Gmail add-on
Open any message and see the client, matter and open tasks. Link the email, import the whole thread with attachments, log time, create a task, a matter or a client without leaving Gmail.
Google Workspace
Practice management for law firms that run on Google Workspace
TaskWrangler installs as Google Workspace add-ons for Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides, signs you in with Google, files documents to your Drive and puts deadlines on your Google Calendar. No connector, no middleware, no copies of your files.
| Google app | What TaskWrangler does there | How |
|---|---|---|
| Gmail | Client and matter detected from the message. Link, import thread with attachments, log time, create task, matter or client. Counsel: summarize, draft reply, triage, status, ask. | Gmail add-on |
| Google Calendar | Deadline events created, moved, deleted and reassigned automatically. Link events to matters, create tasks and log time from an event. | Calendar add-on and automatic sync |
| Google Drive | Matter folders. Browse, upload, share, export to PDF. Attachments filed from Gmail. Portal documents filed and shared. | Drive add-on context and in-app Drive |
| Google Docs | Agreement templates with merge fields. Counsel drafts land as real Docs with formatting. | Docs add-on context and templates |
| Google Sheets | Counsel spreadsheets with real formulas. Link a sheet to a matter. | Sheets add-on context |
| Google Slides | Counsel decks with speaker notes. Link a deck to a matter. | Slides add-on context |
| Google Contacts | Search, create and update your Google Contacts from the matter. | In-app |
| Google Sign-In | Sign in with your Google account, confirm with your phone, automatic sign-out when idle. | In-app |
| Gemini for Google Workspace | Ask Gemini to find clients, matters, contacts and tasks, or create a task. | Gemini add-on |
How the integration is built
The details below are the difference between an integration that works on a demo and one that still works in year three.
Google Calendar add-on
Open an event, link it to a matter, create a task from it, log time, view today's tasks and upcoming deadlines.
Automatic deadline sync
Set a due date and an all-day event appears on the assignee's Google Calendar. Move it and it moves. Clear it and it is removed. Reassign it and it changes calendars. If a calendar update ever fails, the task says so.
Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides
The add-on also opens inside Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides so you can link the file you are looking at to a matter and log the work.
Google Docs templates
Engagement letters, retainers and NDAs live as Google Docs with merge fields. TaskWrangler detects the fields, fills them and produces the merged document.
Google Contacts
Search, create and update your Google Contacts from inside TaskWrangler.
Sign in with Google
Staff sign in with their Google account, confirm with a code on their phone, and are signed out after 30 idle minutes.
Gemini for Google Workspace
Ask Gemini to find a client, matter, contact or task, or to create a task, and it works through TaskWrangler using your own Google identity.
No keys handed to a vendor
Calendar access is granted once by your Workspace administrator. There is no password file or key for anyone to store, rotate or lose.
The problems this replaces
Calendar sync that duplicates or drifts
A third-party sync creates two events, moves one and leaves the other. TaskWrangler owns the deadline event through a single trigger, so there is exactly one event and it follows the task.
Email 'linked' as a hyperlink
Most integrations store a link back to the message. TaskWrangler imports the thread content and files the attachments to the matter's Drive folder, deduplicated.
Attachments in three places
Inbox, download folder and the practice management system. With TaskWrangler the matter's Drive folder is the one place, and the add-on files to it from Gmail.
Connectors that fail silently
No Zapier, no middleware. The add-ons talk to TaskWrangler directly as the signed-in user, and any error shows on the record it affected.
Documents copied out of Drive
Some systems copy your files into their own storage. TaskWrangler leaves documents in your Drive and stores the link, the permissions and the matter.
Keys handed to a vendor
Your Workspace administrator approves calendar access once in the Google Admin console. No key file changes hands.
Per-connector and per-integration fees
Every Google Workspace integration is included in both plans.
AI that cannot see your Drive
Counsel reads Drive as the signed-in attorney, keeps filings and correspondence searchable, and writes results back as Google Docs, Sheets and Slides.
Ten questions to ask any vendor about their Google Workspace integration
Ask us too. Our answers are on this page and in the FAQ.
- Is the Gmail integration a native Google Workspace add-on that appears in the message side panel, or a browser extension?
- When I link an email, is the message content stored on the matter, or only a link to Gmail?
- Where do attachments go, and what happens when the same attachment arrives twice?
- If a task's due date changes, does the calendar event move, or does a second event appear?
- Does calendar sync go through a third-party connector, and who is notified when it fails?
- Are my documents copied into the vendor's storage, or do they stay in my Drive?
- Does the vendor hold a key file or password for my Workspace domain?
- Are Workspace integrations priced separately from the base plan?
- Can the AI features read the documents in my Drive, and does it use my permissions or its own?
- Does the AI write records automatically, or does a person accept each one?
Setup for a Workspace administrator
- Install the TaskWrangler add-on for your domain from the Google Workspace Marketplace listing we provide, or let users install it individually.
- Approve calendar access for deadline sync once in the Google Admin console. There is no key file to download or store.
- Users sign in with Google and enroll a phone second factor.
- Link matters to their Drive folders. Existing folders stay where they are.
The add-on asks only for the Google permissions it needs and does not change them after install, so your staff are never asked to re-approve it.