I can’t believe I’m typing this out, since this seems like a 2007-inspired feature (that may have once existed in 2012), but you know what would be cool? A snooze button in Google Calendar notifications on Android. You know what I mean, right? As a Google Calendar event or reminder pops up on your phone, you could tell it to snooze for 5 minutes or for 10 minutes or at the event start time.
Google Calendar on Android really doesn’t do this anymore. The notifications from Google Calendar have no actions. Zero. The only action you’ll see is from a reminder, and that only lets you say, “Done.” Think about how ridiculous this is.
On my desktop, I use Fantastical as a stand-alone calendar app. When it notifies me of anything, I get a notification that either lets me close the reminder/event or snooze it for as long of a period of time as is needed. And then in 5 minutes or 30 or an hour, it pops back up. Because that’s how this whole calendar thing should work. It is a time management application, after all, so there should be more controls over how it works on Android, starting with the ability to snooze.
Now, I’m fully aware that with Android 8.0+, I can do this awkward mini-swipe of notifications and have them snooze for 15 mins, 30 mins, an hour, or 2 hours. Something about that actually doesn’t feel all that natural, as if it’s not a part of the app (which it isn’t) or could be unreliable. I want a button that looks like it was purposely put into Google Calendar that gives me options to snooze calendar events as they pop up. For example, Inbox has a snooze button for both emails and reminders. Google Assistant lets you do it with reminders too. Those aren’t calendar apps, yet they do something that Google’s own Calendar app should have done forever.
I’m also aware that apps like Calendar Snooze could probably offer up a solution for me too. I could even install a 3rd party calendar app and just not use Google Calendar. Do I want to install a 3rd party app just to get a basic feature that Google once had and seems unwilling to add back? No, not really, but I guess, maybe I’ll have to? I just feel like the stock Calendar app that comes installed on most phones should do something as standard as snooze notifications.
Meh.
its why I keep looking for another calendar app. The stock LG calendar actually does this but I don’t like the UI so I have google calendar with a separate reminder app to put tasks in. I don’t like my solution but I got lazy lately just not wanting to deal with looking at other apps again.
This is why I use google calendar, but no notifications, and have Samsung calendar notifications with the snooze/later option.
I finally went back to the stock Samsung Calendar app. It has snooze, a DARK WIDGET (!! – although it doesn’t have a dark app setting- odd) and can actually set recurrance (something G calendar app has struggled with). Sorry Google, it’s not me; it’s you. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8a6798bc9cf1a1d4fcf68b42da9214c48b83427afa2ce0100186d2c2b0941886.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8b0df7a1bbd3ac189055eff6412be4cad73462401158f882723ed2ddcae26308.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/71a2109a1a2e78c33ef81145641527eb456acd63b5d0a9ec92e4ef430e92903c.png
Yes! This! I used Calendar Snooze for years until the jerk developer abandoned it. Nice to see it updated again. I switched to Calendar Notifications awhile back and use that now. Totally agree that this functionality should be built in to Google Calendar.
Google returned Quick Add to the new version of its calendar on the web today! You just click on a date and put your natural language event in the description box (e.g., “12:30p Lunch with John”). I was disappointed when the new calendar did not include that familiar feature, so I sent feedback. Today, Google sent me an email saying that they fixed it. So send them feedback about this, and they might fix it too.
WOW! You guys seriously deleted my comment? Talk about censorship. Bloggers are suppose to support freedom of speech.
Yet another step backwards in a very long list of recent backwards steps from Google.
I hate that I can’t set a notification / reminder for my contact birthdays, without explicitly moving them to my calendar. The birthdays show up in calendar because I have “contact birthdays” checked in the list of calendars. But I can’t set reminders for them. This is such a basic feature..!!
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Holy crap! Calendar Snooze finally updated the app! (Like six months ago it seems.) I had to stop using it because it went like 3 years with the only update being a new icon, and it was broken on Marshmallow and above and the Dev never responded to messages. I used it since my OG Droid, and was paid, but it’s like the Dev just disappeared for a few years.
I switched to Calendar Notifications which was the only app at the time anything like Calendar Snooze. In fact it turned out to be better and had way more options. It uses no resources when it’s not alarming, and works flawlessly never missing an alert, unlike Calendar Snooze which for all of 2015 and 2016 was missing alerts, or reminding of alerts long past whenever it felt like it.
Google keeps screwing up more of their apps. But third party apps aren’t bad, especially in this case. Ditch Google calendar. It’s crap compared to most any other calendar app, anyway. And Calendar Notifications is free IIRC, and very much worth using.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.quarck.calnotify
Yeah, I can’t believe they finally updated Calendar Snooze! I was forced to abandon it because it was so old. I use Events Notifier for Calendar now and really happy with it.
Never saw that one in my search, but it may not have been around or was an older less useful version back when I had to find a replacement for Calendar Snooze (this is like 2+ years now).
It looks pretty similar to Calendar Notifications Plus that I use, though it has ads and costs money for a full version (which isn’t necessarily bad, it’s just a contrast to CNP that is free). I definitely would have tried it out if I had seen it when it all started to go wrong with Calendar Snooze (which I just downloaded, and the only thing that changed is the notification screen－hopefully it works properly, but I’m probably not going to keep it when CNP is better).
Really no reason not to use a 3rd party calendar app – hey, it’s Android. Personally I’ve used Digical+ for years. It has the snooze feature, and of course it can access any calendar you can imagine. Another cool thing about Android is you can use App “A” for the UI and app “B” for the notifications, so if you don’t like Digical’s UI, you can still use Google Calendar to manage that while getting your notifications from Digical :-). There are plenty of other 3rd party calendar apps, of course.
There’s a very good reason not to use a third party app. I’ve tried one after another, but either the look, features or available widgets didn’t work for me. I prefer Google calendar over all of them EXCEPT for the missing feature of changing the snooze interval. Setting multiple reminders isn’t the same as snoozing a reminder either. Lot of people wanting this feature but Google seems be ignoring their customers.