Google Calendar can finally block off time without faking a meeting

The latest diagnostic update for Google Calendar allows you to block disconnected clip for tasks and people yourself arsenic busy, each successful 1 place, expanding the existing Tasks diagnostic successful Calendar. It’s thing Workspace users have been specifically requesting and efficaciously allows tasks to relation similar meetings, including options to acceptable (and adjust) a circumstantial artifact of time, crook connected “do not disturb,” and automatically cull gathering requests. You tin besides adhd a deadline, but lone the day — there’s presently nary enactment for a deadline time.

Depending connected however you usage your calendar, this mightiness beryllium what you’ve been hoping Tasks would go each along. It has had a slew of changes implicit the past respective years, from launching arsenic its ain app backmost successful 2018 to getting immoderate much-needed updates recently, similar integrated reminders from Google Keep and the addition of completion dates. The alteration is coming to each Workspace customers, idiosyncratic subscribers, and idiosyncratic Gmail accounts. It started rolling retired to Rapid Release domains connected November 6th, but could instrumentality until mid-December to look connected your account.

If you’re the benignant of idiosyncratic who uses a planner oregon is utilized to utilizing Outlook’s akin feature, this update could assistance you support way of what you’re moving connected and fto different radical cognize erstwhile to fto you absorption astatine the aforesaid time. However, dissimilar the existing “Focus Time” feature, the updated mentation of the “Tasks” diagnostic lets you delegate clip to a circumstantial task. 

You tin try it out by going into your Google Calendar and selecting “Task” from the options that popular up erstwhile you prime an bare artifact connected your calendar.