I use Google tasks for my todo list. This GNOME extension is nice and minimal and just what I’m looking for, and it uses todo.txt. Is there an easy way to sync my changes with Google, similar to how the GNOME calendar app does?

EDIT: Endeavor (GNOME “To do”) seamlessly integrates with Google Tasks and ostensibly todo.txt but I can’t get it to recognize the todo.txt (I’m not sure it would sync todo.txt > Endeavor > Tasks even if it was working, however).

  • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I also used to have a bunch of stuff in Google Tasks. Not sure how helpful what I say is gonna be but maybe it helps someone.

    Google Tasks used to be its own thing, a to do/notes type of organizer which had its own Android app and web app.

    Then some things happened:

    • Google came out with Keep which is also a notes app but organized slightly differently.
    • The Tasks web app was rolled into Gmail and became the “email tasks” thing in there.
    • Google came up with this thing called “reminders” which were sort of like CalDAV tasks but not really, because only their own Calendar app was allowed to manage them (even though other calendar apps were allowed to manage Google events, just not reminders).
    • Then they changed their mind and said “reminders are tasks” and last time I checked they had merged them into Tasks and they showed up both in Calendar as reminders (well “tasks” now) and in Tasks in a special list called “My Tasks”.

    Personally I’ve switched from Google Calendar to a self-hosted CalDAV and the events and tasks there are proper CalDAV events and tasks now.

    As for the Googlish “Tasks” I’ve done a Takeout and converted the Tasks.json lists to Org Mode markdown. Org Mode is a widely supported format for notes/to-do and there are lots of apps (it’s also Markdown so you can simply edit with a text editor and sync with whatever method you want). On Android I’m using the Orgzly Revived app.

    I’ve also considered using CalDAV journals for this but there’s almost zero support for them out there. DAVx5 can sync them and there’s exactly one Android app (jtx Board) which I don’t vibe with unfortunately (the interface rubs me in all the wrong ways). I hear Thunderbird is considering adding journal support though so that’s nice of it happens.

    I don’t know why CalDAV journals (and CalDAV in general) isn’t more widely used. Finding CalDAV web apps is a chore too, there’s again like only one app that supports events, tasks and contacts (InfCloud).

    Anyway that’s my saga, hope it helps someone.