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Google Calendar Might Replace Google Tasks

Tim October 25, 2024 8

Google Tasks has undergone quite the evolution from its initial launch many years ago. It's a pretty great app these days, but in typical Google fashion, the company might be eyeing a way to replace it with an already existing service. Spotted in a recent app...

Google Calendar Goes Dark on Web, Gets Modernized Look

Tim October 24, 2024 3

Google Calendar on the web is about to look a whole lot more swanky, thanks to a modernized aesthetic and the introduction of dark mode. After all these years of waiting, we are ridiculously pumped for this change. Google highlights updated controls (buttons,...

Birthdays Get Overhaul in Google Calendar

Tim September 19, 2024 4

Google announced an overhaul for birthdays inside of Google Calendar this week. Currently, birthdays aren't special inside of Calendar, but that's now changing. Detailed in the announcement, users now have the ability to create and modify dedicated birthday...

Google Calendar Widgets Getting the Material You Update

Tim July 13, 2023 3

Google Calendar's app UI was updated to support Material You quite some time ago. It's widgets, on the other hand, have been patiently awaiting the same treatment. This week, Google Calendar shared a preview of its updated scheduler widget featuring Material...

PSA: That Google Assistant, Calendar Reminders Migration is Happening Soon

Tim February 17, 2023 10

Last year, Google announced that Google Assistant and Google Calendar reminders were headed to a new home inside of Google Tasks via a migration. Well, that hasn't changed, with Google providing a timeline of what users can expect. There are three different...

Your Google Assistant, Calendar Reminders are Migrating to Google Tasks

Tim September 20, 2022 6

On Android, there is no shortage of ways one can remind oneself to do something. For example, you can ask Google Assistant to set a reminder or you can plug a reminder into Google Calendar. It can get a bit messy, so in order to tidy up this flow, Google has...

Google Shows Off Material You Looks for Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and More

Kellen September 9, 2021 10

Android 12 is so close to launching that Google is starting to show off changes to its apps that will arrive alongside it. On the Google Workspace blog, they just previewed a bunch of their apps with Material You redesigns, as well as how they'll look with...

OMG, Google is Finally Letting You Snooze Calendar Notifications in Chrome

Kellen March 16, 2021 5

At some point a couple of years, I switched to a 3rd party calendar app on my Macbook Pro because snoozing calendar notifications is something my life can't live without. I snooze everything. You should snooze everything. The snooze button is like the ultimate...