Google Calendar Celebrates 10th Birthday With New Goals Feature (venturebeat.com) 19
An anonymous reader writes: Google Calendar is now 10 years old. What better way to celebrate than by adding a new goals feature to the service? The new feature lets you set a personal goal in Google Calendar, which will then find time in your schedule so you can achieve your goal. The feature is available for mobile-only users in all countries and languages where Google Calendar works. The goal is dependent on two main questions: "how often?" and "best time?" [Once you answer those questions], it will then find the best time slot in your schedule to pencil in your new goal. Goals will automatically adjust their timing throughout the week. Google Calendar will automatically reschedule if you add another event that's a direct conflict with a given goal. You can even defer a goal at any time, in which case Google Calendar will make time for it later. Using machine learning algorithms, Google Calendar gets better at scheduling the more you use it.
thanks for reminding us... (Score:1)
we forgot to discontinue this service four years ago. we'll get right on that.
termination squad
google product development
Re:thanks for reminding us... (Score:4, Interesting)
I came to say, my goal is to only use software and software-based services that I can keep using for 10 years, and 10 years more, and 10 years more.
Get right on it.
I used to always turn to google services first. But there are lots of aspects to trust; if a company wants my trust, they need to refrain from leaving me stranded. The whole, "you didn't pay, don't expect anything" nonsense is tiresome; they also didn't pay me, and they offered the service. Just like if somebody offers me a ride to my destination, and then drops me off halfway there; I might have been a lot better off if they hadn't offered!
If you want to get serious, Google Calendar (Score:2)
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/calendar/YOu01PF2KPw
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/apps-administrative-assistants/XfIMvUOdTf0
etc.
On the subject of calendars (Score:2)
For those of us who don't want to submit all our life's events to Big Companies, can anyone here recommend a decent CalDav web client?
Re: (Score:3)
https://owncloud.org/ [owncloud.org]
https://doc.owncloud.org/serve... [owncloud.org]
Get up and running in a few clicks.
https://www.turnkeylinux.org/o... [turnkeylinux.org]
Google Calendar is useless since SMS went away (Score:2)
Google Calendar has been almost completely useless since SMS reminders went away. What a stupid move. Even Yahoo Calendar still has SMS reminders.
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Google Calendar has been almost completely useless since SMS reminders went away. What a stupid move. Even Yahoo Calendar still has SMS reminders.
Do you not have a smartphone? The only value I can see in SMS reminders is for people who use featurephones. Otherwise, if you want a notification on your phone for your calendar appointments, configure the app with whatever sort of notification you want. Make it use the same tone/vibration as your SMS messages, if you like.
Seriously, what do SMS notifications give you that the calendar app does not?
And Google Contacts?? (Score:2)
help me Google (Score:1)
I sometimes forget to:
eat
sleep
walk the dog
shit
fuck
look at my calendar
Completely broken for most users (Score:1)
I was excited for this, until I tried it. If you've got multiple calendars it only looks at your main calendar and will schedule your goal over your other calendars. For example, if you have a personal calendar as your main calendar and a work calendar as well, it will schedule your goals over meetings on your work calendar.
It's an interesting idea, but completely broken in its current implementation.
Best time for closing it down? (Score:2, Insightful)
How about Google first tell us when they will shut it down, before I invest the time to use it (and then later invest the time to migrate away from it)?
New goals (Score:2)
Don't be evil, for real this time.
Adding features is the worst way to improve softwa (Score:1)
What worse way, you mean - adding features to a product that has problems with existing features is always a huge mistake.
Google Calendar has a truly execrable invitation/event system, that is inferior to pretty much every other service including Outlook (and how often is that something you can say about a software!) and eVite. If they want to "celebrate" by making changes to the product, making an e-invitation and social gat