Randy Dean shows how to turn a Gmail email into a Google Task by dragging it onto the Tasks icon in Gmail's side panel. The task auto-creates with a link back to the original email, and you can edit the subject and add a due date.
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Hey everybody, Randy Dean, Email Sanity Expert. Got another quick tip for you. This time, do you use Gmail? If you use Gmail, you probably know they have the 4 buttons on the side: Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, and Keep, which is the notepad. But did you know that if you click on the Task icon, it'll bring up your tasks in Google Tasks? But here's what a lot of people don't know. You can click on an email Drag it over and create a new task by dropping it. And then once you drop it, it'll pop down here under no date. But you can go in and change the subject line, uh, add a due date, and even access the original email by clicking the link right there. How slick is that?