Calendar app and watch widget

Former Member over 4 years ago

I'd like to be able to enter calendar events (description, date, & time) in the Garmin Connect app or be able to import events from a calendar I use (google calendar, for example). I would like to get reminders of these events on my watch through the Calendar widget at least a week ahead of time. The widget should count down until the day of the event and an alert of some sort should happen on day 0. Including holidays, would be preferable. Would anyone else find this useful?

0 8004137 over 4 years ago

What is the use case of this reminders within Garmin Connect app? It seems to duplicate the standard (android) calendar reminders (these can be set to be a week or 15 minutes before the event starts).

However, there are some problems with the Garmin system, which hinder the usefullness of calendar events and their reminders:

The calendar events widget shows only events for the next day.
You cannot define which android calendars should be used by the watch calendar widget.
The notification (any, not just the calendar) disappers after a short timeout - so it is quite easy to miss it.
There is no event display notification over watch face when the event actually starts (say 5 minutes before event start and staying for another 10 minutes unless suppressed by the user).

If Garmins considers some of these improvements, it might fit your request, too.