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Google Calendar Celebrates 10th Birthday With New Goals Feature (venturebeat.com)
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.
we forgot to discontinue this service four years ago. we'll get right on that.
termination squad
google product development
If you want to get serious, Google Calendar, then fucking fix "decline and suggest alternate time" already. It's a staple of office (and Office) life, so its time to get into the 2010's.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/calendar/YOu01PF2KPw
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/apps-administrative-assistants/XfIMvUOdTf0
etc.
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?
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
Google Calendar has been almost completely useless since SMS reminders went away. What a stupid move. Even Yahoo Calendar still has SMS reminders.
Kriston
My goal is to see a world in which Google's web browser isn't used as a model for fucking up Firefox.
When it is going to be time for Google Contacts !!!!!
I sometimes forget to:
eat
sleep
walk the dog
shit
fuck
look at my calendar
...omphaloskepsis often...
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.
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)?
Don't be evil, for real this time.
Eat the rich.
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 gathering management system that isn't painfully bad would be a better move than piling more features on top of the slew of non-working and poorly working features GC already has.
If I sound harsh, it's because Google Calendar really is the best mail-enabled calendar on the Internet... because all of them totally suck and GC sucks the least. Tough love, baby.
Fix your event management and your HTML formatting (trying to use a high-viz black-background is pretty painful) instead of putting in new features!
I would rather Google not know what I am doing all day, every day.