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by jfim 1440 days ago
Outlook beats the pants out of Google calendar when it comes to reminding people of meetings.

As an IC, I used to miss meetings due to the Google calendar browser notification being so tiny and unintrusive. Contrast with the totally in your face Outlook meeting notification that can't be missed.

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I never had a problem with this, between Slack integrations and connecting GCal to the desktop calendar app and using its notifications.

On the other hand, I seem to get 3-4 reminders about the same meetings -- even ones I'm already joining -- between Outlook and Teams.

Google is always about backend. They suck on the frontend (except Maps) but somehow they never want to change that habit.