Connect Google Calendar for suggestions

To connect your calendar for suggestions, you need at least a Plus subscription.

Connect your Google Calendar to Keeping and you get time entry suggestions based on your appointments. Keeping reads your calendar through the secret address in iCal format that Google creates for each calendar. This article covers the web version of Google Calendar at calendar.google.com.

Step 1: Copy your calendar's secret address

There are two ways to get to your calendar's settings.

Through the settings

1. Click the gear icon in the top right and choose Settings.
2. In the left column, under Settings for my calendars, click the calendar you want to connect.
3. Click Integrate calendar.
4. Copy the link under Secret address in iCal format.

From the calendar page

1. In the left column, go to My calendars.
2. Hover over the calendar you want to connect and click the three dots.
3. Choose Settings and sharing.
4. Click Integrate calendar and copy the link under Secret address in iCal format.

Don't see a secret address? On a Google Workspace work account, your administrator may have turned it off. Ask your administrator to turn it on. You also only see the secret address for calendars you own or are allowed to manage.

Step 2: Add the calendar in Keeping

1. In Keeping, go to My account > Calendars.
2. Click Add a calendar.
3. Paste the copied link into the Calendar URL field and give the calendar a name, such as Work.
4. Under Use for, choose which organisations get suggestions from this calendar.
5. Save the calendar.

Keeping then reads your calendar. Under Status in the overview you can see how many appointments were found and when the calendar was last updated.

Keep the secret address to yourself

Anyone with the secret address can see all your appointments, even if your calendar is otherwise private. Don't share the link with anyone. Think someone else got hold of it? In Google Calendar, click Reset next to Secret address in iCal format. The old link then stops working. Copy the new link and edit the calendar in My account > Calendars.

How often is the calendar updated?

Keeping fetches your calendar automatically in the background. Just added an appointment and want to see it right away? Choose Sync now for the calendar in My account > Calendars.

Want it the other way around, with your Keeping time entries in your Google Calendar? Read Time registrations in Google Calendar.