Google Calendar Goals Now Support Fitness Activities

The Goals feature of the Google Calendar Android app now supports fitness activities and Google Fit integration, the visitor announced on Thursday. The latest addition to Google'due south pop app allows users to set goals similar "run twice a week," "hit the gym tomorrow," and "cycle three times next calendar month." This functionality also makes full utilise of the Detect A Time characteristic introduced in Google Calendar last spring. Google Calendar's fitness-oriented goals are still exclusive to the mobile app but are expected to debut in the spider web version of the company'due south organizational tool at some betoken this year.

Google Calendar users were already able to ready fitness goals, merely upwardly until now, the app didn't differentiate between them and other generic targets. This update adds the Excercise Goal category to the app and extends its back up to the Google Fit app, meaning that people who utilize the company'due south mobile fettle solution won't have to manually mark their goals as beingness done anymore. Instead, Google Calendar will automatically pull data from Google Fit and label fitness goals as being completed. The latest Google Agenda update as well enriches fitness goals with a new performance tracker. Furthermore, the Find A Time feature extends to this new goal category and is able to automatically tailor your targets depending on your existent-earth performance. This functionality is powered by Google's AI technology and is entirely optional. You can see new Google Calendar Excercise Goals in action in the gallery below.

The Mountain View-based tech giant initially debuted Google Agenda Goals last Apr. Since so, the company has been hard at work ennobling this feature and attracting more than users to its organizational tool. This new, fitness-oriented addition to Google Calendar was delivered as a server-side update. The latest app update, version v.half-dozen.10, was pushed out to flagship Android devices in mid-December. Among other things, the update added alternative calendars for devices running Android 7.0 Nougat and a Month View widget. Every bit the company is delivering Google Agenda updates on a regular ground, at least one more patch is expected to hitting the Google Play Store by spring. In the meantime, you tin experiment with the new Exercise Goals feature by opening the app and borer on the plus symbol located in the bottom-right corner of the screen.