Tasks Concepts

Google Tasks is built on two basic concepts:

Task List: A list containing tasks. Users can have more than one task list to manage their tasks the way they want.
Task: A single task containing information such as the title of the task, notes, the due date, and the completed date.

A resource is an individual data entity with a unique identifier. The Google Tasks API operates on two types of resources:

The Tasks API data model is based on groups of resources, called collections:

Task List Collection: Each user has at least one default Task List.
Task Collection: Consists of all the Task Resources within a specific Task List Resource.

You can invoke five different methods on collections and resources in the Google Tasks API, as described in the following table.

Operation	Description	REST HTTP mappings
list	Lists all resources within a collection.	`GET` on a collection URI.
insert	Creates a new resource and inserts it into a collection.	`POST` on a collection URI, where you pass in data for a new resource.
get	Gets a specific resource.	`GET` on a resource URI.
update	Updates a specific resource.	`PUT` on a resource URI, where you pass in data for the updated resource.
delete	Delete a specific resource.	`DELETE` on a resource URI.