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# Google Calendar: Tame Your Notifications
- URL: https://www.jeffsu.org/productivity-ping-149/
- Published: 2024-02-27T13:00:47.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-05T12:56:19.000Z
- Description: #149
- Author: Jeff
- Tags: #newsletter, Google Calendar

*(you can easily* [*filter previous issues*](https://www.jeffsu.org/filter-previous-editions-by-app/) *by application!)*

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**Hi friends -** I know Tuesdays are usually reserved for Workspace Editions (tips relevant for Business Workspace users) but these 2 personal use cases are just too good not to share immediately!

## Filter out useless Calendar notifications (updated)

Previously, I recommended filtering out all “Accepted” notifications from Google Calendar (since you only need to know when someone has declined a calendar invite):

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2024/02/image-19.png)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2024/02/image-20.png)

But a colleague at Google (thanks Jun!) suggested excluding “Propose new time” notifications since you still need to respond to those.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2024/02/image-21.png)

I took this a step further to exclude “Tentatively Accepted” as well as “Propose new time” notifications:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2024/02/image-22.png)

💡

****Pro tip:** You can [download this Gmail filter here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hQLi6%5Fw-djqqutlXUJ6JZ70iHiBsrM19/view?usp=drive%5Flink&ref=jeffsu.org) and upload it to your Gmail account directly.

**Speak peak:** I have a completely free Workspace Toolkit in the works where you can make a copy of my favorite Workspace templates in the spirit of “Copy once, Enjoy forever” - Stay tuned!

### How to upload Gmail filter

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2024/02/image-24.png)

## Share Google Drive files with Calendar attendees

Instead of having to open a Google Calendar invite every time you’d like to attach a Google Docs/Sheets/Slides, I recommend getting into the habit of sharing to the Calendar event directly from the document:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2024/02/image-25.png)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2024/02/image-26.png)

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