Connect Google Calendar to Nynch

Updated May 2026

You'll learn how to: Connect Google Calendar so Nynch can track meetings, build prep briefings, and turn attendees into contacts automatically.

Time: 3 minutes.

Prereqs: A Google account with at least one calendar. If you already connected Gmail, this is a separate connection but follows almost the same flow.

Why this matters

Calendar is the closest thing Nynch has to a ground-truth signal of who you're actually engaging with. Email shows what you talked about; calendar shows that you actually met. That's why most automatic activity scoring, relationship strength, and rhythm timing depends on having calendar connected.

If you skip this, the Today screen's Meetings section stays empty and the AI meeting-prep feature has nothing to brief you on.

Step 1: Open Settings to Email & Calendar

In the left sidebar, click the gear icon for Settings. Click the Email & Calendar tab.

The Email & Calendar Integrations panel has four cards. The second one is Google Calendar with a calendar icon.

Description on the card: "Sync your Google Calendar events".

Step 2: Click Connect

On the right side of the Google Calendar card, click Connect.

The button shows a spinner while Nynch builds the OAuth URL. Your browser then navigates to Google's permissions screen.

Step 3: Approve the calendar permissions

Google asks Nynch to:

See and download any calendar you can access using your Google Calendar. Lets Nynch read your events (title, time, attendees, description, location).
See, edit, share, and permanently delete all the calendars you can access using Google Calendar. Used so Nynch can write events you create from Nynch (e.g. when you schedule a meeting from the Meetings tab).

What Nynch does with these:

Reads upcoming events to populate the Today screen's Meetings section and each contact's timeline.
Generates AI prep briefings the day before a scheduled meeting.
Writes calendar events when you schedule one from inside Nynch (always with your explicit confirmation).

What Nynch does NOT do:

It does not silently create or delete events.
It does not share your calendar with other Nynch users in your workspace.
It does not pull events from other people's calendars unless they've explicitly granted you access in Google Calendar.

Click Allow.

Step 4: Pick which calendars to sync

After OAuth, you return to Nynch and a Calendar Selection modal opens.

The modal lists every calendar your Google account has access to. For each calendar you see:

Calendar name (e.g. "Peter Hill", "Work", "Birthdays", "Holidays in United Kingdom").
The owner's email.
Whether it's read-only or read-write.
A toggle to include it in Nynch sync.

Typical pattern:

Tick your primary work calendar (the one labelled with your work email).
Tick any shared team calendars where you attend meetings.
Leave Birthdays, Holidays, and read-only public calendars off, unless you want them cluttering the Meetings tab.

Click Save at the bottom of the modal.

Step 5: Wait for the import

Nynch pulls in your historical events. An "Importing calendar history..." banner appears at the top of the Email & Calendar panel showing live progress (event count).

The default import range is the last 90 days backward and the next 90 days forward. You can change this from the setup wizard:

Click Configure on the Google Calendar card.
The Integration Setup Wizard opens with a date-range picker. Pick a wider or narrower range. Save.

Each calendar event Nynch imports:

Lands on the Today screen's Meetings section if it's today or tomorrow.
Auto-creates contact records for attendees who aren't already in your Nynch network.
Auto-links to existing contacts when their email matches.
Triggers AI prep generation the night before the meeting (so the briefing is ready when you wake up).

If something goes wrong

Symptom: "I clicked Connect and got 'permission denied' from Google." → Fix: Your Google Workspace admin has third-party calendar access blocked. Ask IT to allow Nynch on the calendar scope.
Symptom: "I connected but the Calendar Selection modal never appeared." → Fix: A popup blocker or fast back-button can dismiss the modal. Go back to Settings to Email & Calendar and click Configure on the Google Calendar card to reopen it.
Symptom: "I ticked my work calendar but no events imported." → Fix: Check the Configure modal's date range. If it's set to "last 7 days" and you have no events in that window, Nynch correctly finds zero events. Widen the range.
Symptom: "Card says Reconnect Required (red badge)." → Fix: OAuth token expired. Click Reconnect on the card.
Symptom: "Every meeting attendee got auto-created as a contact, even people I don't actually know." → Fix: Auto-create is on by default. Open the setup wizard and turn it off, then bulk-delete the unwanted auto-created contacts from the Contacts table (use the Filter: "Auto-created from calendar" if available, or filter by created date).
Symptom: "I deleted a calendar event in Google and it's still showing on Today's Meetings section." → Fix: Sync is roughly real-time but can lag by a few minutes. If it persists, click Configure then Re-sync now.
Symptom: "I have a personal Google account and a work account. Which should I connect?" → Fix: Connect whichever account has the calendar with your actual work meetings. You can connect Gmail and Calendar from different Google accounts if you need to.

Sync preferences (after connection)

Below the integrations panel, there's a Sync Preferences section with workspace-wide controls:

How often Nynch should re-check the calendar for new events.
Whether to auto-create contacts from attendees, or just link existing ones.
Whether to import private events (default: no).
Whether to import all-day events (default: yes).
Default visibility for events that originate in Nynch.

Tweak these once and they apply to every calendar going forward.

Connecting Outlook Calendar instead

If your meetings live in Outlook Calendar, connect that instead. The card sits at the bottom of the Email & Calendar Integrations panel. Same flow, different OAuth provider (Microsoft).

You can connect both Google and Outlook Calendar if you genuinely use both, but most workflows only need one.