Run Google Tasks on Your Menu Bar
As you might already know, Google recently gave GTD fans some lovin’ by optimizing Google’s “Tasks” for iPhone and Android. (read more from Google’s Blog)
Wouldn’t it be nice if you can also run Google Tasks on your Mac as a menu bar item with the same sleek interface you see on the iPhone or Android?
If you had read my previous post on the “Fluid” app, you’ll know by now how you can turn web apps into a native desktop app. Using Fluid with Google Tasks means a free GTD native desktop app on your Mac that syncs with the cloud.
Here’s how:
1) Download Fluid app
2) Install and launch Fluid
Type in this URL in the URL field - http://mail.google.com/tasks/iphone
Type any name you want in the Name field.
Create the app!
3) Convert to MenuExtra SSB
Go to the Google Tasks menu after you have successfully created the app, select “Convert to MenuExtra SSB…” to put Google Tasks on your menu bar.
Now you have Google Tasks natively on your Mac as a menu bar item!
By the way, this tip is also possible with other web apps, especially if they have an iPhone optimized version:
Remember The Milk
Digg
Have fun!
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You may want to use http://mail.google.com/tasks/android to skip the annoying “Warning: This version is not compatible with your mobile phone.
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Thanks madmw. great tips.
If you want a Google Tasks experience that’s closer to that of the embedded Gmail version (as opposed to the iPhone/Android version), feed this url to Fluid instead:
http://mail.google.com/tasks/ig
Very good one Sam, looks like a cleaner version.
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Perfect; exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
Downside: you need to log in again after every computer restart. And you must manually fill in user/password fields, because there’s no help from cookies or system keychain.
So if you keep a few of these in your menubar, that’s a lot of work to do upon each restart.
Thanks a lot! This is awesome!
By the way, if you wanted a native iPhone app for tasks check out GeeTasks which I developed. works offline and is much faster than Safari.
tx, works a charm
Nice, Thanks for the post..
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nope. didn’t work. i just get my gmail landing page
awesome…thanks for the tip! I’ve been looking for a way to do this.
Hi, thanks for your useful articles. Awesome!
So Cool !!! Thanks a lot !!!
This is such an elegant solution
Thanks for your time and effort in posting
Hey I’m with you all the way til you make it a menuextra item I’m not seeing that option. Any idea what would be wrong?
@Pez: Thanks for the userscript!
@Josh: It’s in step 3, but the screenshots shows an older version of Fluid. The new version, v1.0 requires you to upgrade to the paid version to get that feature. It’s here under no. 2: http://fluidapp.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/fluid-1-0/
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http://osx.iusethis.com/app/versions/fluid
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All this has worked fine for me (with the http://mail.google.com/tasks/ig URL). However just 2 days ago it changed: Now, if I want to login, it takes me to the login-page in Safari. I can login there, however nothing will happen in the Fluid-Google-Tasks-App. I can click again on login, but it always takes me to a new login-page in Safari. Has anybody else this problem or solution?
(I already recreated the Fluid-Google-Tasks-App and tried it in the normal (not-MenuExtra-SSB)-mode. Same here.)