See Ourday in Google Calendar

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Google Calendar can follow any calendar that lives at a web address. Ask Ourday for your calendar link, add it once, and Ourday’s events show up in Google from then on. The bigger picture, including the three flavors of link, is at See Ourday in your calendar.

Know this first: Google takes its time

Google decides when to re-read a subscribed calendar. In practice that’s somewhere between a few hours and a full day, and there’s no button anyone can press to hurry it. Your briefings and answers always have the newest items immediately; the Google view catches up on Google’s schedule. If you add something and don’t see it in Google right away, that’s all it is.

You’ll need a web browser on a computer for this part. The Google Calendar phone app doesn’t show these menus, but once it’s added, the calendar shows up on your phone too.

  1. Ask Ourday for your calendar link if you don’t have it yet: “can I get my calendar link?”
  2. Go to calendar.google.com and sign in.
  3. On the left, next to Other calendars, click the +.
  4. Choose From URL.
  5. Paste your Ourday calendar link and click Add calendar.

It appears in your sidebar as “Ourday” (or “Ourday (your things)” / “Ourday (family)” depending on the flavor you picked), and you can color it or hide it like any other calendar.

The link works like a key: anyone holding it can see that calendar. Paste it into Google and nowhere else. If it ever leaks, tell Ourday “I need a new calendar link” and the old one stops working right away; paste the fresh one into Google the same way.