Google asked users of
Google Tasks to submit their most-wanted features a few months ago, and now the ballots are in. Google’s announced a list of the top five requests, which would be welcome additions to the to-do list, currently accessible via the Google Calendar and Gmail:
- 1. A Tasks API and synchronization
- 2. Reminders and notifications
- 3. Recurring tasks
- 4. Shareable task lists
- 5. Visual distinction for overdue tasks
A Tasks API and synchronization, which heads the list, would let users spread their task lists across their favorite to-do apps. With just this one update, Google Tasks would be significantly more useful.
Various nags might be handy, too. For instance, we wouldn’t mind being reminded from time to time that a task has been languishing, untouched. Nor would it be too emotionally taxing to have some sort of visual distinction for tasks left undone.
Google Tasks has already been
useful, and these features could put it over the top, perhaps into indispensible territory.
Now if Associate Project Manager Dave Tattersall can spur the
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development team to implement these tasks, we’d be all set. Tattersall wouldn’t say exactly when we’ll see all five of these winners, only
stating that changes would be made at undesignated points “throughout the year.”
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