Gmail Tasks bring To-Do lists to Android and iPhone

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UzEE on February 7, 2009

gmail-tasks In case you missed it before, Gmail recently added the Tasks feature to its Labs. You could create simple to-do lists, and organize them into groups. The best part was that since they were based in your Gmail, you could use them from any Internet connected PC.

Google have elevated this one step further and added the Gmail Mobile Tasks to its roaster of mobile services. Now you can simply go to Gmail.com/tasks on your Android or iPhone browser and get your to-do lists on your mobile.

This means that you don't have to rely on the native organizer apps on you devices anymore as you have all your email and lists in one place, which you can seamlessly access from both your PC and your phone. Any changes you make on one side would update on the other as well.

The fully functional browser application is only available for the Android and the mobile Safari on the iPhone. Because these browsers use the Webkit rendering engine, you can expect that it will also be functional on the upcoming Palm Pre, and the Nokia N97 as they also claim to have powerful webkit browsers.

In the mean time, if you have any other device, you can still use the XHTML version (with reduced features) on your device if your browser is capable of rendering XHTML.

http://twitter.com/markpalmos Mark Palmos

Im not sure if things have changed since this article was written, but that is pretty lame IMO.
You have to be ONLINE with your phone to add and remove tasks?
That is totally unacceptable to me, half my life travelling is away from internet connectivity, so it is absolutely imperative that one can add these details while not connected to the internet and then sync when you are connected.
http://twitter.com/markpalmos Mark Palmos

Im not sure if things have changed since this article was written, but that is pretty lame IMO.
You have to be ONLINE with your phone to add and remove tasks?
That is totally unacceptable to me, half my life travelling is away from internet connectivity, so it is absolutely imperative that one can add these details while not connected to the internet and then sync when you are connected.