Tasks

Tasks is a lightweight to-do list that lives next to your mail, so you can write down what needs doing without switching apps or losing your place in the inbox.

Open Tasks

• From the apps menu — choose the grid icon in the header, then Tasks.
• Or go straight there at /tasks, which is worth a bookmark if you use it often.
• Your list is yours alone. Tasks are private to your account — nobody else in the workspace can see them, and there is no way to assign one to a colleague.

Adding and completing

• Add a task with a title, and a description if the title does not say enough on its own. Both are plain text.
• Mark it complete with the Complete button on its row.
• A completed task stays in the list, struck through and greyed rather than hidden, so you can still see what you finished.
• Delete a task to remove it for good. This is also how you clear out the completed ones once you no longer want them in view.

What Tasks doesn't do

It is deliberately small — a title, a description and a done state. Worth knowing before you look for the following, because none of it is there:

• No due dates or reminders. Nothing will chase you; the list only shows what you put on it.
• No priorities, labels or sub-tasks. Every task sits at the same level in one list.
• No assigning to other people. Tasks are personal, not a shared tracker.
• No link back to a message. A task made while reading mail does not remember which message prompted it, so put anything you will need into the description.