Google is nothing if not productive. After all, even the company’s big failures are interesting ideas, and one of Google’s most famous ideas is the idea that programmers can spend 20% of their time doing personal projects in what is called Innovation Time Off. That’s making good use of your time, which is something Google is pushing to the forefront with an update to Google Calendar. Google Goals is an attempt to help you fill your day with all those things you’ve been meaning to do.
Here’s how it works. You enter a personal goal into your Google Goals. Google Goals then looks at your Google Calendar and figures out a time in which you can accomplish your personal goals. If you add something to your Calendar that conflicts with your Google Goal, then Goals will move your personal goal to a different time to avoid the conflict. The more you work with Google Goals, the better the program will be at helping you accomplish your long-held goals.
As someone with a lot of personal projects and not as much time as I would like to do things that I want to do, rather than things I have to do, I love this idea. Of course, I’m not great at keeping a calendar, but… maybe I can make that my goal?
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