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Google Calendar Gets New ‘Focus Time’ Entry Option

Tim October 21, 2021 1

When creating an event in Google Calendar, users can choose between different types of entries. For a while, it's been Event, Out of Office, Task, and Appointment Slot. This month, Google is adding another, called Focus Time. This entry option is designed to...

Google Workspace is Here and That Means New Icons

Kellen October 6, 2020 12

Prepare yourselves, the icon set for all of your most used Google apps will soon change to a much more colorful design. There's actually a lot more to this story, but for most of you, that's the takeaway. The rest of the story is that Google has renamed G...

Google Calendar, Sexified With Material Design, Now Available to All Desktop Users

Tim October 17, 2017 34

Back in mid-August, a big redesign for the web-based Google Calendar was teased by a beta user on reddit. Today, that redesign is official and available for everyone, and man, it looks good. Basically, the whole thing has been redesigned from top to bottom,...

Google Calendar’s New “Find a Time” Feature Makes Meeting Creation a Breeze

Tim April 27, 2016 5

According to Google, creating a meeting between multiple people is still in a pain in the rear. You have to double check everyone's calendar to make sure they are free, and then sending the actual invites can be time consuming. With the new Find a Time feature...

Google Calendar Gets To-Dos and Reminders in Latest Update

Kellen December 7, 2015 32

Your Google Calendar is getting a new feature this week - reminders. Instead of always creating events for everything on your plate, including your upcoming to-dos, you can now set a reminder to complete a task. An update is rolling out this week on both...

Google Apps Users to See Better Sync Between Calendar and Gmail

Tim August 26, 2015 4

Thanks to upcoming updates, Google Apps users (essentially Google for business) will now begin to see better sync of information between Gmail and Google Calendar. Once updated, when a user receives an email containing information such as flight, movie, and...

Todoist Announces Integrations for Evernote, Google Calendar and Github

Tim June 4, 2015 4

Todoist, the highly popular task list and to-do app, announced new integrations with Google Calendar, Evernote, and Github this morning, bringing more functionality to users of the service. Thanks to instant synchronization, your tasks can be placed directly...

Month View is Coming Back to Google Calendar Thanks to Update

Tim April 8, 2015 51

Announced today through Google+, the Calendar app from Google is bringing back the Month View. Having been there before, but then removed, users will now be able to see a broad overview of their month's itinerary, with little colored dots letting you know that...