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Google Calendar
What Is Google Calendar?
Google Calendar is a scheduling solution that helps users create shareable calendars and schedule team meetings or events. Users can add or find conference room details for scheduled meetings within Google Calendar. This solution supports scheduling one-time activities as well as recurring events, such as staff meetings. Teams can create events, add guests, select rooms/locations, add event descriptions and attachments, plus more.
Who Uses Google Calendar?
Can be used by businesses and teams of any size across various industries.
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Reviews of Google Calendar
Google Calendar is a freaking spectacular calender tool for scheduling.
Comments: Google Calendar has assisted me to get my work in order by helping me to plan for my events, occasions and create schedules for my daily tasks. It has helped me to keep my working environment well organized by putting it clear what am supposed to do and when to do it.
Pros:
Google Calendar has the cleanest user interface which makes it easy to add schedules for tasks and events. Adding new events to my calendar is so easy and effortless. It offers very advanced security features which help ensure that all the personal data is safeguarded and kept safe.
Cons:
Google Calendar has always hit the target for me and I have not seen a thing to complain about.
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Great Calendar with seamless integrations
Comments:
I really appreciate how Google Calendar integrates smoothly with other Google services, making it easy to manage my schedule.
But, I find the lack of extensive customization options frustrating, as I would like more control over how my calendar looks and functions.
Pros:
It seamlessly integrates with other Google services like Gmail, Google Meet, and Google Tasks, making it easy to manage schedules and appointments. The ability to set up recurring events with flexible options (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.) helps users manage ongoing commitments effortlessly.
Cons:
While Calendar offers some customization, sometimes it feels that there are not enough options to personalize the interface or the way events are displayed.
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Asleep at the wheel, Google Calendar needs to catch up
Comments: Digital calendars have become a core source of truth for planning and day-to-day work and life management. To serve their users today, calendar apps need to be as frictionless as possible while maximising user freedom to differentiate between work and life, events and tasks, and to easily connect to as many types of other software as possible. Once a trailblazing titan of the industry, in the past decade Google Calendar has sadly been innovating as a snail innovates the concrete it glides across. Simple, basic usability improvements like setting the visible length of the day have been available on other calendar apps for almost a decade now, while Google Calendar has actually removed this feature. The only time that I log into Google Calendar now is when the GCal API is actively prohibiting other calendar software of doing something. A lane needs to be picked here: either open up your architecture and serve the ideals that the company was based on, or remain a closed system but modernise.
Pros:
Fast & easy to access, with colours that are easy on the eyes, and a no-frills experience of setting up
Cons:
An outdated and cumbersome calendar configurator, aging architecture, missing core features, horrible troubleshooting.
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Google Calendar is the best
Comments: Overall very positive. I'd like to see it work better with Macbooks and Apple products, yet I know that is because Apple doesn't want other products to work well in their environment.
Pros:
Works very well as a main calendar application. Works well on Windows & Android.
Cons:
Hard to sync up with Microsoft Teams and Calendar.
Highly useful, intuitive calendar management
Comments: I find Google Calendar very useful, simple to use and easy to onboard new staff and users.
Pros:
Simple to understand and navigate, simple to teach to new users
Cons:
I wish Apple reminders could sync with Google Calendar. Or, Google Tasks were an app Siri could manage with voice commands as the Apple Reminders is. I use reminders all the time and it'd be great if for work (where I use Google Workspace) I could use voice to text for Tasks.
