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Automate Google Tasks

Make your Google Tasks lists work harder. Requests from other tools land in the right list as tasks, today's and overdue items reach you before the day starts, and a weekly look back shows what you got through. Describe what you want to your AI assistant, check what it will do, and it keeps running with your laptop closed.

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every weekday at 7am, email me my Google Tasks from all lists that are due today or overdue, skipping completed ones.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

Ideas

What you can automate in Google Tasks

A morning email of what's due and late, new tasks created from anything that can call a link, and a Friday list of what you finished. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
Daily

Get today's due and overdue tasks by email

Every morning you get one email with what's due today and what's slipped past its date.

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The moment it happens

Create Google Tasks from any tool

Anything your scripts or apps send to a link becomes a task in your list straight away.

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Weekly

Get a Friday recap of finished tasks

Each Friday you see everything you marked done over the last seven days.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with Google Tasks, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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Build your own

Build any Google Tasks automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what Google Tasks should do in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Every morning, look at my Google Tasks lists and send me the tasks due today plus anything overdue, ordered by date.

Every day, copy completed Google Tasks into a Google Sheet with the list name and completion date.

When I star an email in Gmail, create a Google Task with a link to the email, and each evening post my open tasks to my Slack DM.

Works with

Google Tasks with the apps you already use

Things you need to do start in email, chat and spreadsheets. Connecting them to Google Tasks turns those into tasks, and sends your list back where you'll see it.

Google Tasks works with hundreds of other apps

Name any of them when you ask your assistant, and your automation connects them. Over 248 apps are ready to go, and anything with an API works too.

  • Google Calendar
  • Google Docs
  • Google Forms
  • Google Drive
  • Notion
  • Todoist
  • Trello
  • Asana
  • Microsoft To Do
  • Outlook
  • Telegram
  • Discord
  • GitHub
  • Airtable
  • Jira
  • Linear

Beyond chat

Have Google Tasks work when you're not in the chat

Connecting Google Tasks to ChatGPT or Claude lets you ask about it while you chat. ClickRuntime handles the part that should happen on its own: checks on a schedule and actions on each new event, set up from the same chat and running after you close it.

Setup

Connect Google Tasks

You connect Google Tasks through your own OAuth app in Google Cloud. You choose the scope, and it works with the task lists on the Google account you sign in with.

Google Tasks

Tasks / To-do

  1. At console.cloud.google.com, enable the Google Tasks API in your project.
  2. Set up the OAuth consent screen and add the scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/tasks, or tasks.readonly if the automation only reads.
  3. Create a Web OAuth client with the redirect URI https://clickruntime.com/oauth/callback.
  4. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections, choose Google Tasks and enter your client ID and client secret.

Good to know

Google Tasks limits that affect automations

  • Google Tasks due dates have a date but no time, so due-today checks work by day, not by hour.
  • Creating or completing tasks needs the full tasks scope. With tasks.readonly, automations can only report on your lists.
  • An OAuth app left in Testing mode has its tokens expire after 7 days. Publish it as In production, or make it Internal on Google Workspace.

FAQ

Questions about automating Google Tasks

What can ClickRuntime see in my Google Tasks?
The task lists on the Google account you connected. With `tasks` it can read, create and update tasks. With `tasks.readonly` it can only read them.
Can other tools add tasks to my list?
Yes. An automation can have its own link, and anything that calls it with a title, and optionally notes and a due date, creates a task straight away in the list you chose.
Can I get reminders at a set time on the due date?
Not from the task itself, because Google Tasks stores due dates without a time. The automation runs at the time you pick, such as 7am, and lists what's due that day.
Does it look at all my lists or just one?
Whichever you ask for. The morning email can cover every list, and new tasks go into the one you name, like Inbox or Work.
Do I need AI for Google Tasks automations?
No. Due-date emails, task creation and recaps run without it. If you want AI to pull tasks out of emails or notes, it comes with every ClickRuntime plan, so you don't need your own AI key.
Is this a Google Tasks connector for ChatGPT or Claude?
Not for chatting with Google Tasks data. A chat connector lets your assistant read and change Google Tasks while you're in the conversation. ClickRuntime is for the work that should happen without you: you set up an automation from the chat once, and it keeps running on a schedule or on each Google Tasks event.

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