Are you a Google Calendar Desktop Mac user? Do you want to use your google calendar on your mac desktop? Informant for macOS is a great way to accomplish that. We have answered a number of questions about setting up google calendar accounts with Informant for macOS. Here is a post that can help you with the best options.
- Google Calendar was the first truly great web-based calendar, and is the default calendar of millions of people to this day. But if you’re a Mac user, you probably don’t want to manage your calendar in a web browser, using an ugly user interface, like some kind of digital peasant.
- Google Calendar for Mac: Save time and make the most of every day. Download Google Calendar to your Mac so you can get native notifications for appointments and other integrations. Built for macOS.
However, it keeps your calendar a click away, so you can view your events, agenda, and even tasks, as well as having the functionality of adding new events and tasks directly. InstaCal works with any of the calendars that you already have set up in Calendar, or you can manually add unlimited accounts from Google, Office 365, and Outlook. Open the 'Google Calendar' from Chrome Apps or Launchpad! Select 'Keep in Dock' to keep the calendar icon in the MacOS Dock (optional) That's it! Your Google Calendar App is now available as a standalone window app from the MacOS Dock and Launchpad.
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Two options are presented here. It is important to note that you should not set up both of these options or you will end up with duplicate calendar entries.
Option 1:
Setup Your Google Calendar on your Mac
using Informant for macOS and Informant Sync Service
Step 1: Download & Install Informant for macOS
Step 2: Open Informant for macOS
Step 3: Setup Google Calendar Account within Informant
- Click Informant menu>>Add Sync Account…
- Click the “+” button on the bottom of the Account list
- Select Google Calendar
- Follow the setup Instructions in the app
Option 2:
Setup Your Google Calendar on your Mac
using Native Data Option
Informant for macOS can access your native Apple Calendar data on your Mac. If you need to see your Google Calendar data in both Apple Calendar and in Informant (or if, for instance, you want to use Apple Data Detectors for calendar data but still manage your calendar data inside Informant), then you can set up your Apple Calendar to sync with Google and then you can manage your Apple Calendar data from within Informant.
Step 1: Download & Install Informant for macOS
Step 2: Set up Apple Calendar to sync with your Google Calendar.
- On your Mac, click the Apple icon in top left corner and choose System Preferences
- Click the Internet Accounts option.
- On the left side of the Accounts tab, click Add or select Google
- Select Google Continue.
- To add your Google account information, follow the steps on the screen.
- On the Accounts tab, use “Refresh Calendars” to choose how often you want Apple Calendar and Google Calendar to sync.
Step 3: Open Informant
Step 4: Go to Preferences and make sure the option to “Include Calendar App Events” is checked
Likewise, you can set up Apple Calendar to sync to other services as well (like Exchange) and Informant can read/write that data as well.
Learn more about accessing Google Calendar on your mac desktop using Informant for macOS
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Apple has changed the way calendars sync in Mavericks. Here’s how to sync your Apple Calendar App with an existing Google calendar.
You can’t use an iCloud based calendar to sync with Google. You need to start from Google and go the other way. Apple can see the gmail calendar but not the other way round.
Introduction
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You might be wondering why someone would want to even use a Google calendar now that Apple Calendar does everything… You can share your Apple Calendar with other people. You can subscribe to other people’s Apple Calendars. You can even allow other people to edit your calendars. So why would you even bother with a Google calendar any more?
Well… The Apple calendar does not allow you to embed a calendar in a website. (Like I have done for our church calendar here.) So if you ‘publish’ your calendar, the other person has to view your calendar from within their Apple calendar app. They cannot look at it in a web browser.
The simplest way to have a calendar published on a website but editable in Apple Calendar is to use a Google calendar. Using this method the calendar info is hosted by Google, not Apple, but the calendar is viewable and editable in Apple Calendar.
Adding a google calendar to Apple calendar is the easy in OS X Mavericks. There are no .ics files or messy webcal:// addresses needed. All you need is your google email address and password.
1. CREATE YOUR GOOGLE CALENDAR
1. If you don’t already have a Google calendar, this previous article of mine describes how to set up a Google calendar. You can then embed that Google Calendar in any website according to Google’s instructions here.
2. ADD YOUR GOOGLE CALENDAR TO APPLE CALENDAR
Here’s how to add the Google calendar to Apple calendar app. A number of people can do this so that they can all edit the same calendar if you want.
1. On your Macintosh go to ‘System Preferences’ and Click on ‘Internet Accounts’.
(This is different to previous versions of OSX where you did it from within Calendar settings. )
2. In System Preferences find ‘Internet Accounts’
2. Click on ‘Google’ to add your Google account.
3. Enter your Gmail settings for the account that has the Google calendar. You will need your Google email address and password. (The ‘Name:’ can be anything.)
4. Click ‘Set Up’ and then make sure ‘calendars’ is selected.
All the calendars from that Gmail account will now appear in your Apple Calendar. You can ‘connect’ to multiple Gmail accounts and multiple calendars. You can turn them on and off by checking or un-checking the checkbox next to the calendar.
The Gmail calendars will now appear alongside your iCloud calendars – toggle their visibility with the checkbox.
If you do not see this window, click on the ‘Calendars’ button on the top left of your Calendar app window.
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When you edit your Gmail calendar in the Apple calendar app the changes will automatically be uploaded to the Google account calendar. If the Google calendar is published on a website, the changes will automatically go from the Apple Calendar to the Google calendar and then to the website.