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M Matt M Tana Logo Staff May 29, 2024
Posted Wed, May 29, 2024 11:36 AM

Request for feedback on Google Calendar Integration

We have released our Google Calendar Integration

We are looking for feedback and first impressions. Please add any feedback on in the thread below.

This feedback will be considered by the product team for our first round of updates in the coming weeks.

Please note, this is not a place for submitting bugs. If you are encountering a bug, please file a report in app via 'submit a bug' in the bottom left settings menu in your Tana workspace.

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This feature works fairly well but not having meetings populate at least 4 weeks into the future is a small miss. I suggest adding an option in the calendar sync settings to "populate x weeks into the future". My workflow is to add my prep into future meetings using my meeting tag. Things like agenda, prep notes, are fields on my #meeting tag. As I work my day for example I might recall a topic that I need to review at a 1:1 which isn't for 2 weeks, I can add it to a future #meeting so I have it ready when I enter that meeting.

Also I did test browsing to that day in Tana which I thought I read that it would then sync that day's meetings. That didn't work for me.

Lastly there should be a force sync calendar for the case where someone adds a meeting, last minute to my calendar and I need to tag that meeting, and collect notes. I could see that happening all too often.

Thanks, excited for Core and what is coming to Tana!

In reply to Andrew Nanton Andrew Nanton

Agreed.

As consultants, we come and go through organisations.
We often have short-term access to calendars, and potentially several at a time - so synching with non-google (i.e. MS365) calendaring is important and if Tana can help build that bridge - it would be a real win.

Great Product - Well done Team Tana.

I run an AI consulting agency, and this thing is wow. i have used every pkm/all-in-one/God tool there is. I am simply baffled how google of all thing was chosen for software this advanced. Any competent organization is running as fast as they can from google. I was forced to use Google's "business" suite, it's simply just as bad as gmail. Not that i enjoy saying it becuase think e-mail is prime pickings for a radical change and no one has done it, but microsoft, for e-mail, overall is at least decent. I am just diving into this tana so forgive me if i have missed an integration, but it seems Google-centric, rather exclusive from a calendaring perspective. I get the complexities of adding a new one, so yeah, if your going for the consumer i guess google is not a bad choice, but this is way over the typical consumer's head seen to be a great fit for devs, powerusers, etc but more so business, thus i circle back to gmail and it calendar, if i didn't have 15 years of identity, email on it, i would light it on fire. It's a longform way of say, pls support office365. :)

In reply to Christian Fritze Christian Fritze

2-way sync would be amazing. My use case description:

I use time-blocking for task management and it would be amazing if I could create a #timeblock node in Tana, which would show up in GCal as an event (ideally a “focus time” type) with the specific start & end times specified as fields inside of #timeblock

This addresses the concern of @Christian Fritze above... we should be able to control how new GCal events are created by use of a supertag.

When I write notes inside the calendar event in the related section, they are hard to discover when flipping through past weeks notes.
So I'd rather take notes in the day page itself, ideally by dragging the event from the calendar to the day nodes.

Currently, I try to reference the meeting/event with @, but if it's a recurring event you cannot see which instance it is (see 1 and 2 in the screenshot below).
At the minimum the calendar events that pop up in the results should have date/time mentioned.

Recurring events in search results