Calendar Clarity

Color-code Google Calendar with unlimited colors that sync to your phone, group your labels, dim the noise, and focus with a timer.

Calm a cluttered Google Calendar. Give every color a name and a purpose, dim the events that don't matter, reshape your week without dragging events around, and drop into a focus session — all without leaving Google Calendar. Your colors live as native Google labels, so they follow you to the Google Calendar app on your phone. KEY FEATURES 🎨 Colors That Sync to Your Phone: Color-code your week with named, grouped categories. Because your colors are saved as native Google labels, they show up in the Google Calendar mobile app and on every device — not just your browser. To add a color, open an event in Google Calendar, click its color, and choose “Edit labels” — create any color there (pick one, use the eyedropper, or paste a hex code), then name and group it here so it's always one click away in the event menu. 🗂️ Group & Order Your Colors: Organize your labels into meaningful groups — Work, Personal, Health, whatever fits your life — so the right color is always at hand. Reorder your groups, and reorder the colors inside each group, so the colors you reach for most sit first — in the popup and in the right-click color menu on your calendar. Prefer more room to work? Open the same editor as a full page in its own tab. 📚 Built for Several Calendars: Personal, work, family — Calendar Clarity keeps the colors from each of your calendars, tells you which calendar each one came from, and lets you narrow the list to one calendar at a time. 🃏 Details on Hover (optional): Hover an event to see its category name and who's attending — at a glance, without opening it. 🗓️ Event Actions — reshape your week in one click (optional): Right-click any event to change your schedule without the drag-and-drop dance: • Reschedule — move an event to a different day and time. • Postpone — push it later by a preset amount. • Extend — lengthen or shorten an event. • Duplicate — copy an event to another day. • Split — break a long block into several focused sessions that tile the original time exactly. • Spread — automatically distribute a backlog of events across the open time in your week. Event Actions make real changes to your Google Calendar and run only when you trigger them. The first time you use one, you'll sign in with Google to grant calendar access — requests go straight from your browser to Google. 🌫️ Event Visibility: Dim the events that don't matter — declined meetings, all-day clutter, low-priority blocks — so the day you actually care about stands out at a glance. 🧘 Focus Sessions: Start a focus timer from any event, then settle in with a guided breathing pacer (Box, Coherent, Calm, and 4·7·8), a guided meditation that scales to your session, and calming ambient soundscapes (Rain, Ocean, Café, Pink noise, Brown noise) — or bring your own Spotify playlist. Includes focus-mode dimming, gentle completion chimes, optional break suggestions, and session history. ⚠️🚨 GOOD TO KNOW 🚨⚠️ 📱 Colors sync through Google: Calendar Clarity runs in Chrome on your computer, but because your colors become native Google labels, they appear in the Google Calendar apps on your phone and tablet automatically. 🎨 How to add a color: Colors are created in Google Calendar's own “Labels” dialog. Open any event, click its color, and choose “Edit labels” — pick a color, use the eyedropper, or paste a hex code, then Save. Your color then shows up in Calendar Clarity, where you name it and sort it into a group. Because it's a real Google label, it syncs to your phone automatically. 📚 Labels belong to a calendar, not to you: That's Google's own rule — a label created on your work calendar exists only there, which is why the same name can appear under two different calendars. Calendar Clarity shows you which is which. To pick up a calendar's colors, open the color menu on one of its events once. 🔐 Event Actions use your Google Calendar (optional): These features are off until you turn them on. The first time you use one, you sign in with Google to grant calendar access, and it asks only for what it needs — permission to act on your events. Those requests go directly from your browser to Google and never pass through our servers. You can revoke access anytime at myaccount.google.com/permissions. 🛠️ Works alongside Google Calendar's layout: This extension works with Google Calendar's current design. If Google changes something and a feature looks off, reach out at ali@humanquest.net or visit https://humanquest.net and we'll fix it fast. 🖌️ Changes apply to existing events: An event needs to be saved before colors can be applied to it. 🙏 We're here to help: Run into a problem or have a request? Reach out at ali@humanquest.net — we read every message and fix things quickly. 📋 VERSION UPDATES 📋 v1.6.0 — Every calendar you manage, and check-offs that stick • Fixed: checking off an event no longer un-checks an older one. If you use Tickable tasks to mark work done, there was a hidden ceiling — around 42 checked events on a shared calendar — and past it every new check silently deleted the oldest one for good, in front of you. That ceiling is gone: your history now holds thousands and simply ages out after 90 days. If you mark jobs done day after day, this is the fix. • Fixed: checked-off events stay checked in Month view. The tick and strikethrough used to appear only in Day and Week, so switching to Month made a whole month of work look untouched. Nothing was ever lost — it just wasn't being drawn. • Fixed: if you manage more than one Google Calendar, Calendar Clarity now keeps the colors from all of them. Until now, opening the color menu on one calendar quietly discarded everything it had learned about the others — so your groups only ever held the last calendar you touched. This is the fix if Calendar Clarity has only ever seemed to work with one of your calendars. • Fixed: “Create a new color in Google…” is always reachable. It used to sit at the very bottom of a list containing every ungrouped label, below the edge of the window on a busy account, with no way to scroll down to it. It's now the first item in the menu, and the list scrolls. • Two colors with the same name are no longer a guessing game. Google stores labels per calendar, so the same name can honestly appear more than once — three labels called “Learning” is normal. When a name shows up more than once, Calendar Clarity now tells you which calendar each one comes from. • Moving a color between groups keeps it tied to the right label. If two of your calendars use the same shade, a moved color could quietly start claiming the other calendar's label too. It now stays attached to the exact label you picked. • Organize your colors on a full page instead of the small popup — click the ⧉ button in the Colors tab, or right-click the Calendar Clarity icon and choose Options. Same groups, same colors, just room to work. • See which calendar each color belongs to, and narrow the list to one calendar at a time. Calendars are named the way Google names them in your sidebar. • After updating, a calendar's groups may look empty until you open the color menu on one of its events once — that's Calendar Clarity relearning the labels it had been discarding. It only needs to happen once per calendar. • Note: check-offs are stored on the computer you're using, so they don't travel between devices. Your colors still sync everywhere through Google. v1.5.0 — Rename or recolor a label in Google and your groups just follow • Your color groups now track Google's own labels directly, so renaming a label, changing its color, or doing both at once no longer disturbs your groups — the name and shade simply update in place, wherever you look. • Fixes groups that were stuck showing old names, and colors that reappeared as "ungrouped" after you changed their shade in Google. Existing groups repair themselves the next time you open Custom Colors — nothing to redo by hand. • If you updated to 1.4.1 and your color names still looked wrong, this is the release that actually fixes it. Sorry about that one. v1.4.1 — Color names read from Google • Rename a color label in Google Calendar and the new name now shows up everywhere in Calendar Clarity. Previously the Custom Colors manager kept displaying the name a color had when you first grouped it, while the right-click color menu on your calendar showed the current one — the same color, under two different names. • Your groups, order and colors are left exactly as you arranged them — only the names and shades catch up with Google. • Changes made in Google show up even if the Custom Colors window is already open. v1.4.0 — Put your colors in the order you use them • Reorder the colors inside a group, not just the groups — click the ‹ › arrows on any color to move it earlier or later, so the colors you reach for most sit first. The order carries over to the right-click color menu on your calendar. • Remove any color from a group — including built-in Google colors that previously had no way to be taken out. • A tidier right-click menu — Event Actions now live under a single “Event Actions” entry that opens the full list (Postpone, Reschedule, Extend, Duplicate, Split, Auto-arrange), so your calendar's right-click menu stays clean. Turn grouping off anytime from the Actions tab. • Fixed a freeze when coloring a repeating event — the “this event or all events?” prompt was hiding behind its own dimmed backdrop, leaving the screen blurred and unclickable. It now appears properly and takes your choice. v1.3.1 — Custom colors apply reliably from the color menu • Custom colors now apply reliably from the right-click color menu — picking your color always sticks to the event (fixes cases where the color menu opened but the color wouldn't apply). v1.3.0 — Cleaner colors + reliable calendar access • Your colors stay exactly as you set them — colors that used to snap to the nearest default, or disappear when two looked alike, now keep their true shade. • Colors come straight from Google — create any color in Google Calendar's own color labels (open an event's color → “Edit labels”), then group, name, and reorder it here. Every color is a real Google label that syncs to your phone and can't go missing. • Event Actions connect reliably — turn on calendar access once, then reschedule, postpone, extend, duplicate, split, or spread any event. • A calmer popup — the Actions tab opens instantly and shows clear progress while it connects. v1.2.0 — Reshape your week without the drag-and-drop • Event Actions — right-click any event to reschedule, postpone, extend, duplicate, split a long block into focused sessions, or spread a backlog across the open time in your week. • Event Actions are optional and make real changes to your Google Calendar; you grant calendar access with Google's own sign-in the first time you use one, and requests go straight from your browser to Google. • Hover an event to see its category and attendees at a glance. • Cleaner disconnect — turning Event Actions off now fully revokes calendar access and updates every open tab instantly. v1.1.0 — Colors that sync to your phone • Your colors now live as native Google labels — unlimited exact colors that show in the Google Calendar mobile app and on every device. • All your colors stay in the menu — categories with many similar shades no longer collapse; every color is selectable again. • Group your labels into your own categories, and optionally show label names right on your events. v1.0.0 — Calendar Clarity • Renamed to Calendar Clarity — a refreshed identity built around focus and clarity. • 🧘 Focus Sessions — breathing pacers (Box, Coherent, Calm, 4·7·8), guided meditation, and ambient soundscapes (Rain, Ocean, Café, Pink & Brown noise), plus bring-your-own Spotify. • 🌫️ Event Visibility — dim the events that don't matter so your real priorities stand out. • Refreshed popup with light and dark themes. v0.2.4 — Gmail Sidebar Support • Custom colors now appear in Gmail's sidebar calendar — click the Calendar icon in Gmail and your event colors should show up. v0.2.3 — Storage & Color Reliability • Fixed custom colors reverting on page refresh, potential storage sync loops, and event-viewer dialog coloring. v0.2.1 — Focus Timer ⏱️ Built-in productivity timer for calendar events — start from any event's right-click menu, adapts to remaining/full/custom time, pleasant completion sounds, focus history, break suggestions, and focus-mode dimming. v0.1.0 — Task Color Support • Customize colors for Google Tasks — right-click any task and choose from your custom palette (timed tasks only).