Let us explore a use case of scheduling various school related activities. The goal is to demonstrate the usage of one sentence (statement) to schedule activities with the same start time, but different dates or linked together by an implied process, or with various time starting points, start and end dates (memo style), etc. Ability to group various (semantically different) activities in a single statement streamlines the overall scheduling effort and optimizes time management. Let us see how it can be done! Please, take a look at the examples below. Activity repeating on weekdays and happening at the same time: On weekdays at 8:30 am Refreshments & Meditation on a Famous Quote or an Anecdote Different activities associated with different weekdays, common starting time and duration: On Mondays ‘Grammar Lesson’, on Tuesdays ‘Journal Maintenance’ at   9:15 am Related a ctivities (process steps) on weekdays, common starting time and duration: Repeat Weekly on Wednesday ‘Reading Notebook’, on Thursday ‘Writing Notebook’ and on Friday ‘Finishing Notebook Activities’ at 9:15 am Different weekdays, different time, but joined by common subject (activity): Writers Workshop weekly on Monday and Wednesday at 10:10 am , and on Fridays at 10:50 am Specific reporting date, no time (memo style): November 9th, Faculty deadline for reporting midterm grades Academic calendar defined as days period, no time indication (memo style): After first week of December from Wed to Fri ‘Senior spring course selection’ Start and end of a single activity, recorded as 2 days, with corresponding descriptions (memo): Oct 5th start day  of Ph.D. general examinations and Oct 25th end day  of Ph.D. general examinations One activity defined as a period and recorded as such, with start and end date, no time (memo style): Winter recess starting on Dec 18th and ending on Jan 3rd The goal again is to make the entry and maintenance of your schedule easy. School schedule can be entered in minutes. The entered schedule can be shared with a group using a feature of inviting people, thus one person enters the group activities and invites the participants to accept. Duration can be updated to any arbitrary one after the event is scheduled, it cannot be a part of the event definition. Please, note that the precondition is to have a Google account, the application works with Google calendar exclusively .

Express Scheduler extracts scheduled content from an arbitrary natural language statement. Application supports navigation and update voice commands. Scheduling by voice combined with various calendar views, content-based search, visualized monthly load, automated, configurable event categorization, plus much more, offers a convenient way to manage regular, daily workload. By default, all scheduled events have one-hour duration. In order to update the duration to the arbitrary length update duration command can be applied to an event. The update command can be used right after the event is scheduled in the Event View or later, at any time. In order to manage a single event at arbitrary time, after it was already scheduled, select the event from any of the event views, such as Monthly, Daily, Weekly or Journal, and update the selected event in the Event View, by voice or typing. To specify a location for the event update location command can be used. Update duration to 1 hour and 30 minutes or update location to Toronto Exhibition Place are examples of update duration and update location commands. Enable voice and Disable voice commands allow to control Express Scheduler assistance behavior.

Often times we make conscience decisions to follow up upon certain personal goals, commitments, promises in foreseeable future, and don't have time to record them. So the question is, how to make capturing these objectives quick and convenient? Modern technology penetrates almost every aspect of our lives, and there are established popular services to go to, like Google Assistant. Assistant is useful not only in conducting broad spectrum inquiries, checking weather, managing large variety of home gadgets via voice, it links Android apps into a web of voice managed services as well. Thus, this is how the idea to integrate Express Scheduler with Google Assistant was born. Maybe integration with Assistant is the answer to the question how to make scheduling easy and convenient to use. For now, as a starting point, Express Scheduler supports search and open application shortcuts. You can trigger search for scheduled activities by saying find note in Express Scheduler, for example. The application will open search activity in response to a find shortcut. It will conduct the search for you, if you will list the search keywords in the command. Here is the list of variations, which will be recognized with certainty: open Express Scheduler application search for medical appointments in Express Scheduler open Express Scheduler screen Please, note that there are some limitations, and not all semantically equivalent commands will be recognized as Express Scheduler shortcuts. Please, give it a try, and we would love to get your feedback!

Express Scheduler main function is to capture scheduling content from a free form statement using voice recognition and record it in the calendar. If voice recognition did not transcribe the voice command accurately, Scheduler provides the ability to correct the statement by allowing to edit the text. Transcribed text appears in the main screen and can be updated using virtual keyboard. It is important to emphasize that if scheduling content in the statement is updated, while the original statement have been successfully scheduled, than a new event will be recorded in the calendar, in addition to the original one. Express Scheduler supports multiple calendar views: Journal View is a list of all scheduled events in descending time order, starting with the latest scheduled event. Event Definition View lists all properties and allows to update the event. Event can be updated by voice or by editing via virtual keyboard. Search View essentially allows to filter events by any keyword or a combination of keywords. If events based on search criteria are identified, they will be displayed in the Journal View. Selecting any event in Journal View allows to switch to Event Definition View where edit or delete actions can be applied to the selected event. In addition to that Monthly View, Holidays View and multiple configuration views.

Arguably time can be the most precious possession we all have. How do we use our time? How busy are we during a month, a week and every day? Can we find a simple answer utilizing our schedule views? Color-coded Monthly View allows to have a glimpse of activity load on daily basis, differentiating between no activities, moderate number of activities and heavy daily loads. Each of us depending on lifestyle and various preferences would have a different sense of what busy really means. To accommodate that in the Monthly View you can select the delineating boundaries via settings located at the bottom of the screen and Monthly View will reflect your selection right away. We can look at our daily schedules in a conventional way from Express Scheduler as well. Daily view shows days, where there is any scheduled activity and allows to review the schedule for one year time period from the selected starting point. Any arbitrary starting time point, in the future or in the past, can be selected via Monthly view. Monthly view is accessible from the Daily view from the action bar. Alternatively you can navigate to Monthly view from the main Scheduler view, which opens when the application is launched, by pressing the microphone button and saying (or typing) open monthly. For convenience, extra toolbar is added to Daily View, providing the ability by selecting voice button to check how many activities are scheduled for today and what is the next activity, based on current time.

If you are searching for ways to be better organized, minimize time required to record personal activities as calendar events, if you would like to record them in the most natural and simple way, try scheduling by voice with Express Scheduler. Express Scheduler was designed to do exactly that, capture an arbitrary voice command and extract the scheduling content from the statement. The latest version is equipped with enhanced scheduling patterns recognition and smart, content based help. In the simple demo we are scheduling reoccurring events on different weekdays and at different time in a day by using one statement. If you are interested to explore and get more information review how do I post or what you need to know page. If voice recognition didn't accurately transcribe your statement, you can update it either by using keyboard or by voice.

Express Scheduler voice enabled calendar scheduling app is available for download from Google Play Store. Tired of trying to organize yourself using stickers, notebooks, whiteboards in physical and electronic form, using all kinds of past and modern gadgets? Express Scheduler mobile application is created to address these concerns, to significantly streamline scheduling of daily activities. Scheduling commands in free-form can be entered by voice or by using virtual keyboard, plus much more... Express Scheduler is utilizing speech recognition to transcribe scheduling statement. Application extracts scheduling content from an arbitrary statement and records it in Google calendar. Complex scheduling statements with MONTHLY, WEEKLY, DAILY, and ANNUALLY repetitions and statements joined by logical AND, EXCEPT operators are recognized and recorded as one composite calendar event. These features optimize management of complex schedules by significantly reducing the time required to record and update activities. For example, Express Scheduler will recognize and record Legal Process Lectures from September 12th to December 1st every Friday at 10:30am and 2:30pm except November 4th to November 12th as one calendar event.

Each of us honors and celebrates State Holidays and Religious Festivals in our own special way. Express Scheduler has a dedicated Holidays View, listing holidays in chronological order for 2 years in future. Personalize Holiday View by selecting types of holidays you traditionally honor through configuration settings. By using voice navigation command, e.g. 'show holidays', you can navigate to Holidays View from Main View. An important premium feature of the application is the ability to use 'exclude holidays' in scheduling statements. We love Holidays! Let us not forget about these important days by adding them selectively to our schedules. In order to add a Holiday day to a schedule just pick a holiday day from the list in Holidays View and confirm that you would like to add the day to your schedule. Naturally we would like to ensure that we can exclude our holidays from repetitive activities, associated with work or studies, for example. The application supports this use case via scheduling statement syntax. When you are scheduling a complex, periodic activity you can use ‘except holidays’ or ‘except weekends’ phrase at the end, e.g., training every Monday and Friday at 7 except holidays. Please, note that schedule for a complex event, containing ‘except’ statement, will reflect your current holidays preferences, current selection of State Holidays and Religious Festivals. Once scheduled, this event will not change later. Therefore, if your will change your holiday’s preferences it will not impact any already scheduled event.