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A real planner for Google Tasks
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Sunrise - A real planner for Google Tasks

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Google Tasks is fine for jotting things down. It’s terrible for planning your day. No Today view. No overdue section. No way to see what’s due this week at a glance. Just flat lists. Sunrise is a planner built on top of Google Tasks. See today’s tasks, catch what’s overdue, scroll through what’s coming up, and organize work on a kanban board — all synced with your existing Google Tasks lists. Your data stays in Google.

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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I built Sunrise for myself. I rely on Google Tasks every day, but I kept hitting the same wall: it’s fine for jotting things down, terrible for actually planning your day. Google’s Tasks app is basically a notepad. You add items, check them off, and that’s about it. It can’t answer a simple question like “What do I need to do today?” There’s no overdue view, no day-by-day agenda. Just lists inside lists. You can get some of this in Google Calendar. Tasks show up there, and you can piece together a view of your day. But Calendar is built for events. Tasks are an afterthought, buried in side panels, awkward to manage, and never the main focus. So I built the planner I wanted. After using it for a while, I figured others might find it useful too. That’s why I’m sharing it. Sunrise is a planner for Google Tasks. Sign in with Google and your existing task lists sync both ways. You get: Today: everything due today, plus overdue items you’ve been ignoring Upcoming: a rolling view of what’s due day by day Tasks: your lists, but actually usable for planning Calendar events show up for context when you need them. But this isn’t a calendar app. The focus is making Google Tasks work the way a task planner should. What matters to me: Your data stays in Google. Sunrise is a client, not a second database. Works with the Google Tasks you already have. No migration, no new task system. What’s the one thing Google Tasks fails at for your workflow? That feedback directly shapes what I build next. Thanks for checking out Sunrise 🙏

 Congrats on launching Sunrise — a real Today view, an overdue section and a kanban board on top of Google Tasks is exactly what Tasks has always been missing. We made you a free launch video for it (below), yours to download or re-post anywhere, no strings, and it is whitelabel. You can add it to your launch page in here; launches with video tend to do better than those without.

We built it with FoxPlug: paste your site and it turns what you just shipped into a launch video, images, GIFs and posts in about 30 seconds. This one is on us — make your own free at

 Well, I have been waiting for this one for long. Thank you for solving a problem for me!

These planner apps are fascinating me so much lately. Just wanted to ask dies your app also notifies/reminds you of events that you marked in your planner in case you forget to do it

Finally, someone fixed the Google Tasks experience. The overdue section alone is worth the install - I had no idea how much stuff I'd been letting slip.

The "Google Tasks is a notepad, not a planner" framing is spot on. For me the single biggest gap is exactly your Today view, being able to see what's actually due now versus the pile I've been snoozing. Flat lists let you lie to yourself about how much is overdue.

One question: does the two-way sync handle recurring tasks cleanly? That's usually where these Google Tasks layers quietly break for me. Nice, focused launch.

This is exactly the gap I hit with Google Tasks too, everything lives in flat lists and there's no real sense of "what's actually due today" without manually scanning. One thing I didn't see addressed: I run a personal Google account and a separate work Workspace account with tasks split across both. Does Sunrise support connecting more than one Google account at once, or is it locked to a single sign-in? That's usually the dealbreaker for me with tools built on top of Google Tasks.