminder apps and to schedule appointments.
The Google Tasks mobile app can be downloaded for free in its Android version from the Google Play Store and for iPhone and iPad from iTunes.
To use Tasks, of course, you need to log in with a Google or Gmail account and all activities will then be synchronized within the account so that you can see and manage them from any device, whether PC, mobile phone or tablet.
Tasks' interface is minimalist, beautiful and clean, very easy to use.
You can then create a new activity by giving it only a name or, by touching it again, you can add details and description, secondary activities and date (but not the time)
By adding the date, you can receive notifications as a reminder for a marked appointment.
Each activity can be archived by pressing the dot to mark it as completed, so as to remove it from the list.
To-do lists are like shopping lists, where you can schedule appointments.
You can create an infinite number of new activity lists by tapping on the app's hamburger icon in the lower left corner and tapping Create new list .
In this way it is possible to distinguish, for example, between professional activities and home activities.
From the same menu it is possible to switch from one list to another.
This screen also allows you to switch to a different Gmail account.
You can easily move activities to activity lists using the drop-down menu above the activity name.
However, each activity can only be marked up in a list.
From the button at the bottom right, however, you can choose to view the appointments marked in a different order, to rename the current list and delete all completed tasks.
Activities and appointments added to the Google Tasks application are visible in Gmail by pressing the Tasks button (on the right bar), both in Google Calendar, choosing to display the Tasks.
Note that in Gmail, by expanding the Google Tasks column, you can drag the email with the mouse to turn them into activities and keep them as a reminder.
This is perhaps the best utility for this application.
There is nothing else, at the moment, in this super simplified dating app, which unfortunately does not yet integrate with the Google voice assistant and not even with Google Keep (but I think they will be soon).
