Adding events to your calendar with Coco

Coco can read your calendar to understand your day, and it can add events to it when you ask. Like sending mail, adding to your calendar only happens on your say-so — Coco does not rearrange your schedule on its own.

Adding an event

The easiest way is to just say it in the chat: "Add a dentist appointment next Tuesday at 3," or "Put the school play on my calendar for Friday at 6." Coco reads the details, fills in the date, time, and title, and shows you the event it is about to create. You confirm, and it lands on your Google Calendar.

From the brief

When the brief surfaces something with a date in it — an RSVP, a meeting someone proposed, a deadline buried in a flyer — Coco can offer to add it for you right there. You review the details it pulled out and approve. This is especially handy for the dates that hide inside images and attachments, which are easy to miss otherwise.

You approve every change

Coco asked Google for the ability to add and edit events — Google's consent screen calls this "view and edit events," which sounds broad, but Coco only ever uses it to make the specific change you asked for. It does not move your existing meetings, does not invite other people unless you tell it to, and never deletes an event. If a detail is wrong before you confirm, just correct it in the chat and Coco updates the event it is proposing.

Checking your schedule

You can also ask Coco about your calendar without changing anything: "What does Thursday look like?" or "Am I free at 2 tomorrow?" It reads the calendar and answers, no edits involved. Reading and adding are separate — asking about your day never alters it.

If an event did not appear

If you asked Coco to add something and do not see it on your calendar, make sure you confirmed the event when Coco showed it to you — an unconfirmed event is never created. If you confirmed and it still is not there, the sync may be catching up; see when the daily sync hangs.