The continued development of their product is clearly one of the reasons that they’re at the pointy end of the productivity field. For now, this will only work using “m” (for minutes). When you save the task, “” will be removed from the task name and a new Google Calendar event will be created with a duration of 1 hour and 20 minutes. Plenty of other task management apps out there, such as Google Tasks and Todoist, integrate seamlessly with Google Calendar. Quick Tip: You can set a custom event duration from Todoist on a task by task basis by typing something like into the task name. Many Microsoft To Do users are disappointed when they start searching through the settings to find some way to integrate their Microsoft To Do account with Google Calendar.

The Todoist Blog covers all the detail you need to know about the newly added integration as well as some useful information such as this. The Todoist tasks are added to your Google Calendar (your choice of which calendar stream it uses) and can block out a set period of time around tasks that have a due date and time, as well as the configurable ability to either add tasks without a due date as an all day event or not map them at all.

The sync is real-time and two way, offering the ability to add tasks via calendar and vice versa. As a heavy Google user and someone who now relies on Todoist, the practicality of it is wonderful.

Todoist and google calendar