Connect Google Calendar or Outlook
Dictate reads your meetings from Google Calendar or Outlook, shows them in Notes and reminds you before meetings. Read-only, the data stays on this computer.
- Applies to
- Windows, macOS
- Version
- Dictate 0.4.0-beta.6
With a connected calendar your meetings show on the Notes page. A note starts with one click and gets the meeting title. Before each meeting, Dictate reminds you of notes.
Dictate only reads the calendar. It creates no meetings and changes none. The sign-in data for the calendar is encrypted on this computer and goes only to Google or Microsoft.
Connect the calendar
- Open Settings›Connections.
- Next to Google Calendar or Outlook Calendar, click Connect. For Outlook, use your Microsoft account, for example from Microsoft 365.
- Your browser opens the Google or Microsoft sign-in. Sign in and allow read access.
- Go back to Dictate. The row now shows Connected.
You can connect both calendars.
While no calendar is connected, Dictate also offers the connection in other places:
- The Notes page shows No calendar connected with buttons for Google Calendar and Outlook.
- The Action Bar shows the card Connect your calendar. Not now closes it.
If the connection fails, Dictate shows The connection did not work. Please try again. Click Connect again.
What you see afterwards
Dictate reads the meetings of this week and the next every five minutes.
- On the Notes page, Today in your calendar lists the day's meetings with their times. A running meeting shows Now. Online meetings show Online meeting.
- Each meeting shows who is invited, for example 3 people, with their answer: Declined, Maybe or Not answered.
- Start note starts a note with the meeting title. For meetings with a meeting link, Join and start opens the meeting first.
- The invited people show in the note. When you name speakers, Dictate suggests them under From the calendar.
- The menu of the Dictate icon in the notification area (the menu bar on a Mac) lists the day's meetings under Today. A click starts a note for that meeting.
- Before each meeting the Action Bar shows a reminder. The default is one minute before. You change this as described in Live notes and settings.
When no more meetings are left today, the page shows No more meetings today.
Reconnect when reading fails
When Dictate can no longer read a connected calendar, the Notes page shows for example Google Calendar could not be read. Connect it again. This happens, for example, after you removed the access at Google or Microsoft.
Click Reconnect and sign in again in the browser.
Disconnect the calendar
Open Settings›Connections and click Disconnect next to the calendar. Dictate deletes the sign-in data for this calendar on this computer and no longer shows its meetings.
Your notes stay, also those named after a meeting.
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