{"id":8066,"date":"2016-02-03T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T08:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8066"},"modified":"2016-01-30T12:13:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T20:13:30","slug":"google-calendar-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8066","title":{"rendered":"Google Calendar Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest update to the Google Calendar app offers a new feature: You can now set reminders. These mini, non-events are better than tasks and not as complex as full-on scheduled events.
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\nAs a review, events that you create in the Calendar app can feature notifications. The event pops up a notification item or sends a Gmail message before or at the event’s time. Events can host multiple notifications. Your Android might also generate a notification on when to leave for a distant event so that you arrive on time.<\/p>\n

An reminder is like an event notification but without an event attached. In fact, I’ve created something similar without knowing it: I’ll set a 1-minute event simply to have my Android remind me to do something. The updated version of the Calendar app lets me set such a reminder, but without creating a specific event.<\/p>\n

For example, suppose you need to phone someone at 10:00. You could set an event for that call, which I’ve done — especially when it’s a work-related call and I don’t want to do anything else during that time. In the new Calendar app, you set a reminder. It works like this:<\/p>\n

1. Tap the Add button to create a new event.
\n2. Choose Reminder, as shown in Figure 1.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Figure 1. Choosing to set a new calendar reminder.<\/p><\/div>\n

3. Fill in the Remind Me To text field.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As shown in Figure 2, a list of suggestions appears below the Remind Me To text field. You can tap an entry to expedite the reminder process.<\/p>\n

\"Figure

Figure 2. Selecting the type of a reminder.<\/p><\/div>\n

4. Reset the master control by All Day and set a specific time for the reminder, such as 10:00.
\n5. Set whether or not the reminder repeats.
\n6. Tap the SAVE button.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The reminder appears on the Calendar app’s screen, just like a full event but with the “string around the index finger” icon.<\/p>\n

When the reminder time arrives, your Android pop-ups up a notification, just as if an event were taking place. You see a message on the touchscreen. Tap the event card to see more information. For some types of events, such as a phone call, you can tap the phone number on the card to place the call. Otherwise, tap the button MARK AS DONE to dismiss the event.<\/p>\n

You can also dismiss past event by choosing its notification from the Android’s notification drawer.<\/p>\n

The Calendar app\u2019s reminders solve a problem I\u2019ve had, and they do so in an elegant and welcome fashion. This is a new addition to the Calendar app, so you won\u2019t find it mentioned in my Android For Dummies<\/em> books. I do, however, cover it in my eBook, Dan Gookin\u2019s Android Apps, A-to-Z<\/em><\/a>. The latest version of that eBook is out this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Event reminders are a blessing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-8066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-android"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8077,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066\/revisions\/8077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}