Here’s another quick Google Calendar tip that would hopefully help you do things faster. When you’re on day view, multi-day view, or week-view on Google Calendar, you can click on the area above the time slots to create new all-day events. But you can also define these all-day events to be multi-date. So for instance I’m having a vacation from May 20th to the 22nd, or perhaps those three days are a public holiday, then I can create such an event.

But instead of typing it all under edit event details I can just click and drag so I won’t have to key in those details manually.

Here, in week view, I click the box from May 20th and drag my cursor up to May 22nd, such that the boxes for those three days are highlighted.

An entry box appears, and it already contains the days I highlighted as all-day event details. This way, I no longer have to define this manually.

So after I key in the description, I just hit save, and my multi-date event is there!

Another tip: you can also do this while in month-view. If you click and drag your cursor from one date to another (say, in our case May 20th to May 22nd), Google Calendar will bring up an entry form for a multi-date event.

You will see highlighting if the days you select are within a week. Beyond that, you won’t see any highlighting, but GCal will still automatically define the dates selected.