{"id":28985,"date":"2020-05-20T17:09:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T21:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28985"},"modified":"2020-05-20T17:09:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T21:09:16","slug":"be-careful-when-scheduling-events-using-siri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/20\/be-careful-when-scheduling-events-using-siri\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Careful When Scheduling Events Using Siri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2020\/05\/13\/be-careful-when-scheduling-events-using-siri\/\">Adam Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2020\/05\/13\/be-careful-when-scheduling-events-using-siri\/\">\n<p>When I used Siri to create the calendar event for the call, because I specified Mickie and Gary by name, Siri tried to be smart and invited them to the event without telling me. I didn&rsquo;t want that to happen&mdash;the event was for my reference, not because I wanted to put it on their calendars.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Speaking as someone who doesn&rsquo;t work in a large organization, calendar invitations make me uncomfortable. I never quite know when they&rsquo;re being sent, or in what manner, or how the recipient will respond. [&#8230;] Plus, when I receive invitations, I don&rsquo;t know what will happen if I accept, reject, or ignore the invitation.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>As a result, when I scheduled the call using Siri, it created the associated event on a calendar in Google Calendar. In itself, that wouldn&rsquo;t have been a problem except that, by default, Google Calendar automatically adds video calls to events I create with other attendees. [&#8230;] So as soon as Gary said he had been waiting in Google Hangouts, I realized that he had, for whatever reason, seen the event invitation and its associated link, rather than the email I&rsquo;d sent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Engst: When I used Siri to create the calendar event for the call, because I specified Mickie and Gary by name, Siri tried to be smart and invited them to the event without telling me. I didn&rsquo;t want that to happen&mdash;the event was for my reference, not because I wanted to put it on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-05-20T21:09:19Z","apple_news_api_id":"4600b51d-6505-44d8-8d8c-15f41daaebbf","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-05-20T21:09:20Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ARgC1HWUFRNiNjBX0Harrvw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[992,193,1194,30,1666,247],"class_list":["post-28985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-watch","tag-calendar","tag-google-hangouts","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-15","tag-siri"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28986,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28985\/revisions\/28986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}