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Connecting Claude.ai to Google Calendar — step by step.
Calendar prep, meeting briefings, weekly audits. Here's how to set up the Calendar connector and what to do with it first.
Overview
Calendar prep is the second-most-useful connector after Gmail. Once it's live, Claude can pull from your schedule for meeting briefings, weekly audits, and proactive flagging of overloaded days. Setup is 3 minutes.
Setup steps
Open Claude.ai → connector icon → Google Calendar → authorise. Pick the same Google account you connected Gmail to (or a different one if work and personal are separate).
Read-only access is fine for most workflows. Add write access if you want Claude to create events for you.
The first useful prompt
"Look at my calendar for the next 7 days. Tell me which days are over 60% meetings, which meetings I should prep for now, and where there's a clear 2-hour deep-work block."
This single prompt diagnoses your week in 30 seconds. Run it Monday mornings and you'll never be surprised by Tuesday again.
The meeting prep prompt
"I have a meeting with [person] at [time] about [topic]. Pull from past emails with them, calendar events that mention them, and Drive docs about them or the topic. Give me 3 facts, 2 questions, and the line I should be ready with."
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