As part of its 10 year anniversary, Google Calendar has announced a new mobile feature called ‘Goals’. The function of Goals is to help users automatically set aside time for self-development activities like jogging or reading simply by telling the app what you want to do and allowing it to help you find a time within your schedule for that activity.
If for instance you specify you want to read more as a goal, Calendar would ask you how many times a week you’d like to study, for how long as well as what time of day you’d prefer – say morning or afternoon or night. Once you’ve answered all these questions, Calendar will look through your existing calendar of appointments and fit your goal into a free time within the time period you say you prefer.
Having said that, you can already see that the app will work best for people who already schedule everything they want to do using Google calendar.
Goals also ‘adjusts to your busy life’ by allowing you to defer any goal you can’t or won’t complete at the time by simply moving that task to another gap later in the day. Also, in the event you manually add a new event to a time slot during which you ought to be doing your ‘Goals event’, the app will also automatically move your goal event to a later date.
Goals already listed on the app include “Build a Skill” and “Exercise”, but users can add custom goals for any activity they like. Google also added that the app will also use machine learning to help it better schedule your goal events such that if you keep deferring tasks set for a particular time, Calendar would automatically stop scheduling tasks/events for that time frame.
So have you been struggling to make out time for an important goal? Why not try our Goals in Google Calender on Android and iOS. Let me know if it helps.