Google Tasks, Google’s task app, has improved a lot in recent years, but it still has various shortcomings compared to other more established alternatives… or less, because the truth is that Google Tasks has been around for a few years anyway. long time.

Be that as it may, Google Tasks currently is a more interesting option for task management than ever before and it all happened, needless to say, from Google’s determination to make it happen: launch a mobile app dedicated to incrementally improving the web version and integrating it with Google Calendar, along with Gmail, the real nerve center of the Internet giant’s cloud productivity suite.

Two recent examples of the prominence that Google Tasks has achieved within Google Workspace are its new role as a reminder management app, both Google Assistant for Android and Google Keep, which is part of the service. And yet Google Tasks still suffers today features or usage conventions that confuse a user accustomed to this type of software.

One of the issues that Google Tasks is still dragging has to do with recurring tasks, a feature that improved a lot a few years ago, but still fails in such a crucial aspect as visibility.

Let’s cut to the chase by illustrating the problem: you create a recurring task, for example, to remind you to do x things on the 15th of the month; The 15th comes and you mark the task as complete… but Google Tasks, unlike other task managers, does not reduce it to the place where it should belong according to the deadline, but hides it at the bottom, in the completed tasks section, and shows it again only when the given one approaches day.

Or what is the same, Google Tasks hides recurring tasks from view, which is behavior that is not at all common in task managers and causes confusion. Why it works this way is unclear, but it doesn’t make any sense because the average user expects that once a recurring task is marked as complete, they will encounter that task again as they move down the list until they reach their new end date.

Well, there is no way to consistently solve this behavior, but something can be done: menu a delete all completed tasks. And recurring tasks will reappear in the view, even if you just marked them as complete. The downside, of course, is that you lose all links to completed unique tasks, which won’t appeal to many users, but… Until Google Tasks gets things right, it is what it is.