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Customizing the color and type for synced calendars
Customizing the color and type for synced calendars

You can customize the calendar type and color for your synced source calendars

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Written by Henry Shapiro
Updated over a week ago

You can customize the type of a calendar that you've synced to Reclaim as well as set a color for all events that come from a source calendar. This is especially useful if you have multiple separate calendars you want to identify by color.


Change the Calendar Type

The Calendar Type determines what kinds of events Reclaim will look for and color-code using your color coding settings. Reclaim offers three Calendar Types for your synced calendars — Personal, Work, and Travel:

  • Personal: Reclaim will categorize and color-code 'Personal' and 'Travel & Logistics' events.

  • Work: Reclaim will categorize and color-code 'External Meeting', 'One-on-One', 'Solo Work', and 'Travel & Logistics' events.

  • Travel: Reclaim will categorize and color-code 'Travel & Logistics' events.

To change the Calendar Type of a sync policy

  1. Navigate to the Calendar Sync page.

  2. Click on the sync policy you want to modify.

  3. Select Personal, Work, or Travel.

  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Save changes.

Refer to Categories of events for more details.


Override the color for synced events

Sometimes, you may want to just assign a single color to all events from a synced calendar to make it easy to distinguish which calendar each synced event belongs. For example, if you have three source calendars that are all syncing to a single destination calendar, you may want to set each to be a different color.

When overriding the color for a synced calendar, Reclaim will bypass your default set color settings, and instead will set all events from the source calendar using the selected single color you pick in the sync policy settings.

Note: Reclaim will still use the Calendar Type to classify events, which means that your Reclaim stats will accurately reflect how your time is split across different categories.

To override the color for a synced calendar

  1. Navigate to Calendar Sync.

  2. Click on the sync policy you want to modify.

  3. Scroll to the section labeled Color.

  4. Click Choose color.

  5. Select a color for synced copies from this calendar.

  6. Scroll down and click Save changes.


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