Making Google Tasks an Ideal GTD Platform

If Google could make GTasks (Google Tasks) a “first class citizen” and add the following features, it would be an ideal GTD application:

  • Add ability to:
    • add columns to the outline
    • sort on any column
    • go back to the outline sort with a single mouse click
    • color or add tags (like in Gmail) to any row in the outline manually or based on a user-defined rule
    • access Google Tasks using a URL without the word “mail” in it, since so many corporate firewalls block those URLs (for example, at work I can access Google Calendar, but not Google Mail)
  • Make GTasks available from all Google applications (i.e., Calendar, Reader, etc.)
  • It’d be nice if the columns could be defined as dates, numbers, drop down choices, etc.
  • Any column accepting text should convert URLs into clickable links
  • Add the ability to turn any email into a row or “to do” on the Task outline (granted, this is a change to GMail)

What do you think? What else would GTasks need to be an ideal GTD Platform? Add your comments below.

Comments

  1. Phil Gerbyshak says:

    Awesome suggestions Clint.

    I'm curious…Does it already embed itself on the iGoogle pages? That'd be cool too.

    I think Google is working to make this work on the Android phone, and kill all the rest. So what else is needed…

    Can it stand alone on a mobile device as a separate icon?

    I'd also like to see all of these tools available to Google Apps for their custom domains.