Improvements for Google Tasks™

Highlighting tasks and labels, based on keywords and patterns

Improvements for Google Tasks™ - Upgrade Your Tasks

'Improvements for Google Tasks™' is a highly useful Chrome extension that plays a significant role in enhancing your Google Tasks experience. This extension allows you to use text to highlight tasks and labels based on specific keywords and patterns as you work within Google Tasks. You can use special characters, words, dashes, numbers, character sequences, and more for highlighting and labeling. This extension intends to support more patterns in the future and aims to introduce a feature for customizing these patterns and colors.
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Extension stats

Users: 1,000+
Rating: 3.41
(17)
Version: 1.2 (Last updated: 2013-09-25)
Creation date: 2013-09-24
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Size: 55.90K

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Extension summary

Use text to highlight tasks as you type in Google Tasks™! Works with the Google Tasks version at https://mail.google.com/tasks/ig.

You can use the following patterns for highlighting: • (x) — red highlight background and the (x) becomes an icon • /!\ — yellow highlight background and the /!\ becomes an icon • ★ — intense blue highlight background • ☆ — light blue highlight background • () — fades the whole task and () becomes an icon

Labels are (for now) just a special character followed by any words optionally separated by dashes. However, any patterns may be supported in the future, such as the comment highlight and number highlight below. You can use the following patterns for labels: • +alphanumdash — "+" followed by any words and dashes • #alphanumdash — "#" followed by any words and dashes • @alphanumdash — "@" followed by any words and dashes • {anychar} — any character sequence between "{" and "}" • {digits} — any number of digits between "{" and "}"

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User reviews

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Pros
  • Adds colors to the tasklist
  • Helps focus on tasks by highlighting
  • Great idea and useful features
  • Must-have extension for Google Tasks
Cons
  • Does not seem to be working for some users
  • Difficult to utilize all options
  • Issues with specific features not functioning (like the * key)
Most mentioned
  • Does not work
  • Likes the idea and functionality
  • Highlighting features are beneficial
User reviews
??? i tried doing (x), doesn't change to anything, please help
by C H, 2018-03-28

Ne fonctionne pas.
by Eric Lavoie, 2018-02-20

I like it! It adds colors to the black and white tasklist.
by Deepak Patil, 2016-10-28
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Improvements for Google Tasks™ requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Improvements for Google Tasks™ has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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