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Google Calendar Setup

Google Calendar is the essential integration for Taskott. It powers time attribution, calendar review, and the dailies workflow. This guide covers setup and how to categorize your calendars.

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Google Calendar is the only integration marked as essential. While Taskott works without it, you'll miss out on time tracking, calendar review during dailies, and accurate time attribution to goals.

Connecting your account

  1. Open Settings

    Navigate to Settings → Integrations → Google Calendar.

  2. Sign in with Google

    Click Connect Google Calendar. A browser window will open asking you to authorize Taskott. Taskott requests read-only access to your calendar events.

  3. Select calendars to sync

    After authorization, you'll see a list of your Google calendars. Select which ones to sync. You can change this later.

Categorizing calendars

This is where Taskott gets opinionated. Each synced calendar should be mapped to one of your goals. This allows Taskott to automatically attribute time from calendar events to the correct goal.

How it works

When you connect calendars, Taskott asks you to assign each one to a goal:

Calendar Goal Assignment Purpose
"Work Meetings" Career Work meetings count toward your Career goal time
"Gym Schedule" Health Workouts count toward your Health goal time
"Personal" None (skip) Social events, personal appointments — not tracked
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Pro tip: Create separate Google calendars for different areas of your life if you haven't already. A "Work" calendar, a "Side Project" calendar, and a "Health" calendar map cleanly to Taskott goals. This makes auto-categorization much more accurate.

What syncs

  • Event titles and times — Used for calendar review and time attribution
  • Event duration — Counted toward goal time tracking
  • Recurring events — Each instance is synced individually

What doesn't sync

  • Event descriptions or attachments
  • Attendee information
  • Changes made in Taskott do not write back to Google Calendar

Calendar review

The calendar review feature lets you look back at past events and confirm or correct their goal attribution. This is useful for:

  • Events on calendars you didn't categorize
  • Events that don't fit neatly into one goal
  • Ad-hoc meetings or events that appeared after your initial categorization

Taskott uses smart auto-categorization to suggest goal assignments based on patterns from your previous reviews. Over time, it gets better at guessing correctly.

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Reviewing calendar events also earns you XP. It's a small reward for maintaining accurate time data.

Troubleshooting

Events not appearing

  • Check that the calendar is selected for sync in Settings
  • Taskott syncs events from the current and previous week. Older events may not appear
  • Try disconnecting and reconnecting your Google account

Wrong goal assignment

Use the calendar review screen to manually reassign events. Future events from that calendar will still follow the default mapping, but individual events can always be overridden.

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