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Francesco here welcome to the Keep Productive YouTube channel if you're brand new and if your regular
Welcome back so in today's video. We are diving into Google Tasks for iOS
I wanted to talk about the application as well as share a little bit about the web version as well
And the web version isn't exactly available in for however the gmail extension
Does provide a pretty much a window into that experience so today?
I'm going to be showing you the iOS version going through some of my opinions on the application
And I'm actually gonna do a separate video
Recommended by one of you guys are all about a Google ecosystem because that has dramatically changed maybe in the last month or so
especially with the introduction of new Gmail and also sort of like the
Extensions they've brought to the experience so we will be discussing that do not worry
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it is pretty much the same experience on Android and
Just to know I will be getting an Android phone soon so more Android reviews will be coming so Google Tasks is
Trying to keep it very simple when you go onto the application you have the options of
Obviously seeing a variety of lists that you have so you may pre created a few lists in the past
On good on G. Tasks they might have been transferred over
I know some might have and it's something that I'm not really sure
Works really great on this application, so once you start out you stand out with something called my tasks
Which is a list that they pre create for you?
Which will allow you to add a few tasks now hitting the add new tasks button at the bottom
will be able to add a task and you can add some simple task text and
using the plus button in that left-hand corner
You can add almost like a description to some extent some like notes or details below each task as well as adding a due date
Or a completion date, which will allow you to schedule an item, which works absolutely brilliantly
And once you've got them obviously adds it to the list
I've obviously created a multitude of Lists you can add more lists and have different lists running
In the past I actually used weirdly, I think Gmail tasks
In actual email as a task, but that was a long long time ago like maybe even three or four years ago
And I'm not sure how they brought that in but they are available through the application
I think that that's something they will do focus more on creating tasks through Gmail emails
And that's sort of like a bit of my thoughts in the ecosystem
But within a task you can actually change the list so if you're like okay
I've acts in credit in this one. It needs to switch we quickly switch over
that's not that's all possible you can annotate as well as subtasks now of course these subtasks work very similar to
I would say with the Microsoft certitude steps and a new addition
And it works really simply
but once you're on that sort of home view or the list view you actually see the top tasks, and there's no actual option to
Minimize them, so you will see actually the sub tasks below each of the tasks now this actually works fine
And it does what it says on the tin if you know what I mean now one thing
I would say I really like about this application is a design. It's really clean
It's really simple if you're looking for something dead simple then this might be the application for you
Especially the I'm not sure whether it's Roboto design
Of the text or maybe it's just Google's own font
I'm really behind on their fonts at the moment
But it looks great and especially the illustrations on the list so they're empty or when you get to
Complete all of the tasks, which I'll show you in a sec just looks fantastic
So that's one of the additions now on the right hand side you can sort by
My order so that's how what fixed ordering you had initially and also by date
You can also rename the list delete list or even delete all the completed items
So one note is that when you've completed a task it comes up almost as like a are pinned complete tab
Inside of your list and you can open it up and see the tasks are being completed
I quite like this, and I think it's a quite nice addition to some extent
But you can delete all of those really really easily
So it's great now if you want to you can of course and use another account by
Obviously going over to the left-hand menu bar and entity doing that
And of course you can add any new tasks that you do want
But this application is almost saying too many people is dead simple. There's really not much to it the web application
replicates pretty much a similar experience, but what I quite like about it above the
experience on iOS is that you've obviously got that there now the syncing abilities seem to work great and
Having the calendar nearby. This is something. I will talk more about in the Google ecosystem
Conversation is you can access a calendar right there?
so if you're like ok
actually when do I need to do those things you can access it all in one and
Now naturally many people have asked
It does Google Tasks challenge the likes of Google keep now of course Google keep
it does have checklist functionality and to some extent reminder functionality allowing you to
You could potentially have a checklist with a reminder on it and many people
Have obviously used that for task management for the last like hmm. Maybe three three years
I think it is since it got properly released
Three four years and so many people have been using that as a default
But now I would say this will take any of the task management out of it
Apart from maybe checklists like let's say you go on holiday
You can of course keep that in Google keep
But the the my theology around it and my personal thoughts are there Google keep should be for your note-taking now
With the idea that it's almost like post-it notes like not all of the time would I put tasks on post-it notes?
But Google Tasks is your checklists your to-do list for the morning
So it allows you to actually see what needs to get done versus keep is more of a referencing experience now
So that's a sort of
Paradigm shift that they've had there, but I would say that how does Google Tasks compared to Microsoft to do?
I would say Google tarsus slightly behind
only because inside of Microsoft to do they have
This mind a experience as well as the ability to
Suggest my day tasks
and I think that's slightly above what the experience in Google Tasks has I would say Google Tasks is like a
clean-cut
version of Microsoft to do to some extent open it slightly lower only because of that the
customizations aren't really not there where Microsoft to do does have the ability to actually change theme and
Change and add emoji and things like that of course you can an emoji in this
But I think it's it's really simple like I think Google Tasks. They're not actually releasing it
Fully on web gear actually explains. You know they are in
That stage where they are practicing whether they should fully release it
So they're my thoughts on Google Tasks for iOS as well as a little bit for web there
I hope you have for some comments and opinions because I'd really love to hear them
I will be doing that Google eco to assist the ecosystem one very soon
So do stay tuned for that guys because I do think that's a really interesting conversation
But I definitely will be talking very soon about that sort of whole thing. If you haven't seen the Gmail update
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