Although the Google Tasks is integrated with Gmail, Google Calendar and there’s an iGoogle gadget and a mobile version for Google Taks, yet Google doesn’t treat Google Tasks as a standalone service.
When you look at the most recent update, it is the iGoogle gadget has a canvas view that will be displayed whenever you maximize the gadget.

At the same time, the gadget will let you create multiple lists; use the toolbar in order to clear completed tasks or to reorder tasks. Therefore, you can sort the tasks by due date and view a list of the finished tasks.

If you don’t want to use iGoogle, the URL of the canvas view is https://mail.google.com/tasks/canvas. Bookmark the page and pretend it’s the standalone version of Google Tasks.

Here’s the full list of Google Tasks interfaces:

https://mail.google.com/tasks/m – mobile version
https://mail.google.com/tasks/android – Android version
https://mail.google.com/tasks/iphone – iPhone version
https://mail.google.com/tasks/ig – iGoogle gadget
https://mail.google.com/tasks/canvas – iGoogle gadget in canvas view
(replace /tasks/ with /tasks/a/your_domain/ for the Google Apps versions).

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