Obsidian x Google Calendar Plugin

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An Obsidian plugin that synchronizes google events from the calendar and manages them like tasks.

Note:

1. Please be aware that this plugin relies on the Dataview plugin to list tasks within a specific date range. Please make sure you have the Dataview plugin installed before using this plugin.
2. Our task format is borrowed from tasks, but we do not support recurring tasks at the moment.
3. To sync tasks from Obsidian to the calendar, you need to attach a start time element to the task (i.e. 🛫 YYYY-MM-DD), then click the sync icon or call the Sync with Calendar command.
4. Our task synchronization is centered around calendar events, which means that after syncing tasks from Obsidian to the calendar, modifications to tasks in Obsidian will not be synced to the calendar. To further modify the schedule, you need to modify it directly in the calendar. The changes made in the calendar will be automatically synced back to Obsidian later.
5. This plugin is still in early alpha and is subject to change at any time!

Installation & Usage

First of All

• You need a Google Calendar credentials file. You can apply for it yourself:
  • Refer create project guide to create a Google Cloud Project
  • Refer enable apis guide to enable your Google Calendar's API.
  • Configure OA Screen
  • Prepare to get your OA credentials
    • Select "Desktop Application"
    • Input a name for this OA Application.
    • Download the OAClient credentials file.
• Place the credentials file in VaultFolder/.obsidian/calendar.sync.credentials.json

Manually installing the plugin

• Download main.js, styles.css, manifest.json from the release page.
• Copy the downloaded files to VaultFolder/.obsidian/plugins/your-plugin-id/.

Note: You can also compile this plugin yourself:

• Clone this repo.
• Run npm i or yarn to install dependencies.
• Run npm run dev to start compilation in watch mode.

From Obsidian Community Plugins Broswer (Not Avaliable for now.)

• Install the plugin through the Obsidian's community plugins browser.
• Enable the plugin in Obsidian.

Use this Plugin

• Place a code block like the following in any note:

  ```sync-calendar
  name: "{numberTodos} todos @ Apr. 21"
  timeMin: "2023-04-21"
  timeMax: "2023-04-22"
  ```
  

• Swap to preview mode and the plugin should replace this code block with the materialized result.

If you are synchronizing your vault, I recommend explicitly ignoring the VaultFolder/.obsidian/calendar.sync.token.json file for security reasons, if possible.

Inputs

Name	Type	Description	Default
name	string	The title for the query. You can use the {numberTodos} template which will be replaced by the number of todos returned by the query.	{numberTodos} todos in calendar
timeMin	string	A string that conforms to moment.js, the minimum time (including timeMin) for events.	One week before the current time
timeMax	string	A string that conforms to moment.js, the maximum time (excluding timeMax) for events.	null
refreshInterval	number	The auto-refresh interval in seconds. Set to -1 to disable auto-refresh.	10

Note: timeMin and timeMax will be parsed by moment.js. Ideally, Any string that satisfies moment.js can be parsed, for example:

• "2023-04-21"
• "2023-04-21 16:00"
• "2023-04-21T08:00:00.000Z"

Note: About fetching interval: For example, if there is an event whose time span is "2023-04-21 14:00" - "2023-04-21 16:00", if you do not want this event to be displayed during crawling, you should specify timeMin: "2023-04-21 16:00".

Note: sort, filter，group are features which will be released in next version. Welcome to contribute!

Command

Currently, only one command is supported, which is used to manually trigger the synchronization of tasks from Obsidian to Calendar.

Sync with Calendar:

This command will fetch tasks with a startDate (i.e. 🛫 YYYY-MM-DD) in Obsidian.

Thanks to

The brilliant plugins:

obsidian-todoist

obsidian-tasks

obsidian-dataview

This plugin has borrowed a lot of valuable experience from the above plugins.

And I would also like to thank Wang Jiayu for accompanying me through the conception, design, and development of this plugin.

Support

Have you found the obsidian-sync-calendar plugin helpful and want to support it? I accept donations that will go towards future development efforts. I generally do not accept payment for bug bounties/feature requests, as financial incentives add stress/expectations which I want to avoid for a hobby project!