Add tasks by voice
Say "Hey Google, add buy milk to my tasks" from your phone, your car or a Google speaker, and it turns up in RightNow.
RightNow picks up anything you add to Google Tasks, so you can add a task with Google Assistant or Gemini without opening the app. It works anywhere they do: on your phone, in the car with Android Auto, and on Google speakers. It’s a premium feature.
Set it up
- In RightNow on your phone, open Settings and tap Add by Voice.
- Next to Google Tasks, tap Connect.
- Pick your Google account and allow access to your tasks.
You only need to connect once. It covers every device you use RightNow on, including the web. The web can’t make the connection itself, so do it from the app on your phone.
Add a task
Say “Hey Google, add buy milk to my tasks”, or anything else that puts an item in your Google Tasks list.
Within a few minutes it moves into RightNow, and it’s there straight away the next time you open the app. Without a date it goes to your Inbox. With a date (“add call the garage to my tasks for Friday”) it’s scheduled for that day. It starts with 30 minutes and low priority, which you can change.
Once it’s in RightNow, it’s removed from Google Tasks, so it isn’t in two places.
What stays in Google Tasks
- Anything that was there before you connected. Only items added after you connect move across.
- Items with subtasks, and the subtasks themselves. Google deletes subtasks along with their parent, so RightNow leaves both alone.
- Items in your other Google Tasks lists. RightNow only looks at your main list.
Turn it off
Open Settings, tap Add by Voice, then Disconnect next to Google Tasks. New items stay in Google Tasks from then on, on all your devices.
If you also have Google Calendar connected, RightNow can’t remove its access to your tasks without also disconnecting your calendar, because Google treats them as one permission. To remove that access completely, disconnect Google Calendar too, or remove RightNow from your Google account’s third-party access.
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