Last updated: September 21, 2026 · about a 6-minute read
Google Tasks supports scheduled app notifications, but its current settings do not provide a per-task email reminder that arrives when an ordinary task is due. You have two practical options: create a separate Google Calendar event with an email notification, or use TaskAlarm to add an email reminder directly to an existing Google Task.
Google Tasks can notify you when a scheduled task is due. If a task has a date and specific time, Google says the notification can appear at that scheduled time. A dated task without a time can notify at 9 AM.
Depending on your device, that notification can come from Google Tasks, Google Calendar, or another supported Google app. What Google's current Tasks notification settings do not provide is a setting that says, in effect, "email me when this individual task is due."
For a full breakdown of those native alerts, see our Google Tasks notifications guide.
That is different from saying Google never sends emails related to Tasks. Some Workspace workflows, such as assigning a task from Google Docs, can generate an assignment email. That email is about the assignment, not a scheduled reminder when the task becomes due.
For the shorter answer to that question, see Does Google Tasks send email reminders?
If you want to stay entirely inside Google's own tools, you can create a separate Calendar event for the thing you need to remember. Google Calendar allows email notifications for events.
This works, but notice what happened: you did not add an email reminder to the Google Task itself. You created a second item in Calendar that represents the same thing.
The Calendar-event method is reasonable for an occasional important item, but it creates extra work if Google Tasks is where you already manage your to-do list.
If you only need an occasional email, that may be perfectly acceptable. If you want the email reminder attached to the task you already created, that is the gap TaskAlarm is designed to fill.
TaskAlarm works with your existing Google Tasks. Instead of recreating the task as a Calendar event, you select the task from the Gmail sidebar, choose when you want the email reminder, and save it.
When the reminder time arrives, TaskAlarm sends the reminder to your inbox. Your original Google Task stays in Google Tasks, and Google's normal task notification can continue working alongside the email reminder.
This makes TaskAlarm useful for tasks where you want an additional inbox reminder without maintaining a duplicate Calendar event.
That's it. The Google Task remains in your normal task list, while TaskAlarm adds the inbox reminder.
Keep using Google Tasks and add an email reminder to the tasks you especially do not want to overlook.
Get TaskAlarmGoogle's current Tasks notification settings do not provide a per-task due-time email reminder. Scheduled tasks use native task notifications instead.
Yes, with a manual workaround. Create a separate Google Calendar event for the task and add an email notification to that event. The drawback is that the Calendar event and Google Task must be maintained separately.
Yes. Google Calendar lets you choose email as a notification method for calendar events. That applies to the event you create, rather than adding an email-reminder setting to the original Google Task.
TaskAlarm lets you select an existing Google Task in Gmail and choose a reminder time. It then sends the reminder to your inbox while leaving the original task in Google Tasks.