{"id":5112,"date":"2020-03-20T19:03:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T01:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/?p=5112"},"modified":"2020-03-21T06:24:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T12:24:39","slug":"gmail-tasks-and-the-one-minute-to-do-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/gmail-tasks-and-the-one-minute-to-do-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Gmail Tasks and The One Minute To-Do List"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the last few months I\u2019ve been testing other platforms for achieving workday productivity. <strong>One of those platforms I\u2019ve tested is Gmail.<\/strong> I\u2019d used it in the past, not really liked it, but thought I should look at it again. It\u2019s evolved greatly since my first use, so I decided to see, first-hand, how its newer versions compare with the Microsoft Outlook ecosystem of products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/images\/Gmail-tasks.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ll write much more about in the coming months, but my initial conclusion is that Gmail\u2019s webmail, in its recent incarnations, has come a long way and <strong>offers productivity opportunities comparable to Outlook<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Gmail Tasks and 1MTD<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">This is especially true of the new <strong>Tasks module<\/strong> that Google released a number of months ago (shown above). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve used it a lot recently, and in my mind, that new Tasks module is comparable to the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/to-do-videos\/\">Microsoft To Do task module<\/a> in terms of how well it can be used with my simple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/1MTDvsMYN.html\">One Minute To-Do List (1MTD) system<\/a>. It works well!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Some of the things I like about Gmail Tasks are: <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It has good drag-prioritization, <\/li><li>It has good tools for conversion of emails into tasks, <\/li><li>Presents a nice clean, simple interface.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Good iPhone and Android Apps<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>And Google has new iPhone and Android Tasks apps that match the\nweb functionality well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because of all that, I\u2019ve started developing a brand-new video\ncourse on using Google Tasks with 1MTD. That new course is probably two or\nthree months from release, but I\u2019ll give you a heads up as it gets closer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way let\u2019s be clear: while Google Tasks is a great app\nfor 1MTD, it is not something to use for the powerful MYN system. Rather, Windows\ndesktop Outlook, or Toodledo, are still your best app choices there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Should You Choose Microsoft To Do or Google Tasks?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So if you want to use 1MTD, which should you use, Microsoft\nTo Do or Google Tasks? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my mind the choice is a question of which productivity <em>ecosystem<\/em>\nyou want to hook your wagon to: Microsoft\u2019s or Google\u2019s. Are you currently using\nthe Microsoft Office set of tools, or the Google G-Suite toolset? That is how I\nwould decide, match with your other tools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are a Gmail user and want to implement 1MTD, watch my\nnewsletters for an announcement of the new Gmail for 1MTD video course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last few months I\u2019ve been testing other platforms for achieving workday productivity. One of those platforms I\u2019ve tested is Gmail. I\u2019d used it in the past, not really liked it, but thought I should look at it again. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/gmail-tasks-and-the-one-minute-to-do-list\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5112"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5135,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions\/5135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}