Google Tasks
A task with a date belongs to the day it is due, so Magical draws it in the same agenda as your meetings instead of leaving it in a panel you have to go and open.
Where Tasks Appear
Section titled “Where Tasks Appear”- Companion sidebar: pinned right beside your calendar grid, showing all-day and scheduled tasks alongside your meetings across accounts.
- Menu bar popover: a task sits in its day, labelled with the calendar it belongs to. One with only a due date reads All day; one you have dragged onto a time in Google Calendar appears at that time.
- Desktop widgets: the same agenda, on the desktop. A completed task is greyed out here too, and Settings → Appearance → Show completed tasks decides whether it is drawn at all. See Settings Reference.
- Main window: Google Calendar’s own Tasks panel. Settings → Appearance → Hide Tasks tab hides it, which leaves the sidebar, popover, and widgets as the places a task shows up. See Settings Reference.
Completing a Task
Section titled “Completing a Task”Right-click a task in the sidebar or popover and choose Mark Complete. The row greys out and stops counting as something to do, and the tick is written to Google Tasks, so the same task is finished on your phone and in a browser.
Choose Mark Incomplete on a completed task to reopen it.
Magical applies the tick immediately and then reads Google back, so a slow round trip does not leave the row looking untouched. A completed task never raises an alert, however its due time falls.
Adding a Task
Section titled “Adding a Task”The toolbar’s New Task button opens Google Calendar’s own new-task field, in the account the window is showing. The task is created by Calendar rather than by a copy of it, so it lands in the list Google shows on every device.
See Window Toolbar for adding the button, or moving it.
Deleting a Task
Section titled “Deleting a Task”Right-click a task and choose Delete Task, in the sidebar or popover. A native confirmation appears first, and the task is deleted in Google Tasks.
Recurring Tasks
Section titled “Recurring Tasks”A repeating task shows each occurrence separately, so ticking off today’s does not tick next week’s. Each one is a task of its own in Google Tasks too.
Hiding Completed Tasks
Section titled “Hiding Completed Tasks”Settings → Appearance → Show completed tasks is on by default, which keeps completed tasks in place and greyed out. See Settings Reference. Turning it off leaves only the work that is still outstanding in the sidebar, popover, and widgets.