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Re: Google Calendar now uses machine learning to help you accomplish your goals

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Post by id122015 »

buro9 wrote: post #14

I wish they'd just fix search. I use Google Calendar heavily, averaging ~10 entries per day for the last 5+ years, and then some entries per day all the way back to when it was launched. I can put information in easily enough, and with a few IFTTT recipes I'm able to treat Google Calendar not just as a schedule for upcoming events, appointments and reminders, but as a historical log of everything I've done. It is a t…

Quote "It is a time based database of my life"

Exactly that's the reason I want to drop all Google products. Until now I found an alternative to Gmail. Google Reader went bust and I live happily without it. Google Calendar is the last bit I need to find an alternative for. I thought that all you hackers here are more independent than me. Why don't you create your own local "Google Calendar"? no one will judge you for the quality.

Re: Google Calendar now uses machine learning to help you accomplish your goals

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Post by afarrell »

id122015 wrote: post #31
buro9 wrote: post #14

I wish they'd just fix search. I use Google Calendar heavily, averaging ~10 entries per day for the last 5+ years, and then some entries per day all the way back to when it was launched. I can put information in easily enough, and with a few IFTTT recipes I'm able to treat Google Calendar not just as a schedule for upcoming events, appointments and reminders, but as a historical log of everything I've done. It is a t…

Quote "It is a time based database of my life" Exactly that's the reason I want to drop all Google products. Until now I found an alternative to Gmail. Google Reader went bust and I live happily without it. Google Calendar is the last bit I need to find an alternative for. I thought that all you hackers here are more independent than me. Why don't you create your own local "Google Calendar"? no one will judge you for…

> Why don't you create your own local "Google Calendar"?

1) Because it would take months.

2) Because it would probably be hard to make it integrate with other things like Calendly.

Re: Google Calendar now uses machine learning to help you accomplish your goals

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Post by joseluis »

id122015 wrote: post #31
buro9 wrote: post #14

I wish they'd just fix search. I use Google Calendar heavily, averaging ~10 entries per day for the last 5+ years, and then some entries per day all the way back to when it was launched. I can put information in easily enough, and with a few IFTTT recipes I'm able to treat Google Calendar not just as a schedule for upcoming events, appointments and reminders, but as a historical log of everything I've done. It is a t…

Quote "It is a time based database of my life" Exactly that's the reason I want to drop all Google products. Until now I found an alternative to Gmail. Google Reader went bust and I live happily without it. Google Calendar is the last bit I need to find an alternative for. I thought that all you hackers here are more independent than me. Why don't you create your own local "Google Calendar"? no one will judge you for…

If you don't mind sharing, what is the alternative you found to Gmail? I couldn't find any satisfying.

Re: Google Calendar now uses machine learning to help you accomplish your goals

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Post by buro9 »

id122015 wrote: post #31
buro9 wrote: post #14

I wish they'd just fix search. I use Google Calendar heavily, averaging ~10 entries per day for the last 5+ years, and then some entries per day all the way back to when it was launched. I can put information in easily enough, and with a few IFTTT recipes I'm able to treat Google Calendar not just as a schedule for upcoming events, appointments and reminders, but as a historical log of everything I've done. It is a t…

Quote "It is a time based database of my life" Exactly that's the reason I want to drop all Google products. Until now I found an alternative to Gmail. Google Reader went bust and I live happily without it. Google Calendar is the last bit I need to find an alternative for. I thought that all you hackers here are more independent than me. Why don't you create your own local "Google Calendar"? no one will judge you for…

Everything in my Google Calendar is already out there somewhere. Nothing private is in it.

All I'm doing is making all of that data useful to me. It's not anything that isn't already available to someone or everyone.

I compartmentalise public and private, but don't consider things that create metadata elsewhere on the internet to be private. Anything public, is in my calendar.

Also...

> Why don't you create your own local "Google Calendar"? no one will judge you for the quality.

Time is hard.

Places are hard.

Being able to describe an event that is "Flight BA0285 from LHR to SFO" involves a single event over a duration of time, that crosses time zones, and maybe daylight savings, whilst changing places. And further knowing that BA0285 is a flight number and then informing you of delays.

This stuff is way harder than it initially looks, and makes me really appreciate just how right Google got this.

Re: Google Calendar now uses machine learning to help you accomplish your goals

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Post by flavor8 »

noja wrote: post #26

Google, please could you: 1. Fix search in the web client for Calendar, without the funky paging. 2. Add search to Hangouts on Android

... Add search to hangouts in inbox

... Add search to hangouts.google.com

(it's almost as if lack of search in hangouts is by design, which is infuriating)

Re: Google Calendar now uses machine learning to help you accomplish your goals

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Post by ikeboy »

kinkora wrote: post #28
reitanqild wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You tried reporting it? I hate reporting things to them because their feedback seems tuned to discourage that behaviour, but between that and complaining here I have seen major improvements.

There is this constant pet peeve of mine with the Google Calendar App on Android where if you would like to delete an appointment, you can't do it anywhere else (week, month, day, etc) except in the appointment itself. Prior to Lollipop, one had to go into the appointment itself -> hit "edit" -> scroll all the way down to the bottom of the appointment details -> click giant delete button which filled the whole bottom…

I wish there was a fast way to cancel all appointments for some period of time.

Re: Google Calendar now uses machine learning to help you accomplish your goals

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Post by qznc »

id122015 wrote: post #31
buro9 wrote: post #14

I wish they'd just fix search. I use Google Calendar heavily, averaging ~10 entries per day for the last 5+ years, and then some entries per day all the way back to when it was launched. I can put information in easily enough, and with a few IFTTT recipes I'm able to treat Google Calendar not just as a schedule for upcoming events, appointments and reminders, but as a historical log of everything I've done. It is a t…

Quote "It is a time based database of my life" Exactly that's the reason I want to drop all Google products. Until now I found an alternative to Gmail. Google Reader went bust and I live happily without it. Google Calendar is the last bit I need to find an alternative for. I thought that all you hackers here are more independent than me. Why don't you create your own local "Google Calendar"? no one will judge you for…

Radicale: https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/8kr4rvyrggvzfvc160htzdt4u5rfvj...

Unfortunately, it does not work well enough. So I have not switched yet. It is close for me, so I keep an eye on it.

Re: Google Calendar now uses machine learning to help you accomplish your goals

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Post by cgb_ »

buro9 wrote: post #27
buro9 wrote: post #14

I wish they'd just fix search. I use Google Calendar heavily, averaging ~10 entries per day for the last 5+ years, and then some entries per day all the way back to when it was launched. I can put information in easily enough, and with a few IFTTT recipes I'm able to treat Google Calendar not just as a schedule for upcoming events, appointments and reminders, but as a historical log of everything I've done. It is a t…

Someone asked about how I do this stuff, and I guess why... I replied privately but the answer can be public: It's part manual, part-automated. I manually add travel itinerary items, tickets (for sports, shows, concerts), etc... at the time of purchase, with enough information such that I could arrive somewhere and that calendar entry can tell me everything... i.e. I even attach PDF tickets to calendar entries. I don…

Hey, I do many things similarly (track connections with people, record movies watch etc. Nowhere near to the level of detail you've experimented with, but I've dreamt of using calendar as a database of life too, or at least some kind of timeline-based experience that sewed the various facts about my life (phonecall with x, meet with y) and presented it in useful ways. Nice to see someone else thinking along the same lines.

Re: Google Calendar now uses machine learning to help you accomplish your goals

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Post by nailer »

buro9 wrote: post #14

I wish they'd just fix search. I use Google Calendar heavily, averaging ~10 entries per day for the last 5+ years, and then some entries per day all the way back to when it was launched. I can put information in easily enough, and with a few IFTTT recipes I'm able to treat Google Calendar not just as a schedule for upcoming events, appointments and reminders, but as a historical log of everything I've done. It is a t…

I just wish they fixed scheduling.

If it's 12:10 AM, and I set an alarm for 8 tomorrow in Google Now, I want it for the morning, not 32 hours time.

Compare with Siri, which actually asks you explicitly.

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