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Google has just rolled out a feature that frankly should have been in Calendar years ago , quick event duplication and it all started with a tweet from Stripe co-founder John Collison.
On July 5, Collison tagged Google CEO Sundar Pichai on X (formerly Twitter), asking for a Ctrl-click shortcut to duplicate events, a workflow that’s been standard in Microsoft Outlook and Apple Calendar for ages. Just over a month later, Pichai responded publicly: “This feature is now live for everyone on Google Calendar on the web - thanks for the suggestion!”
A Tiny Shortcut That Could Save You Hours
The shortcut lets you hold Ctrl (or Cmd on Mac) and drag an event to another time slot in Day, Week or Month views , a small tweak that will save power users a surprising amount of time. For anyone who has spent years clicking through menus to set up recurring meetings or clone similar events, this is a quiet productivity win. (Although, yes, it still does not work in Schedule or Year views , maybe a follow up request for Collison to post?)
The tech Twitter crowd loved it. Box CEO Aaron Levie even joked that Collison should now use his pull to fix Waymo’s self-driving car coverage in Silicon Valley.
Jokes aside, it is refreshing and, honestly, pretty rare to see a trillion-dollar company respond so quickly and publicly to product feedback, even if it came from a high-profile founder.
Personally, I think this is one of those small yet high-impact updates that underscore an important truth in tech: sometimes, the most useful innovations are not flashy AI tools or moonshot projects — they are thoughtful, quality-of-life improvements that make everyday work smoother. And if all it takes is one well-placed tweet to make them happen… maybe we should all start asking more often.