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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Can't make a meeting? Google Calendar now has a Smart Rescheduler

Filed under: Utilities, Productivity, Google

If you're someone who has to take a lot of meetings, you've undoubtedly run into scheduling issues at some point and had to reschedule one . Google Calendar just added a new feature that you can enable in Labs to make the process a lot easier (if your company uses Google Calendar). Smart Rescheduler looks at other Google Calendars that have been shared with you and creates a ranked list of the best times to reschedule.

It's a great idea in theory -- it even deals with room conflicts! -- but what works for the Google Calendar team might not work for everyone. As you might expect, they all use Google Calendar. However, if the people you're meeting with are on some other calendar software, Smart Rescheduler won't have enough data to do its job. I really like the concept, though, and it adds to a growing stack of reasons to get on board with Google Calendar.