Calendar Integration

Connect Google Calendar or Outlook to Obvious and manage your schedule without leaving your workspace.

Once connected, Obvious pulls in your calendars so the agent can check your schedule, create events, and filter by date — all from a chat prompt. No tab-switching, no copy-pasting meeting details.

Connect Your Calendar

1. Open Settings → Connectors.

2. Find Google Calendar or Outlook Calendar and click Connect.

3. Sign in with your calendar account and authorize access.

Obvious requests permission to read and write your calendars and events. Once connected, your calendars appear in Obvious automatically. The agent can now access your schedule.

Tip: You can connect more than one calendar provider. If you use Google Calendar for work and Outlook for personal scheduling, connect both — the agent sees all of them.

View Your Events

The fastest way to check your schedule: ask the agent.

What meetings do I have this week?

The agent pulls events from your connected calendars and shows them directly in the thread. You can also ask for specific time ranges:

• "What's on my calendar tomorrow?"

• "Show me my events for next week."

• "Do I have anything scheduled for March 5th?"

Smart Date Filtering

The agent understands natural date ranges. You don't need to provide exact dates — these all work:

What you say	What it covers
"Today" or "tomorrow"	That single day
"This week" or "next week"	Sunday through Saturday
"This month" or "next month"	Full calendar month
"Next 7 days"	Starting from right now

You can also specify custom ranges: "Show me events from March 3 to March 14."

Create Events

Ask the agent to create an event and it handles the rest.

Schedule a 30-minute sync with the design team next Tuesday at 2pm.

The agent confirms the details before creating the event on your calendar. You'll see a summary with the title, time, and duration. The event shows up in Google Calendar or Outlook immediately.

You can include specifics in your prompt:

• Attendees: "Set up a meeting with jamie@company.com and alex@company.com."

• Location: "Book a room — Conference Room B."

• Description: "Add a note: review Q1 metrics and finalize targets."

• All-day events: "Block off next Friday as a focus day."

Note: The agent always confirms with you before creating, updating, or deleting events. Nothing changes on your calendar without your approval.

Agent limitations:

• Cannot create recurring events (e.g., "every Monday" — create these directly in your calendar app)

• Can only access your own connected calendars, not other users' calendars

Teams Conferencing for Outlook

When you create an event using your connected Outlook Calendar, Obvious can include a Microsoft Teams meeting link automatically. The Teams join URL appears in the event confirmation — so attendees get everything they need without a separate step.

This works when your Microsoft account has Teams. Obvious connects to Outlook via the Microsoft Graph API, which provisions the online meeting and returns the join link when the event is created.

Tip: To create a meeting with a Teams link, just ask the agent: "Schedule a 30-minute call with the team on Wednesday — add a Teams link."

Auto-Join for Outlook Meetings

Obvious can detect Outlook meetings with online links and join them automatically, the same way it does for Google Calendar meetings.

When an Outlook event with a Teams join URL syncs to Obvious, the agent marks it as a candidate for auto-join. You control whether this happens per connection.

• Enable or disable auto-join: Open the Meetings sidebar, click the calendar menu, and select Auto-join settings. Toggle auto-join on or off per connected calendar account.

You can opt individual meetings out as well — the agent won't join a meeting you've marked as off.

Update and Delete Events

Need to reschedule? Ask the agent.

Move my 2pm meeting to 3pm.

The agent finds the event, confirms the change, and updates it on your calendar. You can also update other details:

• "Add a location to my Thursday standup."

• "Change the title of tomorrow's 10am to 'Sprint Review.'"

• "Cancel my Friday afternoon meeting."

Deleting an event removes it permanently from your calendar, so the agent always checks with you first.

Troubleshooting

Connection issues: If your calendar isn't showing up, open Settings → Connectors and verify the connection is active. If it shows connected but events aren't appearing, try disconnecting and reconnecting.

Permission issues: If the agent can view but not create events, check that you authorized full read/write access during setup. Reconnect and authorize write permissions.

Teams link not appearing: If you're creating an Outlook event and no Teams link is generated, confirm your Microsoft account has Teams and that you authorized the full scope during Outlook setup. Reconnect if needed.

Still having trouble? Email help@obvious.ai with your calendar provider and a description of what you're seeing.

What You'll Need

• A connected calendar. Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar are supported. Connect one (or more) in Settings → Connectors.

• Calendar permissions. Obvious needs read and write access to display events and create new ones. If you only authorize read access, the agent can view your schedule but can't create or modify events.