We are not surprised at all that Google and others, like Facebook, are incorporating certain features found in other apps and services to offer higher quality to their own products. Just yesterday we were commenting on one of the Facebook New Plays to integrate real-time streaming into its social network, a functionality that it borrows from Periscope so that its users can take advantage of it without having to leave their own app. It is a game in which the biggest players in this great league, which are apps and all kinds of services in the form of online messaging, social networks and other repertoire, are right now.
It is summarized in the new one that will come very soon to Google Calendar and it is nothing other than add support to reminders for their calendar apps, so that the user will be able to be aware of their to-do lists and those upcoming events, all from the same space or place. What leaves us a bit surprised is that this great feature, which is one of the reasons for the great Todoist, has not been present before in Google Calendar. As the saying goes, better late than never and now Google will bring it to us as it has announced from one of its blogs.
From various apps
Reminders can already be added from various well-known apps such as Inbox and Google Now. Those reminders will now appear in Google Calendar like to-do lists in which you can call someone or stop at the gas station to buy some chips. They now appear in the users' calendar, scrolling in such a way as can happen in other apps waiting to be completed, so they will happen the next day if they had not been completed.
So the day after it was created, this reminder will continue in the same way until the user completes it. As in other to-do list apps, we can make swipes for some of the tasks that have been completed on the list itself, which makes it a great functionality that will be present in Google Calendar in days.
As I have said, these reminders can be created from other Google services such as Google Now, Keep or Inbox. Once it has been saved, it will appear in Google Calendar so that we can access all that we have made. In this way, Google also allows users to use Calendar as the central hub for this kind of functionality.
The apps lists all the harmed
We already know that there are a series of apps that are doing very well and that among their most striking features are to-do lists. Todoist is one of those applications that knows how to do very well and that will find Google Calendar a rival to beat. Although it is not only one of its greatest qualities, creating reminders is the central axis of its operation, although it does so in a more advanced way with tags, priority and other list of characteristics that have positioned it as the best in management of tasks and to-do lists.
Apart from what is Inbox and Google Now, keep is very good this new feature from Calendar, since now we can use this app to create all kinds of notes to go directly to the calendar. With a simple widget like Month, we can have all those lists to-do from the desktop of our smartphone.
Just like I said, this new feature will go unfolding in the next few days, if not, it has already been done and you have it available. We already know how Google brings them with deployments in phases. A little patience and you can save yourself the installation of an extra app that you can now replace with Calendar reminders.
