Google Tasks
Email to Google Tasks,
the easy way
ForwardThis is the simple tool that connects your email to Google Tasks. Forward any email along with some simple instructions, and it’s handled. Nothing to download, nothing to set up. Works with dozens of your other apps too.
Setup in 30 seconds.
How it works
Connect Google Tasks
Create a free account and connect Google Tasks. It takes about 30 seconds, and you only do it once.
Forward an email
Forward any email to your ForwardThis address along with your instructions. One email can ask for several things at once.
Done.
ForwardThis replies when it's done, with a short summary and links to what it made - and an undo button if something doesn't look right.
Just forward it
to do@forwardthis.io
Fwd: Deposit protection deadline - 8 Marsh Road
Add a task to protect the deposit for 8 Marsh Road on my Property Admin list, due Friday, and put the tenant's details in the notes.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
The tenancy started on 21 August, so the deposit has to be protected within 30 days. Tenant is Owen Reid, deposit £1,150.
Protect the deposit for 8 Marsh Road
Property Admin · due Fri 28 Aug
Added a note to the task
Owen Reid · deposit £1,150 · tenancy started 21 Aug
Undo available for 24 hours if something does not look right.
Some other examples
- “Add this to my Work list, due Friday.”
- “Put the engineer's number in the notes on the gas safety task.”
- “Move the invoice chase onto my Finance list and tick off the old one.”
Everything ForwardThis can do in Google Tasks
Create task
Add a task
Update task
Complete or edit a task
Add note
Add a note to a task
Move task
Move a task to another list
Delete task
Delete a task
Create project
Create a task list
Look up tasks
Look up your tasks
Try it with a real email.
Forward any work email to the address below and see what ForwardThis can do. No signup required.
Occasional product emails may follow.
Why you need ForwardThis
Email is messy, every message asking for something different. It means constantly leaving your inbox and juggling tabs. ForwardThis skips all of that: forward an email along with some simple instructions, and it’s handled. Compatible with every email provider, and it works across the apps you’re already using.
Questions
- How do I send an email to Google Tasks?
- Forward the email to your ForwardThis address with a line saying what needs doing, like "add a task to protect the deposit for 8 Marsh Road, due Friday". ForwardThis creates the task on the list you name, keeps the email's detail in the notes, and replies to confirm with a link. The first time, you'll need a free account with Google Tasks connected, which takes about 30 seconds - that's the entire Google Tasks email integration.
- Can I choose which list the task goes on?
- Yes. Name the list and the task lands there. Name nothing and it goes on your default list, the same as anything else you add in a hurry. If the list you name doesn't exist yet, ForwardThis can create it, and you can make the new task a subtask by naming the task it belongs under.
- Can I set a due date?
- Yes, and you can write it the way you'd say it: "Friday", "tomorrow", "the 15th". One thing worth knowing is that Google Tasks stores dates only, with no time of day, so "Friday at 3" is saved as Friday. That's Google Tasks, not ForwardThis, and it tells you rather than pretending the time went in.
- Can it find or finish tasks I already have?
- Yes. Ask what's still open and it searches every one of your lists, not just the default one, and replies by email. You can also have it tick a task off, rename it, re-date it, move it to another list, or add a note to it, all from the same forwarded email.
- What if the task comes out wrong?
- The confirmation email includes an undo that works for 24 hours, or you can just reply and say what to change. Google Tasks is only ever yours: nothing here posts to anyone, notifies anyone or shares a list, so a wrong task is a wrong task and nothing more.