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Calendar bees and meeting reminders
A Calendar bee shows your day at a glance, counts down to your next meeting and opens the call in one click. Calendar bees only read your calendars; they never change them.
Which Calendar bee?
| Bee | Shows | Sign-in |
|---|---|---|
| Calendar | Every calendar in the Mac’s Calendar app, including Google, iCloud and Exchange calendars added in System Settings → Internet Accounts. For many people, this one bee is enough. | None. Allow Calendars access. |
| Google Calendar | Your Google calendars, with Google Calendar’s look, read through the Mac’s Calendar app. | None. Allow Calendars access. |
| Outlook Calendar | One Microsoft account’s calendars. | Sign in with Microsoft. |
1. Add a Calendar or Google Calendar bee
- Click the hexagon in the menu bar → Add a Bee → Calendar (or Google Calendar).
- Click Allow Calendars Access, then Allow Full Access when macOS asks.
- Google Calendar only: if the Mac doesn’t have your Google account yet, the bee shows how to add it:
- Click Open Internet Accounts…, click Add Account…, choose Google and sign in in the window that opens.
- Make sure Calendars is turned on for that account.
- Come back to Waggle. There’s nothing to click: your Google calendars appear in the bee by themselves within a minute.
What success looks like: the bee shows your events within a couple of seconds. If it doesn’t, click I’ve allowed it.
Clicked Don’t Allow by mistake? Click Open Privacy Settings… in the bee and turn Waggle on under Privacy & Security → Calendars (Full Access).
A Google Calendar bee starts with only calendars from your Google accounts. To see every calendar on the Mac, click Show all my Mac’s calendars instead on the setup screen, or untick Only calendars from Google accounts in the bee’s ✓ list.
Or add an Outlook Calendar bee
- Click the hexagon in the menu bar → Add a Bee → Outlook Calendar.
- Click Sign in with Microsoft… and choose the account in your browser.
What success looks like: this week’s events appear. Work accounts may need IT to approve calendar access first. If so, ask them, and please don’t try to get round it.
2. Find your way around
- Day and 2 Days: an hour-by-hour timeline with a red line at the time now.
- Month: the month’s days, with the chosen day’s events listed below. Double-click a day to open it in Day.
- Agenda: the next 14 days, a day at a time.
- ‹ and › move; Today brings you back; ↻ checks for changes now.
3. Choose which calendars show
- Click the ✓ list button at the top of the bee.
- Tick the calendars you want in this bee.
You can do the same from Settings → Bees → Calendars on the bee’s row. What success looks like: only the ticked calendars’ events show. Your choice syncs to your other Macs with Settings sync.
4. Join a meeting
- Click the event (or use the Join button in Agenda).
- For Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, Webex, GoTo, Whereby, Chime, BlueJeans and Jitsi meetings, click Join.
What success looks like: the meeting opens. Esc closes the event details.
To add an event, click + at the top, or double-click an empty time in Day or 2 Days. Google Calendar or Outlook opens on the web, or the Calendar app opens. For invites, Accept, Maybe and Decline open the invite there, so you can reply.
5. Set meeting reminders
A closed Calendar bee shows in 10m, counting down, when your next meeting starts within 15 minutes, and now while it’s on. Before each meeting, it plays its sound and wiggles once.
- Settings → Behaviour → Calendar reminders.
- Choose 10 minutes before, 5 minutes before or Off.
What success looks like: before your next meeting, the bee wiggles and plays its sound at the time you chose. Reminders aren’t macOS notifications: they need Waggle running and your Mac awake. All-day events don’t count.
After the trial, a Calendar bee counts as one of your bees, like any other. On Free Bee, it can be your one free bee.