The end of Google Tasks? Google starts folding app into Calendar on Android

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The end of

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Tasks?

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starts folding app into Calendar on Android

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  Tasks is now part of
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  Calendar on Android
• It follows the web apps merging last year
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  Tasks may eventually be retired as a standalone app

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has certainly never been afraid of ******** off apps and products it’s not that interested in any more (see

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for details), and it appears that

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Tasks could be the next app on the chopping block.

The

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Tasks app is now available inside

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Calendar for Android,

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has announced (via 9to5Google).

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is positioning this as a benefit – but are we wrong to be a little worried about the future of the standalone

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Tasks app?

Perhaps not, given

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’s history with merging and dropping products, and the way that

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Tasks has been slowly finding its way into other apps – not just

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Calendar, but also Gmail and the

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Assistant.

The Android update follows the addition of

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Tasks to

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Calendar on the web, which happened last year. “This update makes it easier for users to stay on top of and organize their tasks, especially while on the go,”

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says.

The future of

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Tasks

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has ******* off a lot of projects, including

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There’s no indication that

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Tasks is going to be ******* off in the very near future, and we’re doing a little bit of reading between the lines here. It’s still available for

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and iOS, in addition to being available on the web.

However, as noted above, the old

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Tasks website portal now

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. There’s a toggle switch up in the top-right corner that lets you switch between seeing your schedule and seeing your to-do lists.

It makes sense for your tasks to be inside your calendar – most of them will probably have a due date, after all – but it would be a shame if

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were to get rid of the separate

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Tasks app entirely. Sometimes less is more, and part of the appeal of

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Tasks is its simple, uncluttered interface.

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We’ll have to wait and see what

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’s next move is, but we hope

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Tasks sticks around for many years to come. It does at least seem to still have more life in it as an independent app than

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Fit does.

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