Google Tasks

You can use BrightMind with no connection at all: it has its own built-in tasks, ready from the moment you sign in, and they can hold times, repeats, priorities, and tags. Connect Google Tasks only if your tasks already live there.

Once Google Tasks is connected, BrightMind reads your task lists and works with them the way you would: it captures what you say into the right list, tells you what’s due, and checks things off when you say they’re done. Everything it writes shows up in Google Tasks straight away, on the web, in Gmail, and in the mobile app.

Open the app, go to Settings → Integrations, and tap Google Tasks in the task manager list. Sign in with the Google account you want to use and grant BrightMind access to your tasks. You’re connected as soon as the sign-in completes. Google Tasks is not offered during onboarding; it lives here in Settings only.

After connecting, send one test task: say “add a task to buy milk tomorrow” in a conversation, then open Google Tasks and find it. If it landed in the list you expected, with the date you asked for, the connection is doing its job. If it didn’t, check which task manager is active in Settings → Integrations and try once more before reconnecting.

Google Tasks connects one account at a time. If you also use Todoist or TickTick you can keep them connected, and the one you pick in Settings → Integrations is the one BrightMind writes to. Switching does not move your old tasks.

• Add tasks to any of your lists, with notes and a due date.
• Tell you what’s due today, tomorrow, or in a date range you name.
• Rename tasks, edit notes, and move due dates.
• Complete and delete tasks, and add subtasks under an existing one.
• Create new task lists.

If you ask BrightMind to delete a task, check its reply to see exactly what it says it did before you rely on it.

This connection saves tasks and lists: a title, a due date, notes, and subtasks one level deep. That is what the Google Tasks service itself stores, so it applies to any app that connects to it. Worth knowing before you make it your main list:

• No time of day. Google Tasks stores a due date only, so a task with a time cannot be saved through this connection. If you ask for something at 9:00, BrightMind will tell you it can’t save the time and offer to put it on Google Calendar instead, or save it as an all-day task for that date.
• No priorities or labels. There is nowhere to put them, so ranking lives in your conversation with the assistant rather than on the task.
• No repeats. A repeating task cannot be saved through this connection; repeats created in Google’s own apps appear as separate one-off tasks.
• Subtasks nest one level deep. A subtask cannot have its own subtasks.

If you want times, reminders, priorities, or repeats, BrightMind’s own built-in tasks hold all of them with nothing to connect, or you can use Todoist or TickTick as your task manager instead.

BrightMind requests Google’s tasks scope so it can read and write the tasks on the account you connect. It is the only Google Tasks permission that allows writing, and BrightMind has to write in order to add and complete tasks for you. We don’t use the data for ads, we don’t sell it, and no human at BrightMind reads your task content except for support or abuse investigation.

Connecting Google Tasks does not give BrightMind access to your calendar, and connecting Google Calendar does not give it access to your tasks. Each is authorized separately, and you can disconnect either at any time from Settings, which revokes the tokens immediately on our side. See our privacy policy for the full retention and deletion story.