Chances are, you don’t use your Google Calendar for just one aspect of your life. For instance, if you’re a corporate employee, you’re juggling one calendar filled with meetings and seminars and another dotted with personal errands. Or if you’re a mom running a cake business, you have a calendar for your cake pickup times and a separate one for your kid’s soccer practice schedule. It’s chaotic to have all your tasks and events jumbled on one calendar. It’s best to segregate them into their own distinct view. This way, your entire calendar is organized and you can easily change your calendar views based on what group of events (like work meetings or personal to-dos) you want to focus on at any given moment.
A simple way to go about this is to make a new calendar within your existing Google account. It’s a Google Calendar feature you might not know about, but it can come in handy when organizing your schedule. Here’s the step-by-step on how to set up a new calendar:
- Sign in to Google Calendar on your desktop.
- Go to the “Other calendars” section on the left-side panel.
- Click the plus sign next to it.
- Select “Create new calendar” from the menu.
- Name your calendar.
- (Optional) Type in a description for a bit more clarity.
- (Optional) Adjust the time zone if needed.
- Hit the “Create calendar” button.
Your brand-new calendar will now show up under “My calendars” on the left-side panel. To display only that calendar, you can either deselect all your other calendars or hover over the calendar, click the menu, and select Display this only.
