Have Claude in Chrome make one or more of these changes for you

Jeff Su recently sent around three Google Calendar settings he requires for every new hire, pulled from his newsletter. Below is what each setting does and how to make the change.

You can do them by hand — or open the Claude in Chrome side panel and ask it to.

1

Let guests reschedule without asking

By default, someone who books a meeting with you can’t move it — so when the time doesn’t work, you’re stuck in a thread of “can you shift this?” Make “Modify event” the default guest permission and they can just drag it.

How to do it
  1. Open Google Calendar settings (the gear, top right) and go to Event settings.
  2. Under Default guest permissions, choose Modify event.

Keep it off for big all-hands events you don’t want fifty people rearranging — you can override it per event.

2

Stop spam invites from auto-adding

Out of the box, Google adds an event from anyone who invites you, including the “you’ve won a free iPad” crowd. Switch it so only people you know can land on your calendar.

How to do it
  1. In Calendar settings, go to Event settings.
  2. Under “Add invitations to my calendar,” change From everyone to Only if the sender is known.
3

Put colleagues’ timezones in their names

If you work across timezones, the fastest fix is to add the zone right into a colleague’s display name in your calendar — “Aakash (PST)” — so you never do the GMT math mid-scheduling.

How to do it
  1. In the Calendar sidebar under Other calendars, find the colleague and open their settings (three dots → Settings).
  2. Note the timezone shown on that page.
  3. In the Name field, add it after their name, like “Aakash (PST).” Use an intuitive label (EST, London) rather than a raw GMT offset.