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The new Google Calendar for web

174 points by Navarr 9y ago

joeschmoe3 9y ago
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dballesteros7 9y ago
Wohoo!!
hodgesmr 9y ago
I really hope this will let me manage multiple calendars the way the app does… just be signed in to all of them... don’t make me "share" them with each other.
dballesteros7 9y ago
Top!
guiomie 9y ago
Seems like material design eye candy. Any ways to take a screen shot of your google calendar while hiding the titles? To share with external people to schedule meetings.
- ggambetta 9y ago
  The fact that you want to share a screenshot of a web app to share with other people suggests that some workflows are broken and some features are missing :(
  - halflings 9y ago
    Nothing is missing. You can already do what OP is looking for (share your availability without showing titles' name). Will share it in the original comment.
  - guiomie 9y ago
    I believe the only way right now is to make the calendar public/shareable, while enabling the option to hide the event details. I do not want my calendar link public, I only want to show a defined timeframe snapshot. So yah, I think you are right.
    - halflings 9y ago
      Your calendar link will not be public, you only give access to one person and can hide all of the events' details. If that's still too much and you want to only share availability for one week, maybe you can use appointment slots?
      - SubiculumCode 9y ago
        If I want to share today's schedule with someone, but do not want them to see my schedule tomorrow, what is my option? Screenshot.
- halflings 9y ago
  No need to go around sharing screenshots, there's a much easier way: You can share [0] your work calendar with anybody you want (or if your company is using GSuite, they can give people access to their colleagues' calendars); if events' titles are sometimes confidential, you can either set those to secret, and people will see them as "busy" without any other information, or you can set your whole calendar to secret and all events will look that way. You can also use appointment slots [1] if that works better for your use case. [0] https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37082?hl=en https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37082?hl=en [1] https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/190998?hl=en https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/190998?hl=en
  - guiomie 9y ago
    Thanks for the help. Sadly the appointment slot functionality relies on having meetings set to secret, otherwise the person looking to schedule a slot can see everything, and you can also see any week. If I set the calendar to 'busy' for all meetings, my gsuite coworkers can't see my calendar anymore.
    - datguacdoh 9y ago
      You can give view permission to just a subset of coworkers and make it free/busy for anyone else.
- niko001 9y ago
  I've recently built a small web app to share your calendar (with hidden event titles) via a private link: https://cal.tf/ https://cal.tf/
Upvoter33 9y ago
I just want to be able to easily schedule a 15 or 45 minute long meeting :P
- aesthetics1 9y ago
  You can change the default meeting time to 15 minutes under settings. Once you have done that, just clicking defaults to a 15 minute meeting. You can already drag a 30 minute meeting to a 45 minute meeting pretty easily. This is close to what you want, but it does not solve the problem of being able to easily click and start a meeting at 9:15 with a 15 minute duration. Microsoft Outlook (desktop application) has a way to change the default intervals (example: 4 divisions show for an hour if you choose 15 minutes versus 2 divisions for 30 minutes) shown on the calendar - that would be a nice feature for Google to add.
- dghughes 9y ago
  I just want to easily create a repeating schedule for an odd number pattern e.g. every second Wednesday or every third Wednesday. Microsoft Outlook is easier although the Outlook application is easier than the Office.com calendar.
  - lazyasciiart 9y ago
    I want an appointment that recurs on the 5th Saturday of every month. If anyone knows how to do that in google calendar let me know!
harigov 9y ago
I hope this makes it easy to create/edit events without going back and forth between calendar view and event view, especially when you have additional details to add (like location). The current version of Google Calendar for the web is so outdated in terms of the functionality it offers and the way it looks.
SubiculumCode 9y ago
The update doesn't seem to be rolled out to me yet.
- joombaga 9y ago
  It's on the G Suite blog, so I'm guessing it's for G Suite users first/only at this point.
  - olyjohn 9y ago
    Except the article says: "And if you use Calendar for personal use, click “Use new Calendar” in the upper righthand corner of the main Calendar view to get started." Went to my calendar, and this isn't there at all. And will I get the option to go back, or is the old calendar dead?
    - joombaga 9y ago
      It's there now, and yeah, there is an option to switch back (for now) under the gear menu.
SubiculumCode 9y ago
I wish calendars would come with booking ability. If I want to schedule a conference room, a laptop, the company car, and the spare parking permit (for example), I have to go to four separate calendars. I'd rather be able to schedule an event and assign resources to it. I've used Rapla (http://rapla.org/ http://rapla.org/) for this in my lab, and it worked nicely. You schedule an event, it lets you know what resources are available for that timeslot.
- pjschlic 9y ago
  Is the process of adding 'rooms' which are actually arbitrary 'things' (like your laptop, company car, or spare parking permit which is picked up from reception) in calendar not a viable hack for some reason? I imagine this can scale to whatever you want to reserve.
  - SubiculumCode 9y ago
    I meant I wish Google Calendar would have a resource reservation system. Rapla allows resources to be scheduled. You cando this in Google Calendar only by separately making events for each resource's calendar.
  - SubiculumCode 9y ago
    No that is pretty much it, although a little awkward. I wasn't aware of this feature, and must be fairly new. I was doing the rapla booking stuff 3 or four years ago.
- soared 9y ago
  I don't know how this was set up at my work, but there is a separate section to add rooms, and it only lists the rooms that are open during that time. (Unfortunately the list includes every building owned by the company, so I scroll through 10 other buildings to find mine..)
  - exhilaration 9y ago
    You're probably using a Calendar Resource. Here's a how-to guide for the curious: https://robinpowered.com/blog/how-to-set-up-room-resource-calendars-in-google-apps/ https://robinpowered.com/blog/how-to-set-up-room-resource-ca... And the official support page: https://support.google.com/a/answer/1686462?hl=en https://support.google.com/a/answer/1686462?hl=en
SubiculumCode 9y ago
Another wish of mine for google calendar is to turn on a confirm move dialogue. It is too easy to move an event accidentally, and because all the time documentation in the event gets updated, I lose the actual time of the event. I've taken to embedding the date and time into text describing the event. PIA
AlphaWeaver 9y ago
To force this update to Calendar without it being rolled out to you yet, you can use this query string parameter: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/render?new_calendar_optin=true https://calendar.google.com/calendar/render?new_calendar_opt... EDIT: Apparently it might not save the preference, so you'd need to use this link every time.
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- antouank 9y ago
  Trying the link "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r" https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r" after upgrading, seems to work as well.
- om42 9y ago
  Doesn't seem to work on GSuite
  - Navarr 9y ago
    Yeah, that's only for the consumer variety. We just have to wait for rollout
  - sjs382 9y ago
    In GSuite your admin can control the timing of the update. If you're the admin, see the setting here: https://admin.google.com/AdminHome#AppDetails:service=Calendar&flyout=newCalendar https://admin.google.com/AdminHome#AppDetails:service=Calend...
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ashark 9y ago
If it's as slow and RAM-hungry as newer versions of Gmail I'll be looking for the "basic HTML" equivalent for it ASAP.
- frenchie4111 9y ago
  Is gmail RAM-hungry due to styling?
  - ashark 9y ago
    I'm sure Javascript's most of it, but styling's probably a (much smaller) factor too. Besides, these changes to Calendar don't appear to involve only styles.
  - bzbarsky 9y ago
    Mostly due to JavaScript, though styling can be a problem too; the gmail stylesheets have a huge number of rules (over 10,000), with a fair amount of duplication in them. For example, gmail has about 4600 rules that all set a background-image of "//ssl.gstatic.com/chat/emoji/png28-7f9d3a5045813584f828fe69a1fecb77.png" according to <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1397971#c0> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1397971#c0>. You can see some data on the styling end in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1392314 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1392314 and its dependencies. Anyway, I just tried loading gmail in Firefox, pulling up about:memory, and measuring. The overall gmail window takes about 125MB of RAM over here, not counting its images. Style data is about 27MB of that. Another 11.5MB is DOM (6MB of textnodes). Most of the rest is JavaScript. And _boy_ is there a lot of JavaScript. I'm seeing a 15MB arraybuffer from a hangouts iframe (why is that there by default on gmail? I've never used hangouts!). 2MB of just Function objects on gmail itself, out of 10MB total for JS bits. 8MB of objects/functions/arrays for _another_ hangouts iframe. 4MB of JS stuff for a notifications.google.com iframe. Note that a lot of the style and DOM bits above were _also_ for the hangouts iframes. Just eyeballing it, about half the memory gmail is using over here is actually for those hangouts iframes... Oh, and none of that includes the strings. There's 10MB of strings, including at least three more or less identical-looking strings with nearly 1 million characters each that look like stylesheet text. And then another 500k-character stylesheet-text string.... And yes, I just forced a full GC and those strings are still there; gmail is keeping them around somehow.
moonka 9y ago
Like the new look quite a bit. I wish they would add a way to jump to dates though. I've been using Google calendar for several years now, and sometimes i want to look back a few years. Right now I have to click 20-30-40 times on the month arrow. ETA: Looks like google labs is totally gone from the new setup?
- davidcbc 9y ago
  If you change the view to Year in the top right you can go back years at a time and then switch back to a more granular view
  - moonka 9y ago
    That's huge, thank you!
swypych 9y ago
Google Calendar PM, please add the ability to add meeting room links to the little pop-up, rather then just the dynamically created ones from meet.google.com.
- illicium 9y ago
  Assuming you have G Suite, create a calendar resource for the room, then add the room to the invite. https://support.google.com/a/answer/1686462?hl=en https://support.google.com/a/answer/1686462?hl=en
stephengillie 9y ago
Can the Google Calendar Android App get notifications that are independent of the Google Launcher App? Launcher isn't allowed to send notifications because it sends too many irrelevant notifications, but this also means no calendar reminders anymore.
- Grazester 9y ago
  Launcher is sending you irrelevant notifications about what? Launcher isn't sending you anything it's something else(so turn that off) and you dont need Google's launcher to get calendar notifications and the mere fact that you are asking this says you are confused.
  - stephengillie 9y ago
    Maps nagging me to confirm I was at specific locations at specific times, news articles I don't want to read, etc. Just now I re-enabled Launcher notifications, and it's notifying me that I can unlock my phone by saying "OK Google". This is common knowledge and not a notification I want or can use, but have no way to disable this irrelevance. Google calendar funnels notifications through the Google App, just like all Google apps, at least on my device.
    - Grazester 9y ago
      You could turn off those things and you dont need the default Google launcher to get notification(from Google app or whatever). I am here looking at a calendar reminder on my phone and I dont use the Google launcher. To turn of those location questions open Google Maps->Settings->Notification->Your contributions. Toggle what you want and dont want to be notified about. People seem to complain about this and not realise for some reason that it could be turned off without having to resort to something as crude as blocking the notification.
      - stephengillie 9y ago
        How do I get rid of the notifications telling me that I can unlock my phone by saying "OK Google"? Do your calendar notifications come from Google Calendar? Mine don't, and I don't know why. It's not readily apparent how to disable most of these, so the whole notification is disabled. It's a UI deficiency that could be argued to be a dark pattern.
pbh101 9y ago
Am I just missing it, or did they get rid of the 'Quick Add' natural language parsing option (e.g. "Meeting with Fred tomorrow at 5p")? That has easily been the most valuable feature of Google Calendar since day one.
- nsriv 9y ago
  Good catch, I left feedback on this. Pressing "c" as a keyboard shortcut allows for the create event screen to be brought up, but it's no substitute.
  - pbh101 9y ago
    Pressing 'q' still 'works,' but doesn't actually interpret the data you input, and instead just makes an event at the current time and day. Also left feedback.
- askvictor 9y ago
  I'm guessing they consider that overlaps with Google assistant, so they've chosen to let GA take care of it.
CommanderData 9y ago
Nice to see an improved UI. But it feels almost identical to Outlook calendars in layout, something I have been using for years.
stinky613 9y ago
It's amazing how my gut reactions to Google announcements have changed over the years. Ten years ago: "Google released a new upgrade to X? Sweet! I wonder what cool stuff they added!" Today: "Google released a new upgrade to X? Ugh. I wonder what features/workflows they broke or removed." Am I just a cynical jerk, or do other people feel this way too?
- CaptSpify 9y ago
  That's one of the reasons that I've been moving off of their platforms. I remember when they had light, useful, efficient pages that let you get your work done then move on. They've slowly been moving everything to large, slow, bloated, whitespace-nightmares while removing functionality. If Google was starting as a new company today, there would be no way that I'd use any of their products.
- jasonkostempski 9y ago
  Ive gone through the same thing except with every product by everyone. I hate to admit it, but im pretty sure thats definition of cynicism.
- euyyn 9y ago
  I'm biased here, but after Inbox, and after the mobile Calendar apps being upgraded, I was super excited about the web Calendar upgrade. I love it.
  - agmcleod 9y ago
    I generally like Inbox as well, feels faster than gmail. Though i've recently gone back to using a local client instead of the web. It's a bit of a change, but just feels simpler to use.
    - yvesmh 9y ago
      The Inbox webapp always worked incredibly slowly for me on Firefox but fast on Chrome. Now I only use the Android app (and only when I need to use the snooze or Trips features) for everything else I use Gmail webapp on Firefox
SubiculumCode 9y ago
Not a fan of the white text on colored background. I prefer black text on the colored event
- duality 9y ago
  Click the "gear" button and open up the "Density and Color" menu. You'll have the option to use the classic color set, which is black font on the colored event boxes.
theseanstewart 9y ago
Does anyone know why it's not possible to change the calendar for a given event in the Google Calendar iOS app? You can change the color of an event, but not the actual calendar the event is associated with. It drives me crazy. You have to delete the event and re-create it under the correct calendar.
- easyroot 9y ago
  This is the same on the native Android app. No way to change a calendar for an event once added - have to pop over to a browser. Pretty annoying.
  - timlin 9y ago
    Allow me to recommend aCalendar+. All the features you need.
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pbarnes_1 9y ago
The problem with this (and Inbox) is that material design just doesn't translate to a big web browser canvas with a mouse etc. It just feels... bad.
- Nothorized 9y ago
  I seconding you on that. The material design (MD) seems to be empty of my computer. I think Google right now is confusing the ability to read a website with a smartphone, and the ability to read a website with a computer. Sure, MD looks great on my phone, but I also love to use Google products on my computer (and I use them mostly on my computer).
sjs382 9y ago
If you use GSuite, your admin can control the timing of this update. If you're the admin, you can change the setting here: https://admin.google.com/AdminHome#AppDetails:service=Calendar&flyout=newCalendar https://admin.google.com/AdminHome#AppDetails:service=Calend...
bitsoda 9y ago
Seems like they got rid of their intelligent time parsing. In the old Calendar I could type "Walk dog 7p" and it would create a "Walk dog" event at 7pm. Now it just creates an all-day event with the text "Walk dog 7p". Feedback sent.
- IshKebab 9y ago
  Maybe try "pm"? "7p" isn't a time.
  - bitsoda 9y ago
    7p is just shorthand. Either way, it doesn't work for 7p or 7pm whereas it used to for either format.
theossuary 9y ago
Completely off topic, but am I the only won who things it's really wrong for google to have their own TLD?
- oxguy3 9y ago
  I don't mind it. Be glad that ICANN didn't allow their proposal to own the name "search", with no second-level domain (i.e. https://search/ https://search/): https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/10/google-wants-to-operate-search-as-a-dotless-domain/ https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/10/google-wants-to-operate-se...
dmd 9y ago
This is awful. In the current UI, my appointment says "Open House". In the new UI, in compact mode, it says "Open". In responsive mode, it says "Op".
stillatlarge 9y ago
I would love it if Google Calendar notified you when you accepted multiple invites for the same date & time. It boggles my mind that this wasn't a feature from the start.
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wingliu0 9y ago
wht framework is it using?
federicoponzi 9y ago
It's 2017 - quite 2018- and still can't set notifications for birthdays of my contacts lol please fix broken features before releasing redesign
lousken 9y ago
After youtube got a dark theme I had hope for more... guess not.

174 points by Navarr 9y ago

joeschmoe3 9y ago

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dballesteros7 9y ago

Wohoo!!

hodgesmr 9y ago

I really hope this will let me manage multiple calendars the way the app does… just be signed in to all of them... don’t make me "share" them with each other.

dballesteros7 9y ago

Top!

guiomie 9y ago

Seems like material design eye candy. Any ways to take a screen shot of your google calendar while hiding the titles? To share with external people to schedule meetings.

ggambetta 9y ago
The fact that you want to share a screenshot of a web app to share with other people suggests that some workflows are broken and some features are missing :(
- halflings 9y ago
  Nothing is missing. You can already do what OP is looking for (share your availability without showing titles' name). Will share it in the original comment.
- guiomie 9y ago
  I believe the only way right now is to make the calendar public/shareable, while enabling the option to hide the event details. I do not want my calendar link public, I only want to show a defined timeframe snapshot. So yah, I think you are right.
  - halflings 9y ago
    Your calendar link will not be public, you only give access to one person and can hide all of the events' details. If that's still too much and you want to only share availability for one week, maybe you can use appointment slots?
    - SubiculumCode 9y ago
      If I want to share today's schedule with someone, but do not want them to see my schedule tomorrow, what is my option? Screenshot.
halflings 9y ago
No need to go around sharing screenshots, there's a much easier way: You can share [0] your work calendar with anybody you want (or if your company is using GSuite, they can give people access to their colleagues' calendars); if events' titles are sometimes confidential, you can either set those to secret, and people will see them as "busy" without any other information, or you can set your whole calendar to secret and all events will look that way. You can also use appointment slots [1] if that works better for your use case. [0] https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37082?hl=en https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37082?hl=en [1] https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/190998?hl=en https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/190998?hl=en
- guiomie 9y ago
  Thanks for the help. Sadly the appointment slot functionality relies on having meetings set to secret, otherwise the person looking to schedule a slot can see everything, and you can also see any week. If I set the calendar to 'busy' for all meetings, my gsuite coworkers can't see my calendar anymore.
  - datguacdoh 9y ago
    You can give view permission to just a subset of coworkers and make it free/busy for anyone else.
niko001 9y ago
I've recently built a small web app to share your calendar (with hidden event titles) via a private link: https://cal.tf/ https://cal.tf/

Upvoter33 9y ago

I just want to be able to easily schedule a 15 or 45 minute long meeting :P

aesthetics1 9y ago
You can change the default meeting time to 15 minutes under settings. Once you have done that, just clicking defaults to a 15 minute meeting. You can already drag a 30 minute meeting to a 45 minute meeting pretty easily. This is close to what you want, but it does not solve the problem of being able to easily click and start a meeting at 9:15 with a 15 minute duration. Microsoft Outlook (desktop application) has a way to change the default intervals (example: 4 divisions show for an hour if you choose 15 minutes versus 2 divisions for 30 minutes) shown on the calendar - that would be a nice feature for Google to add.
dghughes 9y ago
I just want to easily create a repeating schedule for an odd number pattern e.g. every second Wednesday or every third Wednesday. Microsoft Outlook is easier although the Outlook application is easier than the Office.com calendar.
- lazyasciiart 9y ago
  I want an appointment that recurs on the 5th Saturday of every month. If anyone knows how to do that in google calendar let me know!

harigov 9y ago

I hope this makes it easy to create/edit events without going back and forth between calendar view and event view, especially when you have additional details to add (like location). The current version of Google Calendar for the web is so outdated in terms of the functionality it offers and the way it looks.

SubiculumCode 9y ago

The update doesn't seem to be rolled out to me yet.

joombaga 9y ago
It's on the G Suite blog, so I'm guessing it's for G Suite users first/only at this point.
- olyjohn 9y ago
  Except the article says: "And if you use Calendar for personal use, click “Use new Calendar” in the upper righthand corner of the main Calendar view to get started." Went to my calendar, and this isn't there at all. And will I get the option to go back, or is the old calendar dead?
  - joombaga 9y ago
    It's there now, and yeah, there is an option to switch back (for now) under the gear menu.

SubiculumCode 9y ago

I wish calendars would come with booking ability. If I want to schedule a conference room, a laptop, the company car, and the spare parking permit (for example), I have to go to four separate calendars. I'd rather be able to schedule an event and assign resources to it. I've used Rapla (http://rapla.org/ http://rapla.org/) for this in my lab, and it worked nicely. You schedule an event, it lets you know what resources are available for that timeslot.

pjschlic 9y ago
Is the process of adding 'rooms' which are actually arbitrary 'things' (like your laptop, company car, or spare parking permit which is picked up from reception) in calendar not a viable hack for some reason? I imagine this can scale to whatever you want to reserve.
- SubiculumCode 9y ago
  I meant I wish Google Calendar would have a resource reservation system. Rapla allows resources to be scheduled. You cando this in Google Calendar only by separately making events for each resource's calendar.
- SubiculumCode 9y ago
  No that is pretty much it, although a little awkward. I wasn't aware of this feature, and must be fairly new. I was doing the rapla booking stuff 3 or four years ago.
soared 9y ago
I don't know how this was set up at my work, but there is a separate section to add rooms, and it only lists the rooms that are open during that time. (Unfortunately the list includes every building owned by the company, so I scroll through 10 other buildings to find mine..)
- exhilaration 9y ago
  You're probably using a Calendar Resource. Here's a how-to guide for the curious: https://robinpowered.com/blog/how-to-set-up-room-resource-calendars-in-google-apps/ https://robinpowered.com/blog/how-to-set-up-room-resource-ca... And the official support page: https://support.google.com/a/answer/1686462?hl=en https://support.google.com/a/answer/1686462?hl=en

SubiculumCode 9y ago

Another wish of mine for google calendar is to turn on a confirm move dialogue. It is too easy to move an event accidentally, and because all the time documentation in the event gets updated, I lose the actual time of the event. I've taken to embedding the date and time into text describing the event. PIA

AlphaWeaver 9y ago

To force this update to Calendar without it being rolled out to you yet, you can use this query string parameter: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/render?new_calendar_optin=true https://calendar.google.com/calendar/render?new_calendar_opt... EDIT: Apparently it might not save the preference, so you'd need to use this link every time.

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antouank 9y ago
Trying the link "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r" https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r" after upgrading, seems to work as well.
om42 9y ago
Doesn't seem to work on GSuite
- Navarr 9y ago
  Yeah, that's only for the consumer variety. We just have to wait for rollout
- sjs382 9y ago
  In GSuite your admin can control the timing of the update. If you're the admin, see the setting here: https://admin.google.com/AdminHome#AppDetails:service=Calendar&flyout=newCalendar https://admin.google.com/AdminHome#AppDetails:service=Calend...
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ashark 9y ago

If it's as slow and RAM-hungry as newer versions of Gmail I'll be looking for the "basic HTML" equivalent for it ASAP.

frenchie4111 9y ago
Is gmail RAM-hungry due to styling?
- ashark 9y ago
  I'm sure Javascript's most of it, but styling's probably a (much smaller) factor too. Besides, these changes to Calendar don't appear to involve only styles.
- bzbarsky 9y ago
  Mostly due to JavaScript, though styling can be a problem too; the gmail stylesheets have a huge number of rules (over 10,000), with a fair amount of duplication in them. For example, gmail has about 4600 rules that all set a background-image of "//ssl.gstatic.com/chat/emoji/png28-7f9d3a5045813584f828fe69a1fecb77.png" according to <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1397971#c0> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1397971#c0>. You can see some data on the styling end in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1392314 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1392314 and its dependencies. Anyway, I just tried loading gmail in Firefox, pulling up about:memory, and measuring. The overall gmail window takes about 125MB of RAM over here, not counting its images. Style data is about 27MB of that. Another 11.5MB is DOM (6MB of textnodes). Most of the rest is JavaScript. And _boy_ is there a lot of JavaScript. I'm seeing a 15MB arraybuffer from a hangouts iframe (why is that there by default on gmail? I've never used hangouts!). 2MB of just Function objects on gmail itself, out of 10MB total for JS bits. 8MB of objects/functions/arrays for _another_ hangouts iframe. 4MB of JS stuff for a notifications.google.com iframe. Note that a lot of the style and DOM bits above were _also_ for the hangouts iframes. Just eyeballing it, about half the memory gmail is using over here is actually for those hangouts iframes... Oh, and none of that includes the strings. There's 10MB of strings, including at least three more or less identical-looking strings with nearly 1 million characters each that look like stylesheet text. And then another 500k-character stylesheet-text string.... And yes, I just forced a full GC and those strings are still there; gmail is keeping them around somehow.

moonka 9y ago

Like the new look quite a bit. I wish they would add a way to jump to dates though. I've been using Google calendar for several years now, and sometimes i want to look back a few years. Right now I have to click 20-30-40 times on the month arrow. ETA: Looks like google labs is totally gone from the new setup?

davidcbc 9y ago
If you change the view to Year in the top right you can go back years at a time and then switch back to a more granular view
- moonka 9y ago
  That's huge, thank you!

swypych 9y ago

Google Calendar PM, please add the ability to add meeting room links to the little pop-up, rather then just the dynamically created ones from meet.google.com.

illicium 9y ago
Assuming you have G Suite, create a calendar resource for the room, then add the room to the invite. https://support.google.com/a/answer/1686462?hl=en https://support.google.com/a/answer/1686462?hl=en

stephengillie 9y ago

Can the Google Calendar Android App get notifications that are independent of the Google Launcher App? Launcher isn't allowed to send notifications because it sends too many irrelevant notifications, but this also means no calendar reminders anymore.

Grazester 9y ago
Launcher is sending you irrelevant notifications about what? Launcher isn't sending you anything it's something else(so turn that off) and you dont need Google's launcher to get calendar notifications and the mere fact that you are asking this says you are confused.
- stephengillie 9y ago
  Maps nagging me to confirm I was at specific locations at specific times, news articles I don't want to read, etc. Just now I re-enabled Launcher notifications, and it's notifying me that I can unlock my phone by saying "OK Google". This is common knowledge and not a notification I want or can use, but have no way to disable this irrelevance. Google calendar funnels notifications through the Google App, just like all Google apps, at least on my device.
  - Grazester 9y ago
    You could turn off those things and you dont need the default Google launcher to get notification(from Google app or whatever). I am here looking at a calendar reminder on my phone and I dont use the Google launcher. To turn of those location questions open Google Maps->Settings->Notification->Your contributions. Toggle what you want and dont want to be notified about. People seem to complain about this and not realise for some reason that it could be turned off without having to resort to something as crude as blocking the notification.
    - stephengillie 9y ago
      How do I get rid of the notifications telling me that I can unlock my phone by saying "OK Google"? Do your calendar notifications come from Google Calendar? Mine don't, and I don't know why. It's not readily apparent how to disable most of these, so the whole notification is disabled. It's a UI deficiency that could be argued to be a dark pattern.

pbh101 9y ago

Am I just missing it, or did they get rid of the 'Quick Add' natural language parsing option (e.g. "Meeting with Fred tomorrow at 5p")? That has easily been the most valuable feature of Google Calendar since day one.

nsriv 9y ago
Good catch, I left feedback on this. Pressing "c" as a keyboard shortcut allows for the create event screen to be brought up, but it's no substitute.
- pbh101 9y ago
  Pressing 'q' still 'works,' but doesn't actually interpret the data you input, and instead just makes an event at the current time and day. Also left feedback.
askvictor 9y ago
I'm guessing they consider that overlaps with Google assistant, so they've chosen to let GA take care of it.

CommanderData 9y ago

Nice to see an improved UI. But it feels almost identical to Outlook calendars in layout, something I have been using for years.

stinky613 9y ago

It's amazing how my gut reactions to Google announcements have changed over the years. Ten years ago: "Google released a new upgrade to X? Sweet! I wonder what cool stuff they added!" Today: "Google released a new upgrade to X? Ugh. I wonder what features/workflows they broke or removed." Am I just a cynical jerk, or do other people feel this way too?

CaptSpify 9y ago
That's one of the reasons that I've been moving off of their platforms. I remember when they had light, useful, efficient pages that let you get your work done then move on. They've slowly been moving everything to large, slow, bloated, whitespace-nightmares while removing functionality. If Google was starting as a new company today, there would be no way that I'd use any of their products.
jasonkostempski 9y ago
Ive gone through the same thing except with every product by everyone. I hate to admit it, but im pretty sure thats definition of cynicism.
euyyn 9y ago
I'm biased here, but after Inbox, and after the mobile Calendar apps being upgraded, I was super excited about the web Calendar upgrade. I love it.
- agmcleod 9y ago
  I generally like Inbox as well, feels faster than gmail. Though i've recently gone back to using a local client instead of the web. It's a bit of a change, but just feels simpler to use.
  - yvesmh 9y ago
    The Inbox webapp always worked incredibly slowly for me on Firefox but fast on Chrome. Now I only use the Android app (and only when I need to use the snooze or Trips features) for everything else I use Gmail webapp on Firefox

SubiculumCode 9y ago

Not a fan of the white text on colored background. I prefer black text on the colored event

duality 9y ago
Click the "gear" button and open up the "Density and Color" menu. You'll have the option to use the classic color set, which is black font on the colored event boxes.

theseanstewart 9y ago

Does anyone know why it's not possible to change the calendar for a given event in the Google Calendar iOS app? You can change the color of an event, but not the actual calendar the event is associated with. It drives me crazy. You have to delete the event and re-create it under the correct calendar.

easyroot 9y ago
This is the same on the native Android app. No way to change a calendar for an event once added - have to pop over to a browser. Pretty annoying.
- timlin 9y ago
  Allow me to recommend aCalendar+. All the features you need.
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pbarnes_1 9y ago

The problem with this (and Inbox) is that material design just doesn't translate to a big web browser canvas with a mouse etc. It just feels... bad.

Nothorized 9y ago
I seconding you on that. The material design (MD) seems to be empty of my computer. I think Google right now is confusing the ability to read a website with a smartphone, and the ability to read a website with a computer. Sure, MD looks great on my phone, but I also love to use Google products on my computer (and I use them mostly on my computer).

sjs382 9y ago

If you use GSuite, your admin can control the timing of this update. If you're the admin, you can change the setting here: https://admin.google.com/AdminHome#AppDetails:service=Calendar&flyout=newCalendar https://admin.google.com/AdminHome#AppDetails:service=Calend...

bitsoda 9y ago

Seems like they got rid of their intelligent time parsing. In the old Calendar I could type "Walk dog 7p" and it would create a "Walk dog" event at 7pm. Now it just creates an all-day event with the text "Walk dog 7p". Feedback sent.

IshKebab 9y ago
Maybe try "pm"? "7p" isn't a time.
- bitsoda 9y ago
  7p is just shorthand. Either way, it doesn't work for 7p or 7pm whereas it used to for either format.

theossuary 9y ago

Completely off topic, but am I the only won who things it's really wrong for google to have their own TLD?

oxguy3 9y ago
I don't mind it. Be glad that ICANN didn't allow their proposal to own the name "search", with no second-level domain (i.e. https://search/ https://search/): https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/10/google-wants-to-operate-search-as-a-dotless-domain/ https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/10/google-wants-to-operate-se...

dmd 9y ago

This is awful. In the current UI, my appointment says "Open House". In the new UI, in compact mode, it says "Open". In responsive mode, it says "Op".

stillatlarge 9y ago

I would love it if Google Calendar notified you when you accepted multiple invites for the same date & time. It boggles my mind that this wasn't a feature from the start.

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wingliu0 9y ago

wht framework is it using?

federicoponzi 9y ago

It's 2017 - quite 2018- and still can't set notifications for birthdays of my contacts lol please fix broken features before releasing redesign

lousken 9y ago

After youtube got a dark theme I had hope for more... guess not.