google calendar is full of amazing
features
but are you being as productive as you
can be with gcal
in this video i'm sharing five google
calendar tips for productivity
that will help streamline your gcal
experience and save you time
hey friends i'm tasia and welcome back
to my youtube channel where i share
tech tips app reviews and a whole bunch
of google tips
today we are diving back into google
calendar
2021 but this time we're focusing on
google calendar tips for productivity
and we have a whole lot to cover so
let's go
so if you are familiar with me and my
channel hi
welcome back good to see you you know
i've covered a lot of google calendar
tips over the years
and i have linked to all of those videos
below so if you want even more
gcal goodness be sure to check out all
the links below so tip number one
create a new event quickly using
shortcuts
you know how much i love shortcuts to
save time
from either your chrome browser or
safari simply type
cal dot new
into the browser bar and balamo a
new tab with a blank calendar event is
launched this is going to open up a new
event tab for
whichever account you've logged into by
the way so
if you have multiple google accounts
just keep that in mind
now you might think that browser
shortcut looks familiar and you'd be
right i have covered a similar shortcut
before
for sheets slides and docs and that
video is the google drive video
listed below as well now on to gcal tip
number
two and that's to add invisible
events to your google calendar this is
particularly helpful if you
share a calendar with others but you
only want to create an event
that's visible to you and not them
from your decal click to create your
event
once you've titled it whatever it is
that you want
head to this visibility section here
it's the section with your
calendar name go ahead and click on that
and
set your availability to free
then set your default visibility to
private
setting the event visibility to free
just
ensures that that particular time slot
still shows publicly as available
regardless of what you've put privately
in there so
it's just you that sees your 15-minute
stretch session or whatever it is that
you do in the privacy of your own
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number three change the default event
reminder time
and notification type you can easily
change this by heading to your settings
so
head to the gear icon and select
settings
from here select your calendar under
settings for my calendars option it's on
the left hand side here
now scroll down and under event
notifications click add notification
if you don't have that set up yet then
from here
you can just adjust the default time
and also the type of notification so if
you rather receive an email
you could choose that here as well as
whatever number
of either minutes hours days or weeks by
the way
any changes you make here will be auto
saved for you
tip number four set up a daily agenda
email this is one i've talked about
before and i
use it 100 but it is worth mentioning
again because if you have a lot going on
and you just want to see a quick
snapshot of what you have coming up for
the day this
is for you so to do this we're going to
head back to that settings section in
gcal
and again you want to select your
calendar from the left hand side
then either scroll down or just select
event notifications here
now here under other notifications
right where it says daily agenda make
sure
this is set to email
now you'll receive an email first thing
in the morning i think it's
5 a.m with your schedule for the day
and here's an example of one of those
emails tip
number five search for google calendar
events
if you have a terrible memory like i do
and you need to quickly bring up an
event that happened in the past but you
can't really remember all the details
or maybe you know you have an event
coming up this
tip is money from
your gcal click the search icon in the
top right
and a search bar is going to appear at
the top which sure
that's great and all but if you click
the arrow to the right of the search bar
you'll bring up all kinds of advanced
search options
so you can search in all your active
calendars or select a specific calendar
to search in
you can add keywords from the event
title
other participants where the event was
or even
rough date outlines so if you know what
happened in 2020 but you really can't
remember
when you could add that here then
just hit search and gcal will bring up
any and all events that match those
search criteria
so if you notice anything else really
cool in my gcal while you've watched
this video
it's most likely that i've covered that
before in those
other videos which are linked in my
description below
that's really all there is to it now i
want to hear from you
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calendar productivity tips
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