Tech Giant, Google, is integrating Google Assistant and Calendar reminders in its Google Tasks App in its latest step of the application clean-up drive. The firm took this decision to make it seamless for users to manage their tasks and reminders from any of these three applications by unifying its to-do systems.
Currently, you can create several types of ‘reminders’ in the Google Assistant, Calendar, and Tasks apps. However, they are not utilized in the same way from every app or stored within all three.
As of now, Google Tasks, which was first released as a standalone application in 2018, operates in its box. Users can create tasks and subtasks as per their requirements. They can also set reminders in the iOS and Android apps using a side panel in Gmail or Google Drive on the web. Even though, those don’t get displayed on Assistant’s reminders. Besides this, Google Calendar has two distinct options to create tasks and reminders which could create confusion for users.
Google is focusing on changing this with an update that will be launched in the upcoming months. Once this feature is incorporated, it will display in both the Tasks and Calendar lists when the user sets a reminder with Google Assistant. They will also receive notification for the task completion reminder at the set time.
All they have to do is open the notification to move their reminders into Google Tasks so that they can oversee all their to-do items in one place. Google will question the users if they want to ‘try the new Tasks experience’. When they tap on this notification, the user will be allowed to move their currently existing reminders into the Tasks application.
In the coming months, Google claimed that the users will see a prompt to try out this whole new integrated task experience when they use the Calendar or Assistant application. To add to this, the firm will also eliminate the Calendar reminders options once the transition is completed.
“Soon, we’ll be simplifying our task management solutions by migrating Assistant and Calendar Reminders to Google Tasks. This means you will now have an easy way to view and manage all your to-dos in one place through Google Tasks, regardless of whether you create them using Assistant or Calendar,” the company said in a blog post.
Source: techcrunch.com
Product Manager, Ilya Brown wrote in a blog post, “We are continuing to invest in Google Tasks and expand its capabilities to help you capture, organize and accomplish all you have to get done. Moving reminders into Google Tasks is one step closer to helping people effortlessly get things done, and we are so excited to bring it to you.”
Source: metro.co.uk
What are Google Tasks?
You have heard of the integration of the above-mentioned app. But do you know what is tasks app and how it works? You might not know but it will be home to your Google reminders soon. Well, here is the detailed explanation below.
You can utilize the tasks app to create a central to-do list when you are using a particular Google app. If you are using Gmail or Sheets, you can create a ‘task’ by tapping on a circled checkmark logo.
On your desktop, it will show a sidebar where you can fill in the details of your task like name, time, and date. Your new task will be generated after clicking on the ‘Save’ option.
Every user initiates his Task experience with one task list by default while you can create more if you find them helpful.
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