As I get older, I’m having to write down things that I need to do, otherwise I’ll forget. Up until now I’ve been using post-it notes, but my desk is getting rather messy and I’m losing track of which post-it notes are more important than others! So I’ve started using Google Tasks to keep track of what needs to be done, both one-off things and monthly things like paying bills. I can then sync Google Tasks to my Android phone with Astrid.
Since Gmail’s recent redesign, you can access Tasks from a dropdown menu in the top left:
However, this just displays the tasks in a pop-up in the bottom right. Thankfully, there’s a way to display them in the main window, so I can keep track of tasks without having to navigate to an extra window. First, open your Mail settings by clicking on the config icon in the top right, then selecting Mail settings:
Then, select the ‘Labs’ tab. You want to enable a feature called ‘Add any gadget by URL’.
Finally, select the ‘Gadgets’ tab, and enter ‘http://www.google.com/ig/modules/tasks.xml’ in the text box and click Add.
You’ll now have a Tasks gadget in the Gmail sidebar – much more convenient!
if you wanna Google Tasks Gadget in Gmail content area, try this: http://www.google.com/ig/directory?url=google-tasks-gadget-canvas-edition.googlecode.com/files/google_tasks_gadget_for_gmail.v.kbcm.xml
Thanks, that’s pretty useful!
ok i tried it – but now do you have any idea how to remove google tasks from the gmail sidebar. i removed the gadget and disabled new gadgets but the task sidebar WILL NOT go away!!!!!!! help!!!
I’ve no idea I’m afraid! I have to admit I don’t really use the tasks much any more and on my sidebar it displays the chat rather than the tasks anyway.
I’ve just used this tutorial to enable Google Tasks gadget and then came across same problem – once enabled I couldn’t get rid of it even though I’ve disabled “add gadgets by URL” in tasks. But I accidentaly found a solution – you just need to enable and disable Google Caledar gadget in Labs.
gmailsharedtasks.com is a way to share gmail task lists , with this you will be able to share lists between your friends , or colleagues.
I followed the directions to a T, and, it didn’t work for me…
Didn’t work for me either.
Thanks for sharing this. I have followed your instructions and it works fine for me.
I do not have the option to : add any gadget to url. The only choices I have are Google calendar gadget – enable/disable
Preview Pane – enable/disable