š Welcome to Reclaim Learning Labs! Learn by doing with these guided exercises ā so log in to your Planner and letās get started.
By syncing events from your personal (or other) calendars, youāll ensure your primary calendar always reflects your true availability. Enabling Calendar Sync is optional, but highly recommended.
Create a Calendar Sync
Click Calendar Sync on the Reclaim left navigation menu.
Click Start synching your calendars, youāll see a pop up with Source and Destination.
In the upper left corner click + Add Account
Choose Google or Outlook and log in to your account
The added account will now appear in the Source > Select account dropdown
Then click Select Calendar and choose the calendar that you want to sync over
In the Destination section, select your Work email account
Then select the destination calendar in the Select Calendar dropdown
Visibility: Choose either āPersonal Commitment for allā or āBusy for allā for how much context you want others to see on your synced events.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Start Syncing button
How to block time on your work calendar for a personal commitment
From your personal calendar, create an event called āTest Eventā. Make note of the day and time of the event
Navigate to your work calendar and validate that thereās an event that corresponds to the date and time of the personal event. Click on the event and validate the it contains the following text in the description: āThis event was created by Reclaimā
(Google users) To view the name of the personal event, click on a personal event on your work calendar and then click on the Reclaim Add-on. The name of the event will appear in the top portion of the add-on UI.
Reschedule the event on your personal calendar to a new day and time
Verify that the scheduled day and time of the synched event on your work calendar matches that of your personal calendar
From your personal calendar, remove the event named āTest Eventā