Reminders made in Google Keep will soon appear in Tasks, the to-do list service that’s tucked inside of Google Calendar. However, this is not an immediate change. Google says that the new reminder integration will roll out “over the next year.”
This is a simple and extremely useful integration. If you create a reminder in Keep, it will show up in a dedicated “From Keep” subsection of the Tasks page. These reminders can be edited or marked complete from Keep, Tasks, or Assistant (or Gemini), and any changes you make will sync across all services.
To create a reminder in Keep, simply tap the bell icon when creating a note. Keep will ask you to set a time and date for the reminder. It will also offer to set up a location-based reminder, though this specific feature isn’t supported by Tasks or Assistant.
Of course, Tasks will continue importing reminders from Calendar, Gmail, Docs, Google Chat, and Google Assistant. Note that reminders with specific dates and times already synced to Google Calendar—they didn’t show up in the Tasks view, is all.
Let’s take a quick stroll through Google’s graveyard. Last year, Google killed off the Assistant Reminders service in favor of Tasks. The company also shut down Shopping List, which was itself an Assistant-powered (and Google Express integrated) offshoot of Keep. This endless reshuffling was in anticipation of Google Assistant’s death. Assistant slowly grew unusable until it was kinda-sorta replaced by Gemini, an AI that can’t do some of the things that Assistant did half a decade ago.
Like Shiva, the God of Destruction, Google creates the future by destroying its old products. I can’t help but wonder if Tasks integration is a death knell for Keep, which recently celebrated its 11th birthday. Nevertheless, I think that this integration is extremely useful, and I’m glad that Google is finally getting around to it.
Keep and Tasks integration will roll out “over the next year,” per Google’s announcement. This is an extremely broad window, though Google may be referring to a staggered rollout that reaches some users sooner than others. If you’ve never accessed the Tasks to-do list, visit tasks.google.com or simply navigate to the Tasks view in Google Calendar.
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