{"id":577279,"date":"2025-11-18T01:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T01:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/577279\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T01:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T01:15:14","slug":"google-calendar-can-finally-block-off-time-without-faking-a-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/577279\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Calendar can finally block off time without faking a meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The latest feature update for Google Calendar allows you to <a href=\"https:\/\/workspaceupdates.googleblog.com\/2025\/11\/block-time-for-tasks-google-calendar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">block off time for tasks<\/a> and mark yourself as busy, all in one place, expanding the existing Tasks feature in Calendar. It\u2019s something Workspace users <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/GoogleTasks\/comments\/1c05gk1\/ability_to_show_google_tasks_as_busy_in_my\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have been specifically requesting<\/a> and effectively allows tasks to function like meetings, including options to set (and adjust) a specific block of time, turn on \u201cdo not disturb,\u201d and automatically reject meeting requests. You can also add a deadline, but only the date \u2014 there\u2019s currently no option for a deadline time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Depending on how you use your calendar, this might be what you\u2019ve been hoping Tasks would become all along. It has had a slew of changes over the past several years, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/4\/27\/17286226\/google-tasks-review-to-do-list-gmail-calendar-keep\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launching as its own app<\/a> back in 2018 to getting some much-needed updates recently, like integrated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/4\/25\/24140524\/google-keep-reminders-tasks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reminders from Google Keep<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2025\/1\/12\/24342115\/google-is-testing-completion-dates-in-its-tasks-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">addition of completion dates<\/a>. The change is coming to all Workspace customers, individual subscribers, and personal Gmail accounts. It started rolling out to Rapid Release domains on November 6th, but could take until mid-December to appear on your account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">If you\u2019re the kind of person who uses a planner or is used to using Outlook\u2019s similar feature, this update could help you keep track of what you\u2019re working on and let other people know when to let you focus at the same time. However, unlike the existing \u201cFocus Time\u201d feature, the updated version of the \u201cTasks\u201d feature lets you assign time to a specific task.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">You can <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/calendar\/answer\/9901136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">try it out<\/a> by going into your Google Calendar and selecting \u201cTask\u201d from the options that pop up when you select an empty block on your calendar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest feature update for Google Calendar allows you to block off time for tasks and mark yourself&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2062,867,12,326,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-577279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-apps","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-tech","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115568058247681610","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}