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A new Google Tasks and an older Excel/Tasks life goal system
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Posted by jaslar
Jul 25, 2018 at 02:11 PM
Like many of you, I veer between simple and complex. I used to use Google Tasks, then drifted away. A revamped version is now available, and I found this article from June to be interesting. Tasks has some new features, and is popping up in most ecosystems.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/five-killer-ways-to-use-google-tasks/
This is an older article that uses a mashup of Excel and Tasks in a pretty elegant way.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/use-excel-and-google-tasks-to-create-the-best-goals-management-tool-ever/
Posted by Ken
Jul 25, 2018 at 03:44 PM
jaslar wrote:
Like many of you, I veer between simple and complex. I used to use
>Google Tasks, then drifted away. A revamped version is now available,
>and I found this article from June to be interesting. Tasks has some new
>features, and is popping up in most ecosystems.
>https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/five-killer-ways-to-use-google-tasks/
>
The link takes me to an article from 2013. Is there a more current article you were referencing?
—Ken
Posted by Dellu
Jul 25, 2018 at 09:51 PM
>I was looking for a more broad approach, where you start out with general life goals, and then work your way down to the individual daily tasks.
I cannot say about his solution. But, I find this description exactly is my problem as well with current task managers (GDT in general). These tools blindfold me to the “task” level leaving out the big picture. That is unfortunate because we can accomplish thousands of tasks that can take us nowhere towards our core goals.
Posted by Luhmann
Jul 26, 2018 at 03:35 AM
One thing that might make Google Tasks useful for me is being able to link to emails, but if I link an email to a task on the desktop, that link doesn’t appear in the iPhone version of the app…
Posted by nathanb
Jul 26, 2018 at 12:50 PM
If you want strong gmail integration and find the new google tasks too basic, then give Gqueues a look. That was my favorite task manager for a while and I was always impressed by it’s gcal/gmail/gdocs integration and its rock-solid design/performance. I also get the impressing that moo.do is one of the best task managers for google integration but haven’t used it.
I’m using todoist because it integrates well with desktop Outlook at work.