A Simple Menubar Task List using Google Tasks

Feb 02, '11 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Simple task lists seems to be all the rage lately. I've seen quite a few of them hit the Mac App Store, such as Todolicious and Tictoc.

I've been using a freely available alternative -- Google Tasks. The only problem is that you can only access it through a browser. Luckily, there is a clever little app call Fluid that can make a webpage into an app. So with the help of Fluid, I have created a small menubar app that does essentially the same thing as the paid alternatives, albeit maybe not as pretty.

One of the big advantages of using Google Tasks is that it's always in sync. It's also possible to view on my iPhone by going to http://www.gmail.com/tasks. And it has the possibility to create several different task lists, which I find very useful. I usually create one for each of my projects.

You can find illustrations of the following process on my blog.

Here's the method for making this little app:

That's it! Hope you enjoy it.

[crarko adds: I haven't tested this one. Refer to the pictures in the cited blog post if any of the steps are confusing.]

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