After starting last year, Google Keep is more widely rolling out the Google Tasks migration. This is a server-side update that we’re now seeing on all of our Google Accounts today.
Back in November, we started seeing Google Tasks replace “Google Keep reminders.” Once live on your account, you’ll see the “Reminders are now Google Tasks” prompt. This is a simultaneous rollout on Android, iOS, and the web.
View, edit and complete your reminders from Keep, Calendar, Tasks, Assistant, and Gemini.
Additionally, Google Tasks will create a new “Old Google Keep reminders” list. (Open the three-dot overflow icon in the top-right to delete.)
Tapping the bell icon will show an updated “Remind me later” bottom sheet that gains the Google Tasks icon:
- Tomorrow morning
- Tomorrow evening
- Next [week]
- Pick a date & time
The option for location reminders is no longer supported, with existing places added to the task description.
These reminders will appear in the Google Tasks app and Google Calendar grid with a “From Keep” label that conveniently opens the note.
In the Keep navigation drawer, the Reminders list or grid view remains available. The FAB (floating action button) creates a note with a set reminder.
However, Google Keep will no longer send you notifications for reminders. This functionality is now handled by the Google Calendar or Tasks app.
If you delete from Keep, Google will ask if you want to remove both the reminder and note, or just the latter.
You can change the date/time of reminders from Keep, Tasks, or Calendar, but the title of a reminder must be edited using Tasks or Calendar. Any app can mark them as complete.
Overall, this migration is pretty straightforward, but there are some edge cases you might encounter:
- Long reminders: If your Keep reminder is too long, its title is shortened after it migrates to Tasks.
- Limits on tasks: You can have up to 100,000 tasks. If the number of Keep reminders is more than the task limit, the oldest reminders don’t migrate to Tasks.
- Pending tasks: You can find a list of all “Pending tasks” from the last 365 days in the “All-day” section of your calendar for the current day.
- Repeating tasks: If you have a task that repeats more than every 1,000 days, weeks, months, or years, we adjust the recurrence schedule to be once every 1,000 days, weeks, months, or years. For example, a task that repeats every 2,000 days is adjusted to every 1,000 days.
- Reminders that don’t repeat and are older than a year are added to an “Old Google Keep Reminders” list.
- Tasks beyond the year 3000: Any tasks with dates beyond the year 3000 are adjusted to the year 2900.
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