Show HN: I made a better interface for Google Tasks and I can't go back

#1

Post by cmikec » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 8:24 AM UTC

I recently decided to try out Google Tasks as my only task management system, and while I find some things about the interface great, it really isn't suited for someone like me who has multiple lists with lots of elements on each.

So, I whipped this together real fast and I can't imagine using Google Tasks without it anymore.

I realized you might want it too, so I put it on the web.

Enjoy :)

Show HN: I made a better interface for Google Tasks and I can't go back
gtasker.com

Re: Show HN: I made a better interface for Google Tasks and I can't go back

#2

Post by cmikec » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 8:26 AM UTC

I recently decided to try out Google Tasks as my only task management system, and while I find some things about the interface great, it really isn't suited for someone like me who has multiple lists with lots of elements on each.

So, I whipped this together real fast and I can't imagine using Google Tasks without it anymore.

I realized you might want it too, so I put it on the web.

Enjoy :)

Re: Show HN: I made a better interface for Google Tasks and I can't go back

#3

Post by robotron » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 8:49 AM UTC

It needed a better interface.

Re: Show HN: I made a better interface for Google Tasks and I can't go back

#4

Post by cmikec » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 8:51 AM UTC

robotron wrote: post #3

It needed a better interface.

Yeah, I really thought so. The old one was just too cramped and constraining. Of course, 99% of the code for the UI here is actually still their code, I just put what I'd like to think is a better wrapper around it :)

Re: Show HN: I made a better interface for Google Tasks and I can't go back

#5

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 9:03 AM UTC

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#6

Post by ricefield » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 9:07 AM UTC

On one hand, its just a wrapper, so no big deal.

On the OTHER hand, this is awesome. Props!

Re: Show HN: I made a better interface for Google Tasks and I can't go back

#7

Post by cmikec » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 9:09 AM UTC

ricefield wrote: post #6

On one hand, its just a wrapper, so no big deal. On the OTHER hand, this is awesome. Props!

It's cuz I got mad wrappin' skillz.

. . .

Thanks :)

Re: Show HN: I made a better interface for Google Tasks and I can't go back

#8

Post by tkahn6 » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 9:10 AM UTC

I've been doing this with iGoogle for a few years but this is cleaner. Good job.

Re: Show HN: I made a better interface for Google Tasks and I can't go back

#9

Post by ebtalley » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 9:16 AM UTC

question, how did you grab the session and display tasks without authenticating through OAuth or whatever method google provides? Granted I'm logged into gmail but I'm somewhat goosed since it seems your third party domain can pull private data from my account without my explicit permission?

Re: Show HN: I made a better interface for Google Tasks and I can't go back

#10

Post by cmikec » Wed, Mar 02, 2011, 9:21 AM UTC

ebtalley wrote: post #9

question, how did you grab the session and display tasks without authenticating through OAuth or whatever method google provides? Granted I'm logged into gmail but I'm somewhat goosed since it seems your third party domain can pull private data from my account without my explicit permission?

Good question. It's actually just an illusion. My page simply instructs your computer to connect to Google's servers, and then "wraps" the responses from Google at the page level into frames. I literally cannot see anything at all that you send to Google or receive from Google. In fact, this entire app is 100% client-side, so it never communicates with my server except to download the initial code (ok, fine, and favicon).

There was an old trick years ago where mischievous webmasters would "wrap" a file:// URL in their web page to make it look like their page had access to all the files on your computer. Again, it's just a wrapper. No data is transmitted to or from the server about what's in the wrapper.