Hey team, (wow, I wrote this as if I was writing a work email – I realize what I’ve done, but I’m sticking to it)
I am so curious about this: how do people manage to use Calendar.app as a remote knowledge worker?
It seems to have improved quite a bit over the years, with Reminders integration, natural language processing and more. I love the design, and sure, Fantastical has more features, but that subscription seems to have reached an eye watering price.
Especially when there’s only one thing keeping me from switching to Calendar – nearly every meeting I set during the day needs a Google Meet link attached.
I can think of solutions to this that I think should exist – a setting in Calendar to include a Google Meet link by default. A setting in my Google Calendar account to do the same regardless of where the meeting is created. Neither seem to exist.
So I’m curious: if you’re in a similar situation where all your meetings are virtual and you use Calendar app… How are you managing? Is there a solution for desktop and/or mobile that I’m not aware of that would let me automatically attach Google Meet links to meetings created in Calendar?
I use Calendly to schedule events and this automatically inserts a meeting link (as well as saving back and forth emails to arrange an appointment). Otherwise, I have a text replacement that pastes a Zoom link and use that when creating new events. I’ve dropped Fantastical and OmniFocus in the last year as Apple’s apps now fit my needs.
I find the Calendars and Reminders combination great. love the new calendar integration and I prefer the interface of Calendars to OmniFocus’ Forecast and Reminders also syncs much more reliably with the watch.
A Google Script is floating around will scan your calendar for meetings with more than one person, and will attach a Google Meet meeting link in the background. It is a bit too brutish, though, as I like to add links to the meetings I want to. I don’t have the link with me as I am on my phone.
Literally the only reason I still use Fantastical is for creating Google Meet links and having a menu-bar view of my calendar. Switching to Zoom would fix that problem, but I already pay for Meet. Otherwise, I would use Apple Calendar at this point. I have two Google Workspace accounts for my business and a board seat I maintain, and it works great.
