Getting started with Calendario

Install the extension, connect your first calendar and learn your way around the popup — your whole day, one click from any tab.

Gaurav Suthar3 min readCalendarioChrome extensionGuide
Part 1 of 12The Calendario GuideShow all parts
  1. 1Getting started with Calendario
  2. 2Connect Google, Outlook and Zoom — and more than one of each
  3. 3Read your day on the timeline
  4. 4Tune the timeline: zoom, working hours, buffers and more
  5. 5Drag to create, move, resize and copy events
  6. 6Event details, RSVPs and quick actions
  7. 7Create events without leaving the page
  8. 8Find anything with ⌘K search
  9. 9Jump to any date and see holidays
  10. 10Reminders that reach you, and a badge that tells you what's next
  11. 11Popup, side panel or floating launcher
  12. 12Make it yours: themes, colors, languages and time format

Calendario is a Chrome extension that puts Google Calendar, Outlook / Microsoft 365 and Zoom in one small popup. You can check what's next, join a call, answer an invite or book time without opening another tab or switching calendar apps.

This guide covers every feature, one post at a time. This first part gets you set up and shows you around.

Chrome window with the Calendario popup open below its toolbar icon, showing a timeline of today's meetings
Calendario opens from the toolbar on top of whatever page you're on.

Install the extension#

  1. 1

    Add Calendario to Chrome

    Open Calendario on the Chrome Web Store and click Add to Chrome.

  2. 2

    Pin it to the toolbar

    Click the puzzle-piece icon next to the address bar and pin Calendario. The icon then shows your next meeting's start time, so you can check it at a glance (more on that in part 10).

  3. 3

    Click the icon to open it

    The first time, Calendario asks which calendar you want to connect.

Connect your first calendar#

The welcome screen offers one button per provider. Pick the account that holds most of your meetings; you can add the others later from Settings.

Calendario welcome screen with Continue with Google, Continue with Outlook and Continue with Zoom buttons
Choose Google, Outlook or Zoom. The language picker in the top-right corner changes the whole app.
  1. 1

    Choose a provider

    Click Continue with Google, Continue with Outlook or Continue with Zoom.

  2. 2

    Approve access in the provider's own window

    Google, Microsoft or Zoom asks you to allow calendar access. Calendario only reads and updates the calendars of accounts you connect.

  3. 3

    Your day appears

    Events from every calendar of that account load straight into today's timeline.

A tour of the popup#

Everything lives on one screen. From top to bottom:

Calendario popup in light mode

Light

Calendario popup in dark mode

Dark

The same day in light and dark mode. Calendario follows your system theme unless you pick one.
  • Header: Today jumps back to the current day, next to an optional live clock. Then come Sync, the month picker (the grid icon) and Settings (the gear).
  • Month bar and day strip: step through months and days. Colored dots under a day show which calendars have events then.
  • Search: click it or press ⌘K (CtrlK on Windows) to search every connected calendar.
  • Meetings / Holidays: switch between your events and public holidays.
  • Timeline: your day laid out hour by hour, with a red Now line, Join buttons and free gaps between meetings.
  • ＋ button: create a new event.
Scroll through the day, hop to another date, press Today to come back, and click any event for its details.

Events from different providers sit side by side in one timeline. Each event carries its provider's icon (Google Meet, Outlook, Zoom), so you always know where it came from.

What's next#

Next, connect your other accounts, such as a work Outlook calendar next to a personal Google one, and choose which calendars you see.