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Sunrise
A real planner for Google Tasks
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A real planner for Google Tasks
193 followers
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.
Me using Google Tasks every day makes this feel practical. Would keyboard shortcuts for moving tasks between days speed up planning? I think power users would appreciate that option.
Telepath
@nathan_jake To be honest, I'm a total mouse user, so I hadn't even thought about that! But you’re so right—it would be a game-changer for power users. Definitely going to look into adding this. Thanks for the awesome idea!
Telepath
@prachi_nagwan At the moment, Sunrise does not send separate notifications or reminders. Because the app integrates natively with Google Tasks and Google Calendar, I purposely avoid duplicating features that Google already handles well. If you have notifications set up on your iOS or Android devices for Google Tasks or Google Calendar, those native alerts will continue to work perfectly in the background.
That said, I'd love to know more about your workflow on what specific use case or type of reminder would you find useful to have directly inside Sunrise that the native Google alerts don't quite solve for you?
This looks clean. Does rescheduling a task in Sunrise also update the due date back in Google Tasks?
Telepath
@dhiraj_patel5 Absolutely! That is the core foundation of how Sunrise works.
Until today, I didn't even know Google Tasks existed :) Do many people actually use it? Or is it mainly an Android thing? (I use the Notes app on iPhone, and it doesn't have the issues you described.)
Telepath
@natalia_iankovych It is definitely not just an Android thing. Even most iPhone users still rely on Google Workspace and Google Calendar for work, and Google Tasks just happens to come bundled right with it.
Love that it is a client on top of Google Tasks rather than a second silo, since no migration is the reason I would actually try it. One concrete thing though: Google Tasks basically only stores flat lists plus due dates, so where does the kanban board layout live, the columns and card ordering? If I organize a board in Sunrise and then open plain Google Tasks, does that structure survive, or is the board arrangement Sunrise-side only?
the notepad vs planner distinction is exactly right — capture and planning are completely different jobs that google tasks tries to do with one flat list. does it pull due dates from existing google tasks or do you have to re-enter them in sunrise?
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.
Telepath
@semihazfcr Right there with you! I used to try solving this by forcing everything into a single task list and sort by due date, but that completely wastes the benefit of having separate lists. With this I can finally use my lists 😂