How to put Google Calendar in your Mac menu bar

Connect Google to your Mac

Dot uses the same calendar store as Apple Calendar. You do not sign in to Google inside Dot. The account connection belongs to macOS.

1. Open System Settings → Internet Accounts and choose Add Account.
2. Choose Google, sign in to the account you use for Calendar, and enable Calendars.
3. Open Apple Calendar and wait for your events to appear. Check the calendar list for the specific calendars you need.

Give Dot access and choose your calendars

Open Dot and allow calendar access when macOS asks. If you previously declined, check System Settings → Privacy & Security → Calendars. Permission wording depends on your macOS version; Dot needs calendar access to show and edit events.

1. Open Dot from the menu bar.
2. Open Preferences → Calendars and enable the calendars you want in your agenda.
3. Choose a Google calendar as your default if most new events should be saved there.

Create an event and check the destination

Press ⌘N while Dot is open. Try “Lunch tomorrow at noon,” inspect the date and time, and choose the Google calendar before saving. Read-only subscribed calendars cannot accept new events. macOS handles synchronization back to Google; allow time for the event to appear on another device.

For an event with a Google Meet link, open the event in Dot and use Join. Dot opens existing meeting links; it does not create a new Meet conference simply because you save an event.

If a calendar or event is missing

Start in Apple Calendar. If the event is missing there too, troubleshoot the macOS account connection rather than changing Dot. If it appears there but not in Dot, check permission, selected calendars, the selected date, and whether all-day events are hidden.

A calendar shared with your Google account is not necessarily enabled for every sync client. Check the account’s calendar-selection options and your access to that calendar. On a managed work account, your organization may restrict which apps or account connections are allowed.

What is shared, and what stays local

Dot reads your local macOS calendar store; it does not require a separate Dot account or upload your calendar database to a Dot server. Your Mac still synchronizes with Google under your Google account settings. You can read cached events offline; provider changes require synchronization.

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