Reminders and your calendar
Apple and Google Calendar
NewTwos can read your device calendars and push reminders back to them.
Why you'd care
If your meetings are in one app and your to-dos are in another, neither view is true. Sync puts both in one timeline, so "is Thursday busy" has an answer.
Before you start
- Calendar permission at the operating system level.
- A device calendar already set up. NewTwos syncs with the calendars your device knows about rather than connecting to Google directly.
Connect
- 1
Grant calendar access
Approve the permission prompt. Without it nothing can be read or written.
- 2
Choose which calendars
Pick which of your calendars are read. Leaving out shared or subscribed calendars you do not care about keeps the view clean.
- 3
Choose whether reminders are pushed back
Settings Calendar & Reminders Push all reminders to connected calendar writes NewTwos reminders into your calendar as events.
- 4
Check it worked
Open the Calendar view. Today's events should appear alongside your reminders.
What comes across
Into NewTwos: event titles, times, durations and notes, from the calendars you selected.
Removing it
Disconnecting offers to remove the events NewTwos created. This matters: things NewTwos pushed out carry a marker so they can be cleaned up, and reminders that were never pushed are unaffected.
Settings that change this
- Settings Calendar & Reminders Push all reminders to connected calendar writes reminders into your calendar.
- Settings Calendar & Reminders Default reminder duration sets how long a pushed event lasts.
- Settings Calendar & Reminders Default color for reminders tints them.
- Settings Advanced Import from calendar (.ics) imports an
.icsfile as a one-off instead of syncing.
Tips
- Sync fewer calendars than you think. A birthdays calendar with 200 entries drowns everything else.
- Push reminders out only if you share your calendar with someone who needs to see them.
If it's not working
Events show up twice. Usually the same calendar is subscribed twice at the device level, or reminders are being pushed out and read back. Turn off push and see whether the duplicates stop.
Nothing appears. Calendar permission is denied, or no calendars are selected.