actualNoteContentPart: # 2 ways to add colors to your Calendar
  Your Calendar needn't be a monochrome bore 🥱. Amplenote lets you customize the colors of your calendar entries in 2 ways:
  By changing the color of the associated External Calendar (eg. Google, Apple or Outlook);
  By customizing the color of your Amplenote tags.
  Let's go over each of these.
  
  
  
  
  
  # Task coloring from Amplenote tags
  For Amplenote-hosted tasks, Calendar Mode will pick up a color based on the tags assigned to the source note of that task. To learn more about tag colors, check out [Tag settings: coloring, moving, renaming, deleting and merging#Tag coloring](/help/tag_renaming_reorganizing#Tag_coloring) . 
  
  If the source note has **no tags**, the task will receive the default color: 
  
  
  
  If the source note has a **single tag** applied, the task will receive the color of that tag:
  
  | ![](https://images.amplenote.com/ef8c307c-f9ca-11ed-9bd0-aa1e76b1d5f5/4e6b6788-eb65-4e15-bc3a-52b2b587b438.png)  | ![](https://images.amplenote.com/ef8c307c-f9ca-11ed-9bd0-aa1e76b1d5f5/3d88f645-5460-4435-b492-87272aece0b3.png)  | 
  
  If the source note has **multiple tags** applied, Amplenote chooses [the first]()  tag as the one that determines the color. For any given note, you can change the tag that determines the color of the calendar tasks in 2 ways:
  
  | ![](https://images.amplenote.com/ef8c307c-f9ca-11ed-9bd0-aa1e76b1d5f5/5287af97-d390-401e-8261-c9e00b8cb65c.png)  | ![](https://images.amplenote.com/ef8c307c-f9ca-11ed-9bd0-aa1e76b1d5f5/bd630785-d558-41a7-826e-8e8a3f85cb9a.png)  | 
  
  # Event coloring from external calendars
  By default, when you [connect an external Google, Outlook, or Apple calendar to be synced](/help/connect_a_calendar) , we will request from your calendar provider the list of colors familiar to you from your existing calendar. In most cases, these colors are used to set apart events of different types. 
  
  The color provided by Google, Microsoft or Apple is then used when displaying their events on your Amplenote calendar:
  
  
  Events imported from external providers retain their background color
  
  
  If you change the color on your external calendar, it will change on Amplenote whenever you next tab into the calendar.
  
  ## Customize external event colors
  You don't have to use the default colors that Google, Outlook or Apple report to Amplenote. When you visit your Task Calendar Settings page, you can click the arrow next to your external calendar to manually choose the color to be used for events from that calendar:
  
  
  Uncheck the box to pick a new color for your external calendar events
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  headers: # 2 ways to add colors to your Calendar
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  2 ways to add colors to your Calendar
  Your Calendar needn't be a monochrome bore 🥱. Amplenote lets you customize the colors of your calendar entries in 2 ways:
  By changing the color of the associated External Calendar (eg. Google, Apple or Outlook);
  By customizing the color of your Amplenote tags.
  Let's go over each of these. 
  Task coloring from Amplenote tags
  For Amplenote-hosted tasks, Calendar Mode will pick up a color based on the tags assigned to the source note of that task. To learn more about tag colors, check out [Tag settings: coloring, moving, renaming, deleting and merging#Tag coloring](/help/tag_renaming_reorganizing#Tag_coloring)
   . If the source note has no tags
  , the task will receive the default color: If the source note has a single tag
   applied, the task will receive the color of that tag: | [Image: OCR text for https://images.amplenote.com/ef8c307c-f9ca-11ed-9bd0-aa1e76b1d5f5/4e6b6788-eb65-4e15-bc3a-52b2b587b438.png]
    | [Image: OCR text for https://images.amplenote.com/ef8c307c-f9ca-11ed-9bd0-aa1e76b1d5f5/3d88f645-5460-4435-b492-87272aece0b3.png]
    | If the source note has multiple tags
   applied, Amplenote chooses [the first]()
    tag as the one that determines the color. For any given note, you can change the tag that determines the color of the calendar tasks in 2 ways: | [Image: OCR text for https://images.amplenote.com/ef8c307c-f9ca-11ed-9bd0-aa1e76b1d5f5/5287af97-d390-401e-8261-c9e00b8cb65c.png]
    | [Image: OCR text for https://images.amplenote.com/ef8c307c-f9ca-11ed-9bd0-aa1e76b1d5f5/bd630785-d558-41a7-826e-8e8a3f85cb9a.png]
    | 
  Event coloring from external calendars
  By default, when you [connect an external Google, Outlook, or Apple calendar to be synced](/help/connect_a_calendar)
   , we will request from your calendar provider the list of colors familiar to you from your existing calendar. In most cases, these colors are used to set apart events of different types. The color provided by Google, Microsoft or Apple is then used when displaying their events on your Amplenote calendar: Events imported from external providers retain their background color If you change the color on your external calendar, it will change on Amplenote whenever you next tab into the calendar. 
  Customize external event colors
  You don't have to use the default colors that Google, Outlook or Apple report to Amplenote. When you visit your Task Calendar Settings page, you can click the arrow next to your external calendar to manually choose the color to be used for events from that calendar: Uncheck the box to pick a new color for your external calendar events
noteTitle: Color external and internal calendar events and tasks