Google has added a to-do list to Gmail, which can be accessed from the Gmail blog or from your Gmail settings page.

The new feature is called Tasks and pops out into a new window, which remains with the user while they surf the web, similar to Google Chat. Tasks can be ordered with indentation tools. For example, as Google demonstrates in its blog, users can split their to-do list into work and personal sections.

On the positive side, vnunet.com testing found that as Google promises, it is easy to enter new tasks - all it takes is a click into an empty part of the list, a type-up of the task and then a hit of return to save the errand.

However, vnunet.comlabs found a few problems with the new feature.

If the return button is hit after already using the indentation tool, the next task is automatically indented further, which then makes it time consuming if a user wants to fill out an entire list under one main heading. The only way to have all the items lined up on the same margin is to go back and un-indent each of the errands.

Also, although Google is allowing users to easily convert emails into tasks, it is not so easy to export one's tasks to email. Google is offering no simple button to do so.

Finally, Google has allowed users to add a due date for their tasks but these are not synched with the Google calendar.

It will be interesting to see how Tasks competes with Remember the Milk, the to-do list Google introduced a few weeks ago when it rolled out support for third-parties in Gmail.

Remember the Milk adds a small task icon to the top of each day in the Google calendar and a simple click on the icon allows a user to review and update their tasks and see where they are located on a map.