How To Add Pictures In Google Calendar

Like whatever paperless organization system, Google Agenda events are prone to user mistake. This simple trick gives yous a sanity check and handy reference for those critical appointments.

Then, we're on our manner to a altogether dinner at v:30 PM. Feeling good—about xv minutes early on. And so we become a text.

"Are you guys coming?"

"Yes?"

"We're fix to society."

"…I thought it was at 5:xxx PM."

"No, 5:00 PM."

So, we frantically check the calendar.

Aye, it says five:30 PM.

According to the calendar, we were right on time. But it just so happened our calendar was incorrect.

My first instinct was to blame it on some time-space continuum wormhole. Maybe we had entered into an alternate reality where all appointments had shifted a half-hour before.

Simply I think I know what actually happened.

Whenever you get a newspaper invitation, at that place's some calorie-free data entry involved as yous convert the difficult re-create invitation into your paperless Agenda: Google Agenda, iCloud Calendar, Outlook Calendar, or any. Y'all punch in the engagement and time and so toss the paper invite into the trash. Why bother with the clutter?

Two months pass, and and then all of a sudden, y'all're 15 minutes belatedly. Or maybe worse, y'all show up, and no 1 is there at all. All because, in your haste, y'all punched the wrong info into your calendar. This scenario has happened to me more times than I'k comfortable albeit. The obvious solution is to take your time and carefully enter and double-check the information you input. Merely I'm dense enough to screw that upward, besides, probably.

So, here's my new solution: Take a picture of the paper invite and attach it to the digital calendar event. It's the all-time of both worlds. This solution is part tech tip and part workflow tweak. For me, if I don't "bucket" something like an appointment right on the spot, I run the risk of forgetting it altogether. Only if I try to plug it in when I'm out and about, I run the risk of a fat-finger information entry fault.

The quirky thing virtually this method is that Google Calendar and the stock iOS Calendar app don't let you attach photos directly in the app. But they let you view images in the app if you become them in in that location another style.

What I do know is I take a picture of an invite when I get it.

And and so, I e-mail it to myself with a descriptive subject.

And then, when I get to my desktop, I relieve the film to a temporary folder.

Then, I click More and choose Create event.

I cull the photo of the invite and attach it for reference, then make full in the rest of the details.

Then, if I e'er have whatever doubts most the accuracy of my calendar event, I can always check the original invite, fifty-fifty if I've thrown it out.

On the Google Calendar mobile app, information technology shows upwardly and opens in Google Bulldoze.

See?

On the stock iOS Calendar app, it's a little choosy. I got an error opening the file that I fastened in Google Calendar. But if I create the outcome in iCloud Calendar, it works merely fine in the native iOS Agenda app.

So what do y'all recollect? Will this save me from beingness late to my next appointment? Invite me to a party and observe out! Leave your cordial invitation in the comments beneath.