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TL;DR
- Samsung Calendar positive factors pure language processing in One UI 7, bettering how customers create occasions.
- You possibly can kind dates and occasions immediately into an occasion title, which the app acknowledges and applies mechanically.
- Whereas cleaner formatting may very well be improved, the function outperforms TickTick and Google Calendar in understanding advanced phrases.
Samsung Calendar was an app everybody wished to take away and substitute with Google’s providing again within the TouchWiz days, nevertheless it acquired a glow-up when One UI got here alongside, and now it’s probably the greatest calendar apps on the market. One UI 7 introduced pure language processing to Samsung’s apps, which supplies Samsung Calendar a function we’d like to see Google copy.
Samsung’s apps have already been supercharged with Gemini help, however Samsung has added some particular options on high. In apps like Samsung Calendar and Reminders, you possibly can embody the date and time you need the occasion/reminder to happen within the title. A helpful pop-up will then seem that, when tapped, will set the occasion to what you typed. Apps like Todoist and Tick Tick have been in a position to do that for some time now, and it’s good to see some first-party apps get it too.
Impressively, One UI 7’s capability to drag dates and occasions like that is, in some methods, extra spectacular than what you’ll discover in Tick Tick. Within the instance above, we created an occasion known as “Dinner with Millie every week from Saturday 8 PM.” Tick Tick would’ve set it for this Saturday at 8, not understanding “every week from Saturday,” though utilizing “subsequent Saturday” would work there, whereas Samsung’s app did it accurately.
The one draw back to Samsung’s implementation is that it retains all the things you kind within the occasion/reminder title, whereas Tick Tick or Todoist cleans issues up. In these apps, typing “get milk tomorrow 7 PM” would create an occasion known as “get milk,” stripping the date and time data out of the title however nonetheless utilizing that data to schedule issues correctly.
Sadly, Google Calendar can’t course of dates and occasions on this method. That’s a disgrace, as a result of it’s a neater and sooner approach of making occasions, and Google has the know-how to do it, as Gemini can take these instructions and make the fitting occasions or reminders. Hopefully, one thing like this can come to Google Calendar quickly.