Features · Events

Keep your calendar. Your website keeps up.

Manage your own Google Calendar the way you always have. We read it every couple of hours and show your events on your site, in your colors, with a button for visitors to follow it. Nothing to type, nothing to forget.

Upcoming events

Nobody typed these into this page. They come from a sample Google-style calendar kept by a made-up market, and repeating events (every Saturday, the first Friday of the month) fill themselves in.

October

  1. Neighborhood meeting 7 – 8:30 pm Library, meeting room BQuarterly update and open questions. Everyone is welcome.
  2. Story hour for little ones 10:30 – 11:15 am The reading cornerPicture books and songs for ages 2 to 5. No sign-up needed.
  3. Fall festival weekend Harbor LaneTwo days of food, games and a parade down the lane.
  4. Saturday market 9 am – 1 pm Harbor Lane lotFresh bread, vegetables and live music. Rain or shine.
  5. Story hour for little ones 10:30 – 11:15 am The reading cornerPicture books and songs for ages 2 to 5. No sign-up needed.
  6. Saturday market 9 am – 1 pm Harbor Lane lotFresh bread, vegetables and live music. Rain or shine.
  7. Story hour for little ones 10:30 – 11:15 am The reading cornerPicture books and songs for ages 2 to 5. No sign-up needed.
  8. Saturday market 9 am – 1 pm Harbor Lane lotFresh bread, vegetables and live music. Rain or shine.

November

  1. Story hour for little ones 10:30 – 11:15 am The reading cornerPicture books and songs for ages 2 to 5. No sign-up needed.
  2. First Friday open house 5 – 8 pm The old millMeet our makers, tour the studios and stay for music.

How it works

Three steps, and only the first is yours.

  1. You keep your calendar

    Add an event in Google Calendar: a title, a date, a place and a line about it. Change it, move it, cancel it. That is all you do.

  2. We read it automatically

    Every two hours our system reads your calendar and saves the latest copy. If Google is ever down, your site keeps showing the last good one.

  3. Your site shows it

    Your events appear on your page in your colors, soonest first, grouped by month, with past events tucked away by year. No one touches your website.

What your visitors get

A calendar that is always right, because it is the one you already use.

  1. Always current

    A new event is on your site within a couple of hours. A cancelled one disappears. There is no second list to keep up.

  2. Everything they need

    The day, the hours and the place on every card, and the start of your description so they know what to expect.

  3. Repeating events, handled

    Every Saturday, the first Friday of the month, every other Wednesday: say it once in Google Calendar and every date appears.

  4. Follow along

    Visitors can add your calendar to their own Google Calendar, or any calendar app, and see your events next to the rest of their life.

  5. Made for phones too

    On a small screen the cards stack into one easy column, and the hours and place stay on the card.

  6. Private stays private

    Events you mark private in Google are never published. You choose what the title, place and description say.

How we set it up

We need one thing from you: access to the calendar you already keep. Either make it public in Google Calendar and send us its ID, or send us its private address, which only we can use and which we keep encrypted. We read the past year of events by default, and can go further back if you like.

The feature works with Google Calendar. Whatever you write in an event's title, place and description appears on your website, so we suggest keeping those to what you would say out loud to a customer. Repeating events work best when you use Google's own repeat options.

Want this on your site?

Send us your calendar.

Tell us where your events live now, and we will show you how they look on your own site before you decide anything.