This page has been created for people in our community who:

• use google calendar
• want to be able to easily see when Friends of Dorothea events are for you (Adding The Calendar To Your GCal)
• want to receive event reminders & notifications of upcoming events (Creating Notifications for the Friends of Dorothea Events)

Subscribing To The Calendar To Your GCal

This tip is useful if you use Google Calendar and want to easily see when Friends of Dorothea events are for your timezone and how they might fit amongst your schedule.

1. Subscribing to the Friends of Dorothea Calendar to your Google Calendars

Below is a screenshot with instructions from Google Calendar Help

• if you click on the link to this Google Calendar Help page, you’ll be able to directly click the blue “Add a calendar from a URL” button and it should take you straight to your own Google calendar’s settings to add the link below
• Follow the instructions below or on the website and copy the link to the Friends of Dorothea calendar that’s provided here: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=NDc4ZGUwZDQwNDZiMDQ4MmU1ZWI0OWIyNDgxZTRjYjI1YTdlZTdjNTYyYzllMGRlNTY5NTI0NWM2ZjJmNzI0Y0Bncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t

https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37100?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop

This is what the screen will look like where you’ll paste the link of the Friends of Dorothea calendar (provided above)

1. Toggling between your own personal calendar and the Friends of Dorothea calendar so you can see the events that are relevant to you

• Below are three screenshots of part of my own Google Calendar -
  • the first one shows FoD events & my own personal events (every calendar ticked)
    • This is useful if I want to look at my schedule compared to the FoD schedule and what events could work for me
  • the second one shows just FoD events (only FoD calendar ticked)
    • This is useful if I just want to look at what events are coming up for Friends of Dorothea
  • the third one shows just personal events and not FoD events (only personal calendar ticked)
    • this is useful for anyone who doesn’t want to see the FoD events on their calendar at all times

Creating Notifications for Friends of Dorothea Events

This tip is useful for those who want to receive notifications regarding upcoming Friends of Dorothea events, including daily summaries of what’s on or being notified two days before an event so that you can register in advance. Instructions from Google Calendar Help HERE

1. Daily summary emails

If you want an email in your inbox of a daily summary of what events are on for Friends of Dorothea, follow the instructions in the screenshot or this link under “Get your daily agendar in Gmail”