Google has added several new features to two of its most
popular services that, when used together, should make it easier to keep on top
of life’s events while freeing up time for your personal projects. Most of
these new tools have been integrated with inbox by Gmail (www.google.com/inbox) and the most
impressive part is the way the service now deals with Google Calendar events.
Inbox makes a note of any messages you receive that contain
details of future meet-ups. It then brings together all the relevant emails and
detects the important information, which it displays on a single page. If the
plans change, so does the data, which makes it far easier to keep on top of
what’s happening, where and when.
Inbox is also attempting to eradicate the age-old habit of
emailing yourself web addresses. Knowing that so many of us continue to do this
despite the existence of apps such as Pocket, Google has added a ‘Save to Inbox’
feature for links, which brings them together in one place. Similarly, it’s now
easier to keep on top of email newsletters, thanks to a streamlined preview
function that lets you jump straight to the most interesting articles.
With a bit of luck, these handy new features should leave
you more time to do other things, and that’s where Google Calendar for iOS and
Android comes into its own. Set a goal such as “get fitter” and the app asks
you when you’d like to do it and how frequently. It then sifts through your
calendar to find the best slots to work towards this goal. If later it clashes
with a new event, Calendar with reschedule it and gradually learn the best
times to schedule these slots in future.
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