Comments on: More Thinking on Google Calendar

By: stephen ogrady

stephen ogrady — Tue, 09 May 2006 15:20:41 +0000

Carl: thanks much for the note. understood on point 2, and frankly i can’t blame you - simple is good. the sub-calendar approach would be helpful in my situation, but likely difficult to use effectively out of sheer complexity. look forward to the URI access.

Danno: great question - don’t know the answer.

Andrew: thanks very much. as noted in my reply, that does seem to remedy the problem.

anonymous: that’s good advice, and a strategy more than a few people seem to be using. maybe i’ll just start a “Travel” calendar that people can subscribe to to see when i’m out of town.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 09 May 2006 08:44:59 +0000

I’m not sure if your referring to this with ‘collapsing to a single calender’ but my only idea is to have a third calender! (seems to add more problems doesn’t it?) and that third calender is a calender for common items between work and personnel.

By: Andrew M

Andrew M — Fri, 05 May 2006 12:28:08 +0000

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By: Danno

Danno — Fri, 05 May 2006 02:14:27 +0000

I have to wonder why Google didn’t use the labels paradigm employed in Gmail?

That would largely eliminate the issue with having to copy events from calendar to calendar.

By: Car

Car — Fri, 05 May 2006 00:11:08 +0000

1) Hmm, I think Google Hosted is probably your best answer here…

2) Unfortunately I don’t have any really great suggestions. We were going for a simple sharing model that let people share largely disjoint sets of events with different groups of people, and were trying to avoid the notion of “sub calendars” — i.e., some calendars are truly separate (my calendar vs. the devnver tech calendar — I’m not busy just because there is a meetup) and others are really sub calendars of “mine” — your work/personal example. But it seems that’s exactly what your use case asks for. Its a lot easier for us to handle an event on multiple sub-calendars than on multiple “real” calendars. Curious to hear other thoughts on this.

3) This is in the works. Stay tuned.