Google Calendar Suggestions

[Derek]

I put a few of the suggestions I noticed in one place - add to this
short list at will. Not sure Google folks will notice, let alone
implement, but it's fun to project ideas.

Click on
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/Google-Calendar-Users/web/google-calendar-suggestions?hl=en
- or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't
work.

[hho...@bart.gov]

[GERALDINE NELSON]

thanks so much D, but i was entered in this calendar thing by mistake.
sorry..

[Nick Chirchirillo]

Garaldine, go here: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/Google-Calendar-Users/subscribe and click the unsubscribe button.

[mizz...@gmail.com]

Click on http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Calendar-Users/web/google-calendar-suggestions

[PNM]

I would like to be able to use Google Calender as a project management
tool. Please see this page.

http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Calendar-Users/web/google-calendar-suggestions

[akaihola]

Please add request for tagging/label support as described in e.g.
these posts:
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Calendar-Users/browse_thread/thread/7e02de7d4fd9d411?q=tags
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Calendar-Users/browse_thread/thread/26025600da24145?q=tags
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Calendar-Users/browse_thread/thread/26025600da24145?q=tagging

[Geno Z Heinlein]

It would be nice to schedule events for "the last day of the month"
again. This used to be available and then disappeared.

[sethtaplin]

I'd like to see the option to set any one of my calendars to be my
primary calendar.
(The primary calendar being the first one in the list, the one that
can't be deleted.)

I started a couple "test" calendars to see which I could get
synchronized the best with my other calendar applications, and now
that I have one I like, I'd like to make that test calendar my primary
instead of trying to reset my synchronizations to use the "official"
primary calendar.

[ssandv]

It would be really, really nice if there were options for transparency
on the colors instead of the extreme fruit salad color choices that
are available now for the weekly and daily displays. That would also
allow for overlapping boxes instead of narrowing boxes where multiple
events occupy the same time, which would prevent the circumstance
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[Mandy]

Click on http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Calendar-Users/web/google-calendar-suggestions?hl=en

[craig.h...@gmail.com]

I'm not sure if this suggestion would belong to gmail or google
calendar, but I think there needs to be a field for birthday/
anniversary/etc. when editing contact information. Then that event
should tie back to google calendar and be displayed for the day it
falls on. It could default to remind you on your calendar a few days
before the birthday or anniversary. I'm suprised this isn't already
available.

[CHucky]

Idea: upload events using plain-text or xml files.
Check:
http://groups.google.es/group/Google-Calendar-Users/web/google-calendar-suggestions.

[Brainiac]

Just added some import ideas. Realized I haven't been on Groups for
ages.

[patpatpatterson]

It is now possible to access Google calendar on your mobile devices. A
new computer program has been developed so that you can have access to
all of these features:

· Add, Update and Delete Events.
· Access a complete list of Calendars (including Shared or Imported
Calendars).
· View Calendars by Day, Week or Month.
· Color Schemes match your Google Calendar preferences.
· Google Calendar -- security and user privileges.
· Functional on most mobile devices (PDA's, Blackberry's, Phones
etc).
· No software to download.

Beta testing is underway. You can begin using this application at
http://www.mobilegcal.com

[Serendipityseeker]

Click on http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Calendar-Users/web/google-calendar-suggestions

[thompa]

After looking at Yahoo Calendar.. have a suggestion about one-click
synchronisation with applications like Microsoft Outlook

[LocationEurasian]

1. Make events that correspond to time zone differences between
invited people: for example when I schedule a web telephone call with
friends at 1pm Eastern Time Zone, I set the appointment at 'their'
time to send the invitation, even though that's 7pm for me in GMT+1.
My calendar posts a query because I'm already scheduled for a lunch
meeting at the same time, and my friends are correspondingly busy at
9:30 local time.
2. Allow event details to be viewed by selected people from the
calendar group (like an event invitation). This is to make GC more
powerful, to integrate a work & social calendar. Then if you have
social appointments you want your friends to see you don't have to
show yourself merely as 'busy' and secondly you don't have to create a
second GC for social life only.

[patpatpatterson]

[patpatpatterson]

[DZRhino]

[igitur]

Regarding this suggestion:

Ability to give a starting date, e. g. for an event "my birthday":
07.02.1974. Then, in following repeating occurrences the time
difference could be stated like "my birthday (33 years)".

I think it should be more generic. I would like the occurrence number
to be displayed, whether the event is scheduled to repeat weekly,
monthly or annually. This way, the person's age will equal the
occurrence number, provided the start date is his date of birth.

Taking this idea even further, what about a set of simple parameter
values and functions that one can place in any field in the event,
e.g.

I'd want to put %RECURRENCE_NUMBER% in both the event summary, as well
as the event details. Maybe I'd want %DateTime("2007/12/25") -
DateTime.Now% in the summary to show me the number of days left till I
get my Ferrari :)

The experts can decide on the syntax, but I think a basic set of
functions built on an existing framework would be very useful.

[Enderson]

I have a suggestion about breaks in events, like:

Thje event begins at 8am and ends at 5pm, but have a break from 1pm to
2pm

Got it ?

Sorry if my english is wrong!

[GeneP]

It would be useful if the text in a calendar content box (such as
comment) would display as a hotlink to some specific website. Often
times events on a calendar spark questions that can be more fully
addressed elsewhere, so being able to jump straight to more verbose
information would be great.

[Scott]

I second this idea. I have been filling birthdays for my family and
it would be nice to know at a glance if it was an Important milestone
birthday.

This could be used for Anniversary dates as well.

The flexibility of this idea makes it even better.

[Russell]

My suggestion would be to do/ tasks list with completion dates

[wdmtaj]

I've been using Yahoo Calendar for years and want to switch to
Google. In yahoo, I have reminders that can go to 4 different cell
phones depending on who the appointment is for. This would be a very
useful feature in Google, and Yahoo has had it for years. Also, in
Google, you can set up multiple calendars (i.e. one for each family
member), but when you set up mobile reminders, you must specify the
same phone number for all four calendars. I wonder if this is an
error?

[wdmtaj]

Reminders should allow multiple phone numbers to be defined. I use
the calendar for my family, and depending on whose event it is, they
should get a reminder on their cell phone.

[VaNTa]

More colors (RGB palette?) to choose for calendar.