Google’s Pixel Watch has loads of good issues goin’ for it. However one a part of the Put on OS software program that continues to be decidedly meh is its system calendar integration.

It is a irritating limitation not only for the Pixel Watch however for Put on OS on the entire and nearly any related gadget. Considerably shockingly, for an organization that claims Google Calendar as considered one of its hottest and vital productiveness merchandise, Google has but to grace its wearable working system with any significant agenda-interacting interfaces.

Now, positive, you possibly can at all times examine in on upcoming occasions or make appointments in your watch through voice command — however attempt to add an precise calendar tile into your watch’s swipeable mixture of at-a-glance information panels, and your solely actual choice is one thing like this:

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Do not get me flawed: That is high quality. It is purposeful, if barely so. However it’s missing in oh-so-many methods, together with any extra info-dense agenda viewing choice together with any precise occasion modifying capabilities.

Properly, my fellow Put on watchers, I’ve received simply the reply for you. It is a freshly upgraded model of my favourite third-party Android calendar app that introduces full Put on OS assist for a dramatically improved smartwatch calendar expertise — on the Google Pixel Watch or every other Put on OS gadget you have received strapped to your branches.

Prepared for a better smartwatch setup?

Your Pixel Watch/Put on OS calendar improve

All proper: When you’ve been loitering ‘spherical these components for lengthy, you have most likely heard me discuss this app earlier than — however definitely not in this particular context.

The app known as Enterprise Calendar 2 Planner. And when you can forgive that mouthful of a reputation, my goodness, are you in for a deal with.

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Enterprise Calendar, as we’ll name it for brief, simply completed rolling out a meaty improve that expands its attain into the Put on OS area. The result’s a a lot extra helpful Put on OS calendar setup — one which’s extra in keeping with what you’d anticipate from a Googley productiveness gadget.

Simply set up the Enterprise Calendar app onto your Android cellphone, then search for the little downward-facing arrow inside its Play Retailer Set up button so as to add the newly current companion app onto your Pixel Watch (or no matter Put on OS mannequin you have received) proper after.

As soon as that is finished, you may see two vital additions. First is a brand new Enterprise Calendar Agenda tile for Put on OS that is infinitely extra helpful than the usual Put on OS Calendar tile Google provides you by default.

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In contrast to Google’s inventory choice, this tile reveals you quite a few upcoming occasions in your agenda at a single look — and it is absolutely interactive, too: You’ll be able to faucet any occasion inside it to open the occasion in a properly designed full-screen interface. That each permits you to see all of the occasion’s particulars and provides you straightforward one-tap choices for rescheduling or deleting the occasion proper then and there.

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On high of that, the tile has a useful button at its backside edge that pulls up an infinite-scrolling view of your total calendar agenda — thoughtfully designed for the Pixel Watch’s round type and able to adapt to every other Put on OS smartwatch setup as effectively.

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Along with making it as straightforward as could be to search out and flick through your total agenda, that very same view provides you easy one-tap choices for including new occasions into your calendar — all through intuitive plain-English voice instructions, like:

  • Assembly subsequent Friday at 8 a.m.
  • Skilled dance coaching on February ninth from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
  • Intensive bodily remedy from February tenth to February twelfth

There’s extra, too: Your spiffy new Put on OS calendar tile consists of the choice to modify over to a totally interactive month-to-month view, in case you ever must zoom out and achieve some broader perspective.

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Tapping on any particular person day inside that view, in the meantime, zooms you straight into your agenda for that particular date. Not unhealthy, proper?!

And keep in mind: All of that is simply the primary a part of what Enterprise Calendar brings to your Google-powered wrist companion.

Your new Put on OS ‘Subsequent Occasion’ view

Enterprise Calendar’s second vital addition is a extra narrowly centered Subsequent Occasion tile to your Pixel Watch or different Put on OS gadget. That tile, as its title suggests, reveals you solely information for the following occasion in your agenda.

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However in contrast to Google’s built-in Put on OS equal, this tile enables you to faucet on that occasion to zip over to a totally featured information viewing and modifying interface, similar to we noticed in that different view a second in the past. And it has one-tap buttons for switching over to the complete agenda display screen or the month-to-month setup, too.

All in all, it is an improve that is robust to show down, when you notice it is accessible. And as soon as you have received the app put in, it’s going to take you all of 20 seconds to get issues up and operating in your watch.

20 seconds to a greater Put on OS calendar

No exaggeration: Getting the Enterprise Calendar tiles into your Put on OS watch interface is as straightforward as opening up the companion watch management app in your cellphone after which discovering the tile-adding choice.

With the Pixel Watch, as an example, you’d search for the aptly named Watch app on no matter Android gadget you have received related. Open it, then faucet the “Tiles” choice inside its foremost display screen and faucet “Add tile” on the display screen that comes up subsequent.

So long as you have received the Enterprise Calendar app put in each in your cellphone and on the watch itself, it’s best to see the “Agenda: Enterprise Calendar” and “Subsequent Occasion: Enterprise Calendar” tiles within the checklist of obtainable choices.

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Faucet both one — or each, when you’re feelin’ particularly feisty — then again out one step to the primary tile configuration space.

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There, you possibly can contact your finger to these freshly added tiles and drag up or down to maneuver ’em wherever you need within the checklist. When you put ’em on the high, they’re going to be the very first thing that reveals up while you swipe towards the precise in your Pixel Watch watch face. On the backside, they’re going to come up first with a swipe towards the left.

The precise steps might differ a bit with the companion apps for different Put on OS watches, however the identical primary logic ought to apply. And that is all there’s to it.

Enterprise Calendar 2 is free to make use of with an non-compulsory $7 Professional improve that removes adverts from the app’s cellphone interface and unlocks sure superior options (and when you’re a member of my Android Intelligence Platinum useful resource neighborhood, by the way in which, remember that you’ve a free lifetime improve to that Professional model prepared and ready as a part of your Platinum Perk Pack!).

The app will routinely sync with Google Calendar, Outlook calendar, or every other calendar supplier you have received current in your cellphone. And newly added Put on OS benefits apart, it is a spectacular step up from the inventory calendar setup on Android itself in addition to ChromeOS — all as a part of the identical single app and non-compulsory Professional buy.

When you lean in your calendar as typically as I do, it’s going to be probably the most consequential productiveness upgrades you ever give your self — on Put on OS and past.

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