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comment by Complexity
Complexity  ·  3584 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: February 4, 2015

Is it an Android phone? Google's calendar app isn't terrible.





elizabeth  ·  3584 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, samsung 4s :)

Complexity  ·  3584 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Then Google's calendar app is already installed and tied to your Google account (if you set up the phone that way.) It will also keep your To Do list for you.

Contacts should be installed by default and will sync all your locally added contacts back to Google. Calendar will let you add contacts to meetings. Add Drive and install the Google Docs app for on the go editing of documents and stuff. You can also, now, point your phone at physical documents and have the camera scan them and upload them to Drive where Google will try to convert them into editable documents via OCR. It works some of the time.

Switch on Google Now and Google will look at your calendar and remind you about appointments and how long you have to get to them. insomniasexx likes this. It terrifies me.

insomniasexx  ·  3583 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I do like it but it also terrifies me. Absolutely fucking terrifying. Plus so so so easy. I haven't missed a call or an item on my todo list in ages. That's how privacy experts always said it would happen. We don't give Google our everything until they make it more worthwhile to do it than to not do it.

OftenBen  ·  3584 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've sold my digital soul to google. Their ecosystem is just too friendly with itself.

user-inactivated  ·  3584 days ago  ·  link  ·  

To the point where Google straight up has a system where if you don't use it for 1 year, Google will straight up think you're fucking dead.