September 17, 2010

Google Calendar Sound Notifications

Google Calendar has a Labs feature called "Gentle reminders" that replaces pop-up reminders with better notifications. "When you get a reminder, the title of the Google Calendar window or tab will happily blink in the background." If you use Google Chrome, you can also enable desktop notifications in the settings.



Google has recently added sound notifications. You can enable this feature by going to Settings > Gentle reminders (labs) and selecting Play a sound notification together with reminders (requires Flash).

{ spotted by François Beaufort }
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13 comments:

  1. DanielSeptember 17, 2010 at 10:32 AM

    Good times. How can I change the sound?

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  2. KasSeptember 17, 2010 at 1:28 PM

    I can't seem to find what you're talking about in calender settings :( any help would be nice...

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  3. UnknownSeptember 17, 2010 at 2:04 PM

    Go to http://www.google.com/calendar/b/0/render?settings=4, enable "Gentle Reminders" and save.
    Then go to "General" Tab and go to the bottom to see the configuration of this lab (cf. picture below)

    By the way, we cant change the sound right now.

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  4. EgyptSeptember 18, 2010 at 2:12 AM

    nice I will try this

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  5. UnknownSeptember 18, 2010 at 7:35 AM

    Wanna something like this for Gmail since years...

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  6. Family Farm Conflict ResolutionSeptember 18, 2010 at 9:50 AM

    This sounds great. Can't wait to try it out!

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  7. Diybiodesiel ProjectSeptember 19, 2010 at 2:03 AM

    I don't think that would be of much use. (for the same reasons I don't use the Popup-messages) Google Calendar is a web application. ...
    and this is my site where i have few more articles that might help in this subject." ..
    http://diybiodieselkits.weebly.com/

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  8. KasSeptember 20, 2010 at 9:10 AM

    @Francois Thank you for the help :)

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  9. DavidSeptember 24, 2010 at 2:45 AM

    Thanks for the help everyone. I was stuck on this!

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  10. اسعار الذهب اليومOctober 15, 2010 at 5:45 AM

    thanks indeed .. right on

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  11. NathanJanuary 3, 2012 at 6:56 PM

    I don't see this at all. My option is to enable or disable. "This feature replaces Calendar's pop-ups: when you get a reminder, the title of the Google Calendar window or tab will happily blink in the background and you will hear a pleasant sound." No option to turn off sound, you see.

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  12. AnonymousJanuary 19, 2012 at 3:27 AM

    @Nathan: enable first, then save and then go back to the settings. Now you see the options on the first tab.

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  13. UnknownDecember 23, 2012 at 5:20 AM

    Awesome, there are so many things hidden in Chrome that are great tools.

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