Google Calendar and Tasks in one app
Google Calendar and Google Tasks are designed to work together — but they live in separate apps. Calendar shows your schedule. Tasks hides in a sidebar or its own mobile app. Planning your day means constant context switching.
What breaks when apps stay separate
- You check your calendar for meetings but miss tasks due today
- You update tasks in one place and forget to block time on your calendar
- There is no single answer to "what should I focus on right now?"
What a unified app adds
A client like Sunrise does not replace Google — it reads and writes your existing Calendar events and Tasks lists. You get a Today view that shows events and to-dos together, an upcoming agenda, week calendar, and kanban board. Your data stays in your Google account.
How to get started
- Audit where your day lives. List where you check schedule (Google Calendar) and to-dos (Google Tasks sidebar, mobile app, or Gmail). Note how often you switch between them.
- Identify the friction. Common pain points: tasks without calendar context, meetings without related to-dos visible, and no single view of "what matters today."
- Use a unified client. Sign in to Sunrise with Google. Your existing calendars and task lists appear in one interface — Today view, agenda, week calendar, and kanban.
- Plan from Today view. Start each morning in Today view: see events and due tasks together, adjust your plan, and let changes sync back to Google automatically.
Sunrise vs Tasks-only tools
Tools like TasksBoard focus on full-screen kanban and team sharing for Google Tasks. Sunrise is for people who plan events and tasks together — personal day planning, not team project boards. See our Sunrise vs TasksBoard comparison.