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This article shows you which Windows calendar features are easy to use, concise and easy to understand, which can definitely brighten your eyes. I hope you can get something through the detailed introduction of this article.

Since Windows 8, Microsoft has gradually split the various functions attached to the system into "applications", making these functions richer and more specialized. As a result, you can see "built-in apps" such as "networking", "weather", "mail" and "calendar" on today's Windows 10 system, while the cards and minesweeping that used to amuse the post-90s in computer classes even have to be downloaded from the (unattended) app store.

That's true, but Microsoft has always lacked sincerity in introducing features, so users often don't know anything about feature updates, so they can't make full use of them. For example, the date / time in the corner of the taskbar is actually the entrance to the Calendar app, and Microsoft engineers have spent a lot of time on the Calendar app, trying to make it a productivity tool for scheduling everyday. The reality is cruel. Most of the time we only think of it when we "glance at time".

How about a new look at Windows's calendar?

Lazy person catalogue

Add a reminder of sports events

It's my best friend's birthday!

Working hours and weather

Is the calendar too troublesome? Go straight to Xiao Na!

Add a reminder of sports events

On December 26, 2018, the day of the western Christmas holiday, a friend came to me on Wechat and asked, "did Mr. NBA watch the Christmas War at all?" and I said, "No." He warned me, "Sir, you'd better watch a little. NBA is coming to an end." "

In fact, the Warriors lost 26 points that day. But it doesn't matter. what's important is that my friend's reminder made me realize that I haven't watched basketball since I was a student, and it's so easy to break away from my concern for a certain field of entertainment. so that less important games as long as they do not take the initiative to look for relevant information, they may not see any news about it at all.

Now that I'm free recently, it's nice to watch the game, but I'm not the one who was eagerly looking forward to the start of the game. A more suitable model would be to give me a reminder before the game, and then decide whether or not to see it depending on the mood and schedule of the day. So the ability to push messages for me when the team I follow has a game is necessary at the moment.

As it happens, the Windows calendar provides such a feature.

Select "add Calendar" in the lower left corner of the calendar application to add the start time of the sporting event to the schedule. For example, if I want to watch the game between the NBA Warriors and the Rockets, check the two teams under the "Sports"-"NBA" tab. All games that have been scheduled this season will be subscribed to my calendar and will remind me with a desktop notice before the game starts.

Unfortunately, this feature is not very localized, and optional sports include ice hockey, rugby, baseball, basketball, tennis, racing and football-with a strong American flavor. Moreover, tennis can only add all games at once (rather than focusing on a player), and football can not watch European games, which is basically impractical. The conclusion is: watch basketball.

It's my best friend's birthday!

One social headache is to prepare birthday surprises for close friends, especially in a country with a lunar calendar.

Although I sometimes seem to send my best wishes to my friends on time, there is no doubt that I don't remember your birthdays at all, thanks to the reminders recorded on the calendar.

The easiest way to get a calendar to remind friends of their birthdays is to create profiles for friends on the "networking" app-email, Calendar, networking and Microsoft to-do apps communicate with each other. After filling in the contact's birthday time in the network, the other person's birthday will be synchronized to the calendar and you will be notified on the same day. If you don't want to be bothered by the birthday notification, you can unsubscribe from the birthday calendar in the calendar app.

However, this method only supports the addition of Gregorian birthdays, and practice has proved that many people celebrate lunar birthdays. And the birthdays added in the network can only be reminded or not at all, and the notification time is also a fixed "all-day", which is restricted everywhere in real life because of its inflexibility. So if you want a "personalized" reminder, it's recommended to create a new event.

There are a lot of settings for "New event", such as adding a small icon like Notion before the event name, setting a Chinese lunar birthday in the "repeat" option, and even sending an email inviting others to prepare together. In terms of personal feelings, custom events are more suitable for reminding friends of their birthdays.

Of course, things other than birthdays can be added in the same way.

Working hours and weather

You may have noticed in the picture above that there is a small weather icon in the upper-right corner of some of the date boxes, which is one of the additional settings of the Calendar: show the weather of the last week. However, the only thing that can be set is in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit, as for the source and accuracy of the weather data. Well, it's a mystery.

Calendar settings can also choose the day of the week as the start of the week, the working day and the time to and from work-yes, it reminds you to get off work on time. Although it may lead to getting fired, I think it will be a good feature. Let's do it.

Is the calendar too troublesome? Go straight to Xiao Na.

Do you think you have to enter too many parameters to create a new event or do you find it troublesome? Don't forget Microsoft's voice assistant for Windows 10, Xiao Na.

As the popular smart speakers on the market advertise, Xiaona can also use keywords to trigger scheduling commands to understand the composition of natural language. For example, type "Hello, Xiao Na" in voice or text. Remind me to go to the airport at 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, and she will give a "time: 17:00 tomorrow; event: go to the airport" task, which can be added to the calendar after confirmation, and a timely reminder will be issued before that.

Windows 10's calendar may not be as comprehensive as Apple's and Google's, but it's not just a chicken rib for looking at time. If you want to "dominate the world with one account", then the built-in solution provided by Microsoft is at least worth considering.

The above are some of the Windows calendar functions that are easy to use. Have you learned any knowledge or skills? If you want to learn more skills or enrich your knowledge reserve, you are welcome to follow the industry information channel.

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