Getting Started
What Next Up by URLflows does
Next Up by URLflows is a countdown to your next meeting. Leave it open beside your work, pop the timer out into a small window, put it on a second screen, or go full screen on a spare monitor, and you always know how long you have before the next thing starts.
A countdown you can read from across the room
The next event on your Google Calendar gets a big timer, with its title, its time, its location if it has one, and a line such as Starts in 26 minutes. A progress bar fills as it gets closer. If other events start at the same time, a note under the countdown says so. The browser tab shows the countdown too, so you can check it from another tab.
Underneath, Also coming up shows smaller timers for the events after it — up to five more, or none if you only want the next one.
It warns you as the time gets close
Three alerts — Get ready, Soon and Starting — switch the timer's colour at 30, 10 and 1 minute before the event. Each can play a sound and flash the page, and you choose the minutes, colours and sounds. See Set up alerts, colours and sounds.
One click to join
When an event has a Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Webex link in its location or description, a Join meeting button appears on the timer. The smaller timers get a Join button too. Events with a place get Open in Maps (Map on the smaller timers), and the Google Calendar button in the header opens your calendar in one click.
Your day at a glance
Pick a calendar for the Focus day agenda and today's events appear beside the timer as a timeline, with a line at the current time and the past dimmed. It works especially well with a time-blocking calendar.
Side cards show what's Happening now, what's Later, and what ended Earlier today. Pin any event to keep it on screen until you unpin it. See Choose calendars and use the day agenda.
When nothing is coming up
With a clear calendar, Next Up suggests ways to use the time — focus on what matters most, go heads-down, take a break, meditate, help a relationship blossom, go for a walk or hit the gym. The one that suits the time of day is marked Good right now.
One file, nothing to install
Next Up is a single HTML file. Download it, open it in Chrome, and it runs on your own computer — no extension, no app and no account to create. It connects to your calendar through a small read-only script in your own Google account, so your events go straight from Google to your browser. Private, free, forever.
Related guides
Start with Download and open Next Up, then get connected with Set up Next Up with a personal Google account or Set up Next Up with a work (Google Workspace) account, then tune the alerts in Set up alerts, colours and sounds.