- Gemini’s latest trick creates new Calendar events based on the details you discuss in emails.
- Access requires an AI Premium plan or Google Workspace account.
- In addition to this new “Add to Calendar” button, Gmail can use Gemini to create Calendar events through its side panel.
Is there anything better than chatting with someone about making plans, and then they take the initiative to send you a Calendar invite? It’s not like it’s difficult to add events to your own Google Calendar, but it’s just so blissfully frictionless when someone else sets everything up on our behalf. If you’re a fan of that kind of hands-off approach to managing your Calendar, you might just find yourself signing up for a Google AI Premium plan, as the company announces a new Gemini-powered Calendar tool for Gmail.
Over the course of the past year, Google’s been dialing up Gemini’s presence across its apps and services, and that’s already meant paying some attention to the interaction between Gmail and Calendar. This past fall, we saw Google bring new Calendar-related functionality to Gmail’s Gemini side panel, letting you have Gemini set up new Calendar events on your behalf. That was a start, but now Google’s helping to make things even more seamless.