Google Calendar Integration

imwra92 · January 24, 2018, 11:05pm

Is there an ETA on Google Calendar integration? Really need that before using Agenda (would be into paying if you have that). Thanks

mekentosj · January 25, 2018, 1:11am

Is there an ETA on Google Calendar integration?

We currently support Google Calendar if configured through the System Preferences (i.e. they show up in Calendar.app). We don’t have direct Google Calendar support on our near term roadmap I’m afraid.

chino · January 26, 2018, 3:07am

+1 on this feature being a key consideration when deciding to pay for use of the app/service

albertbchu · January 26, 2018, 3:28am

+1 for Google calendar integration, please!

mekentosj · January 29, 2018, 10:12am

Have you tried Agenda in combination with setting up Google Calendar in the system preferences? That way it should already work for you.

livesey · January 31, 2018, 11:44pm

+1 also… but for Exchange calendars, too. Thanks

mekentosj · February 2, 2018, 1:07pm

+1 also… but for Exchange calendars, too. Thanks

Similarly as to the Google Calendars, have you tried setting up the Exchange account under the system preferences so it shows up in the Calendar app and becomes available in Agenda? Or doesn’t this work with this kind of Exchange account?

livesey · February 2, 2018, 3:21pm

I did a while back (unrelated to Agenda) but found that differences between Microsoft’s and Apple’s handling of daily events, my entries would eventually become duplicated (resulting in 3 or 4 or more copies of birthday reminders or holidays). Worse still, when traveling to different time zones, one of the two actually internally coded a daily event as occurring from 00:00 to 23:59, meaning a shift would take it to 03:00 to 02:59 and when going back to my home and syncing, would set it to the wrong day. So now I’m unsure if my father’s birthday is April 5 or 6. (My calendar and contact entries go back to the days of Newton!). So, I abandoned syncing of events between Exchange and iCal. This may have been fixed along the way, but I’m not sure… I still sync, but not to iCal. I’m also not sure whose (MSFT or AAPL) handling of this was the culprit.

mekentosj · February 2, 2018, 4:42pm

Ai, this sounds nasty, definitely something Apple and Microsoft need to sort out together. Unfortunately in the short term it’s the only way this setup can work, so hopefully they did in fact fix it.

SimonDell · July 10, 2018, 11:29am

I’ve got the suggested integration working: my google calendar set up through System Preferences. It’s working OK for me!

I’ve noticed a quirk: A particular calendar item’s notes included a list (a meeting agenda). The list gets passed to Agenda as HTML (<ul />s and <li />s). I assume that’s how Google hand the data to macOS, or how macOS hands it to Agenda. However, because Agenda doesn’t (yet) translate the HTML into Agenda’s mark-up format, it comes through as plain text.

Any chance you good folks can sprinkle some “magic” on this to get the list to show up in the Agenda note as a list?

mekentosj · July 10, 2018, 12:06pm

Indeed on our to-do list, we’ll do our best

nolan · September 1, 2018, 7:44pm

Really dig this app but not having google calendar integration is a show stopper for me I’m afraid. Look forward to hearing if/when this is in your roadmap

drewmccormack · September 2, 2018, 11:45am

You should be able to get Google Calendar working. It’s a question of adding it to the system calendar. On the Mac, you do that in System Preferences.

Carlos_F_Sanchez · September 12, 2019, 4:37pm

Here is the thing. Us Android/Google users do not really use the Mac calendar app. I just simply use the web version of Google Calendars since it’s way better, simpler, and simply awesome to use (instead of the Mac Calendar app). So that is the issue. Since I use the google web calendar, if I add my gcal to the Mac app calendar app, I would start to get double notifications: The ones from the google web calendar (via chrome notifications) and the one from the App Calendar.

So, yeah… Google calendar integration would be awesome and would tranform me into a paying customer

mekentosj · September 13, 2019, 10:43am

I’m afraid this is the only option at the moment.

Since I use the google web calendar, if I add my gcal to the Mac app calendar app, I would start to get double notifications: The ones from the google web calendar (via chrome notifications) and the one from the App Calendar.

Why not turn off notifications for one of the two?

mekentosj · January 23, 2020, 10:08am

For those experiencing similar issues, we were recently told that this might be related to MDM profiles installed by your workplace:

Dates, Events, and Reminders

My work calendars and reminder lists don’t appear in Agenda

If your Mac, iPhone or iPad is managed by your work through so-called mobile device management (MDM) profiles, it might prevent Agenda from accessing your work calendars (e.g. from Office365 or Exchange). To verify whether this is the case, go to Settings > General > Profiles to check if you have indeed an MDM profile installed and other it has the following specific restriction listed: “Opening documents from managed to unmanaged apps not allowed”. If you have an MDM profile with this restriction installed by default it will not allow sharing of your calendars with Agenda.

To resolve this, you will need to speak with your workplace’s administrator, who will be able to grant Agenda the necessary clearance it needs to access your managed calendars. Specifically, Agenda either needs to be added as a managed app in the MDM profile, which allows it to access iOS’s calendar data, or the “Opening documents from managed to unmanaged apps not allowed” restriction needs to be removed from the MDM profile.

astnauxakd · December 6, 2020, 6:55pm

+1 for Google Suite. Every new startup I’ve worked for uses Google Suite. This product would be awesome for business use.

jlaudun · July 31, 2023, 4:46pm

Not sure what is meant by “add it to the system calendar.” I have never found a way to reliably link gCal events with the Calendar.app. I’m going to add a vote here for possible ways to link/connect with the Google Calendar app/infrastructure. I’m not crazy about it, but some stuff lives in the Google ecosystem — it is more reliable than the Office 365 ecosystem that my works insists upon and which plays nicely with nothing outside of it.

drewmccormack · July 31, 2023, 4:53pm

Pretty sure a standard Google calendar should work with Apple Calendar, as well as MS. If you can get the Google events appearing there, Agenda will see them too.

arohi · December 31, 2023, 3:06am

i’ve been trying to sync my google cal to agenda and tried all the steps and this is likely the issue. I’m a student and so I’m likely not to get approval for something like this. +1 to all the other comments on getting a gcal integration!