On this page
- Create events from your inbox
- Automatically add flights and other events from Gmail
- Get your daily agenda in Gmail
- Filter Calendar responses from your Gmail inbox
Create events from your inbox
In an email, you can add a Google Calendar event or add times you're available to meet. The recipient can reply to your event or choose a time that works for them. When they choose a time, both people get an email invitation.
Note: Currently, suggesting times to meet only works for 1:1 meetings in your primary calendar.
Create an event
- In Gmail, compose an email.
- Click More
Set up a time to meet
- Add details to your new event and click Save.
Suggest times to meet
- In Gmail, compose an email.
- Click More
- Select times in the calendar and click Next.
- Click Add to email.
Automatically add flights and other events from Gmail
Keep track of all your reservations, meetings, or travel dates by viewing the synchronized events from your Gmail inbox in Google Calendar.
When you get an email about an event like a flight, concert, or restaurant reservation, it's added to your calendar automatically. You can choose who can view these events in your calendar.
If you don't want events from Gmail on your calendar, you can delete a single event, or change your settings so that events aren't added automatically.
Allow events from Gmail on your calendar
Important:
- If you're in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, the UK, or Japan, events from Gmail are off by default.
- For all other countries, events from Gmail are on. If you don’t get events from Gmail, check your Google Workspace smart features settings.
Step 1: Turn on Google Workspace smart features
- On your computer, go to Google Calendar.
- At the top right, click Settings menu
Settings.
- Under “General," click Google Workspace smart features
- Turn on Smart features in Google Workspace.
- Click Save.
Settings.Tip: To stop Gmail from creating events in Calendar, turn off Smart features in Google Workspace.
Step 2: Turn on events from Gmail
- On your computer, open Google Calendar.
- At the top right, click Settings menu
- Under "General," click Google Workspace smart features.
- Next to "Show events from Gmail," check the box.
Delete an event from Gmail
- On your computer, open Google Calendar.
- Click the event from Gmail
.
.Hide all events from Gmail
- On your computer, open Google Calendar.
- At the top right, click Settings menu
- On the left, click Google Workspace smart features.
- Next to "Show events from Gmail," uncheck the box.
- In the pop-up, click OK.
Get your daily agenda in Gmail
Start your day with a daily agenda in your Gmail inbox, based on your Google Calendar schedule. You can even give your daily agenda to your team or an assistant so they know the best times to reach you.
- In Calendar, go to Settings
- On the left under Settings for my calendars, click your name and go to Other notifications.
- In the Daily agenda field, click the Down arrow
next to None and select Email.
Filter calendar responses from your Gmail inbox
Getting Google Calendar responses you don’t want in your inbox? Let Gmail automatically filter them so you can keep a clean inbox.
- Open Gmail.
- In the search box at the top, click Show search options
.
- In the To field, enter your email address.
- Next to Has the words, enter invite.ics OR invite.vcs.
- Check the Has attachment box.
- Click Create filter.
- Check the Apply the label box and choose a label to automatically sort incoming event response messages.
- Check the Skip the Inbox (Archive it) box to move response messages out of your inbox. Don’t worry, you can still view them later if needed.
- Click Create filter.
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