Google Tasks
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The facts
Each one read from Google Tasks's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Account administration
- For work or school accounts, an administrator controls access to Google Tasks.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Calendar
- Tasks with dates appear in Google Calendar, and users can schedule time for tasks there.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Collaboration
- In Chat, you can create a task from a direct message or create and assign group tasks in a space.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Email tasks
- You can create a task from a Gmail message and return to the original message from the task.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Gmail
- Users can turn an email into a task and return to the original message from that task.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Tasks can be created and managed in Google Calendar, Keep, ChromeOS, and the side panels in Gmail, Calendar, Chat, Drive, and Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Lists and priorities
- You can create separate task lists, reorder tasks, and star important tasks.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Organisation
- Users can create separate lists, reorder tasks and star important tasks.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- Google's Privacy Policy describes information collection and controls for reviewing, updating, exporting and deleting information.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Google Tasks helps users capture, organise and track to-dos across devices.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Recurring task limits
- Shared tasks and subtasks cannot repeat, and recurring tasks cannot be moved to another task list.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Recurring tasks
- Tasks can repeat daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Repeat limitation
- Tasks with subtasks cannot be repeated.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security
- The Google Play listing says data is encrypted in transit and that users can request deletion of their data.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- Google provides a Tasks Help Center with setup, task management, notification and other help topics.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Task details
- Tasks can include details, due dates, notifications, and subtasks.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Task limits
- You can create up to 100,000 tasks across all lists and up to 20,000 uncompleted tasks in any one list.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Workspace access
- For work or school accounts, an administrator controls access to Tasks.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Workspace integrations
- Tasks can be created and managed through Google Calendar, ChromeOS, Keep, and the side panels in Gmail, Calendar, Chat, Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides.checked 11 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Cross-device sync
- Tasks and task lists sync across devices when users sign in to the same Google Account.checked 11 Oct 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
- Team tasks
- Google Chat spaces support group tasks that can be assigned to members, and eligible Google Workspace accounts can assign tasks in Docs.checked 11 Oct 2026
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