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Book time from the chat

Connect Google Calendar once, then ask what is on your week and book what is missing — with an approval card before anything is created.

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Free. The account the sign-up button creates can do everything on this page, and connecting Google Calendar is listed on every plan. Each message you send spends one from your plan's message allowance, so the example here is two messages — the question and the booking request.

Torki can read your Google Calendar and put things on it, once you have connected it in the Toolkit. The reading happens in an ordinary chat: you ask, and Torki writes back what is on your week. The creating is gated — the event stops at an approval card that you press before anything reaches your calendar.

How it works, step by step

1

Connect Google Calendar once

Click Toolkit in the sidebar — it opens on Connectors — and select Google Workspace. Its services are listed under Services & permissions, each with its own button; press Connect on Google Calendar, described as Read your schedule and create events. The button reads Connecting… and hands you to Google's own sign-in and consent screen, which asks to see your calendar, to create events, and to read the email address on your Google account. Torki is granted an access token, never your Google password. You land back on the Toolkit with the toast Google Calendar connected. Settings → Connectors still reaches the same connection.

2

Ask what is on this week

In a normal chat, ask what's on my calendar this week?. Torki reads the week and writes its own summary of your events. The summary is the part Torki produces, and it sits below a card headed Google Calendar — This Week that carries Google's own calendar view and an Open in Calendar button in its header. The collapsible Thinking Process timeline shows a row for the calendar lookup while it runs.

3

Ask for the event

Ask book a design review tomorrow at 3pm for 45 minutes — the title, day, start time and length all reach Torki, and the time is read in your browser's timezone. Nothing is created yet: the reply carries an approval card with the Google logo, the action Create calendar event, the line Wants to run this in Google Workspace, and what it will do, create the calendar event “Design review” on tomorrow at 15:00. Its buttons are Decline, Always allow and Allow once.

4

Allow it, and the event is created

Press Allow once and the button reads Working while it runs, then the card is replaced by one headed Event Created: Design review with an Open in Calendar button that opens your Google Calendar. Always allow does the same and stops Torki asking before it creates calendar events again; you can change that later in Toolkit › Permissions. Press Decline instead and the card is replaced by the line Cancelled — nothing was changed. — the request was never sent, so there is nothing to undo.

5

Remove access when you want

Go back to the Toolkit and open Google Workspace. With the calendar connected, the header reads 1 of 3 connected and the Google Calendar row carries Disconnect. Press Disconnect and a confirmation asks Disconnect Google Calendar? over the line Torki deletes its stored token for this service and loses access. You can reconnect anytime.; confirming does exactly that. Drive and Sheets keep connections of their own, so disconnecting the calendar leaves them as they were.

Before you start

The things people hit on their first try, so you do not have to find them the hard way.

  • Say "today", "tomorrow" or a weekday

    The day of a new event is worked out from today, tomorrow or a weekday name, and there is no way to hand it a calendar date. A day it cannot work out becomes today, at the hour you asked for, and naming the weekday it already is books a week ahead. The approval line repeats the day in words rather than the date it settled on, so it will not flag this for you.

  • The read is always the current week

    Whatever range you name, the calendar read covers the current Monday-to-Monday week, and the card is headed Google Calendar — This Week either way. Ask about a single day and you still get the week, with Torki's summary drawn from those same events.

  • The approval line does not show everything

    The card names the event, the day and the start time. The length you asked for is not printed on it, and neither is the calendar it lands on — events are always created on your account's primary Google Calendar.

  • Reading and creating, nothing else

    Torki can read the week and create an event. It cannot add guests or send invitations, so an event is created with you as the only participant, and it cannot change or cancel an event that already exists.

  • Drive and Sheets need their own Connect

    Tools are offered per provider rather than per row, so with Google Calendar connected Torki will also offer to create a Google Sheet or a Google Doc. Those attempts stop with a message pointing you to Toolkit → Connectors until you have pressed Connect on the Google Drive & Docs or Google Sheets row as well.

  • Inside a Project, say "my calendar"

    A chat anchored to a project holds the connected-account tools back unless you say the account is yours. my calendar reaches it; the word calendar on its own does not.

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