Connect the tools you already use, from Google or Microsoft 365. Your meetings sit beside your planned work, your files attach anywhere, and the contacts you care about are on your phone. Each connection is yours alone. Connecting doesn't give anyone else in your organisation access to your account.
Before you start
- Owners, admins, managers and members can connect integrations. Guests can't.
- You connect integrations from your own account settings, not organisation settings.
- You can use Google for some things and Microsoft for others. You can also use Google in one organisation and Microsoft in another.
Open your integrations
- Select your name at the bottom of the sidebar.
- Choose Manage account.
- Open Integrations.
You'll see a tile for each integration that's available, with a tick once it's connected. Choose a tile to open its settings, and All integrations to go back. Connecting takes you to Google or Microsoft to approve access, then back to that integration.
How many accounts you can connect
You can connect up to 3 calendar accounts and 3 contacts accounts, counting Google and Microsoft together. For example, 2 Google calendars and 1 Outlook calendar. When you reach the limit, the other tile says so, and Add account is turned off until you disconnect one. Google Drive and OneDrive have no limit.
Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar
See your meetings on the Planner beside your planned tasks, with a quick way to join them, including Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls.
Connect
- Open Google Calendar or Outlook Calendar and choose Connect. You can also connect from the Planner: choose Connect calendar, then the calendar.
- Choose Show connected accounts to see your calendars, and use the switch beside each one to show or hide it on your Planner.
You can connect more than one account, such as work and personal. Choose Add account to connect another. Meetings from every calendar you show appear on your Planner together, whichever company they're with.
Sync your planned tasks
- Under Planned tasks in your calendar, pick the Account to use. It can be a Google or an Outlook account.
- Choose Turn on.
53° adds a calendar called "53 Degrees" to that account and puts your planned tasks in it. Move or rename a task there and it changes in 53° too. Delete the event and the task comes off your Planner. Dates from Mission Control cycles you can see also appear in this calendar. These only go one way: edits to them in your calendar are overwritten.
Each organisation syncs its planned tasks to one account. If a Google account was connected before task sync existed, choose Reconnect account first to give 53° permission to write to it.
To stop, choose Turn off. The 53 Degrees calendar is removed, and your tasks stay planned in 53°.
Disconnect
Choose Disconnect beside the account, then Disconnect to confirm. Its calendars leave your Planner. If it held your task sync, the 53 Degrees calendar is removed too. That needs 53° to still have access to the account. If access has expired or you've removed it, check your calendar afterwards and delete the 53 Degrees calendar yourself.
Google Drive and OneDrive
Add files from Google Drive or OneDrive anywhere you attach files in 53°. You can connect both.
Connect: open Google Drive or OneDrive and choose Connect. Then use Add from Google Drive or Add from OneDrive wherever you upload files. OneDrive opens a file browser where you can open folders, search, see files shared with you, and tick the files to add.
What syncs: nothing is copied. A file you add is a link, and it opens in Google Drive or OneDrive. It doesn't count towards your organisation's file storage.
Disconnect: choose Disconnect, then Disconnect to confirm. You can't add new files from that account until you connect again. Files you've already added stay, and still open where they live.
Google Contacts and Outlook Contacts
Keep the contacts you choose in your Google Contacts or Outlook, so they're on your phone.
Connect
- Open Google Contacts or Outlook Contacts and choose Connect.
- If you've connected more than one account, choose the Account for this organisation. It can be a Google or an Outlook account.
- For each lifecycle (Lead, Prospect, Customer, Churned, VIP, Employee, Supplier, Other), choose Don't sync, Assigned to me or All people.
- Choose Save.
What syncs: it goes one way, from 53° to your address book. Changes you make in 53° arrive within a minute. Edits made there to a synced contact are overwritten. Choose Resync now to send everything again. In Outlook, your tags show as categories and the lifecycle goes in the contact's notes.
What you sync, and to which account, is set per organisation. Each organisation syncs to one account. Choosing a different account moves the synced contacts there, even from Google to Outlook.
Disconnect: choose Disconnect, then Disconnect to confirm. Contacts synced from 53° are removed from that account, with the labels the sync made, in every organisation that syncs to it. Contacts you added yourself aren't touched. This needs 53° to still have access to the account. If that access has expired or you've removed it, the contacts stay there, so check your address book afterwards and delete anything you don't want to keep.
Good to know
- All people is for owners, admins and managers. Members can sync the people assigned to them.
- If Google or Microsoft stops accepting a connection, its tile says Needs reconnecting. Open it, choose Reconnect and approve access again.
- Connecting a calendar, contacts or files is separate from signing in with Google or Microsoft. Disconnecting one never removes a way to sign in.
- If your role changes to one that can't use integrations, your connections for that organisation stop. See Members and roles.
- Integrations in organisation settings holds your organisation's email and marketing email. They're set up once for everyone.