Does anyone know why it's not possible to change the calendar for a given event in the Google Calendar iOS app? You can change the color of an event, but not the actual calendar the event is associated with. It drives me crazy. You have to delete the event and re-create it under the correct calendar.
The new Google Calendar for web
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm biased here, but after Inbox, and after the mobile Calendar apps being upgraded, I was super excited about the web Calendar upgrade. I love it.
I generally like Inbox as well, feels faster than gmail. Though i've recently gone back to using a local client instead of the web. It's a bit of a change, but just feels simpler to use.
The Inbox webapp always worked incredibly slowly for me on Firefox but fast on Chrome. Now I only use the Android app (and only when I need to use the snooze or Trips features) for everything else I use Gmail webapp on Firefox
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#63Am 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.
I'm guessing they consider that overlaps with Google assistant, so they've chosen to let GA take care of it.
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#64I just want to be able to easily schedule a 15 or 45 minute long meeting :P
I just want to easily create a repeating schedule for an odd number pattern e.g. every second Wednesday or every third Wednesday. Microsoft Outlook is easier although the Outlook application is easier than the Office.com calendar.
I want an appointment that recurs on the 5th Saturday of every month. If anyone knows how to do that in google calendar let me know!
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#65Can 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.
Launcher is sending you irrelevant notifications about what? Launcher isn't sending you anything it's something else(so turn that off) and you dont need Google's launcher to get calendar notifications and the mere fact that you are asking this says you are confused.
Maps nagging me to confirm I was at specific locations at specific times, news articles I don't want to read, etc. Just now I re-enabled Launcher notifications, and it's notifying me that I can unlock my phone by saying "OK Google". This is common knowledge and not a notification I want or can use, but have no way to disable this irrelevance.
Google calendar funnels notifications through the Google App, just like all Google apps, at least on my device.
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#66Can 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 !
Oreo is available. I will upgrade after work. Thanks for the reminder.
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#67The problem with this (and Inbox) is that material design just doesn't translate to a big web browser canvas with a mouse etc.
It just feels... bad.
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#68Am 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.
Good catch, I left feedback on this. Pressing "c" as a keyboard shortcut allows for the create event screen to be brought up, but it's no substitute.
Pressing 'q' still 'works,' but doesn't actually interpret the data you input, and instead just makes an event at the current time and day. Also left feedback.
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#69Does anyone know why it's not possible to change the calendar for a given event in the Google Calendar iOS app? You can change the color of an event, but not the actual calendar the event is associated with. It drives me crazy. You have to delete the event and re-create it under the correct calendar.
This is the same on the native Android app. No way to change a calendar for an event once added - have to pop over to a browser. Pretty annoying.
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#70It'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?
> Today: "Google released a new upgrade to X? Ugh. I wonder what features/workflows they broke or removed." I think that's inevitable with any product with a bit of history that's accreted features. Microsoft Office? Windows? iPhone? Thinkpad?...
Excel 2016 integrated PowerQuery features and improved upon the data model tools. Going back further, Excel v1 thru v7 was limited to 2^14 rows (16,384); v8 (10yrs after v1) thru v11 upped that to 2^16 rows (65,536); v12 (20yrs after v1) thru current can handle 2^20 rows (1,048,576).
Windows 10 is faster and more secure than any consumer version of Windows ever released; PowerShell (slow to start up and verbose, though it may be) makes CMD.exe look like a kid's toy; Win8.1 added the Win+X menu, a ridiculously useful shortcut for our crowd; and the Windows Reset feature--show me a tech that doesn't love having that baked-in. We also have the (not perfect but still better than nothing) Windows Subsystem for Linux. And we have improved container support on the horizon.
iPhone: SecureEnclave, TouchID, ApplePay, waterproofing; and they continue to try to improve security and privacy.
EDIT: Corrected 2^14 = 16,374; not 65,536 as I had originally written. Credit to unwind for the correction.