When Gmail Labs added a Task list to Gmail in December, it turned out to be an extremely popular feature. Now the Tasks app is going mobile, and is available on Android mobile phones and iPhones through the browser on those devices. Both of those browsers are based on Webkit). Simply point your mobile browser to gmail.com/tasks. If you’ve already installed Tasks on Gmail, they will show up automatically.
As you add or cross out tasks, they are automatically synced with your task list on Gmail. In addition to a stand-alone to-do list, you can also now convert e-mails into tasks. Unfortunately, you cannot yet share task lists with others or make lists if your mobile phone is not connected to the Internet. When the mobile version of Google Gears supports Android and the iPhone, offline capabilities will also be possible.
But this is going to be great for using your mobile phone as your to-do list. It is also significant in that Google is taking what was an added feature of Gmail and turning it into its own app. Pretty soon Tasks is going to need its own full-fledged destination site.
Here’s a demo video:
Gotta love the integration of tasks on the iphone. Many enhancements to gmail have made it one stop shop for instant access to documents, contacts and now tasks over past few months.
Love the checkmark icon for the iphone button.
I haven’t played with the Abdroid yet.
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Really nice! How about us using a google apps account? Anyone know when/if it works?
It would be nice if they did a applikation that could sync with tasks in gmail.
I wasn’t able to get it to work my adding in the /a/ into the http://mail.google.com/tasks/ link. So this might not be deployed for Google Apps.
But it worked great for my Gmail account.
Try http://mail.goo.../yourdomain.com
TechCrunch is a little over the top with there self referencing URLs.
I think I’ll stick with Zenbe Lists.
I agree. Zenbe lists isn’t perfect (you can’t move tasks from one list to another on the iphone app) but offline use is essential. I need to add to-do’s when i think of them or i’ll forget forever!
To be honest, I’d prefer it if Google made a iPhone app that users can build onto like Facebook Apps, it would be MUCH simpler to do.
Especially, http://www.yu.mu for Twitter Tools.
This Google App works nicely on the Nokia S60 browser on my Nokia N82 and my brothers Nokia N95. Hope it works too on the Nokia Tube 5800 that my kid brother has ordered.
Link in the post is not correct. Should be http://mail.google.com/tasks
Eh, Remember the milk is far better. At least my entire life isn’t swallowed up by the Google
Also works fine on Windows Mobile!
Once again.. the platforms with the 2 smallest market shares are chosen. Apparently the iphone rendered developers incapable of understanding numbers. Symbian and Windows Mobile are both far larger than either Android or the iphone.
idiot. in 5 years, symbian will be seen only in africa
Quality african things seem to do quite well in USA.
As I mentioned above, it does work on Windows Mobile. However it doesn’t have reordering and I don’t think you can create a new list (though the iPhone video doesn’t show that kind of functionality either).
@Niraj – creating new lists from iPhone works fine for me. So far this seems functional enough.
Windows Mobile is obsolete garbage. Why try to resuscitate someone who’s already died? Android is the future.
Cool feature. Not sure if I like the way how tasks are implemented on the GMail interface
It also works on Blackberry.
Why are only iPhone and Android mentioned? One could say something like.. “This works on Smart Phones”
The official announcement is actually clearer on this (though not in the title of the post):
http://gmailblo...-vs-iphone.html
“And starting today, you can manage your task list from your iPhone or Android device, and access it from any xhtml enabled phone.”
works on blackberry as well!
hopefully the next move is an actual app, for the platforms or a sync option for platforms that already have a list app.
been using zenbe for a while, but giving this a try
Fix the gmail/task link… plz
That’s pretty awesome… someday the concept of an “app store” will be gone. I think they should all be web based apps.
works like a charm in opera mobile too
I agree that “tasks on smartphones” would have been a more comprehensive way to go about this article.
Without being able to nest tasks, it’s not a truly serious task list. But it’s a nice basic start since it’s free.
it’s a good application, especially it’s in browser.
i have used iphone..its cool but never used android.
I think it is still lacking a lot of functionality
Google Calendar for iPhone just gets improvments too !
Many of young people are turning e-mail to social networks, PCs to mobile is the next step! why not using such a popular feature in mobile devices?
This is such a great app.
It will be interesting to see when and how apple/iphone opens up for google gears.
I wrote an iPhone app GeeTasks, which lets Google Tasks to be both viewed and edited offline, and then later synced when network is available. No need for Gears when you have Apps!