URLflows Next Up
LiveCalendar reminders pop up once and disappear behind your work. Next Up stays in view: a big countdown to your next meeting that changes colour — with an optional sound and flash — as the time gets close, and a Join button when it's time to go. It's a single HTML file you download and open in Chrome, and it reads Google Calendar through a small script in your own Google account, so your events never pass through anyone else. Private, free, forever.
What you get
- A big countdown to your next Google Calendar event, plus smaller timers for up to five events after it
- Three alerts — Get ready, Soon and Starting — at 30, 10 and 1 minute by default, each with its own colour and sound
- A Join meeting button that picks up the Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Webex link from the event
- A day agenda beside the timer, with a line at the current time — great for a time-blocking calendar
- Timer-only mode, full screen, or its own small window to keep beside your work
- Drag the header into any order, resize the timer card, and choose from more than 30 themes
- A separate window for each Google account, so work and personal calendars can sit side by side
How to get started
- Click Download for a personal account above — or Download for a work account if your calendar is on a Google Workspace work or school account.
- Move the file somewhere it can stay, such as your Documents folder, and double-click it to open it in Chrome. Bookmark it so it's one click away.
- Click Start setup and follow three steps: add a small read-only script to your Google account, connect with your personal key, and pick your calendars. It takes about 5 minutes, once.
- Want to look around first? Click Try a demo first to see it with sample events.
Updating: download the new version and replace the old file in the same place, with the same name — your settings stay.
Browser support: Next Up is a single HTML file, so there's no Chrome Web Store listing and nothing to install. Open it in Chrome or a Chromium-based browser (Edge, Brave, Opera, Arc, Vivaldi). Browsers that block third-party cookies, such as Brave and Safari, need the script's Who has access set to Anyone — the setup explains why that's safe.
Related help guides
Download and open Next Up
Pick the right file, keep it somewhere safe, and open it in Chrome.
Set up with a personal Google account
Connect your calendar in about 5 minutes: add the script, get your key, pick calendars.
Set up with a work (Google Workspace) account
The same setup, with the extra choices a company or school account may need.
What URLflows Next Up does
A quick tour of the countdown, alerts, agenda and join button.