A new day for Google Calendar

I'd be happy if they stopped trying to be fancy and just covered usability basics like supporting the browser back button. I can't even count the number of times I've hit back on an event screen expecting to get to my calendar view and left the calendar site entirely. Yes, there's a fancy JavaScript button that works that I could take ten times longer to trigger, but that's not good practice to force users to use your internal JS only navigation solution.

I loved the &quot;meaningful animation&quot;[1] for location pin after you create an event. At first I thought Material Design is a lot of buzz words with not much innovation but when I read the docs I realized they put a lot of thoughts behind it.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.google.com/design/spec/animation/meaningful-transitions.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;design&#x2F;spec&#x2F;animation&#x2F;meaningful-trans...</a>

Adding events from emails is nice, but I&#x27;d love to be able to add an event from taking a picture of a poster or a flyer. I see ads for concerts, rallies, art exhibits, and so on whenever I&#x27;m walking around town or visiting the local library. I&#x27;d love to just snap a picture and have the details uploaded to my calendar.

I wrote my senior thesis on a calendar assistant that achieves much of the functionality mentioned here (recommending times&#x2F;places, auto updates, etc) and lost so much motivation just to the sheer amount of integration between parties&#x2F;services required to solve this problem. There has been a lot of work in the academic space on optimizing calendar&#x2F;email functions but its challenging to implement across so many email providers&#x2F;clients. I&#x27;m glad Google is taking a step in this direction, I&#x27;m not confident many startups would be able to solve this problem effectively.

I won&#x27;t lie, I&#x27;m starting to become a google fanboy again thanks to the beautiful google material design experience. Hats off to the team behind this new calendar app.

Finally. I feel like the current Calendar app has been stuck in 2009. It looks like this new one is actually designed for use on small screens.

My employer (German) just banned all Google products (except search) for work-related things, due to privacy issues. Reading Google&#x27;s latest terms-and-conditions, this move is somewhat understandable, given the strong privacy laws that German companies and institutions have to follow.<p>On the other hand, I guess that scanning a large amount of emails is the precise thing that allows them to offer robust email-to-event conversion. But I wish that this sort of thing would work locally (on the cellphone or computer in question), not on a remote server somewhere.

What a terrible advert. I couldn&#x27;t focus on the features being demoed because they were on screen so fleetingly and the background scenes were so distracting.<p>They&#x27;re trying to imitate Apple&#x27;s adverts but completely blow it by showing overcomplicated interactions.

&gt; Posted by Ian Leader, Product Manager<p>Nominative determinism in action folks

It seems I do not really have to hope my vendor will provide an Android update for my phone, as Google distributes most cool new stuff using the app ecosystem. As with Inbox, I think Google is finally generating sufficient pressure on developers and businesses to use meta-data for their mails and websites. I appreciate that. If their text parser for stuff like locations and times works for non-english texts, I&#x27;ll be a super happy user!

Unfortunately web version has not been updated.

When will google&#x27;s calendar app have CalDav.<p>It shocks me that the default calendar for android does not interoperate with any calendar server except gmail&#x27;s (unless you can shoe-horn events in with a separate caldav app.)

I watched the video twice and I still can&#x27;t figure out what the changes are about because I kept getting distracted by all the stuff happening in the background.<p>Even after I purposely tried to focus on the device UI, I couldn&#x27;t process all of it in any coherent way. Please don&#x27;t make promo videos that leave me with no sense of the product you are trying to demo.

So first we have a new Gmail app, and now a new Google Calendar app. What&#x27;s the roadmap here?<p>Is Google going to roll out new versions of their other apps? Do they plan to maintain both apps in parallel, and for how long? Is this just an experiment or do they plan to convert all users to the new apps eventually?

I&#x27;m a little worried that this is introducing a new vector for spam. I have already been getting spam through invites (where they get auto-added to my calendar even before I have a chance to see what they are).<p>Frankly, I want my calendar to be a private calendar. I don&#x27;t want to share it, or receive invites through it, or auto-add events just because I got an email. I&#x27;m still happy to have the sync capability, because I use a smartphone, but aside from that I really have no use cases which require my calendar to be online at all.<p>Admittedly, this may just be a case where Google&#x27;s interests are not aligned with my own. If so, are there (real, viable) alternatives?

Looking forward to iOS app. Already store all contacts and calendar on Google servers, might as well use their app.

Still doesn&#x27;t have a month view with legible event labels?<p>Not sure why they can&#x27;t do this, the default Calendar app that ships with Samsung phones pulls it off beautifully.

One thing I dearly miss from when Google Calendar first came out was the ability to type in text to create an event.<p>Eg - Typing &quot;Dinner tomorrow at 7:30pm at Foobar restaurant&quot; would automatically create an event with the correct lexical components.<p>It looks like they&#x27;re finally reintroducing this back.

I&#x27;ve been using and (for the most part) promoting Android ever since the G1... but after 2.x the rate of UI change has, in my opinion, been terrible from a usability experience.<p>Pretty much all software (whether that&#x27;s apps, websites, programming languages, or anything else) past a certain complexity has quirks. Getting used to the quirks is part of learning the software.<p><i>Massively changing large swathes of your built-in software is bad for users!</i> I get that it&#x27;d be suicide to say &quot;OK, permanent feature freeze... now,&quot; but big changes to the UI on apps that are (to many normal users) fundamental to using Android break the user&#x27;s understanding of their use, often amounting to months of acclimation down the drain.<p>It&#x27;s very frustrating.

I wonder if it works for domain accounts. Most things don&#x27;t seem to for some time.

Finally, a calendar app for ios. The current options are terrible across the board.

And another reason to switch to Android.

Is there any 3rd party product that can sync gmail with apple&#x27;s calendar?<p>I have google phone&#x2F;Chromebook, and my wife - iPhone&#x2F;OSX. So I haven&#x27;t really looked, but we were thinking of starting to use more and more the calender to sync up with things we need to do.<p>Any recommendations?

personnally i can&#x27;t stand calendar views that do not show empty stretches of time - it is important info to me if i DON&#x27;T have anything coming up in the next two hours.<p>i can see this at a glance in classic calendars. i cannot in this agenda&#x2F;stream view.<p>yay, progress.

Good grief, they sure are desperate to turn their most useful apps into activity streams. The day I have to scroll past an ad to check an appointment is the day I stop using Calendar.

How does one use the task component of google calendar on an iOS device? How are google keep&#x27;s tasks integrated with my google calendar?

But you still cannot post simple HTML or RTF into the web version..

cute video. I have no idea what the new calendar does.

Still no support for Windows app store it looks like.