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

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

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Why does it take an acquihire for google to add meaningful new features to a product that hasn't changed substantially in years?

Also, the implementation of the "appointments" feature that they just rolled out in google calendar is broken; it doesn't respect existing events in the same calendar, which is just half assed.

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

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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.

I noticed that too... I get around it by using "set alarm for 7 hours and 50 minutes" instead.

Awkward, but works.

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

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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.

if you skip saying "tomorrow" it will wake you up the same morning

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

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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…

I have an Ubuntu laptop, a Macbook, a Windows 8 desktop computer, an iPhone and an Android tablet. You can't even write a website to fit all these sizes on your own, and some of them are a pain in the ass if it comes to using shells or ssh (the iPhone and the Windows computer more than the rest). Google is the only product line I know of that keeps all my data in a fashion that I can access it and make use of it (i.e. respond to messages from others and get reminded of appointments etc)

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

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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…

You mean you search past events via search box. Never did that. I love great search boxes, but for some reason I always did that manually in Calendar without even thinking about it.

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

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The updated Google Calender version doesn't seem to be in the Play Store yet - version 5.3.8-117343094 updated 20160317 doesn't have the Goals feature (20160413 13:30 CET). Does anyone have access and if so how?

The play store webpage in the browser says something else (Updated: April 6, 2016 Current Version: Varies with device), but if I install that one remotely through the web, it ends up being the same version. Perhaps it's because I'm still running Android 5

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

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I wish Google Calendar on Android would let me use a keypad to enter the time rather than an analog clock. And I'm curious to know what benefit analog provides to some people.

The analog clock is much better for touch, context, relativity, and tangible processing.

Keyboard entry is a reasonable alternative.

I much prefer the analog clock over the scrolling numbers.

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

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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…

Glad am not the only one who faces this problem. Search on Google calendar is terrible. What I'd love is a Apple timeline like interface that is searchable by natural language. Wishful thinking :)
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