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Gabriel Lewis
Goals in Google Calendar — A calendar that finds time for your daily goals
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Graham Gnall
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.
Ben Lang
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Maybe it's time to move back from Sunrise :)
Helen Crozier
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.
Christopher Curtis
Would be nice if this was actually available in the product...
Chuck Kahn
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.
Simon Bromberg
When are they going to update the web interface for Google Calendar?
Rahul
I'm loving this ^_^
Jeffrey Wyman
Joshua Talley
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.
Someone Named
Cool. This is a seemingly subtle addition, but can be very helpful/powerful. Will definitely use myself. Awesome!
Mikkel Marius W.
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?
Nine Black
@mikkelmarius yeah even i cant see it...if i am missing something, pls let me know.......cant wait to try this
kristina
@mikkelmarius Generally new features are rolled out gradually to more and more accounts over several days, I'd guess that's what's happening here.
Gabriel Lewis
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...
George Petrov
@gabriel__lewis How did Timeful help you keep working on your habits? Never got the chance to try it.
Robert Clark
Pretty cool what they're doing for personal habits! Now if only there were a similar tool for work stuff... Oh wait, that's what we do at Rescoper! :)
Maxson Jarecki
Looks like its not out yet?
Taylor Presley
This rocks! Now to commit...
Sahil Sarpal
excellent product
Nechama

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.

Francis Wade

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