Google Calendar

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Quick Overview

Google Calendar integration is one of Lindy’s most powerful features, enabling your AI agents to act as sophisticated scheduling assistants and calendar managers. The integration provides both Triggers (what can start a Lindy workflow) and Actions (what Lindy can do). This comprehensive integration makes Lindy one of the most powerful calendar management AI assistants available, capable of handling everything from simple event creation to complex multi-party scheduling coordination and intelligent calendar optimization. Key benefits of Google Calendar integration:

• Intelligent scheduling – Find optimal meeting times across multiple calendars
• Real-time automation – Trigger workflows when events start, end, or change
• Multi-calendar support – Work across personal, work, and shared calendars seamlessly
• Timezone intelligence – Automatic timezone detection and conversion

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How to set up Google Calendar

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Google Calendar Triggers

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Calendar Event Created

Activates when new events are added to calendars:

• Provides full event details, attendee information, timing
• Perfect for welcome sequences for new meetings, automatic preparation workflows

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Calendar Event Updated

Triggers when existing events are modified:

• Provides both old and new event details for comparison
• Ideal for notification of changes, rescheduling workflows, attendee updates

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Calendar Event Started

Triggers when events begin (at start time):

• Activates precisely at either the event start time, or you can configure it to start before/after a specific time from the meeting
• Ability to implement filters for the worklow based on the type of attendee
• Perfect for meeting join automation, preparation reminders, status updates

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Calendar Event Ended

Activates when events conclude:

• Triggers at event end time with completed event details
• Ideal for follow-up actions, meeting summaries, next steps scheduling

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New Event Matching A Search

Triggers only for events matching specific criteria:

• Polling schedule configuration - Set how often to check for new events (configurable interval in seconds)
• Query-based filtering - Free text search terms to find events that match these terms in any field, except for extended properties
• Perfect for targeted workflows, specific meeting types, filtered processing based on event content

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Google Calendar Actions

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Create Event

Creates new Google Calendar events with full customization:

• Complete event creation with title, description, date/time, location, attendees
• Supports recurring events, scheduling conflicts, timezone handling, custom notifications
• Perfect for scheduling meetings, blocking time for tasks, creating reminders

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Add Quick Event

Rapidly create events using natural language descriptions:

• Parses natural language like “Meeting with John tomorrow at 2pm”
• Faster than structured event creation for simple events
• Ideal for quick event creation from emails, chat messages, or voice commands

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Update Event

Modifies existing calendar events:

• Change any event property (time, attendees, location, description) in collaboration with any trigger
• Handles partial updates without affecting unchanged properties
• Perfect for rescheduling meetings, updating attendee lists, changing locations

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Check Availability

Verifies if users/attendees are free during specific time windows:

• Multi-person availability checking with conflict detection
• Returns detailed availability windows, considers multiple calendars
• Essential for pre-meeting scheduling validation and avoiding double-booking

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Find Available Times

Intelligently finds optimal meeting times between 2 or more calendars:

• Analyzes multiple calendars simultaneously (perfect for meeting with internal org members)
• Considers user preferences (working hours, preferred days)
• Accounts for meeting buffers and daily meeting limits
• Handles timezone differences automatically

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Get Event Details

Retrieves comprehensive information about specific events:

• Returns all event metadata (attendees, location, description, etc.)
• Perfect for event information lookup, meeting preparation, status checking

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View Events

Lists events from calendars with optional filtering:

• Search by date range, keywords, attendee, or other criteria
• Supports complex search queries and date range filtering
• Ideal for calendar overview, finding specific meetings, schedule analysis

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Example scheduling workflow

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Best Practices

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Next steps