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so folks welcome back to another video
today we're going to dive into google
tasks and how to get started we're going
to overview how it works and also a
little bit more about how it interacts
with gmail allowing you to save any
emails you create as tasks now google
tasks is probably best for the folks
that are looking for a lightweight to-do
list application it's not going to be
anything as advanced as say to do a
synthetic however it will provide you a
way to take simple tasks down schedule
them for later and even create some nice
lists and you can use it free with any
of your google accounts including google
workspace now let's start with where you
can find google tasks you can actually
use it through web although it doesn't
have a dedicated web application you can
view it via google calendar or any of
the other google applications by using
it on the right hand side of the screen
so you almost get a little skinny
addition on the right hand side for you
to manage your tasks you can also
download it on ios and android and the
actual ios and android applications have
a really high rating as it's quite a
well-built application now before we
dive into some of the gmail and google
calendar event abilities let's start
with some of the basic functions so to
create some new tasks you can do it
through two different ways you can add
it to your my tasks area which is a
pre-created list and is essentially the
default list that you can create inside
of your google tasks or you can create a
brand new list creating a brand new list
is really simple and as you can see it's
empty when you get started now on the
mobile application you can press the
plus at the bottom to create a brand new
task and tasks can be added with simple
task titles and also you can add some
more detail which serves as a
description to add a little bit more
context now you can add a date and a
time and you can even set it to repeat
as well this is great for something that
you might do on a routine basis like
maybe even meditate or for something
that you need a due date on like an
assignment or a piece of work that
you're doing at work a lot of people
like the ability inside a google task
because it allows you to see it next to
say your emails your google calendar and
any other google services you and your
team might be using already now as you
can imagine creating a task is quite
easy and once you have it up there you
can do a few things when it comes to
sorting the order of them you can change
it to your order or the date and you can
even copy all the reminders to tasks as
well delete the list and rename it as
well now inside of the mobile
applications this is all that you can
really do but you can go inside a task
settings and change a few things in the
ios version like some of the defaults
that you might suggest and connect up
later now google tasks reminds me very
much of google keep although google keep
is a little bit further on it's a very
basic experience you get with this
application in terms of be able to
create lists and tasks themselves you
probably probably get more of advanced
experience even with something like
microsoft to do but what a lot of people
like is having everything in their
google ecosystem and even alongside
google keep as well so as you can
imagine one of the features that is
particularly famed inside of google keep
and for a lot of people who work with
google workspace is the ability to
create a task from an email now i'm also
going to touch on a little feature as
well which is beneficial for breaking
down a task so if you're inside a gmail
and you can bring up on the right hand
side of google tasks you can drag any
emails as a task inside of the account
now this will deep link it which
basically means that if you click into
that task it'll bring up that gmail
which is perfect when you're inside the
application for adding context or even
when you're inside of the web version
for bringing up that gmail extension now
inside of a task you can also go into
the detail change to details date and
time but also add something called
subtasks which is perfect for adding and
breaking down a particular project you
can also move the task to a list as well
in the mobile version and that's really
helpful as well as well as being able to
complete it which means it goes into
your completed section for the day now
when i mentioned google calendar google
calendar it does allow you whenever you
create an event if you've added a
specific time and date it will now
appear inside of your calendar which
appears if you don't select specific
time as an all-day event or if you
specifically choose a time it'll come up
alongside that a lot of people like this
because it helps them keep reminded of
what they need to focus on but a lot of
people don't like this because if you've
got something like google home and also
google calendar and also google tasks it
might become overwhelmed and a bit too
much
for example to be able to you know store
inside of your calendar so it's really
preferential but it's a nice addition if
you do want to embed that and connect up
with your google calendar so that gives
you a bit of an overview about how
google tasks works you can download it
on ios and android but all you need is
an active google account or an active
google workspace account to get started
and it does come with some really
helpful features for creating very
simple tasks and one of the killer
features is that gmail ability because a
lot of people struggle with emails but
my biggest note to you guys is that it
is a lightweight to do this application
so do note that when you're choosing the
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