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The post How the New Google Tasks Helps You Manage Your To-Do List appeared first on BardTech . Google has cleaned up their legacy tool Google Tasks and introduced a fresh look. The goal of Google Tasks historically has been to keep you organized with your to-dos. Adding tasks and managing lists are easy with this new task management app. While it doesn’t rival the feature-rich Todoist , the minimalism of Google Tasks is being praised for its basic abilities. What’s New With Google Tasks? The first Google Tasks experience launched back in 2009 and had a positive release. The tool has always been simple. Allowing you to add tasks, notes and create new lists for all your projects. The basic approach of Google Tasks brought in many eyes, with even the likes of YouTuber  MKBHD using it as their daily driver. Since the days of the old Google Tasks, Google has stepped things up. Eight years on, they’ve created something quite interesting. The goal of the classic Goo...

The post Inky’s book recommendation app helps you find new reads appeared first on BardTech . Amazon acquired social reading service Goodreads five years ago, squelching the life out of the competitive landscape, as  minimal as it was. So it’s promising to see a new app appear with the goal of getting more people to move off of Goodreads for social book recommendations. That app is Inky , built by two bookworm friends who wanted a better way to track their reading and find recommendations of what to read next. The app is very much an indie effort for the time being, and not as polished as a similar app,  Reco . However, it works well for those who are looking for a simple way of tracking their “read” list along with their “to read” list, and who want a way to see what other good books people are into right now. Explains co-founder Simon Bruno, “mobile apps for avid readers just suck. The market leader in social networks for avid readers, Goodreads, is practically ...