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.

Runs: The moment it happens
Apps: Google Tasks
AI: Not needed
Access: read+write (tasks)

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: give me a link that takes a title, notes and due date and creates a Google Task in my Inbox list.

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

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

Tasks are born in odd places: a line in a Slack thread, a comment in a form response, a note from a voice assistant, an alert from a monitoring tool. Moving each one into Google Tasks means switching apps, retyping the title and picking a date, and half of them never make the trip. The ones that stay behind are usually the ones with a deadline.

This gives you a private link. Anything that can send a web request to it, with a title and optionally notes and a due date, becomes a new task in your Google Tasks list the moment it arrives. It appears in Gmail's side panel, the Calendar tasks view and the Tasks mobile app right away.

It suits people who capture ideas with shortcuts, forms, buttons or other automations and want one dependable inbox of to-dos.

What you get out of it

Capture takes seconds from anywhere
A phone shortcut, a form or another tool can fire the link in one tap. The thought is saved before you lose it, rather than rewritten later from memory. Even a half-formed idea is better saved with a title than kept in your head.
Deadlines carry across with the task
The due date is part of what you send, so the task shows up in Calendar on the right day. Time-sensitive requests stop living only in someone's message history. A reminder tied to a date is far more likely to be acted on than a loose note.
One list for items from many tools
Alerts, form entries and personal notes all end up in the same place, so your plan for the day is built from a single view rather than five inboxes. That means fewer places to look and fewer things falling between them.
Other automations can create work for you
When a monitoring check or a lead form needs a human to act, the task is created automatically. The follow-up is assigned to a list that you already check each morning.
Nothing to install or learn
The link works with anything that can make a web request, including browser bookmarks and phone shortcuts. You get a task inbox without adopting another app. Setup is a single link you paste into whatever tool is sending the task.

How it works

What happens, step by step

When a title, optional notes and a due date are sent to your ClickRuntime link, the automation starts straight away.
It adds a new task with those details to your chosen Google Tasks list.
The task appears in the list right away, like "Call Acme about the renewal, due 2026-10-21".

Before it runs live

Connect Google Tasks
Paste your automation's link into the other app's webhook settings

What you get

RunsThe moment it happens

Create Google Tasks from any tooljust nowSucceeded

Google Tasks · InboxCall Acme about the renewal · due 2026-10-21

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. 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.

Changes you can ask for

Act only on the items that match your own rules, and skip the rest
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other Google Tasks steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

create_tasks_from_a_trigger_link.pyexample

from clickruntime import on_event, credentials, http

@on_event
def handle(event):
    data = event.json or {}
    if not data.get("title"):
        return {"error": "title is required"}
    task = {"title": data["title"], "notes": data.get("notes", "")}
    if data.get("due"):
        task["due"] = f"{data['due'][:10]}T00:00:00.000Z"  # Google Tasks keeps only the date
    resp = http.post("https://tasks.googleapis.com/tasks/v1/lists/@default/tasks", json=task,
                     headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.connection('google', 'work')}"})
    resp.raise_for_status()
    return {"created": resp.json()["id"], "title": data["title"]}

FAQ

Common questions

What can I send to the link?

A title is required. Notes and a due date are optional, and they fill the task's details and deadline. Anything else you send is ignored, so the link stays simple to call from a shortcut or script.

Which Google Tasks list does the task land in?

By default it goes into your main list, and you can name a different list if you prefer, such as Inbox or Work. The list is set once when the workflow is created and can be changed later.

Is the link safe to share?

Treat it like a password. Anyone who has the link can create tasks in your account, though they cannot read or delete existing ones. If it leaks, you can replace the link so the old one stops working.

What permissions does it need?

read+write (tasks). Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run for each event the app sends.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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