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Welcoming Timeful to Google

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Re: Welcoming Timeful to Google

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Post by vmarsy »

The Timeful team has built an impressive system that helps you organize your life by understanding your schedule, habits and needs. You can tell Timeful you want to exercise three times a week or that you need to call the bank by next Tuesday, and their system will make sure you get it done based on an understanding of both your schedule and your priorities.

I hope this will improve the "Snooze Someday" feature in Inbox, I'm not sure how this is supposed to work now.

Re: Welcoming Timeful to Google

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

vmarsy wrote: post #2

The Timeful team has built an impressive system that helps you organize your life by understanding your schedule, habits and needs. You can tell Timeful you want to exercise three times a week or that you need to call the bank by next Tuesday, and their system will make sure you get it done based on an understanding of both your schedule and your priorities. I hope this will improve the "Snooze Someday" feature in In…

I was thinking the same, all round their snooze feature misses edge cases often. It's a solid and smart set of defaults, but it could certainly be improved. For one, if I get an email with a schedule (say a train ticket) I have to go to Gmail then add it to the calendar. It'd be way smoother to just snooze until the day mentioned, and they could presumably use the same stuff Gmail uses to extract calendar events to do so.

BTW I think the idea of the current snooze someday is to save it in snooze instead of done without setting a reminder because it's easier to find stuff there. It's lower friction than using a different app but I doubt it'll scale well to many saved things.

Really I just hope Google have a plan to bring these things together, I think the inbox and Google now reminders are linked, but the keep ones aren't? And Gmail makes calendar events instead, it's all a bit messy.

Re: Welcoming Timeful to Google

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Post by nolok »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #3
vmarsy wrote: post #2

The Timeful team has built an impressive system that helps you organize your life by understanding your schedule, habits and needs. You can tell Timeful you want to exercise three times a week or that you need to call the bank by next Tuesday, and their system will make sure you get it done based on an understanding of both your schedule and your priorities. I hope this will improve the "Snooze Someday" feature in In…

I was thinking the same, all round their snooze feature misses edge cases often. It's a solid and smart set of defaults, but it could certainly be improved. For one, if I get an email with a schedule (say a train ticket) I have to go to Gmail then add it to the calendar. It'd be way smoother to just snooze until the day mentioned, and they could presumably use the same stuff Gmail uses to extract calendar events to d…

Regarding your last point Gmail reminds me of train/plane/... events through Google now. It does also create Calendar events. My Keep remainders also pop on Google now, although they seem lower priority (?).

I'm not using Inbox.

Re: Welcoming Timeful to Google

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Post by gcr »

joshdance wrote: post #5

Maybe I missed it but what is the current fate of Timeful? Shut down or sunsetting?

From an email that was sent to all Timeful accounts:

    A couple things to note:
    
    * Timeful will remain in the App Store, and
    we'll continue to support it. We won't be
    adding new features, but we're more than
    happy to help you with bugs or answer any
    questions you have.
    * If you'd like, you can export your data
    out of Timeful (http://www2.timeful.com/export/)
    at any time.

Re: Welcoming Timeful to Google

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Post by TheMagicHorsey »

Was this an acquihire or is Google sincerely going to integrate these things into Calendar?

If they do, it would be really cool. But Google has also acquired a bunch of other little companies, and it seems like they just digest the teams and have them working on unrelated things.

Re: Welcoming Timeful to Google

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Post by SquareWheel »

TheMagicHorsey wrote: post #9

Was this an acquihire or is Google sincerely going to integrate these things into Calendar? If they do, it would be really cool. But Google has also acquired a bunch of other little companies, and it seems like they just digest the teams and have them working on unrelated things.

Not evidence of anything, but I recently got a survey request when using Google Calendar. That's pretty uncommon. So I do wonder if Google is getting interested in the Calendar again, and what they plan to do with it.

I'm not familiar with the purchased company but it almost sounds like they'd want to integrate it more into Google Now than Calendar. Maybe some finer integration of both.

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