Google Calendar should prevent spam by default
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That doesn't mean you should get a notification when it comes up.
This would not be true of a manual one because it expresses the action intentionally, whereas an automated one is kinda like an awkward stranger being like hey it's their birthday today!
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You can edit the contact, remove the birthday and add it as a note to keep the info but let it be handled in another way.
> I don't want to remove the showing of birthdays. I want to remove the showing of individual peoples' birthdays.
I also hate that reminders do not get shared with other events and are google calendar exclusive. This means I can't use a third party calendar app on my phone if I want to use reminders.
I assume iOS Reminders work better than this, but I'm dependent on Google Calendar. I have not figured out a workaround for notifications since switching and I am now a less reliable person.
Why does the Google Calendar app not manage iOS reminder notifications as it does on Android? Have I horked a notification setting unawares?
Though, due to the short address I also get hundreds of legit calendar invites that were just sent to the wrong people. I swear I know the whereabouts of half the people in the country with names either starting with, or ending with that combination. =/
A coworker convinced me to try and see what the most outlandish thing I could say and still be believed was. Some of the toppers:
1) I don't know why we need firemen. My has has never even caught fire!
2) My wife cheated on me once with a fireman and now I am getting my revenge!
3) I believe in privatizing fire service, when the need arises the market will find a solution!
I toohave received emails intended for others. One time I was included ina group email which kept going back and forth and they would not stop emailing me after asking several times. I just started replying with ridiculous answers to the questions and they finally stopped. So I don't blame you, just be careful.
I also made spam@gmail.com and basically broke gmail (too many emails to a single destination for the system to handle in those days).. but I got an AWESOME trove of spam reports to use as testing data! =)
On the plus side, I have an account on everything.
There needs to be more aesthetic restraint. Animation should be a very thin layer of icing on the cake, not 50% of the cake. "Animation spam" would be an accurate term.
I have visual-motion sensitivity, and plan to write some articles on some of the problems with recent animation trends. I'm also planning on creating browser extensions that disable CSS animations and other spammy problems with UI design.
It's really difficult for me to use Google's new designs. I switched to Thunderbird/Lightning until I can find a Google Calendar replacement. I removed most apps from my phone and turned off most notifications, because it's too stressful to use it. There needs to be a low-animation setting.
Designers should be asking themselves, "how do I make this UI functionality clear with the absolute minimum of animation?"
No way to transfer data without reenabling one of the options.
CalConnect blogged about this last year:
Speaking of crazy dumb, the thing that recognizes your flight emails and tells you to go to your flight is nice... for your flight. But it's common at least for me for people coming into town to just forward me their flight emails. Google picks those up and assumes they're my flights, and keeps sending me notifications about getting to "my" flight from somewhere in another state to the city I'm in now. I'm amazed that they haven't put in even a teeny bit of effort to solve that one.
Not sure about this one. Even without having accepted it I might want to be aware of what's going on. At least in my case I've found it useful in the past. Plus, you are assuming you'll accept the invite from Gmail, but other people might do that from Google Calendar.
I guess you don't have a problem with other people signing up for services with your email address.
I have a <first-initial><middle-initial><last-name>@gmail and several people like to sign up for deliveries and airlines using my email address.
I get to know ALL about Richard's flight to Boston, or Rachel's Adult Themed party night, or recently, how Reggie sent $40 worth of flowers to his wife, but $120 to his mistress.
Anyone known if/how they fixed it?
I believe it's related to the iCalendar spec. https://icalendar.org/
My guess is they have loose rules around auto-adding iCal attachments detected in IMAP/Mime messages. It's notoriously difficult to get email and calendars working. There's a reason ActiveSync is so damn expensive.