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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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Post by ntpeters »

nailer wrote: post #40
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.

It works if you simply add "AM" or "PM" when you say the time.

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

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Post by SloopJon »

nailer wrote: post #40
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.

I was really annoyed when a meeting I scheduled for 2:00 every Friday changed to 1:00 after falling back from DST to standard time. Google's helpful explanation: "Google Calendar uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to help avoid issues with daylight savings time."

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

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Post by JoBrad »

afarrell wrote: post #32
id122015 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Also, to be as effective as Google Calendar, you'd have to end up integrating it with as many external sources as Google Calendar, decreasing any privacy you might have gained by making your own product.

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

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Post by JoBrad »

flavor8 wrote: post #41

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.

Also, I wish they would make adding invites to your calendar consistently work before making some other products. If your a calendar app, you need to work well at being a damn calendar, and then do other stuff.

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

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Post by ahel »

fsiefken wrote: post #47

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. P…

I'm using android 6 and still it won't show up. (I'm in Europe)

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Post by jasonkostempski »

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…

I'm looking to do the same thing and the best contender so far seems to be FastMail. For $40/yr there's 15GB for mail, 5GB file storage, IMAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, custom domain and web views for all of it. The DAV stuff is hard to find anywhere else that isn't under a huge price tag.

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

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Post by studentrob »

smileysteve wrote: post #48
studentrob wrote: post #30

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.

> I much prefer the analog clock over the scrolling numbers

I'd rather have a keypad like my alarm clock. I wonder why we can't choose.

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

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Post by fsiefken »

ahel wrote: post #65
fsiefken wrote: post #47

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. P…

I'm using android 6 and still it won't show up. (I'm in Europe)

I'm in Europe as well, perhaps the stores are different. I know this is the case with Amazon, iTunes and Playstation. Well I'm not going to go through all the trouble of VPN'ing into the US to check for this new version. It might come to us eventually.

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

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Post by ionforce »

microtonal wrote: post #16

This is one of those things that only the GooglePlex bubble can come up with. As a busy person (my wife and I both work, we have a child, and hard time constraints due to teaching obligations, etc.), free time is exactly what I want to schedule as little as possible. I want to spontaneously decide to do a hike with my family, or when my daughter wants to play, I want to be there. There's enough obligations already, f…

Just because it doesn't match your lifestyle means it's not a real problem?

It matches exactly how I want to use my time and how I would solve this problem. Now what? Your way isn't "real".

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