22.12.2022

Save time with Google Calendar tricks

Google Calendar is the most popular free way to manage your schedule online and access it from anywhere, on any device. Read on for 12 quick pro tips many users miss out on and tune up your calendar ahead of the new year.

 

1. Get a clean view of your day or week 👁👁

Use keyboard shortcuts to quickly shift calendar view. Here are some useful shortcuts:

  • A = Switch to agenda view for a clean list of upcoming meetings.
  • W = Get an overview of your week. This is the default view many people prefer.
  • M = See your month at a glance. Useful for spotting empty or overbooked days.
  • Y = Look at the whole year. Helps to quickly see what day of the week a future event will fall on.

2. Create and find appointments quickly

Keyboard shortcuts are like a remote control for quick calendar actions.

  • Press C to create a new event quickly
  • Press / to open up a quick search

3. Print your calendar to carry

Press Command-P (Mac) or Control-P (PC/Chromebook) to open a print menu. Then select among the following options:

  • Adjust the date range to print just a day’s agenda, or a full week to have handy on a trip.
  • Choose a bigger font for easier reading or a small font if you have long event titles.
  • Choose outline (rather than full color) to save printer ink.
  • Here’s further support for more on printing.

Print your calendar

4. Quickly figure out time zones

  • On your calendar settings page, select time zone or world clock to adjust viewable time zones.
  • Use a separate site, Time and Date, to quickly calculate an optimal meeting time for a gathering of people in multiple locations, or to figure out any time zone differential. You can also use it to count down to a particular date.
  • If time zone calculations are a big part of your scheduling, try an alternative calendar tool like Vimcal to automatically calculate time differences.

 

5. Add Zoom links from your calendar

Install the free Zoom for Google Workspace add-on. Then in any event you create, you’ll see a little button that says “Make it a Zoom meeting” to add a Zoom link right within your event creation window. You can also link Microsoft TeamsWebex or other meeting tools.

 

6. Add events directly from your browser

Type cal.new in any browser to quickly add a new event without opening up your calendar.

 

7. Get your daily agenda by email

Go to settings for my calendars > Other notifications. Choose daily agenda.

 

8. Subscribe to calendars of interest

Go to settings > Add calendar > Browser calendars of interest. Choose holidays by country or religious holidays, or various sports schedules, including football, hockey, and basketball.

 

9. Find interesting calendars online

  • Add live online interviews with interesting people to your calendar. Subscribe to a calendar of upcoming Reddit AMAs (Ask Me Anything). These question-and-answer forums feature notable inventors, journalists, artists and others who type public responses to questions from anyone.
  • Plan outdoor adventures in 2023. Take a look at “Year in Preview.” Choose your preferred outdoor activities (🏄 surfing, 🎣 fishing, ⛷snowboarding, 🧗climbing, 🍖 hunting) and download a personalized calendar.

 

10. Link Google Calendar to your other tools

Choose from more than 100 apps in the Google Workspace Marketplace. These let you do things like:

11. Get insights about your time spent in meetings

If you have a work or school Google Calendar account, you can use “Time Insights” to get an automated analysis of how much time you spend in meetings. You’ll see a breakdown of how much time you spend per day in meetings, who you meet with most, and suggestions about when to schedule focus time for deep work. Google’s support page has more info.

Scheduling appointments: If you use a work or school Google Calendar account, you can use its built-in scheduling tool to let people book office hour appointments or other meetings by picking times you mark as available. Here’s Google’s explanation of how to do that.

 

12. Share or embed your calendar

Go to settings > Integrate calendar. From there you can:

  • Share a link to your calendar to make it public
  • Share a secret link to keep it private to only those you share it with
  • Grab a line of code to embed your calendar into any site, just as you’d embed a YouTube video or map. That’s handy if you’re creating a shared calendar for a team, club, class or organization.

 

 

WHAT’S INCLUDED WITH Google Workspace (formerly G Suite)?

If you want to go one step further and to start using Gmail for business, you should think about Google Workspace. Google Workspace offers many features (including Chat) that are not available in the free version of Gmail. The most important differences are: more space on Google Drive, email accounts in your domain, a 99.9% Service Level Agreement, advanced control options, security audits, custom alerts, and analytical reports.

 

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