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google tasks
That completely depends on which mail service of Google you are using and which version of Outlook.
In general, when you sync your email via IMAP, you only get email since the IMAP protocol itself doesn't understand what a Calendar is.
You could subscribe to your Calendar as an Internet Calendar (iCalendar). This is read-only.
For a Google Workspace account, you can install GWSMO for a full sync experience.
See; Sync Outlook tasks with Google Tasks - Google Workspace Learning Center
Adding one distinction that often trips people up: the tasks you create beside Google Calendar on the web are Google Tasks. Those don’t automatically appear in Outlook’s task list the way Gmail can sync into Outlook mail.
Microsoft To Do is the task surface that lines up with Microsoft 365 / Outlook task workflows. There isn’t an official two-way sync between Google Tasks and Microsoft To Do / Outlook tasks.
If your goal is “capture in Google, work in Microsoft To Do,” I open-sourced a small MIT bridge that runs in your own Google Apps Script project (credentials stay in your accounts): https://github.com/simonchai-tw/tasks-todo-sync
That won’t make Google Tasks show up as native Outlook tasks by magic — it syncs Google Tasks ↔ Microsoft To Do. Happy to clarify if your setup is Workspace vs consumer Gmail.
