If you frequently add the same kind of event (birthday, doctor’s appointment, meeting, etc.) but it doesn’t occur regularly so you can’t set recurrence to it, you can use event templates to speed up adding new events instead.

To create a template:

1. Go to Settings > Calendar > Event Templates.
2. Click on Add Template below the list of existing templates.
3. Fill out the event details.
4. Click Save.

Alternatively, you can create a new template directly from the event editor > Templates > Create New Event Template.

So you created an event in your Vivaldi Calendar, but still missed it because you didn’t check your Calendar at the right time? To prevent this from happening again, set reminders for your events. You can add one manually for each event or you can set default reminders for all events.

To set default reminders:

1. Go to Settings > Calendar > Calendar Editing.
2. Choose how much before you should be reminded of upcoming events.

You can set separate reminders for regular and all-day events.

In Vivaldi Calendar’s day and week view, each hour is further divided into 15-minute increments, so you can easily set the start time of an event to something else than the beginning of the hour by just clicking at the right place.

To make the increments longer:

1. Go to Settings > Calendar > Calendar Display > Time Increments.
2. And choose between:
   • 15 minutes
   • 30 minutes
   • 1 hour.

You can also choose, whether you want the dividing lines between these smaller timeslots to be visible (like on the screenshot below) or not by toggling on or off the setting for “Show Only 1 Hour Grid Lines”.

Especially useful with Vivaldi Calendar’s Minimal View, but handy in all views, event property icons for links, location, reminders and recurrence let you know at a glance what type of additional information the event includes.

To enable the icons:

1. Go to Settings > Calendar > Calendar Display.
2. Enable “Show Event Property Icons”.

Web calendars, for example local public holidays or your favorite sports team’s match calendar, are a good way to follow events that you don’t want to add manually yourself, but would still like to know about. Web calendar events are read-only, meaning you can view them, but only the calendar owner can edit the events.

To subscribe to a web calendar from a website:

1. Look for a Subscribe or similarly named button or link and click on it. Vivaldi Calendar will detect the action and offer to import the events.
2. Select the calendar you want to import the calendar events to or create a new one.
3. Click Import.

To manually add a web calendar:

1. Go to Settings > Calendar > Calendar Accounts.
2. Add a new account and select Web Calendar.
3. Click Continue.
4. Give the Calendar account a name.
5. Enter the calendar’s link (make sure the URL ends with .ics).
6. If the web calendar has limited access, enter your username and password. In case it’s a public calendar leave the username and password fields empty.
7. Click Add Account.
8. Select the calendars you want to sync with Vivaldi Calendar, which one’s to hide and which one is the account’s default calendar.
9. Click Done.

One of the great things about the Calendar being integrated in the browser is that you can skip a bunch of steps when creating a new event. Say you’re browsing the web or reading your emails and want to create an event or a task from what you see. All you need to do is:

1. Highlight the text you want as the event title.
2. Right-click on the selected text to open the context menu.
3. Click on Add as Calendar Event.
4. Fill in the rest of the event’s information.
5. Click Add Event.

Now you have a new event in your calendar in no time and you can just carry on what you were doing.