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Re: Google Calendar for iPhone

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Post by meej »

alelefant wrote: post #47
abrowne wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is actually why I use Google Calendar. The web version has a great 4 week view.

Are you using the same Calendar as I am? https://www.google.com/calendar/ . I don't see this 4 week view you speak of!

The 4-week view is one of the options for the configurable custom view in the Settings panel. I think 4 weeks is the default, but if you've changed it anytime in the past you might see something different. In my most-used Google account I have it configured to two weeks.

Re: Google Calendar for iPhone

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Post by meej »

shockzzz wrote: post #24

Could we get a mac app too. I'm tired of Sunrise.

I got so sick of Sunrise on Mac, I went back to Calendar.app. It required a lot of up-front configuration (I had to set every calendar I follow to "ignore alerts") but once I got past that I've found it works pretty well. Better than I expected it to, and better than Sunrise does.

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Post by eibrahim »

The outlook all is a killer productivity all. It's email, calendar and access to my google drive, Dropbox, and sky drive all in one place. Sending meeting availability is my favorite feature. It's my primary email and calendar app on the iPhone and loving it. I am using it to access my gmail and Google calendar and works flawlessly.

Re: Google Calendar for iPhone

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Post by 77ko »

> Google Calendar for iPhone works with all the calendars you've already set up on your phone.

False advertising: It doesn't work with the FaceBook calendar on my phone - other calendar apps like Fantastical and Apple's own Cal show the FB calendar.

Re: Google Calendar for iPhone

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Post by keevie »

alelefant wrote: post #47
abrowne wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is actually why I use Google Calendar. The web version has a great 4 week view.

Are you using the same Calendar as I am? https://www.google.com/calendar/ . I don't see this 4 week view you speak of!

you have to enable it in the settings: http://i.imgur.com/1qoNlDP.png

Re: Google Calendar for iPhone

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Post by r00fus »

on_and_off wrote: post #50
r00fus wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People think in months. Financials and billing cycles are per-month. Some people get paid monthly. I know in some european countries, this is less the case (current week#/year was almost as important). Personally I really like how Fantastical does it - portrait view is daily forecast (-1 to +5 days) listing up top with the list of events going down equally spaced, but if you rotate, it becomes the month view (which i…

The app does its best to generate one picture based on the event data and if it can't it will just use a smaller header. In my experience, it works fairly well for non work events. It is a great way to add some personalization magic very simply.

Not sure about the decision to vary size based on whether it has an image to show for the event.

To me, size is an indicator, and I'd prefer it the size of the event was based on importance (either directly or based on my contacts) or meeting length. By varying the size just to include an image, Google is promoting one event over another. A small but important event sandwiched between two larger events can be easily ignored.

Maybe this app is good for purely social uses, but doesn't seem to fit my use case well.

Re: Google Calendar for iPhone

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Post by nighthawk454 »

77ko wrote: post #54

> Google Calendar for iPhone works with all the calendars you've already set up on your phone. False advertising: It doesn't work with the FaceBook calendar on my phone - other calendar apps like Fantastical and Apple's own Cal show the FB calendar.

It works on my iPhone - it's letting me pull in any calendar I have on my device, incl. Exchange, Facebook, and iCloud.

Try under Settings-->Manage Accounts, and throw the toggle switches for the device calendars you want

Re: Google Calendar for iPhone

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Post by stephenr »

joezydeco wrote: post #33

Someday, maybe someday, we'll have a calendar app smart enough to show a month view and NOT anchor it to the first day of the month. Look at the calendar in the App Store screen shot. It's February 27th and 4/5 of the month view is showing days that have already passed. The week ahead is totally lost because the next week is in March. UX-wise is there something disorienting, taboo, or just plain illegal about centeri…

if apple is "just as guilty", why is it their OS X AND iOS built in calendar apps support exactly what you asked for.

On iOS just toggle the auto scroll option (icon with a square and two lines next to search icon)

Re: Google Calendar for iPhone

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Post by qzervaas »

I wonder what the rationale is to have the springboard display name as "Google Calendar" instead of "Calendar". It displays as "Google Cal...", also known as a rookie error.

Surely even "G Cal" would be better.

My other complaint is the app icon doesn't dynamically update to today's date. Through no fault of their own of course, but I'll keep Apple's Calendar on my first screen for this feature alone.

Re: Google Calendar for iPhone

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Post by thought_alarm »

qzervaas wrote: post #59

I wonder what the rationale is to have the springboard display name as "Google Calendar" instead of "Calendar". It displays as "Google Cal...", also known as a rookie error. Surely even "G Cal" would be better. My other complaint is the app icon doesn't dynamically update to today's date. Through no fault of their own of course, but I'll keep Apple's Calendar on my first screen for this feature alone.

> also known as a rookie error

Unfortunately, that's a common error when it comes to Google's client-side desktop and mobile software.

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