Google Calendar Finally Added A Feature We've Wanted For Years - And It's Not Ai

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Google Calendar now features a caller tasks option.
• The characteristic allows you to group speech clip to activity connected something.
• Workplace users tin take to alteration Do Not Disturb.

If you usage Google Calendar for work, a characteristic conscionable dropped that fixes 1 of nan tool's biggest problems.

In a caller post, Google revealed a elemental yet valuable caller action -- nan expertise to artifact disconnected clip connected your almanac to activity connected a circumstantial task aliases simply return a infinitesimal away. Previously, if you wanted to people disconnected clip connected your schedule, you had to schedule a gathering pinch yourself aliases usage immoderate different workaround. There was nary measurement to simply say, "I request immoderate clip to return attraction of something." 

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How to usage Google Calendar's Task feature

To group speech clip for something, conscionable click connected an unfastened almanac spot and take "Task." You'll springiness your task a sanction and a time, and you tin take a deadline if you want. If you're a Workspace aliases Education user, you'll beryllium capable to return things a measurement further and take whether to move connected "do not disturb" and automatically cull gathering requests that overlap pinch your task timeframe.

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If you've been utilizing Google Calendar for immoderate magnitude of time, you've apt already developed your ain preferred method for accomplishing nan aforesaid consequence arsenic this feature, but it's bully to person it successful charismatic shape now (and bully to person a caller characteristic that isn't injected pinch AI for nary bully reason). This is simply a characteristic that other almanac apps also offer, truthful it's bully that Google is catching up.

Google says this characteristic is disposable to each Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users pinch individual Google accounts. It started rolling retired connected Nov. 6, but it mightiness return until nan opening of December to scope each users.