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Good tab expansion in a very virtual filesystem would work wonders: $ cat /cal/nexttues<TAB> $ cat /cal/2024/08/13/ $ cat /cal/nextweek<TAB> $

Good tab expansion in a very virtual filesystem would work wonders: $ cat /cal/nexttues<TAB> $ cat /cal/2024/08/13/ $ cat /cal/nextweek<TAB> $ cat /cal/2024/w32/ I seem to recall that I had lunch with somebody last July: $ grep -ir somebody /cal/2023/07/ /cal/2023/07/12/events:13:00-14:00 Lunch with somebody

fragmede 2y ago
the most amazing feature of the Google calendar web UI that has since been dropped was a way to schedule events with a human message - "30 meeting with Bob next Tuesday at 10", rather than clicking a bunch of buttons in a UI.
- 9dev 2y ago
  Try Mac/iOS calendar - it has allowed to do just that for ages.
- thanatos519 2y ago
  I remember that! I think they have just collapsed to handling what most people try, evidently '[time] description'. A couple of weeks ago I was surprised and annoyed that adding an event with description "10:30-11:00 Pointless Meeting" no longer scheduled my Pointless Meeting. Tried again very carefully. Wasn't working. Worked again the next day. Did anyone else experience this? I can't wait for them to feed my description to an LLM to generate the event. "Schedule drinks at 7 at the bar behind the office next Tuesday. Invite my favourite colleagues and their teammates. Make them curious but not suspicious."
- mejutoco 2y ago
  Todoist as well. Plus every second tue of the month for 4 months, and queries like that.
- netsharc 2y ago
  With Google Assistant you can still do this, but you need to speak it, with the prefix "Add calendar event..."(well, Google Assistant on the phone also accepts keyboard input). I find it much faster than the button clicking.
  - ramses0 2y ago
    Similarly in iOS there's some surprising: "Move my 3pm meeting from today to tomorrow 10am", and a clutch tip: "Hey Siri, Delete All My Alarms", b/c there's no UI to delete and confirm the 100 alarms that accrue of "7:00am, 7:05am, 7:07am, 7:15am, ...etc..." ;-)
- h00dinberry 2y ago
  Not sure I follow, but how is this more convenient than pressing the UI buttons? Genuinely curious.
  - throw-the-towel 2y ago
    Maybe the UI was slow? Then this has the same advantage of speed that CLIs tend to have over graphical interfaces.
    - h00dinberry 2y ago
      Well in a CLI you're not writing full English sentences. You don't say "make a directory called xyz in the current directory," you're saying "mkdir xyz". I'd rather just use a GUI than type out a full natural-language sentence.
      - 3np 2y ago
        You do you. Dozens of people do prefer text-based over the context-switching involved in reaching for pointer interface and clicking that button.

fragmede 2y ago

the most amazing feature of the Google calendar web UI that has since been dropped was a way to schedule events with a human message - "30 meeting with Bob next Tuesday at 10", rather than clicking a bunch of buttons in a UI.

9dev 2y ago
Try Mac/iOS calendar - it has allowed to do just that for ages.
thanatos519 2y ago
I remember that! I think they have just collapsed to handling what most people try, evidently '[time] description'. A couple of weeks ago I was surprised and annoyed that adding an event with description "10:30-11:00 Pointless Meeting" no longer scheduled my Pointless Meeting. Tried again very carefully. Wasn't working. Worked again the next day. Did anyone else experience this? I can't wait for them to feed my description to an LLM to generate the event. "Schedule drinks at 7 at the bar behind the office next Tuesday. Invite my favourite colleagues and their teammates. Make them curious but not suspicious."
mejutoco 2y ago
Todoist as well. Plus every second tue of the month for 4 months, and queries like that.
netsharc 2y ago
With Google Assistant you can still do this, but you need to speak it, with the prefix "Add calendar event..."(well, Google Assistant on the phone also accepts keyboard input). I find it much faster than the button clicking.
- ramses0 2y ago
  Similarly in iOS there's some surprising: "Move my 3pm meeting from today to tomorrow 10am", and a clutch tip: "Hey Siri, Delete All My Alarms", b/c there's no UI to delete and confirm the 100 alarms that accrue of "7:00am, 7:05am, 7:07am, 7:15am, ...etc..." ;-)
h00dinberry 2y ago
Not sure I follow, but how is this more convenient than pressing the UI buttons? Genuinely curious.
- throw-the-towel 2y ago
  Maybe the UI was slow? Then this has the same advantage of speed that CLIs tend to have over graphical interfaces.
  - h00dinberry 2y ago
    Well in a CLI you're not writing full English sentences. You don't say "make a directory called xyz in the current directory," you're saying "mkdir xyz". I'd rather just use a GUI than type out a full natural-language sentence.
    - 3np 2y ago
      You do you. Dozens of people do prefer text-based over the context-switching involved in reaching for pointer interface and clicking that button.