Google Calendar Tips and Tricks for Families

Google Calendar completely runs my life, but there are so many features that are often overlooked! Check out some of the best Google Calendar Tips and Tricks to help your family get organized today.

0:00 - Intro
1:03 - Google Tasks Integration
2:19 - Default Reminders
3:25 - Add holidays, birthdays, sports, moon phases and more
4:19 - Add appointment locations
5:15 - Attach files to appointments
5:50 - Add event from email
6:20 - Multiple family members for one appointment

Sarah Kimmel is a Microsoft Certified IT Manager, who is also a mom. She currently helps families understand and manage the technology in their homes through YouTube Videos, Instagram posts, podcasts, and her website Family Tech Zone. She can also be found as a family tech expert on various TV news shows and podcasts.

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[stefaniesmith]

This is incredibly helpful! Thank you!

[bobbichristensen]

When you share a calendar with a friend. How do you give editing permission to some one?

[shanewelch]

Hey I have a question. Do you know of a way to set a shared calendar to request rsvp to the people on the calendar when creating a event? Other than inviting guess? Reson for that is when inviting them on the guest list it will then show up twice on the calendar.

[kevinlevi]

is there a easy way to have recurring tasks for household chores (like sweeping and mopping) that you want done every week and want to assign to different family members at various times?

[kimberlynardini]

I have created separate accounts for each family member with individual emails as you suggested in prior video and it’s very helpful. However I’m confused… do you still create separate gmail accounts for all the other calendars created such as for meal planning? Is this necessary or do you create additional calendars from your main account?

[mikesweeney]

When adding an attachment to a calendar event, can you retrieve the attachment when you're offline? I'm thinking if you're at the event and there is no cell service, could you still pull up the attachment?

[terrieschoch]

I was using google calendar but then events come popping up that I don’t want or didn’t add -can I use this and share but prevent that from happening?

[jacqui]

The one thing I do not like is that I am using Google Family Calendar and I cannot share it with my work calendar. I share my personal calendar with my work calendar and none of the family events appear on the personal calendar when shared. This makes it impossible to manage my work calendar around my family calendar.

[dbrunatti]

If you have an appointment for multiple family members... Why wouldn't you just put them in the "add people" section so that it sends the invite to their calendar for that specific event??? Wouldn't that save the confusion of a separate calendar for multiple family member appointments???

[_Rafiki.]

Now I've got a task to record a YouTube video.