Add or edit a task

When you create a task, you can:

  • Add details.
  • Set a date and time.
  • Make it repeat on certain days.
  • Add subtasks.

Important: 

  • Across all your lists, you can create up to 100,000 tasks. 
  • For any list, you can create up to 20,000 uncompleted tasks.

Create a task

Change a task 

You can:

  • Change the task name
  • Add details
  • Set a due date
  • Add subtasks
  1. Open the Google Tasks app Tasks.
  2. Tap the task you want to edit.
  3. Change the task info.
  4. Tap Back Back.

Tips:

  • If you want to change the date and time of the next repeating task in a series, tap the date.
  • To edit the date and time for all tasks, at the bottom, tap the repetition info.

Mark a task as complete

  1. Open the Google Tasks app Tasks.

  2. To the left of a task, tap Complete Mark complete.

Delete a task 

  1. Open the Google Tasks app Tasks.
  2. Tap the task you want to delete and then Delete .

Delete a task in a repeating series

  1. Open the Google Calendar app Calendar.
  2. Tap the task you want to delete.
  3. Tap Delete and then This task.

Learn about task notifications  

  • If you add a date and time to your task, you get notifications at the scheduled date and time.
  • Tasks with a date also appear in the Calendar app.
  • For tasks without a time, notifications appear at 9 AM.

Learn about repeating tasks

  • To repeat a task, select the date and time and then Repeat
  • Tasks with subtasks can't repeat.
  • In Calendar, a certain number of upcoming instances of a repeating task will appear on the calendar grid, and as time passes, new ones will be added automatically.

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