Hi, Boatman: Yes, I share your frustration with tasks. On the Palm I used to use them for shopping lists, reminders to get my hair cut, even reminders of friends' birthdays in enough advance time to get a gift or card. I'm not seeing anything even close to that yet in the Droid community.
It's interesting that when Palm invented the PDA category, there were four core apps they tried to make as simple as possible: Calendar, Notes, Tasks, and Contacts. Those same four are also in Outlook. What a shame that Google didn't work out how to capture all four of those before launching this (otherwise fascinating) PDA.
I'm not finding any useful way to sync Outlook Tasks directly into Google Tasks.
companionlink seems to sync tasks into the calendar. I don't get that. If it's just a task to do whenever you happen to be in the right place like "pick up screws", having it attached to a date doesn't work for me. Also seems to sync notes to my contact list, which I definitely don't understand.
gSyncit puts tasks into a separate calendar, which I don't like. For notes, I am now trying a combination of syncing each notes category into a distinct Google Docs folder; then editing the Google Docs on the Droid using gDocs. (Evidently, the Google Docs in the browser on the droid are read-only.)
For what it's worth, the widget "Smooth Calendar" does allow me to configure what I see by calendar and some other stuff, which may help if you decide to keep synching tasks into the calendar.
The big win in gSyncit for me was in the calendar space. The ability to sync different Outlook categories to different Google Calendars (or none) makes it much simpler to keep my view clean on the Droid -- and to share only the non-work calendar with my spouse. I don't think the native Google sync tool can do that.
But I've only had my Droid 10 days, and I'm still trying to figure out if I want to keep it. Some of the conveniences I used to lean on my Palm for are not available, and I have to see how well I can live without them or change my habits. (Hard to do at my age!) I do remember that when I first got my Palm Centro, it took a while before I knew which apps and which configurations of each would fit me best. Maybe things will settle down once I start to think like a Droid. ?
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