Google Calendar and Assistant Reminders Will Migrate to Google Tasks Soon

Re:Google Calendar and Assistant Reminders Will Migrate to G... by NhanH on Sunday May 07, 2023 @10:50AM (#35852115)

Because Keep was released FIVE years before Task. And at the same rate, we are gonna have the same conversation in 5 years on why someone haven’t started using the new SuperDuperKeepTask service.

From the product POV, anyone who has ever used knowledge base will tell you that you should keep everything related to your data/ info in a single app. Spreading them out by any categorization is just inviting recall issue later on.

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Re:Google Calendar and Assistant Reminders Will Migrate to G... by PurpleRamen on Monday May 08, 2023 @07:10AM (#35860284)

> Because Keep was released FIVE years before Task.

Tasks in GMail (and IIRC also Calendar) existed long before Google Keep. You are talking about the standalone application of Googles task-system which came with version 3(?). If anything, Google Keep is the problem here. Why was it duplicating features which were already existing in the Google-verse? Instead of integrating with the existing systems and improving them.

There is nothing wrong with spreading out your interfaces and workflows, as long as they all work on the same data. No interface is perfect, so having specialized interfaces for specific jobs is beneficial. But Google is not doing this with Keep, instead maintains another parallel system again.

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