Add, edit, or delete Google calendar events
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Mark Boulton
Have the ability to create, edit, and delete Google calendar events, including optional Zoom or Google Meet meetings. The ability to add your Google contacts would be a big plus!
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Chris
in progress
Making huge improvements here (for Google calendar events)
You'll soon be able to make edits directly to Google calendar events (covering the most common functions)
as well as create google events (separate from tasks) directly from the UI
Coming to desktop first, iOS to follow depending on how this goes!
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Adam Stein
Chris can’t wait. This is one big step to me JUST using Ellie and nothing else! Keep up the great work!
Chris
Adam Stein Same here! I've been having to use a separate calendar just to modify/create calendar events 😅
Excited for you to try this and let me know if there are any gaps that I can plug. Would love to actually make this a capable calendar replacement!
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Adam Stein
Chris yeah I can’t wait to try. Big deals for me…
Multiple notifications. Example of a BIG appointment 3 months out and I want a reminder a week out and then an hour out so I know when to start driving there.
Not a deal breaker but one of my Favorite features from Fantastical… a notification at the top of the calendar with either a 1,2,3, etc of calendar invites I need to accept or decline. Reason it’s such a killer feature I don’t have to check my email and can stay in the calendar app.
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Adam Stein
I couldn’t agree more with this feature. To be able to use just Ellie and not have to be splitting my attention between multiple applications. This would be a HUGE game changer!
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Hilart Abrahamian
100% agree here!! It defeats the purpose if we have to go to Google Calendar to create a new meeting. We should be able to utilize ellie for planning/productivity completely without having to use multiple tools.
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V
Please yes. This is the only thing holding Ellie back from being
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planning app. Being able to add/edit calendar events.B
Bec
Hi Chris, just adding to this request, can you possibly add a confirmation button for delete? I accidentally deleted an event and it was gone in a flash with no way to get it back. The confirmation message could warn you that the event will be deleted from Gcal not just Ellie. Also, in other calendars when you delete (or edit) 1 event in a series it asks if you want to delete (or update) just that 1 event or all in the series - that would be super helpful as well if possible.
Chris
Bec Great idea, out of curiosity did you do this on the iOS or desktop app? Will add to both
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Bec
Chris the web app
Chris
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Hey everyone, I plan on adding more Google cal functionality soon and would love to hear which specific actions you guys need the most so I can prioritize :)
feel free to comment below your most needed actions 👇
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Yese
Chris: For me, the ability to edit the day's meetings would be great. For example, I have my meetings that I must attend but then I add optional meetings I attend, if there's time. I'd like the ability to quickly remove those optional meetings from my calendar from Ellie without going into Google calendar then back into Ellie.
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Yese: Interesting, could you clarify what you mean when you say "remove those optional meetings". Do you mean decline the events? or delete the events?
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Liana
Chris: Hey! Adding to this thread because not sure where else to put it. Is there a way to turn off two-way edit? I have events on my calendar that are company wide. I removed them from my view on ellie and it removed the entire event from everyones calendar. Is there a feature I'm missing? It would be helpful to be able to toggle the edit functionality but I also understand if that's difficult to achieve. Basically I'm hoping to remove an event from my ellie view without it deleting the actual event on my Gcal! Thanks!
Chris
Liana: Hey Liana!
Let me know if I'm misunderstanding but it sounds like you want to have certain Google calendar events NOT displayed inside of Ellie
Is it all events from a single calendar? If so, super easy. You should be able to toggle individual calendars on/off
If its specific events, unfortunately not possible at the moment. Let me know if this is the case and I can try to think through some possible solutions here, I have some ideas.
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Liana
Chris Hey! I was referring to the ability to remove specific events from calendars from my Ellie view without it actually removing the event on GCal! There are sometimes company events that I am invited to that I can't really respond 'No' to, but I also don't want it hogging space on my Ellie calendar. In a recent example, I was trying to remove 'Friday Lunch Invite!' from my Ellie view and accidentally removed it from every calendar in my org. So some form of a one-way vs two-way editing switch would be nice. I think the ability to edit a GCal event in Ellie is useful so I wouldn't want that feature to go away for others, but I would love the option to toggle Ellie's ability to make edits to my master GCal. Does that make sense? Kind of hard to explain so I'm happy to provide more info where needed! Also not the biggest issue in the world, I can easily work around this!
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Paul Hulford
This is one of the only things that is missing and why I can't fully move over to Ellie. It is so close to everything I need from Sunsama for a reasonable price.
Chris
Paul Hulford: Hey Paul, will work on slowly adding more of this functionality soon. Would love to hear which actions you take so I can make a list of what to prioritize :)
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LC
I agree, I need this as well. I discovered Ellie and realized that I have to use two separate apps to manage everything.
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Paul
Agreed. This would be high on my priority list. Currently using Morgen for this reason. If Ellie was able to do this, it would be a complete app and I would gladly switch over 100%.
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San
Paul: Same
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Brandon
Agreed, the ability to create and manage events through Ellie would make it the complete app. No need to constantly use two if Ellie could handle both.
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