Import appointments to update your online schedule in the Organizer
Feel like you’re having déjà vu? You may be slightly right! But for those of you who missed our blog post last week, the mail.com Organizer is a free online calendar accessible to all mail.com users and an extremely effective productivity tool to manage your daily tasks!
As promised, today in part two of our post we’ll show you how to import dates from a Google or Outlook calendar into the Organizer.
Import your external calendar to see all your appointments in one place!
In our last post, we talked about the process of integrating external calendars, such as Outlook and Google, to your Organizer so that they automatically synchronize. We encourage you to take a look! And now let’s turn to the topic of manually updating your mail.com Organizer – in other words, how to export your Outlook or Google calendar in an accessible format and later import to your mail.com Organizer. Sound complicated? Don’t worry, it’s not!
Importing an external calendar to the mail.com Organizer
If changing the calendar privacy settings to public – as outlined in the Google example in our previous blog article – is not something you are comfortable with, then a Google calendar .ics import to your Organizer is probably the method of choice for you. Before importing an external calendar to the mail.com Organizer, however, first you will need to export and save the external calendar in an .ics format.
Follow the instructions below to export your Google calendar in an .ics format:
Start by accessing your Google calendar
Click the gearwheel icon in the upper right corner to access the calendar Settings
Select Import & export > Export
Complete the process by clicking Save file. The downloaded calendar file is saved in a .zip folder. Unpack the .zip folder to extract the .ics file of the calendar you intend on importing to your mail.com Organizer
Export your Google calendar in just a few clicks
Follow the instructions below to export your Outlook calendar in an .ics format:
Start by accessing your Outlook Calendar
Select the gearwheel icon in the right upper corner and click View all Outlook settings
Select Calendar > Shared Calendars > Publish a calendar
Choose the calendar you wish to export from the drop-down menu, along with permission settings and click Publish
Click on the ICS link that is generated and complete the process by selecting Download and saving the downloaded file
Download your schedule from Outlook under the calendar settings
Now that your calendar is saved in an accessible format, all that’s left to do is to import the file to your mail.com Organizer. To complete the process of importing your saved exported .ics file to your mail.com Organizer follow the directions outlined below:
Start by accessing your mail.com Organizer
Select Organizer settings in the lower left corner of your screen
Select Import
Upload the saved .ics file that you have exported from your external calendar by clicking on Select File
Specify where the new appointments and reminders will be added in Import into, whether an Existing calendar or a New calendar.
Save your changes and complete the process by clicking Import
Once you have the .ics file from your external calendar, it’s a snap to import your appointments
Before you start implementing these changes to your mail.com account, you can also take a closer look at our Help Center page about 3rd party applications for further instructions on synchronizing your mail.com Organizer with calendars from other providers not listed above, or different mediums not covered in our article today.
We hope you found the article useful in optimizing your mail.com Organizer and taking another step toward managing your daily life from one account. We would love to see your feedback below!
