r/GoogleCalendar

So I've been working on a highlighter set where each color matches the exact hex code of Google Calendar's event colors (so your notes/planner actually match your calendar). Was originally building it around the old 11 colors, but Google decided to just casually roll out an update with 24 default colors instead lol, plus you can now fully customize colors on top of that. Cool for them, mildly stressful for me.

Trying to figure out if it's worth expanding to all 24, or if that's overkill and a smaller set (like the original 11) would honestly be enough for most people.

Curious what people who actually color-code their calendar/planner think — would you want the full 24, or is that more than anyone needs? And now that you can customize your calendar colors yourself, does having a matching highlighter set even matter to you, or is that beside the point?

I'm a student in a program and when the term starts they send us these pdfs of class schedules and events, and I find that I have to put them manually. It takes quite a while to do so and I've been trying to find something that helps me with automating this process, I've tried getting Gemini/ChatGPT to make me an ics file with those pdfs but it doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

i've been looking into ways to use google calendar lately and i noticed people being able to time-block their study time, personal time whatever, and on top of the blocked time they're able to drag and add a task from their task list in the sidebar. this does not work for me. if i drag the task, the task's timings get updated and it does not show up on the actual calendar.

how do i fix this?