Google today rolled out a new version of its Calendar app, connecting it more closely with Gmail and designing it to work more like a personal assistant.

“It takes a lot of work to stay on top of your schedule,” wrote Ian Leader, a Google product manager in a blog post. “You have to manually enter that hotel or dinner reservation, then update it if your plans change. You have to hunt around for addresses and phone numbers, then add them to your events. And if you’re on a mobile device, you might just give up on these kinds of tasks entirely.”

Calendars, he added, should do a better job, especially on mobile devices, and that is what they focused on. Google said the update is its biggest to the Calendar app since it was launched. The app came out in beta in 2006 and was officially launched in 2009.

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