Sync with Google Calendar

Settings → Integrations → Google Calendar. Connects a database to a calendar so records and events stay in sync in whichever direction you choose.

Connect

Google Calendar uses its own connection, separate from the one YouTube uses — reconnecting or revoking Calendar never changes an unrelated Google connection’s permissions.

Create a binding

A binding links one database to one calendar:

1. Pick a database, or create one from a Calendar template right there in the picker — it builds a database with Start, End and Description fields already in place and maps them for you, rather than leaving you to map three fields by hand afterwards.
2. Pick the calendar to sync with.
3. Map fields: a Start field (required), an End field (optional — an event with no mapped end gets a default 1-hour duration), and a Description field (optional).
4. Choose a direction:

Direction	What moves
StoryOS → Google	Records create/update/delete events. Google is never written back.
Google → StoryOS	Events create/update/delete records. StoryOS is never written back.
Two-way	Either side can originate a change; the other follows.

Pull and two-way bindings poll Google every five minutes, and whenever you press Sync.

Database and space names that repeat elsewhere are disambiguated in the picker — you always see which space a same-named database lives in before you choose it.

All-day events

Whether an event is all-day is decided by the mapped Start field’s type: a plain date field (no time) syncs as an all-day event; a date-and-time field syncs as a timed one.

Google’s all-day end date is exclusive; a StoryOS date range is inclusive. A one-day event stored as 2026-03-05 in StoryOS becomes a Google event ending 2026-03-06 — that’s the same day represented two different ways, not an off-by-one bug. The sync converts between the two on every write, in both directions.

If a binding stalls

Each binding shows its last error inline the moment a sync fails — an invalid mapped date, a revoked connection, a deleted calendar — rather than failing silently. Remove deletes the binding without touching anything it already synced in either direction.