NotePlanNotePlan
Nov 20

Change event colors (originally "match event's color from google agenda API")

I rely heavily on color coding for my different meetings and tasks on a day and so my google calendar looks like a rainbow :-) But whenever in Noteplan all events have the same color, which makes it super hard to parse, which means that i have to keep both google calendar and note plan open. I noticed that Google Calendar actually returns the event's color in their API: https://developers.google.com/calendar/api/v3/reference/even… So it would be nice to color the event accordingly on Noteplan! That would for sure make Noteplan my main used app throughout the day, every day. Right now i spend most of my time in Google Calendar since it's so hard to organize and make sense of my calendar in Noteplan (because of the single colors). NOTE: this is not the color "by calendar" (i.e. work calendar is blue, personal is orange, etc). I'm talking about different meetings (events) having different colors WITHIN the same calendar. Thanks!
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Nov 28, 2023

Thanks for sharing this idea! We are using Apples API for calendar events and there’s no comp attribute for events unfortunately. Only the calendar color. A solution is to split your tasks types across different calendars maybe.

Nov 28, 2023

Eduard Metzger: oh bummer. Thanks but that’s not a solution for me: I have to keep everything on my work calendar so others can’t book on top of a preexisting meeting. Otherwise I’d have to share all my N calendars with all my coworkers which of course would never work… What if Noteplan provides that coloring option itself? Iuyt would keep a map between event id and event color separately from apple APIs. Would that work?

Nov 29, 2023

Luiz Filho : Yes, that could work. The color could be saved in the Notes of the event, but you would have to set the colors every time again, or how do you manage this currently?

Nov 30, 2023

Eduard Metzger: many of my meetings are recurring, so when I set the color once, it stays forever. Then regular adhoc meetings usually just stay with the default color. And rarely I change the color of one of those if needs extra attention to catch my eye. If we set once for a recurring meeting, do you think noteplan would remember forever too?

Dec 2, 2023

Luiz Filho : Yes, it if the color can be saved in the Notes field of the event for example, then it can work. We can change the title of this request and see if more users want something like this, it might be an edge case.