Peak Calendar

How do I connect Google Calendar?

Under Settings → Integrations → Google Calendar, connect your Google account. Your calendars then appear on the left in Peak Calendar; you choose which ones are visible and whether Peak may create, change or delete events there.

1. 01Open Settings → Integrations → Google Calendar and connect your account.
2. 02Open Peak Calendar: Peak reads your calendars and syncs the events.
3. 03On the left under “Calendars”, show and hide calendars; the slider icon next to each one sets what Peak may do.

How do I add an event quickly?

Type it as one sentence at the top, or click the spot in the calendar where it belongs and start typing. Peak understands day, time, duration, time ranges and repetitions and shows what it understood before saving.

1. 01“Call Alex tomorrow 2pm 30 min” → tomorrow 2:00–2:30 pm.
2. 02“Focus Google Ads Tue 9–11” → focus block on Tuesday.
3. 03“Finance review every first Monday at 10” → series.
4. 04“Milestone launch Oct 15” → all-day milestone.
5. 05C puts the cursor in the field, F starts a focus block.

How do I move an event or schedule a task?

In Day and Week view, drag an event to a new spot or drag its bottom edge to make it longer. With the keyboard: focus the event; Alt + up/down arrow moves it by 15 minutes, Alt + left/right by one day, Alt + Shift + arrow changes its length. Drag tasks without a date from “Unscheduled” into the calendar, or tap “Schedule” for the next free slot.

1. 01Every move can be reversed with “Undo”.
2. 02In a series, dragging moves only this one event.
3. 03Events from Google go to Google first; if Google refuses, everything stays as it was.

How do I change just one event in a series?

Open the event, change it and, when saving, choose “Only this one”, “This and all following” or “All”. Peak asks the same when you delete. For Google series, “Only this one” works, and for the whole series you can change title, location and description; you change the times of the whole series in Google.

Where do I set working hours, buffers and a second time zone?

Via the slider icon at the top of Peak Calendar. Working hours are the same ones Peak Booking uses to offer free times. Peak keeps buffers before and after events free for “Reserve focus”, “Schedule” and “Plan day”. Your own time zone comes from Settings → Profile.

How do I accept or decline an invitation?

Open the event. For an invitation from Google that's still waiting for your reply, choose “Accept”, “Maybe” or “Decline” at the top. If the event has a meeting link, “Join Meet”, “Join Zoom” or “Join Teams” appears next to it.

How do I create an event with a Google Meet link?

When creating it, choose a Google calendar under “Calendar” instead of “Only in Peak”. Under “Location, attendees, details”, turn on “Create Google Meet link” and enter attendees as email addresses. Google sends the invitations.

1. 01Create or open an event.
2. 02“Calendar”: Google · your calendar.
3. 03Expand “Location, attendees, details”.
4. 04Turn on “Create Google Meet link”, separate attendees with commas, save.

How does Peak schedule my tasks without a time into the day?

Under “Today”, above the schedule, it says “Plan day: … tasks without a time”. Peak suggests times from your free slots, most important task first. “Accept all” schedules them, “Discard” leaves everything as it was.

How do I protect free time for focused work?

Under “Today”, Peak shows your largest free slot, for example “Your morning has 2 h free”. “Add focus block” puts a focus block of up to two hours there. Or type “Focus proposal Tue 9–11” at the top, or press F.

How do I find an event in the calendar?

Press / or choose “Search calendar”. The search covers title, location, attendees, calendar and links in the loaded weeks. For everything else, use ⌘K.

How do I link an event to a task, a project or a person?

Open the event and choose “+ Link”. Search for the task, project, person or company. The event then appears there too.

Are tasks in the calendar the same as in Peak Task, Day and Board?

Yes. A task exists once. The calendar shows it on its scheduled day (as a block if it has a time), otherwise on its due date. If you move or complete it here, it's moved or completed everywhere. Routines are recurring tasks from Peak Task; the next one is created when you check off the current one. Bookings from Peak Booking and scheduled sales sessions appear too; you change them where they come from.

What does “After the event” under Today do?

After an event with other people, Peak quietly asks what came out of it. “Task” creates a task in Peak Task and links it to the event, “Note” opens the outcome field, “No action” closes the question. Preparation and outcome notes stay in Peak and never go to Google.

What views does Peak Calendar have?

“Today” shows your day with schedule, focus and hints. There's also “Day”, “Week”, “Month” and “Agenda”. Keys: T for Today, D, W, M and A for the others; J and K or the arrow keys page through.

Does Peak also delete a Google event in Google?

Yes, if you confirm. For events from Google, Peak asks “Also delete in Google?”; if the event has attendees, they're notified. Peak only deletes in calendars where you've allowed “Peak may delete”.

An event from Google doesn't appear in Peak Calendar.

Peak syncs when you open the calendar (at most every two minutes per calendar). Check that the calendar is shown on the left and that “Sync” is on in its settings; “Now” starts syncing immediately.

1. 01On the left under “Calendars”, show the Google calendar.
2. 02Slider icon next to it: “Sync” must be on.
3. 03Press “Now” at the bottom left.
4. 04If it says “Reconnect”, the Google connection has expired: reconnect it under Integrations.

“Peak isn't allowed to change anything in this calendar.” What does that mean?

You haven't allowed Peak to make changes to this Google calendar. On the left under “Calendars”, open the permissions with the slider icon and turn on “Peak may create”, “Peak may edit” or “Peak may delete”. If it says “Read-only in Google”, you only have read access in Google itself; that can only be changed in Google.

“Peak doesn't understand that yet.” for a recurrence.

Peak didn't recognize your recurrence. Write it more simply, for example “daily”, “weekdays”, “every Tue and Thu”, “every 2 weeks” or “every last Friday of the month”. Below the field, Peak shows what it understood.