Totally agreed. So totally agreed.
Tasks are there, sure - but tasks are also pretty bare bones and doesn't do very much.
And I'd argue that there are other things that are weak in some areas as well:
-Filters. Filters work, sorta. But they're difficult to use with large lists of people, you can't use them to remove tags, and you can't reorder them.
-Tags. Gmail made tags popular, but they have evolved very little over time. Hierarchal tags are possible, but are very weakly implemented.
While I understand some people have thought of tags as a total replacement for the hierarchy, I'm not convinced that the nesting behavior of the hierarchy was ever a drawback. In fact, with wave 3 of Windows Live Photo Gallery, it turns out that combining tags and the nesting behavior of the hierarchy was probably the best way ever to use tags.
Frankly, I think Google's stubbornness to combine the advantages of both systems is unwarranted.
And yeah, the task list is pretty useless. Never really used it.
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