In Google Calendar with the new design, how to set default event reminder time

Question

By default, I am now getting calendar event notifications from newly created events 10 minutes before the start time. I'd like to change this to be 5 minutes before the start time by default because otherwise I will start working on something else in that 10-minute span and forget about the meeting.

There used to be a global setting for this in the old Google Calendar.

In the "new Google Calendar", I cannot find the setting. Does it still exist? Here's what I see under settings > event settings.

The options under the "notifications" field are:

• Off
• Browser Notifications
• Interruptive Alerts

Answer 1

It appears to be a per calendar setting now.

• Click the action menu (three vertical dots) next to your calendar name in the left side bar OR go to Settings then click the calendar you want to change
• Go to Event notifications
• Change your default notification times

Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to be something you can change globally. A bit of a bummer for people like us who have a lot of custom and shared calendars.