Review overdue Google Tasks with an AI assistant

By Mandeep Singh, who makes Sidekick for Mac and Sidekick for AI. Other options are described as they work at the time of writing.

In Google Tasks itself

Open each list and look for the dates shown in red.

Good for: a quick look at one or two lists. The catch: with several lists it’s slow, and nothing shows tasks that have sat untouched for weeks.

With an AI assistant

Connect Google Tasks to Claude, ChatGPT or another AI app through an MCP server, then ask:

• “What’s overdue, and what can wait?”
• “Which tasks haven’t I touched in a month?”
• “Which tasks have no date? Suggest dates for the important ones.”

The assistant reads every list, groups your open tasks and suggests what to do. When you agree, it moves dates, ticks off what’s done or moves tasks between lists, and the changes show in Google Tasks on your phone and in Gmail.

Sidekick for AI (coming soon) has a tool built for this: it groups open tasks into overdue, due today, due in the next 7 days, due later, no date and untouched for a while. Reading has no daily count on any plan, within fair use. See reviewing what’s pending.

Make it weekly

Pick a time, such as Monday morning, and ask for the same review each week. It takes a few minutes and keeps your lists honest.