Get On Task Tuesday: Google Calendar
Posted by melting on Jun 9, 2009
As an engineer and computer scientist I am both lazy and exacting. I look to find tool to help me do everything. One tool that I have looked for throughout the years is a great task list or todo list program. I will save what I want in such a program for a different post, but be rest assured that no ordinary task list would suffice.
Today while I was using Google Calendar I noticed a new feature. They tend to pop up at the top menu in red.
TASKS!!!
I know, you say Google has been playing with tasks in GMail and iPhone for awhile now, but it is a completely different concept when they add it to calendar. First it says that this is not just a side project in the labs of GMail just to be ripped away at any moment. Well then again it is Google.
All of your tasks are added to the daily summary at the top of the day and can be checked off individually. Just as expected you can drag them around to any day that they should be completed. Editing is simple and adding is as easy as selecting event or task. If you are already used to the nested tag list in GMail, well it can show up on the right.
As you would expect I have not fallen in love over this new feature either. First all of your list show up as only one calendar to show or hide as needed. My task tool needs to work for home and for work. Well a different way to accomplish this is by select which list from the tasks menu on the right. This might work if you have just one list for work and one list for home but not many for each as I do.
One last issue that doesn’t make sense to me. If you put a due date for an item that has sub-tasks well only the items that have a due date will show up on the calendar. This destroys the whole part of breaking a task into smaller pieces.
Google is now currently in the lead for my favorite task list, but mostly due to convenience. Perhaps it will be replaced by whatever is next in my somewhat weekly post Get On Task Tuesday.
