TaskBot.app

Real time GMail to Google Tasks sync and a GTD workflow manager.

https://taskbot.app

Features

• ~0.1 sec sync time
• GTD workflows using Gmail labels and GTasks lists
• Automatically managed status labels
• #hashtags to labels from subjects and tasks (S/Action == !a)
• Label types
  • Status - S/Action, !a
  • Project - P/groceries, #groceries
  • Reference - R/document, #R-document
  • Location - L/home, #L-home
  • Commands - !T/Sync GTasks
• Auto label colors
• Multi user support
• Quota calculation and throttling
• Per-user restarts on exceptions
• AppEngine Flexible deployment

Usage

1. npm i
2. Create a Google API project and a Web Application OAuth2 client account
3. Go to Firebase Console and enable it for the project restricting all the access and get the admin config
4. Rename config-private-template.ts to config-private.ts
5. Fill in the OAuth2 account credentials under google, including the callback URL
6. Fill in the Firebase admin config under firebase_admin
7. make build
8. make start (or make start-prod)
9. Go to localhost:8080/signup and authorize the app
10. Follow the How to use steps (optional)
11. GTasks are being pulled rarely, to trigger a pull add !T/Sync GTasks to any email
12. Use your fav GTasks client on mobile and tasks canvas on the web

Roadmap

• Sharable lists
• Dedicated PWA
• Syncing with:
  • Google Calendar
  • Todoist
  • Remember The Milk
  • Google Spreadsheets
• Even faster syncing
• and more...

How to use

Although TaskBot automatically configures as much as possible, there's still a couple of optional, but useful steps:

1. Auto hide sidebar (top left hamburger menu)
2. Enable keyboard shortcuts in GMail
3. Setup Multi Inbox

Enable Multi Inbox:

1. Settings
2. "Advanced" Tab
3. Enable "Multiple Inboxes"
4. "Multiple Inboxes" Tab
5. Set "Below the inbox"

Configs for Multi Inbox Panes:

• Next
  • Query: (label:!s-next-action -label:s-finished -label:!s-expired -label:!s-pending) OR (label:!s-pending AND label:unread)
• Actions
  • Query: label:!s-action -label:!s-next-action -label:!s-finished -label:!s-expired
• Pending
  • Query: ( label:drafts OR label:!s-pending ) -label:!s-expired
• GTD
  • Query: label:!s
• Sent
  • Query: label:sent -label:chats