What's new with Google Calendar
Just launched!
Reminders from all your calendars
You can now receive email or mobile text-message reminders for all your personal calendars. You can also set different types of reminders for each of your events. Google Calendar can notify you of upcoming events, new, changed and cancelled invitations, invitation replies or it can send you a daily agenda every morning. You do not have to worry about missing a thing.
Share calendars with friends
Found a public calendar of events that you would like to send to a group of friends? No problem. Simply click on the arrow next to the calendar, select "Send to a friend" and type in the email addresses of people with whom you would like to share it. Now, you can keep anyone up to date on upcoming events that you find on Google Calendar.
Your not-so-digital calendar
We understand that not everyone has a PDA or wifi connection all the time. Some people like having a printed agenda. So, we have added some features to make it easier for you to have a physical copy of your calendar. You can change font size, orientation and choose colour or black and white mode.
And much more...
Ever since we launched Google Calendar, we've been listening to our users and working hard to make Google Calendar even better. Here are a few of the features we've added:
- Calendars with web content events and special icons
We've added a new calendar format with a little extra eye candy. These calendars have small icons at the top of the day when there's new information.
Using these calendars, you can now get some extra information directly in your calendar view — like the upcoming weather, the phases of the moon, and even a heads up when a new Google Doodle appears on Google.com.
To get the weather forecast calendar for cities in the U.S., sign in to Google Calendar and click Settings to update your weather preferences.
To add the Google doodles calendar or the moon phases calendar, click the plus symbol (+) next to "Other Calendars" on the left side of your screen. Select the "Browse Calendars" tab and then look in the "Fun Calendars" area. When you find the calendar you want, just click the "Add Calendar" button.
If you're interested (and technically inclined) you can publish a calendar in the iCal format that takes advantage of this new format, or use the updated Google Calendar Data API to make calendars like this of your own. Learn more
- Google Calendar in 17 new languages
We've heard from Google users all over the world who wanted Google Calendar in their own languages, so we've been working hard to make this happen. If one of these is your preferred language of choice, give the new interface a try: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Polish, and English (UK).
- Publish your calendar and share it with the world
Have a website or a blog where you'd like to show other people what's going on? Now you can place an interactive, graphical version of your calendar into any page that you manage. The Event Publisher Guide shows you how, plus other ways to add Google Calendar information to your sites.
- Access your calendar from your phone
Now when you're on the go, you can access the events on your calendar (or even add new events) with your mobile phone. Learn more
- Support for Verizon
Now you can get SMS notifications and send SMS calendar commands with your Verizon phone. Just go to the Notifications Settings page to select the kind of alerts you want and to verify your cell phone number. Learn more
- Integration with Gmail for your domain
Now Google Calendar works with Gmail for your domain, so every user at your domain can enjoy all the benefits of Google Calendar, including the useful integrations between Gmail and Google Calendar. Learn more
- Simple event and calendar publishing
We've made it easier for you to add Google Calendar event reminder buttons to your web pages, so you can help visitors to your site quickly add individual events or a whole series of events to their calendars. Learn more.
- Google Calendar data API
We launched the Google Calendar data API, which lets developers create services and applications that build on Google Calendar. This API lets your applications display and modify Google Calendar data. Learn more
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