For some time now, Vivaldi, living up to the roadmap with which it was born, is more than a browser, a complete productivity suite for the Internet that includes integrated applications such as an email manager, contacts, calendar, tasks, news reader … Well, today we focus on the calendar and on one of the most common options that, despite this, is not very much in sight.
In other words, what is anticipated in the headline: how to import iCalendar and ICS calendars in Vivaldi. And it is that Vivaldi Calendar is an excellent calendar application, with many customization preferences, as befits a browser of its nature. However, there is an option that is difficult to find and is one of the basics in any calendar application worth its salt. After all, the beauty of using this tool is having everything unified.
Thus, although there will be those who can use Vivaldi Calendar as a local application, it is most likely that it will be used as an external calendar manager and not all services allow its integration into third-party applications with address compatibility. There are those that only transmit the information outwards, as is the case. Have you tried importing calendars in iCalendar or ICS formats into Vivaldi?
In the calendar settings in Vivaldi you can easily add local calendars or online calendars from Vivaldi.net, from Google or in standard CalDAV and web formats, which should in principle cover the needs of many users. However, there is no trace to import calendars in iCalendar (from Apple’s iCal, although it is well spread) and ICS formats.
Luckily, the option not only exists, but it is well implemented, despite not being where one would expect, which is in the aforementioned section of the calendar settings. On the contrary, you have to open the general menu of the application, the Vivaldi menu and go to “File> Import from applications or files«. That would be the method you would use to import data from other browsers by hand.
Instead, open the dropdown and look at the last two options: “Calendar events (ICS file)” and “Calendar events from a remote server (iCal)”; and you choose the one that corresponds, obviously. Then there’s one more step to upload the file or paste the URL, assign it to an existing calendar or create a new one and you’re done.
Without a doubt, an option that could be much more visible than it is.
