Google Tasks

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Google Tasks, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 6 complaints

Task notifications are easily swiped away from the notification shade2026-07-18
Forced switch to a tiny, cramped UX after Google's redesign2020-05-04
Notifications disappear from screen before user can dismiss them2020-02-08
Tasks lacks search and labels and has no usable UI inside Gmail2012-09-28
Cannot assign a task to someone else, so it is unusable for the commenter2011-07-08
Dislikes the webapp-style popup that appears inside Gmail2011-01-09