Digital planners are not cloud based and do not sync or link with digital calendars like Google Calendar or iCal. You will need to add all items in just like in a regular planner. Digital planning does allow you to easily copy/paste recurring events much faster than re-writing them though! Other notes and workarounds: You can add links to outside calendar events directly into your digital planner via the hack in this video If you are using your digital planner on multiple devices with the same apps & operating systems (ex: GoodNotes on iPad and iPhone), any updates will automatically across multiple devices!