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Ah Google. You have managed to once again change the way I live my life. Google Calendar not only allows me to better order my day and figure out when I am free to do stuff (no more like last weekend's crazy triple-booking, twice!), and what I really *should* be doing instead of napping, but also what friends are doing, so I can be like "a ha! C--- is free tomorrow night!". Plus I have it all in lotsa different pretty colors, like "social events", ye olde "classes and clubs", and a private "To Do" list. Plus I get helpful email reminders.

For those of you who say "well, you can do that with a regular calendar", I say, "well, I obsessively check my email anyway, and having a direct calendar link there is great, and being able to access it from any intarwebbed place is great. And it really is easy to use".

When GMail first came out, I was dubious of it ever making any permanent effect on me, but now it has not only changed the way I organize my emails (leave them in the Inbox and just use the search function), how I read my emails (scanning "snippets", remembering keywords, the ever-so-helpful "view as html"), and how I write my emails (more information at the top so that it'd fit onto someone else's snippet, assumption that it's not spam if it stays in the same conversation thread)
I really just tried G-Calendar on a whim, and ... it has the potential to change how I organize things, once more. +1 for Google!

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I was just telling Jono that I really really like Gmail. The interface is the best mail interface I have ever used—tons better than Yahoo, lots better than CMail, and actually better than Apple's Mail client, which is surprising for a web-application!

Google Calendar isn't up to the same level as Gmail. There's little problems and annoyances—especially with Cat's account, which is buggy. But the "Quick Add" feature is totally amazing. It's like we're living in the future! You just write in plain English when and what the even is, and it automagically puts it on your calendar. It's like having a house elf, or... a secretary.

yeah, there's definitely things that can work better in both programs. For example, I would really like to be able to search by attachment size in Gmail. Or have multi-level threading conversations. But as I said, GMail does rock pretty hard. It's had quite a bit of time to refine itself, though.

And with Google Calendar, there are definitely ways to make the interface better, like, having each day start with midnight? What's up with that? I'd like to think that each person can designate their own day-start-time. Or the fact that the Month view is in fact, by Month, instead of, say, the week before today and 2 weeks after today, or just.. the next month starting this week. Editing events takes an extra step, which is kinda irksome... but generally it works pretty well. I guess the big thing for me is that I've never kept a calendar before because I've been too lazy. Like, I just never remember to because it's easier to just remember the actual event. But with Google Calendar, it's integrated into GMail, so I'd remember. Plus it's pretty and Quick-Add makes it really easy to add events and change things. It feels all dynamic and shit.

i think you should land a job with google.

haha. Unfortunately, I can't program and am not brilliant in the way that Google needs.

Where can you download that?
And google earth?
And other google related stuff(besides gtalk)?

try googling it. ;P

Google Calendar is a link found at the top-left of your gmail.

Ah thanks.