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Google Calendar
What Is Google Calendar?
Google Calendar is a scheduling solution that helps users create shareable calendars and schedule team meetings or events. Users can add or find conference room details for scheduled meetings within Google Calendar. This solution supports scheduling one-time activities as well as recurring events, such as staff meetings. Teams can create events, add guests, select rooms/locations, add event descriptions and attachments, plus more.
Who Uses Google Calendar?
Can be used by businesses and teams of any size across various industries.
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Reviews of Google Calendar
Best schedule organizing software in the market.
Comments: My experience with Google calendar has been excellent. I am using it everyday to schedule everything ranging from professional meeting with the client to wishing my loved ones on their special occasions. Now I don't forgot any important things as google calendar reminds me on time. I can even share the calendar with my friends and colleagues as well
Pros:
How easy it is to schedule anything anytime. Whether it's a meeting or someone's birthday. It has made my personal and professional life easily manageable.
Cons:
Nothing as of now. This tool works fabulously for what it's made for.
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Google Calendar fits for most uses!
Comments: I have been using Google Calendar on and off for several years. While it constantly improves, the user interface could still use fine-tuning.
Pros:
It has good essential functions for business. Adding features all the time.
Cons:
The space to create appointments is a little cluttered.
One of the most used calendars in the world for a reason
Comments: Very good, User friendly and the design is simple and modern. For employees is very simple and complete.
Pros:
I like that you can color code certain calendars or event events. For management of events can be really useful to send the invite.
Cons:
For professional lacks some features that other platforms may offer.
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Love Google Calendar
Comments: I've set up calendars for personal and business. I like that I can toggle one off to focus on the other. I also have a calendar set up for my wife's business so I can see when she's booked if I need to ensure there are no conflicts.
Pros:
I like that it is available on all the platforms that I use, and that it integrates with GQueues.
Cons:
I'd like to have the solid background colour setting for events with a time rather than just coloured text. I can only get the background colours with "all day" events - so I end up just putting the time in the title.
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Nothing Comparable
Comments: I have be using Google Calendar for over 11 years professionaly to manage a roofing companys entire scheduled, and 15+ years for personal events and tasks for my family.
Pros:
With Google Calendar you can easily create multiple calendars, quickly share events with others, and keep a to do list all in one place. You can set up specific notifications and colors for each at the calendar or idividual event level. Scheduling repetitive events is possible no matter what frequecy they occur. The ability to add links, addresses, and take notes direcly in events is very useful.
Cons:
It is hard to manage, espesally for a company, when there is no way to bulk share calendars. Try having 20 calendars that need to be shared one at a time with each new employee. Also, there no bulk edit features period. It would be nice to be able to look up specific calendars or events and bulk change info, or even the calendar they are listed under. The search is no better, when only exact words/phases can be searched, and if spelling is off by one letter or space, forget it! The mobile app leaves a lot to be desired, leaving out the ability to manage many of the settings.
