Skip to content

External calendars

External calendars let AuroraDocs show outside events beside your native tasks and daily notes without turning them into editable Aurora tasks. Imported events are read-only overlays in Calendar, so your source calendar remains the system of record.

Where calendar connections live

Open Settings -> Preferences -> Calendar connections.

From there you can add or manage supported calendar sources, refresh mirrored events, and control which calendars appear in Aurora's Calendar page.

Supported sources

SourceHow it connectsNotes
iCal / .ics feedPaste a feed URLGood for public or tokenized read-only calendars. AuroraCloud fetches the feed so browser CORS does not block it.
CalDAVServer URL, username, password or app passwordAurora discovers calendars on the account and mirrors selected calendars into the workspace.
Google CalendarOAuth sign-in when the AuroraCloud server is configuredAurora stores the connected email and mirrors discovered calendars.
Microsoft 365OAuth sign-in when the AuroraCloud server is configuredUses the same mirrored-account flow as Google Calendar.
Calendar bridge importsConnector-backed calendar.upsert eventsUsed by integrations that push stable external calendar records into AuroraCloud.

What appears in Calendar

Open Calendar from the sidebar. External events appear separately from Aurora tasks:

  • they keep provider/source styling
  • they can be hidden per provider or source
  • clicking an event opens a read-only detail view
  • Open in source takes you back to the original calendar when the provider supplied a link

External events do not open the normal task editor from Calendar. If you need an editable Aurora task, create a native task and link it to the relevant page or event context.

Refreshing and reconnecting

Use Refresh on a connection to pull the latest calendars and events. For CalDAV, refresh also rediscovers calendars on the account, so new remote calendars can appear without removing and reconnecting the account.

Folder-backed metadata can restore connection labels, URLs, workspace/source toggles, and visibility preferences, but not secrets. After restoring or moving a workspace, password and OAuth-backed calendar accounts may show a needs reconnect state until you reconnect credentials on that device.

Privacy and limits

  • Calendar credentials are not written into the Local Files folder format.
  • OAuth providers appear only when the AuroraCloud server has the required provider credentials configured.
  • Calendar overlays are currently read-only from the Calendar page.
  • Recurring Aurora tasks are separate from external recurring events; Aurora renders each through its own task or overlay path.

Built with AuroraDocs.