Ever wondered how to make settings in your Google Calendar to enable functionalities that will help you utilize it better? Here are a few tips that will help you gain better control of Google Calendar and create functions that will enhance your experience with it.
Offline Calendar availability
It is not always possible to have access to internet online and so it becomes difficult to view the scheduled events in your Google Calendar. This problem can be solved with an offline availability of Calendar. Chrome users with HTML5 can avail the synch option to view the details of events that are listed in the calendar. These can be easily viewed offline, now you need not connect to the internet to find out the specific date scheduled for a meeting or an event. Chrome has the ability to store the data for offline viewing and has the capability to synchronize it whenever you log in back.
For viewing your offline schedules apply the following steps:
• Open Chrome
• Click Gear icon> Offline> Install Google Calendar> Install from Web Store option
• A new tab will appear with Google Calendar icon
• Go to Google Calendar> Gear icon> Offline
• A green icon will appear with a tick mark to confirm the sync
• The syncing will be indicated by an icon that is spinning
• A tick marked icon is indicative of synched content in Calendar
Suggested Time for scheduling events
The hardest part of creating a schedule meeting is finding the right time for people involved in it. At this time you can utilize the functionality of Suggested Times that comes along with Google Calendar. This feature suggests the time that might be convenient to the people involved in a specific event together.
This is how it is done:
• Add the attendees
• A link appears by the name of Suggested Times
• Click open Suggested Times
• Suggested time for attendees will appear
• Select the best time when all are available
• If in case you are not able to find the suggested time for attendees then search again for the time
How to Dim Insignificant Events
Scheduling each event throughout a day is a habit with some. This serves as a reminder of what activity is scheduled next in line for the day. However, often this habit of scheduling the whole day overshadows the most important events that are listed in the given day. This creates confusion and most likely to miss the event. To avoid all this you can choose to dim the events that are not significant. Using the functionality of Event dimming helps you get the most important update of the day. Following steps can be applied to enable this utility:
• General Tab> Settings> Event Dimming
• A list of events will be given for the day
• Select the events that you want to dim
How to Receive a Daily Agenda
Viewing the events of the day is something that does seem cumbersome to a few. Therefore, to avoid it all you can use the option of obtaining an e-mail to glance it through. This option is called receiving an Agenda; let us find out how it is done:
• Go to drop down calendar menu
• Go to Notifications> Choose how you would like to be notified> Daily Agenda
• When you are done Save
Applying the above given tips to Google Calendar will enable in turning on the full functionality of calendar events, scheduling daily tasks and organizing meetings effectively.
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