

One of Gmail's most popular add-on features, the Tasks list, has arrived on your web-enabled mobile device.

If you have an iPhone, an Android phone or any other mobile with a real web browser, just surf to and you'll see the new mobile interface.

You can check off completed tasks, add new tasks or delete old ones. You can assign notes to tasks. You can also manage multiple task lists, so you can keep work and personal tasks separate. Any changes you make in the mobile interface are synced to your Tasks list in Gmail.

Of course, you'll have to enable the Tasks feature in Gmail first. To do so, log in to Gmail and click on Settings, then go to the Labs tab and enable Tasks.

You can't prioritize tasks by dragging them up and down in the list the way you can with the Tasks feature inside Gmail. You also can't access or update your tasks unless you have an active data or wi-fi connection. The offline access problem is a big one, and it will only cease to be an issue when Google Gears for Mobile makes its way to the iPhone and Android phones. Right now, Gears is only on Windows-powered mobiles, but other smartphones will follow in the future.

Google is slowly adding offline capability to its key webapp products on the desktop – Gmail got experimental offline access just last week.

There are several tasks list managers available for the iPhone through the App Store. Most of them are free and all of them are pretty underwhelming. But the ability to access the same list on your phone that you also use on your desktop – and keep them in sync – is sure to make this a must-have among Gmail devotees.

Google first launched the Tasks app in December through Gmail Labs, the company's skunkworks for publicly testing experimental features in its webmail service. It has proven to be extremely popular, mostly because it's embedded directly into the Gmail interface. What used to require a separate app, widget or browser tab is now an integrated part of the Gmail experience.

And now it's part of the iPhone experience, too. Bravo.

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