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This does not seem helpful to me. Part of the value of opening the calendar is seeing the day plus the week, to recalibrate priorities based on upcoming meetings as well as immediate meetings. I have desktop notifications for immediate upcoming meetings. If I wanted, I could set my calendar to one-day view and only see today's meetings. But I don't do that because I don't want that.


Thanks for your feedback. We've found our customers use Google Calendar in two modes, read mode (80%) and write mode (20%).

What you're mentioning falls into write mode. Gather a ton of context then make a number of changes. This is best done in Google Calendar.

We focus on read mode. 80% of the time I open Google Calendar, it's to check what's next or to get into my next meeting. When that's done 10+ times a day, it adds up.

That's going to be different for different people. Some of our customers who are product managers open Superpowered 30 times a day. For them, it's worth it.


I don't resonate with that dichotomy. What I am describing is not thinking about what new calendar events to add -- it is reading. I want to see the full context of the week in addition to immediate upcoming meetings. For example, as a manager, what else is happening on the team and do I need to be sending emails or slack messages during a meeting? Do I really need something important done tomorrow so I ask someone else to take the upcoming meeting instead of me, or vice versa?




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