Finally my favorite features from the app Timeful are back! 😀 Google acquired them in May of last year then shut them down. I guess Google was working Timeful into their own software. Either way I'm happy it's back. Timeful really helped me keep working on my habits and I actually felt like it worked, unlike many other "Todo list" apps. TechCrunch wrote about the Google Acquisition here → http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/04...
Looks like an awesome feature but I just checked my Google Calendar app and I'm not seeing it. My app is fully up to date. Has anybody actually seen this feature in the wild?
Can't wait to try this! Have been doing some workarounds connecting other services to google/sunrise for similar purposes but this will simplify. Is it true that the feature only "sees" a single calendar/account? Hoping not.
Productivity tools are Google's strength and I'm overjoyed to see Calendar still getting love from Google on it's 10th birthday and not dying on the vine like other Google products. I assume this is motivated by innovation from Apple and Microsoft/Sunrise in this space. If only Google had been equally motivated by Evernote's innovations, Google Notebook wouldn't have suffered from the neglect that eventually undid it.
I've got the goals - looks good but it scheduled my walks 90 min later than I would like & I had to change each individually. Keen to test this a bit more.
This feature of Google Calendar (an app I use everyday) is a mistaken attempt to solve a real problem. Users want to be able to put more tasks in their calendar but the current problem is one of basic task optimization, not learning over time. In other words, the challenge is how to manage a lot of tasks via their attributes, which this feature does a poor job doing. Instead, it takes a simplified version of what a task is so that it can compare them over time. Instead, tasks are already complex from their moment of inception, so making them simplified so a program can "understand" them is a step in the wrong direction.
What users want to do is retain the complexity, and get help in optimizing their placement in their calendar. This includes even the way the task is expressed in writing.
Perhaps one day, machine learning may help, but it will only come long after the more basic question of optimization has been answered by the right combination of calendar app and human habits.
Pros:
It tries to use machine learning to do automatic scheduling
All in all, this is a great app for basic habit tracking & management. There's definitely a few kinks to work out though & I really wish that Google had a more robust system for tasks.
Pros:
Easy- walks you through the whole process.
beautiful goal 📸.
Automatically schedules your🎯 for you.
One click goal tracking.
Cons:
🥅shift randomly & 📆for later dates when you have earlier ⏰ slots.Limited customzation.📷require the exact trigger words.🙅♂️subtasks.
I tried this and was really excited about it, until my wife started getting notifications for all my goals on her calendar. We share our two calendars for scheduling, but goals showed up as events on mine. I'd keep using it if the goals were on a hidden calendar attached to my account, but until that happens, no go. Otherwise, it's quite well implemented.
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This feature of Google Calendar (an app I use everyday) is a mistaken attempt to solve a real problem. Users want to be able to put more tasks in their calendar but the current problem is one of basic task optimization, not learning over time. In other words, the challenge is how to manage a lot of tasks via their attributes, which this feature does a poor job doing. Instead, it takes a simplified version of what a task is so that it can compare them over time. Instead, tasks are already complex from their moment of inception, so making them simplified so a program can "understand" them is a step in the wrong direction.
What users want to do is retain the complexity, and get help in optimizing their placement in their calendar. This includes even the way the task is expressed in writing.
Perhaps one day, machine learning may help, but it will only come long after the more basic question of optimization has been answered by the right combination of calendar app and human habits.
Pros:It tries to use machine learning to do automatic scheduling
Cons:It's a misapplication of the technology
All in all, this is a great app for basic habit tracking & management. There's definitely a few kinks to work out though & I really wish that Google had a more robust system for tasks.
Pros:Easy- walks you through the whole process.
beautiful goal 📸.
Automatically schedules your🎯 for you.
One click goal tracking.
Cons:🥅shift randomly & 📆for later dates when you have earlier ⏰ slots.Limited customzation.📷require the exact trigger words.🙅♂️subtasks.
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