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We recommend booking a 15-minute onboarding call with our co-founder Chloe to set up your Honeycomb calendar. If you’d rather do it on your own, you can find comprehensive self-serve instructions below.

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How to set up your calendar in Honeycomb yourself

If you want to set up your calendar yourself, navigate to the “Setup your smart calendar“ guide box at the top of your Calendar tab in the app to get started. The app will walk you through three steps:

Import your school’s calendar: this gives Honeycomb a baseline version of your school’s calendar, but it isn’t yet “smart.”
Forward a school email to Worker Bee, Honeycomb’s AI assistant, so that it can be added to your calendar and you can see the magic for yourself.
Set up auto email forwarding so that you don’t have to remember to forward every school email to Worker Bee.

If you need help with any of these steps, you can check out our FAQ below.

How to upload your school’s calendar to Honeycomb

What

Please share your school’s calendar with us. It might be on paper, a PDF, or a Google Cal.

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Important: if your school’s digital calendar is noisy –– e.g., the school includes every grade’s events in the general calendar –– don’t sync it! Instead, find your school’s basic academic calendar (usually a PDF, they look like this) and upload it. Then, go find a date-packed newsletter from your principal that outlines the upcoming quarter, and forward that to Worker Bee to fill in key dates. It’s critical that your Honeycomb calendar not be noisy, otherwise it won’t do its job of helping coordinate parents.

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Why

This serves as your baseline school calendar. Honeycomb keeps it updated with new events and reminders that come via email from your school.

How

If your school uses a paper or PDF calendar

If your school uses a Google calendar

…and you don’t already subscribe to it on your own calendar

…and you do subscribe to it on your own calendar

If your school uses iCal

How to make your calendar smart with auto-forwarding