Brint E. Kriebel

Gordon Smith

A few weeks ago, we submitted for Discord bot verification. At the moment, we are still waiting to hear back.

Discord Verification Pending

The new Chronicle Bot event reminders are ready and combine nicely with the existing Google Calendar reminders.

Reminders Times Added to Notifiers

We did it! It took a few rounds of emails and some website tweaks, but we are official verified by Google.

Google Calendar API and OAuth Verified 🥳🎉

Chronicle Bot started as a Discord bot that my friends needed to keep our events organized. Then I got a better response than I expected.

Creating a Google Calendar Discord Bot

Several of our features are exiting beta and becoming publicly available. Event Feeds and iCal Connections are now available for you to use.

Event Feeds and iCal Connections Now Publicly Available

Discord has added a new Create Events permissions which is causing our Event Sync feature to throw insufficient permission errors. Here is what we know and how to fix the problem.

New Discord Event Sync Permission

Message templates now support Event Summaries, allowing you to include info like event descriptions in your Discord event summary messages.

Summary Templates for Discord Events

We've made some updates to how Activity Messages work and added a new search range setting to help control your notifications.

Improved Activity Messages and Search Range Settings

Our number one user requested feature is ready, you can now sync Discord Events out to your Google Calendar.

Syncing Discord Events to Google Calendar

Here is a quick summary of the minor features, updates, and tweaks we've made over the last few months.

Summary of Recent Updates

We have improved our Google Calendar event handler to eliminate unnecessary updates and prevent waves of messages from recurring events.

Updates and Recurring Event Messages

Fully customize your Discord event reminders with Chronicle Bot's new template system and shiny web interface for editing formatted Discord messages.

Customizable Reminder Templates

Customize your Event Summary messages with titles and descriptions.

New Event Summary Customizations

Customize your Discord reminder message colors from within Google Calendar.

New Reminder Message Colors

Customize your Discord events, reminders, and summaries by including our new front matter section in your event descriptions.

Discord Event Customization Using Front Matter

We've made some new changes to how messages sent to Discord announcement channels work and added a new Auto Publish feature for announcement messages.

Discord Announcement Channel Updates and Auto Publish

Chronicle Bot now supports calendar Event Filters, allowing you to select or remove events from being processed based on their titles.

Calendar Event Filters Added

Chronicle Bot now supports assigning cover images to your Discord Events from Google Calendar by adding an image URL to your event description.

Discord Event Cover Images

Localization of Chronicle Bot channel messages, reminders, and event summaries has been added with support for German, French, and Spanish.

Localization of Channel Messages

The new Event Link setting customizes where your reminder and summary title links point to. Now you can link to a Discord Event or a Google Meet.

New Event Link Customization Setting

Discord event sync now supports creating Voice Channel events from Google Calendar. Just add a little text to the Location field of your event.

Discord Voice Channel Events Now Supported

With a lot of minor updates and fixes lately, we haven't had a chance to write everything up. Here is a quick summary of what has changed recently.

You can now select from two new event summary message layouts. If you have a lot of members in different time zones, this newer alternative may be preferable.

New Event Summary Style

Events added to your Google Calendar can now be automatically created in Discord Events. Changes to events are synced to Discord in real-time.

Create Discord Events from Your Google Calendar

Calendar event summaries can be used to provide daily or weekly lists of upcoming events, automatically sent to your Discord channel.

Automatic Google Event Summaries in Discord

We've just added support for multiple Google Calendars. You can now organize your events in multiple calendars and pull everything into Discord.

Multiple Calendar Support Added

Our Discord verification is complete and the server installation cap has been lifted! Add the bot to your Discord server and give it a try.

Updates on Chronicle Bot