Use Google Calendar with Workspace Calendar

Google Calendar adds external schedule context

Use Google Calendar with ALLO when your real schedule already lives outside ALLO but the work happens inside ALLO. Customer calls, design reviews, weekly check-ins, public holidays, interview loops, and launch meetings can appear beside ALLO canvases, project dates, and OKR Sessions.

The connection does not turn ALLO into a full Google Calendar editor. It gives Workspace Calendar a few specific jobs:

• read connected Google events into Workspace Calendar
• let you choose which Google calendars appear
• open the original event in Google Calendar
• open or create a related canvas when an event should have ALLO work attached to it

That related canvas gives the meeting a place for notes, references, feedback, and follow-up.

Availability

Connect Google Calendar

Open Workspace settings, then find the Google Calendar app or integration settings. Connect the Google account you want ALLO to read from.

After connecting, ALLO shows the calendars that Google allows your account to access. Choose the calendars you want ALLO to include. You do not have to select every calendar. For example, you might connect your work calendar, a shared launch calendar, and a customer-facing calendar, while leaving personal calendars out.

If Google Calendar settings are not visible, your workspace does not have the integration enabled, your role does not allow app settings, or an admin needs to connect the app first.

Choose Google sources in Workspace Calendar

Open Workspace Calendar. In the source sidebar, Google calendars appear under the Google Calendar section after they are connected and selected in the integration settings.

Source selection inside Workspace Calendar controls what is visible in the current schedule view. It does not disconnect Google Calendar.

Use source filters when you need to answer a focused question:

Read Google events in ALLO

Google events appear as Google Calendar events, not as project canvases. They can have their own title, time, all-day state, calendar name, location, and Google Calendar link.

Google events are read-only in ALLO. Change the event title, time, attendees, recurrence, location, or Google-side visibility in Google Calendar.

ALLO canvas events are different. If you drag or resize an ALLO canvas event in Workspace Calendar and you have write access, ALLO updates the canvas date. That does not edit a Google event.

Linked and unlinked Google events

A Google event can be linked to an ALLO canvas, or it can remain an external event with no ALLO canvas yet.

Use a linked ALLO canvas when the meeting needs context that should survive after the call: agendas, screenshots, creative references, decisions, comments, handoff notes, or action items. The Google event tells people when the meeting happens. The ALLO canvas holds the work.

Open or create an ALLO canvas from a Google event

When a Google event has an ALLO action, open it from Workspace Calendar. ALLO checks whether a canvas is already connected to that Google event. If a canvas exists, ALLO opens it. If no canvas exists, ALLO can create one using the Google event title and connect it to the event.

This is useful for recurring reviews and customer calls. You can keep the event on Google Calendar while using ALLO for the work that happens around it: collecting references before the meeting, reviewing visuals during the meeting, and writing the decision afterward.

Access still follows both systems:

If a teammate can see the Google event but cannot open the ALLO canvas, share the canvas with them or check workspace and canvas access. If a teammate can open the canvas but cannot see the Google event, check Google Calendar sharing.

Use Google Calendar with Today

Today gives a short daily preview on Home. Workspace Calendar is the full schedule surface.

If a connected Google event is part of the day’s work, it can help explain why something appears in Today or why the day feels busy. Open Workspace Calendar when you need to see surrounding dates, switch sources, or find the ALLO canvas connected to a meeting.

If a Google event does not appear where you expect, check Workspace Calendar before assuming Today is wrong. The event may be on another Google calendar, outside the visible date range, filtered out by source selection, or not connected in the current workspace.

What Google Calendar sync does not do

Google Calendar integration is not a two-way scheduling replacement for Google Calendar.

This separation is intentional. It keeps Google Calendar responsible for meeting scheduling and keeps ALLO responsible for the visual work, comments, decisions, and canvases connected to that schedule.

Troubleshooting

If Google calendars do not appear, open the Google Calendar integration settings and confirm that the account is connected, the calendar list loads, and at least one calendar is selected.

If Workspace Calendar shows ALLO work but no Google events, check the Google Calendar source section, selected date range, connected account, and selected calendars. A hidden source can make a healthy calendar look empty.

If a Google event appears but will not open in ALLO, try opening the event in Google Calendar first. If the ALLO action still fails, the causes are usually:

• the event does not have a stable Google event id
• ALLO cannot create the related canvas
• your workspace access does not allow the resulting canvas

Use Contact support with the right details if the ALLO action still fails after the Google event opens.

If a Google event is on the wrong day or time, edit it in Google Calendar. Workspace Calendar displays the date and time it receives from Google for the selected range.

If one person sees a Google event and another does not, compare Google account permissions, workspace, connected calendars, Workspace Calendar source selection, and access to the linked ALLO canvas.