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Keep Your Calendar and Timesheet in Sync

Timesheet

Your calendar and your timesheet describe the same day. When they live in separate tools, you either enter the same information twice or watch them drift apart.

Two Tools, One Day

Meetings, calls and focus blocks usually sit in your calendar. Time entries sit in Timesheet. Keeping both up to date by hand means double work, and the one you update last is usually the one that is out of date.

Syncing Timesheet with Google Calendar

Timesheet has a Google Calendar integration. You link each Timesheet project to a Google Calendar, and the integration keeps the two in sync:

  • Time entries in the project appear as events in the linked calendar
  • New events in the linked calendar become time entries in the project
  • Changes and deletions sync in both directions

You can also sync in one direction only, from Timesheet to Google Calendar or from Google Calendar to Timesheet.

How to Set It Up

  • Open the integrations in the Timesheet web app and connect Google Calendar
  • Link each project to the calendar it should use
  • Choose the sync direction

After that, changes sync on their own, and a full sync runs once a day. Use Sync Now in the integration settings when you want to sync right away.

Where Chronis Fits In

Chronis does not read your calendar. It works with your time entries: after a meeting, send it a message like "1 hour client call with Acme" and it logs the entry. Every entry Chronis logs is a regular Timesheet entry.

What the Integration Can Access

To sync, the integration asks Google for access to your calendars and their events. You can remove the integration in Timesheet at any time.