How to use the S Planner app on Samsung Galaxy devices
The S Planner app is featured on the Galaxy S4, S3 and the Note 2 , as well as other Samsung Android phones. Here’s how to get started with it.
Android benefits from having a great selection of calendar apps on the Google Play Store, but many are complicated and take a good amount of time to use and get working properly. Later Samsung devices benefit from having their very own calendar and memo service already on their device. S Planner, as it’s known, is packed with features to help keep your life in order, but still remains relatively simple to set up and use efficiently.
One of the main benefits of the app is being able to sync it between other Samsung specific apps, including the S Memo and S Voice apps. This combination of different features makes S Planner an essential app that you need to explore and start using a lot more of if you’re lucky enough to have it pre-installed on your device.
In this tutorial we’ll show you how to get started with the S Planner app by explaining the simple process of creating an event, and adding locations to these events. We’ll also explore the variety of calendars you can switch between while using the app, as well as how you can use S Memo to help create reminders for you within S Planner. Follow our steps and you’ll be up and running with one of Samsung’s best apps in no time.
Also read – S Planner Tips, Tricks and Troubleshooting
Navigating the homescreen
When you first open up the S Planner app you’ll be taken to a basic calendar with no entries on it. Any events that you create will be listed at the bottom.
Create an event
Press the ‘+’ button on the top of the homescreen, this will allow you to create a new event. Add a title to the event and set a time for it too.
Add a locaiton
Press on the Google Maps symbol next to the Location sub-menu. You’ll now be able to add a location to your event. Press Save once completed.
Edit an event
While you’re back on the homescreen, long press on one of your previously created events to be able to edit a few of the basic details of it.
Switch calendars
Press the calendars tab at the top of the homescreen. You can now select the calendars you want to see, and thus switch between them.
Import from S Memo
Use S Memo to create visual reminders for your events, and import them to the event as you create it within S Planner.
Really useful. Thank you. Now, can you do one for the Note’s Browser under ICS.
Hi
I have noticed that you have skirted around the creation of repeat events. Is it possible to create a bi-weekly repeating events?
Jack
Can some one please let me know how to add new calendars to the s.planner. I need numerous coloured calendars but I just can’t figure out how to do it.
Thanks!!
Same question as Jack. How do you set Bi-weekly reminders? Lots of us get paid Bi-weekly.
I seem to be hitting a snag, and am not sure how to get around it. When entering some events in S planer, either via google calander, or on my S3 s planner, the event does not appear on the time line but in a tab at the top of the day/week, what am i doing wrong
Adrian
Same question as Jack and Bruce – really frustrating lack of planning that one…. when will they release a fix for it do you think
I have these fractions that appear at the first day of the week on every line on my s planner calendar. Also appears on the day that I’m on. What are they and how do I get rid of them? Eg 6/8 for first Sunday of the month, then 6/15 for second Sunday etc. Thought at first they were the says of the year from beginning and end IEEE 2 Jan would be 2/364, but the numbers were all off.
Nice informative article. Does s planner tasks sync with Google account?
How can I remove an appointment on S Planner
Jack, Bruce, Steve, as far as I can tell, there is no on-tablet fix anticipated for alternating weeks. However, you can use a pc to go into your google mail account, click on calendar, and create alternating week events. My tab automatically syncs and adds these as created. Not elegant, but it works. Haven’t tried to do this via internet on the tab yet, may be possible.
My wife and I mutually share calendars. We decided it was not a good idea so on GMail I created a ‘common’ calendar, and removed access rights to each others calendar from GMail, so that we cannot see each others calendar. The problem is, I cannot seem to remove each others calendar from SPlanner, i.e., we still see have access to each other’s calendar. How do I permanently remove a calendar that I have added?
How do i get s planner onto my galaxy s2?
When an appointment is for a short time only, or the entry is relatively long, the day-view doesn’t show the entry, only a blue field. I assume that if the time-slots can be changed the texts would show. Is it possible to change the time slots in S-Planner other than the default 1/2 hour, say to 15 minutes? And if so, how?
When I create an event on Google Calendar (on my computer) it syncs nicely to my S Planner. But when I create an event on my S Planner it does not sync back to Google Calendar. Why? Incidentally, in S Planner the description of the event is in a strange fluorescent fuzzy font (strange description, I know). This makes me think I’ve done something wrong in creating the event in S Planner.
MY CALENDER seems to be the default when I use VOICE COMMAND (which is what I mostly use) Does anyone know where can I find the settings to have a NOTIFICATION alert be made automatically for MY CALENDER when I make a new event from VOICE COMMAND?
Thanks, jeff
I’m using the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 with S Planner on it.
I’ve disabled syncing to my Google account on my tab. Then I was adding entries to the S Planner, IE Event, Meeting @ 6pm etc etc. I’d click on the day on the calendar, and add an event. They had a vertical blue line to the left of the title (EG, | Lunch with Barry). The line looks identical to the | My Calendar option on S Planner.
Anyways, I then added another event. I didn’t change any options, but suddenly when I saved it, instead of the vertical blue line, the title was enclosed in a blue box. Also, the option for repeating the event when I clicked yearly, went from “for 50 years” to just down to 10 years, so this is another sign something changed.
How do I get rid of the blue box, what does it mean, and why did it appear?? : (
This is a great tool, but my husband is partially-sighted and cannot see the blue writing/highlighting in his calendar. If if it is not possible to change the font color would somebody please let me know and we can find a different app for him.
Galaxy S3 4G running Jelly Bean.
I use S Planner and enter appointments using TASKS and it works OKish however if I need to reschedule times etc it doesn’t order the appointments in an adjusted time line.
For instance if I have 4 appointments entered 1 hour apart and need to swap the 4th appointment with the 2nd appointment it leaves them in the same order which is stupid IMO.
Anyone else have/had this problem and is there a fix/solution??.
Some of these ‘quirks’ are almost driving me back to my Blackberry, I certainly would never consider Galaxy S3 4G as replacements for Blackberry for staff.
I have the Galaxy because my carrier gave it to me outright (Free Not attached to a Plan)and I’m really trying to love it.
I would also like to know if it is possible to change font/highlight colour on S planner on Galaxy s3. I have seen pictures of s planner on line with different colours but I can’t seen how to change them. Some entries I have added seem to be in dark blue and some are in in light blue but I don’t know why. Any help would be much appreciated.
It would be extremely useful and very much appreciated by all of us if the author would answer the questions asked in the comments.
I’ve been trying to add an account to my calendar but keep getting an error message. ‘Setup could not finish’ Failed to search exchange server automatically. Enter settings manually.
So when I click edit details it asks for domain\username. Ive tried using hotmail.com & hotmail.co.uk as the domain but it seems to be wrong.
My g/f has successfully added her calendar to her phone but mine isn’t working.
Yes, yes, yes. Galaxy s3 – change colour on your gmail calendar S-Planner.
I figured it out.
1) open your gmail calendar on the web.
2) Below “My calendars” (to the left)you probably have calendar with your own name.
–> click on the arrow (hold the marker over your name – the arrow appears)
3) Voila- choose your colour.
4) Continue with “tasks” if you want to change colurs there as well.
(Soory for my english….not my language)
How can you delete an appoitment in S planner on a galaxy s 3?
I would like to turn off email notifications when using the S Planner on my Galaxy S3. How do I do that? I don’t want all my meeting reminders to pop up as email.
I needed to thank you for this very good read!!
I certainly enjoyed every little bit of it. I have you book marked to look at new stuff you post…
DOUG
Tu dois avoir sur ton smartphone Samsung S calendrier et agenda google impérativement.
Sinon les données que tu saisies sur S calendrier ne sont pas transmises sur ton agenda goggle PC.
Elles le sont grâce à google agenda sur ton mobile.Je réussie très bien avec le Galaxy note 2.
Avant ça marchait mais google ne veut plus que S calendrier se synchronise directement.
je leur ai écrit que S calendrier est bien mieux que leur google agenda mobile.
Ils ont une version payante…
Hi, S planner doesn’t accommodate for Australian holidays… if someone knows how to set this up please let me know I have done hours of research and found nothing to help me.
Thanks
@Tim
You can add Australian holidays from your Gmail calendar on the web, first find the calendar
1. Click the down-arrow next to Other calendars
2. Select Browse Interesting Calendars
3. Find Australian holidays and click subscribe on the right
After your phone syncs, you should see the holidays on S Planner
Hi I spent ages entering different events/tasks on the S planner. Everything was fine for a couple of months and just today I noticed that all my entries have disappered!! The only ones I can see are the last 2 feinted entries from the previous month ie: 30/31st December and then everything has disappeared in January etc… Can anyone tell me why this has happened and what to do to retrieve them all
Hi, any help with the following would be appreciated. I mniw that reoccuring appointments can be set up in the S planner, however I need the same appointment or more like a reminder to alarm me every 3 days. I could only do this through Siri with the I phone but cant seem to get anywhere on s planner or with the s voice.
There’s a number of drawbacks on this planner. When I create a meeting (that will last for one hour) it first reserve the whole day. When I after a save edit my meeting and put in a starting time it automaticly sets end of meeting next day. I never have meetings the whole day. The multicalendar I have on my phone (android 2.3.5) works much better. Here I can edit the starting end ending time when I make my input the first time.
How do I disable the checkbox “whole day”?
It also activates the reminder with a default of 15 min before the meeting. How do I set this to no reminder as a default?
Why does s planner delete my past events after 30 days. Can I change this so it does not delete any
of my past events at all
How long will old entries stay on my calendar? I want them to stay indefinitely. I know there is a problem with Google sync not syncing entries over 30 day, so l am only using the My Calendar. However, old calendar entries are disappearing. This is a critical issue.
Can you invite people to an event using s-planner? For instance if Im having a meeting and want to invite 4 staff members can I do this using this app?
I’m hoping somebody can help me… I’ve been looking at just about every site that I know of in regards to this question but I can’t find the answer. Here is my dilemma… When I first used S-Planner, in the month view it would have a stripe across the day of the month that there was an event on and it had the words… i.e. Lunch with mom… But now, on the same day it only has a +1 and no stripe or words. It isn’t much but I use it for my job schedule which is sporadic so it helps to be able to see the entire month at once. I would appreciate any help you can give me. Thanks in advance…
Dave
Hoping for some help. Seems odd, but I don’t seem to be able to access the s.planner whilst on the galaxy s 3 phone. What am I doing wrong? Would appreciate some help on this.
Hi, Hope someone can help me, I have a galaxy note 2 phablet/and a 10.2 tablet. I use s planner to schedule my appointments(on my note 2 while out and about) but seem unable to sync the calender updates to my tablet? Help Please.
Cheers,
Sonya
that is a 10.1 tablet… typo
How do I add an Attendee to an appointment on S Planner? I have the Note II.
My wife has an Iphone and we need to invite each other to events.
Can you invite people to an event using s-planner? For instance if Im having a meeting and want to invite 4 staff members can I do this using this app?
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How do I set the ringtone of splanner to ring continuously until I either stop it or snooze it. I’ve tried all the available tones but my phone only buzz once.
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I have a Samsung Tablet Note 10.1 and Samsung Galaxy s3 mobile. I originally had my s planner synced. Now my tablet is not sycing with entries I make via my mobile. Please help!
Can I access splanner remotely from other PC’s etc?
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on my planner all the birthdayscoming up are all down as the day before I don’t know how this has happened how can I rectify it? and how do I delete an even?
On my planner every time i create an event and move to another day or month and come back to the event I had created, it’s gone. Why could this be happening?
I’ve just switched over from an iphone to the Samsung S4 and now I can’t sync my calendar with my friend’s iOS calendar (ie send/accept invites). Is there anyway to do this?
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When entering an event on Outlook (syncronized with the S3) that span over midnight(e.g. starts at 22:00 on day 1, ends at 07:00 the next day) I see it as a continueing event shown on the time line (e.g. 22:00-midnigh on day 1, midnight – 07:00 on the next day).
However, on the S planner of S3, the event does not appear on the time line in each of the days but rather as a tab at the top of the day view in both days, just as if it was an “all day event”. Clicking on the tab shows the actual details as were entered.
How can I see such events on time line of the S planner, too?
On S3 s Planner, when I travel to another time zone and let the S3 ajust the time automatically, all the events are shown correctly but the time indicator (red line) in day view shows at the home time. Alarms notifications go off at the home time, instead of the actual time at the new time zone.
How can I adjust this to the actual time?