It’s not every day that a casual suggestion made to a CEO on social media materializes into an actual feature, but maybe things are different when the person making the request is a prominent tech company’s co-founder too.
The two individuals I’m talking about are Stripe co-founder John Collison and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, with the former making an informal Google Calendar-related request on X (Twitter).
A little over a month ago, Collison took to X with a simple request: the ability to duplicate existing Google Calendar events on the web by “Ctrl-clicking” them. This is a common feature on other Calendar apps, including Microsoft Outlook Calendar, but it hadn’t yet made its way to Google Calendar.
Today, Pichai replied to Collison’s post on X and officially announced that the feature is now available to all Google Calendar users on the web. It works by holding down Ctrl/CMD and dragging an event to either side.
Previously, users had to tap on an individual event, then tap the three-dot overflow menu to duplicate an event. The new shortcut essentially makes the process significantly faster by reducing the total steps needed.
Not for all calendar views
I just tried it out, and the feature is indeed live for me. However, it does not work on each Calendar view. If you primarily use Google Calendar’s Schedule view, the new shortcut won’t work for you. The same goes for Year view, considering that it doesn’t highlight individual events, so naturally, there’s nothing to click and drag.
The shortcut works as described in the Day, Week, and Month views. Once duplicated, you’re free to edit the event according to your needs.
Are you going to use the new shortcut to streamline repetitive events? Or are you sticking with the original method? Let us know in the comments below!
