Am I just missing it, or did they get rid of the 'Quick Add' natural language parsing option (e.g. "Meeting with Fred tomorrow at 5p")? That has easily been the most valuable feature of Google Calendar since day one.
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#42Nice to see an improved UI. But it feels almost identical to Outlook calendars in layout, something I have been using for years.
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#43If it's as slow and RAM-hungry as newer versions of Gmail I'll be looking for the "basic HTML" equivalent for it ASAP.
Is gmail RAM-hungry due to styling?
I'm sure Javascript's most of it, but styling's probably a (much smaller) factor too.
Besides, these changes to Calendar don't appear to involve only styles.
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#44To force this update to Calendar without it being rolled out to you yet, you can use this query string parameter: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/render?new_calendar_opt... EDIT: Apparently it might not save the preference, so you'd need to use this link every time.
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#45It's amazing how my gut reactions to Google announcements have changed over the years.
Ten years ago: "Google released a new upgrade to X? Sweet! I wonder what cool stuff they added!"
Today: "Google released a new upgrade to X? Ugh. I wonder what features/workflows they broke or removed."
Am I just a cynical jerk, or do other people feel this way too?
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#46Can the Google Calendar Android App get notifications that are independent of the Google Launcher App? Launcher isn't allowed to send notifications because it sends too many irrelevant notifications, but this also means no calendar reminders anymore.
Oreo let's you granularly modify notifications.
Not much help if you are stuck on an older release, but it has been really useful to me so far !
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#47Not a fan of the white text on colored background. I prefer black text on the colored event
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#48Not a fan of the white text on colored background. I prefer black text on the colored event
Click the "gear" button and open up the "Density and Color" menu. You'll have the option to use the classic color set, which is black font on the colored event boxes.
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#49I wish calendars would come with booking ability. If I want to schedule a conference room, a laptop, the company car, and the spare parking permit (for example), I have to go to four separate calendars. I'd rather be able to schedule an event and assign resources to it. I've used Rapla ( http://rapla.org/ ) for this in my lab, and it worked nicely. You schedule an event, it lets you know what resources are available…
Having rooms is supported - and shown in the actual blog post:
https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/ori...
I can't see why you wouldn't be able to make a car a room - other than that the UI will stay say 'room reserved' or whatever.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
No need to go around sharing screenshots, there's a much easier way: You can share [0] your work calendar with anybody you want (or if your company is using GSuite, they can give people access to their colleagues' calendars); if events' titles are sometimes confidential, you can either set those to secret, and people will see them as "busy" without any other information, or you can set your whole calendar to secret a…
Thanks for the help. Sadly the appointment slot functionality relies on having meetings set to secret, otherwise the person looking to schedule a slot can see everything, and you can also see any week. If I set the calendar to 'busy' for all meetings, my gsuite coworkers can't see my calendar anymore.
You can give view permission to just a subset of coworkers and make it free/busy for anyone else.