If you’re an avid Google Calendar user, you already know what we mean: goals, a feature that the Internet giant’s productivity service launched a few years ago to “help” us with this task. Well, it seems that the invention didn’t work as it should and is left out of the app.

Specifically, it was in 2016 that Google introduced goals in Calendar, and while it didn’t seem like the most revolutionary idea, it wasn’t bad either. Maybe, and just maybe, it was a bit redundant in the application of its style. Anyway, she hasn’t been talked about much since then.

But What are the goals of Google Calendar?, we asked ourselves at the time. And the answer was a bit of everything: “no events, no reminders, although they may have a bit of each. Let’s say you have specific goals that you would like to achieve, but due to lack of time or organization, it is never possible. For example, exercise, learn a language, set aside time for leisure… All said and done: you set a goal and the Calendar will take care of finding a place for you in your busy schedule and also reminding you».

This method automate the redistribution of “slots” at your leisure, and even doing it with those tasks left unfinished, is nothing new in productivity software, but the way Google arranged it was impressive, to say the least.

This is what “Default Google Calendar Destinations” looks like, only available on Android and iOS mobile apps. The fifth option, which does not appear in the picture, is «organize my time», a kind of mishmash where you can put whatever you want and do not fit into the other categories.

Whatever the case, the days of the Google Calendar goals seem to be numbered, as they found out by looking at the app’s code, as no one seems to miss them. After all, the service already handles events, reminders and tasks, and in addition to the automation part, which already existed as a separate option when creating an event, but which never finished curdling due to difficulty consider all schedules in the user’s calendars.

In fact, if you’re a Google Assistant user and used to adding reminders this way, you’ll be left without them as they’ll become exclusive to Google Calendar and Google Keep. And it’s that the company is fine-tuning its productivity software to fit well with Google’s new Wordspace suite.