Integrations3 min read

Connecting Google Calendar

Connect Google Calendar so your Personal Assistant or company agents can check availability, find free time, and manage events.

What Google Calendar Enables

Once connected, Symbi can:

  • Check your schedule and list upcoming events
  • Find free time across attendees
  • Create, update, and (optionally) delete calendar events
  • Search events by keyword

The integration works for both:

  • Personal Assistant — your own calendar. Ask your assistant "when am I free tomorrow?" or "schedule a 30-minute follow-up with Alex next week"
  • Company agents — a shared or team calendar an agent manages on behalf of the company

Personal Calendar Connection

  1. Open Settings → Personal Integrations
  2. Click Connect Google Calendar
  3. Authorize with Google and approve the requested permissions
  4. You're returned to Symbi with the connection confirmed

Your calendar data stays scoped to just you.

Company Calendar Connection

  1. Open Settings → Connected Apps
  2. Click Connect Google Calendar
  3. Sign in to the Google account that owns the shared calendar
  4. Approve the requested permissions

Only Owner and Admin users can connect a company calendar.

Actions Your Agent Can Take

  • List Events — see upcoming events in a time range
  • Get Event — retrieve full details for a specific event
  • Find Free Time — query free/busy info across attendees to propose slots
  • Search Events — find past or upcoming events by keyword
  • Create Event — schedule a new event with attendees, time, and location
  • Update Event — change details on an existing event
  • Delete Event — remove an event (opt-in, off by default)

Real-Time Updates

Symbi subscribes to calendar change notifications so your assistant or agent always sees up-to-date schedule data. No manual refresh is needed.

Common Patterns

  • Morning briefing — a personal skill that runs at 8 AM and tells you what's on your day, which meetings need prep, and where you have gaps
  • Meeting coordinator agent — a company agent that reads incoming scheduling requests and proposes times based on attendees' availability
  • Follow-up reminders — a skill that finds meetings from last week without a follow-up email and drafts one for you

Security and Scopes

Symbi requests only the calendar scopes it needs — reading calendar data, managing events, and querying free/busy. Tokens are AES-256 encrypted. You can revoke access any time from Symbi's settings or your Google Account security page.

Tip

Pair Google Calendar with Gmail and your Personal Assistant becomes a full inbox + schedule helper. Most teams connect both together.

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