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TL;DR
- Google is rolling out calendar integration for the Gemini facet panel in Gmail.
- The characteristic will let customers add new occasions to their calendar or get details about present occasions.
- The calendar integration is rolling out to Google Workspace customers in the mean time.
Google added a brand new Gemini facet panel in Gmail for the online earlier this 12 months, permitting customers to make the most of the chatbot to carry out numerous duties. Along with providing summaries of an e-mail thread, suggesting responses, getting ready drafts, and answering questions on particular data in emails, the Gemini facet panel additionally lets customers carry out duties in different Workspace apps, like Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive with out leaving Gmail. Google is now including one other integration to the combo to let customers carry out calendar-related actions inside Gmail.
Google introduced the brand new integration in a latest Workspace Updates weblog, revealing that Gmail’s Gemini facet panel will now let customers create new calendar occasions and fetch particulars about present occasions.
The submit highlights a couple of pattern prompts, together with:
- When is my [first event] subsequent week?
- Create a [30 min] calendar occasion for my weekly [yoga class] each [Monday and Wednesday] at [9 AM].
- Create a [1h] occasion for [lunch] [tomorrow] at [noon].
The calendar integration is a useful addition, however it has a couple of limitations. Google says that Gemini in Gmail can’t add or take away company from occasions or create occasions from data in an e-mail. The calendar integration additionally doesn’t provide the power to tug up attachments or RSPVs associated to a gathering, discover the very best time to satisfy with folks or discover time slots while you’re obtainable to satisfy, create duties, an out-of-office, focus instances, or set working places, and add or handle assembly rooms.
Google plans so as to add these options in a future replace, however the firm has not shared a tentative launch timeline. The Gemini in Gmail calendar integration is rolling out to Workspace clients with a Gemini Enterprise, Enterprise, Training, or Training Premium add-on. It’s also obtainable for Workspace customers with a Google One AI Premium plan.
