Google Calendar integration
Plan your day around what's already on Google Calendar.
Connect once and your Google events sit beside your tasks. Nothing goes back to Google until you switch it on.
30 minutes. You choose the day and the time.
- Installs from your browser
- iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows
Five moments
Google Calendar, with the rest of your day beside it
01Connecting
Connect from the planner's calendar, once.
Open the calendar panel and press Connect. You approve access, choose your Google account, and come back to the planner with your events in place. The panel then shows the account it's synced with.
- Choose which Google account
- Back on the planner when you're done
- The synced account shown by its email
Connect your calendar
02Planning tomorrow
See your Google events beside your tasks.
Tomorrow's dentist and dinner sit on the planner next to the tasks waiting to be placed. Drag a task into the free hour, or tap it and then the slot on your phone.
- Day, Week and Month views
- Tasks waiting in a strip beside them
- Your events stay as they are in Google
Today
Tomorrow
03Keeping work private
Choose what each calendar shows.
For each calendar, choose whether it shows, whether its event names show or just Busy, and whether it counts as busy when Plan my day fills your gaps.
- Show or hide each calendar
- Event names, or just Busy
- Counts as busy, or doesn't
Synced with sam@example.com
| Calendar | Show | Names | Busy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | |||
| Work | |||
| Family |
- Personal: event names, Plan my day works around it
- Work: shown as Busy, Plan my day works around it
- Family: event names, never blocks an hour
Off: nothing is written to Google.
04Before someone books over you
Put the hours you plan on Google, only when you say so.
Switch on Block my Google Calendar and each block you plan goes onto Google as busy time. Move it or delete it and Google follows. A repeating block repeats there too.
- Off until you turn it on
- Moves and deletes follow
- Daily, weekly or monthly blocks repeat
Planner
Google Calendar
Your booking page, Tue afternoon
- 1pm
- 1:30pm
- 3:30pm
- 4pm
- 4:30pm
- 5pm
- 5:30pm
05Repeats
Put the weekly swim on Google once.
Turn on Add to my Google Calendar in a routine and it goes onto Google as a repeating event. Pause the routine and it comes off.
- Routines as repeating Google events
- Turned on in each routine you want there
- Pause the routine and its events come off
Google Calendar, October
Not on Google
What goes which way
From Google Calendar to the planner
- The events on each of your Google calendars
- Their names, or just Busy, as you choose
- Fresh when you open the planner, or tap refresh
From the planner to Google Calendar, when you switch it on
- The blocks you plan, as busy events
- Routines you choose, as repeating events
- Moves, renames and deletes on those blocks
Never
- Changes to the events already on your calendar
- Tasks you haven't given a time
- Anything at all, until you turn writing on
And the rest
And the small stuff, kept in step
Goes well with
Connect Google Calendar. Plan tomorrow beside it.
Open the calendar panel, connect once, and place one task in a free hour.
30 minutes. You choose the day and the time.
Before you start
Questions
Open the calendar panel in Palby Planner and press Connect. You approve access on a connect page, choose your Google account, and you're back on the planner with your events on it.
Not unless you ask. Your events are read, never edited. Only after you switch on Block my Google Calendar do your planned blocks go onto Google, as busy events.
Only the ones you place on the timetable as a block, with Block my Google Calendar on. A task with just a date stays in the planner.
One at a time. Switch account swaps the one you're connected with for another.
Not yet. Google Calendar is the one it connects to today.
The planner stops reading your events and stops writing to Google. If you connect again later, writing stays off until you turn it back on.
Not yet. Palby Planner installs from your browser on iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows, and opens from its own icon like any other app.