Google Calendar Gray Weekends

Google Calendar Gray Weekends

Turn weekend days light gray in Google Calendar

What is Google Calendar Gray Weekends?
'Google Calendar Gray Weekends' is a simple yet convenient Chrome extension designed to specifically highlight weekends in your Google Calendar by setting the background color to light gray. Currently supports US/English calendar format with 'Saturday' and 'Sunday' hardcoded. Source code can be accessed on GitHub, where bugs can also be reported.
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Stats
Users: 2,000+
Rating: 4.63 (19)
Version: 0.1.1 (Last updated: 2019-04-29)
Creation date: 2019-04-29
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 6.93K
URLs: Website
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Summary

Sets the background color of weekend days to light gray in Google calendar

Very simple, and currently US/English only (it has "Saturday" and "Sunday" hard-coded). Source is at https://github.com/msteffen/gcal-gray-weekends (you can report bugs as well)

User reviews
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Pros
  • Works as promised
  • Simple and easy to use
  • Prevents accidentally scheduling tasks on weekends
  • Helpful for preventing weekday tasks from being scheduled on weekends
Cons
  • Doesn't work for all operating systems (specifically mentioned as not working for Mac)
Most mentioned
  • Simple and effective
  • Exactly what I needed
  • Does its job
Recent reviews
Hit add to chrome, click refresh on my open calendar, weekends are now gray. 5/5. I went from "I wish my weekends were a different color" to a google search to this working in under 60 seconds.
by Josh Watkins Josh Watkins, 2024-03-15

Does its job
by Jean Cruz Jean Cruz, 2021-10-06

At last, a Google trick that actually helps to prevent adding tasks/events to Saturdays and Sunday that should be on a weekday. What a relief!
by Richard Dominguez Richard Dominguez, 2024-02-13
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Safety
Risk impact

Google Calendar Gray Weekends is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Google Calendar Gray Weekends has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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