Contacts, calendars, and now Tasks

Now that I have my contacts and calendar syncing to the cloud, the next step is a Todo list.  And I’ve finally settled on a todo list solution that works for me, my mac, and my mobile life style:  Google Tasks plus Fluid (PC users can use Google Chrome).  Google tasks is lightweight, simple, and mobile accessible.  Fluid creates stand-alone desktop apps from web site applications.

Here’s how some configurations will look when you’re done:

Gmail Google Tasks

iPhone Google Tasks

What you’ll need

• A Gmail account
• Fluid

How to make it work

You can create a fluid app using the following URL to mimic Google Tasks as it appears in Gmail:

http://mail.google.com/tasks/ig?up_ShowTips=false&lang=en&country=us&.lang=en&.country=us&synd=ig&libs=I6gXJQFzsCg/lib/libcore.js,MJLTofH-Kpk/lib/libsetprefs.js&extern_js=/extern_js/f/CgJlbhICdXMrMAo4ACwrMBI4ACwrMBM4ACw/UpcjQ5pVgbs.js&view=home

Or you can create a fluid app using the following URL to mimic Google Tasks for mobile devices:

http://www.google.com/m#tasks

http://mail.google.com/tasks/iphone

If you choose the later, you’ll need to set your User Agent to that of an iPhone, Gphone or other mobile device.  Here’s the latest iPhone User Agent string:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5H11 Safari/525.20

What you might want

Once you’ve got a Google Tasks fluid app, you should consider the following fluid preferences:

• Application icon: Google Tasks Fluid
• Window Style: Chromeless (None)
• Window Opacity: ~90%
• Windows are draggable from anywhere: checked
• Hide Status Bar (not a preference. see View menu)
• Hide Tool Bar (also in the View menu)

Now all I gotta do is watch Slumdog millionaire and I’ll be on my way.