Connections
See your Google Calendar beside your reminders
Your calendar knows you have four meetings on Thursday. Your reminder app knows you owe somebody a document by Thursday. Neither of them knows about the other, so the plan you make is always missing half the information.
The cost of keeping them on separate screens
Nobody plans a day badly on purpose. They plan it from one of the two lists, because looking at both at once is more work than it sounds.
You promise time you have already given away
You agree to get something done on Wednesday afternoon because your reminder list looks empty, and only later find the two-hour block that was already sitting in your calendar.
The preparation has nowhere to live
A meeting is an event. Reading the pack before it is a task. The task has no natural home in a calendar, so it either becomes a fake 30-minute event or it does not exist.
You check one and trust it
Whichever app you opened first becomes the day's plan. The other one turns up at 16:00 with something you had genuinely forgotten about.
A calendar and a reminder are not the same object
A calendar event is a commitment to be somewhere, usually with other people, at a fixed time. It has a start and an end, and moving it means telling somebody.
A reminder is a commitment to do something. It does not necessarily have a duration, it rarely involves anyone else, and it can move freely until it cannot. Forcing one into the shape of the other is why a calendar full of 15-minute blocks called "email Sam" never survives a week.
What you actually need is to see both at once without merging them. Timelee shows your Google Calendar events on the same screen as your reminders, and keeps them as what they are.
One screen, three views
Connect your Google account and your events appear next to your Timelee reminders. You can switch the view between All, Google and Tasks: the whole day together, only what your calendar says, or only what you have promised yourself.
The All view is the one worth living in. It is the honest version of a day — the meetings that are already fixed, and the work that has to fit between them — and it makes the second half of an afternoon look very different from the way a reminder list alone makes it look.
Nothing is copied or merged. Your events stay in your calendar and your reminders stay in Timelee. What changes is that you can see them at the same time before you agree to anything else.
- Your Google Calendar events shown beside your Timelee reminders
- Switch between All, Google and Tasks
- Connected through Google's own consent screen
- Read-only access: Timelee looks at your calendar and never changes it
Connecting it
Three steps, all of them on Google's side rather than ours, and reversible at any time.
Sign in to Timelee with Google
Timelee's only sign-in route is a Google account, so you are already using the identity the calendar belongs to. There is no separate password to create.
Grant read access
Google shows you its own consent screen, which states plainly that Timelee is asking to read your Google Calendar. Read the wording there rather than taking ours for it.
Open the dashboard
Your events appear alongside your reminders. Use the All, Google and Tasks switch to narrow the view when you want one or the other on its own.
Disconnect whenever you like
Access can be withdrawn from your Google account's permissions page at any point, and the events simply stop appearing. Nothing in your calendar is affected either way.
This is a read, and only a read
Timelee asks for permission to read your Google Calendar. It does not create, edit, move or delete anything in it, and connecting Timelee cannot alter what is already there. If you want a reminder to exist as a calendar event as well, you make that event in Google Calendar yourself. We would rather describe this precisely than let you assume something the permission does not allow.
Calendar events appear in the web dashboard
The combined view is part of the Timelee web dashboard, which is where most people do their planning anyway. Your reminders themselves are on every platform, and the Android and iOS apps are what actually ring when one is due. Set the week up on a laptop, and it reaches you on your phone.
Questions about the Google Calendar connection
Does Timelee change anything in my Google Calendar?
No. Timelee asks for read access only. It shows your events beside your reminders and cannot create, edit, move or delete anything in your calendar.
Will my Timelee reminders appear in Google Calendar?
No. Reminders you create in Timelee live in Timelee. The connection runs one way: Timelee reads your calendar so you can see both in one place.
Which calendars does it show?
The calendars available to the Google account you signed in with. Timelee uses that same account for sign-in, so there is no second connection to set up.
How do I disconnect it?
Withdraw Timelee's access from your Google account's permissions page at any time. The events stop appearing in the dashboard, and nothing in your calendar is changed by removing access.
Do calendar events ring like reminders do?
No. Timelee delivers its own reminders through an alarm, a full-screen in-app call, or a real phone call. Calendar events are shown for context; notifications for them stay with your calendar app.
Can I see my reminders without the calendar in the way?
Yes. The view switches between All, Google and Tasks, so you can look at the whole day, only your calendar events, or only your reminders.
Plan Thursday with both halves in front of you
Sign in with the Google account your calendar already lives in, grant read access, and look at a real day once before you decide whether it helps.
Keep reading
- Timelee on the webSet it up on a laptop. It rings on your phone.
- Recurring remindersThe repeating half of a week your calendar does not hold.
- Reminder, alarm or calendar?Which of the three a given commitment belongs in.
- Reminders for remote teamsMeetings, handovers and the work between them.
- Timelee across your devicesOne account, on Android, iPhone and the web.