beehiivYou sit down at nine with a plan for a long morning of building. At 10:24 you remember the 10:30 call.
Your calendar knew. It was in another tab.
What the calendar widget shows
The month at a glance, with today picked out and the days that have something on marked. When the widget is big enough, the event names sit inside the days.
Beside the month, or under it, come the next few events in order. Today, Tomorrow, then the day and date, each with its time, or All day. The very next one gets a line of its own, so it’s the first thing you read.
Events that repeat daily, weekly or yearly are laid out over the next 60 days, and a day you deleted from a series stays off. Arrows step back and forward through the months.
The Calm desk template starts with a calendar already on it, next to a clock, world clocks, a focus timer and a note for today. Add your link and it’s done.
Where the events come from
From your calendar’s secret iCal address. It’s a private link Google Calendar gives each of your calendars, and anything that has it can read that calendar’s events. Nothing signs in to your Google account.
In Google Calendar, open Settings, pick the calendar under Settings for my calendars, then Integrate calendar. Copy the Secret address in iCal format and paste it into the widget. The board tries the link before adding anything, and says why if it doesn’t read.
Google asks you not to share that link, and the board only uses it to read. If it ever gets out, Reset in the same place makes a new one.
The board reads the calendar again while it’s open, so a meeting added this morning shows up. Any other calendar that gives you an iCal link works the same way, webcal:// links included. And if you’d rather see public holidays, there’s a ready-made source for those with no link at all.
Why a calendar on a board
A calendar in its own tab is a calendar you check after the fact. On the board it sits beside the work it interrupts, next to the to-do list, your agents and your numbers. You see the 10:30 at 9:00.