We never got around to announcing the launch of the To Do Tasks tool and widget, although it’s been out for a couple of months.

This tool allows you to create an assignment for yourself and/or others. You can then provide updates on it and change the status. A dashboard widget can show tasks assigned to you, tasks assigned by you, or tasks assigned to everyone in your family. The color of the tasks in the widget show the status and warn you when a task is almost due. You can also “check off” tasks as completed in the widget.

One task can be assigned to multiple people if it’s a team assignment. A task can also have sub-tasks which is especially useful for team projects (e.g. creating a newsletter, where different team members are responsible for different sub-tasks for completing the entire project).

A task can also be set up as recurring, for example for chores that need to be repeated every day (make your bed) or maybe once a week (collect trash around the house).

You can check out a tutorial for this feature here.

Let us know what you think!