See Ourday in your calendar

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Ourday keeps your family’s calendar current from texts, emails, and the calendars you’ve connected. If you’d also like all of that showing up in the calendar app you already live in, ask for your calendar link. You add it once, in Google, Outlook, Apple Calendar, or anything that takes a calendar by web address, and Ourday’s events appear there from then on.

What appears is exactly what you already see in briefings and answers: your own things in full, family things in full, and other people’s private time as a simple line like “Vince has something scheduled”. Nothing the privacy rules hide from you ever rides your link. A kid’s link shows only what that kid already sees.

Three flavors

Tell Ourday which one you want, in plain words:

  • Everything. The whole family picture, as you see it. This is what most people want, and it’s the one Ourday suggests.
  • Just your own things. All your calendars and appointments combined, and nothing else. If you juggle work, personal, and business calendars, this turns Ourday into the one place it’s all collated.
  • The family’s, minus yours. Everyone else’s picture without your own items, for viewing alongside a calendar you already keep. That way nothing shows up twice.

You can also say “everything except my work calendar” and get exactly that. If one of your calendars already feeds into Ourday, Ourday will point out when your own events would show up twice and offer to leave them out.

Two honest things to know

Calendar apps check on their own schedule. Google, Outlook, and Apple decide when to re-read a subscribed link, typically a few times a day, and Google sometimes only once a day. New items always land in your briefings and answers right away; they can take a while longer to appear in your calendar app. That delay is the app’s, not Ourday’s, and nobody can push past it.

The link works like a key. Anyone holding your link can see that calendar, so treat it like something private. Send it straight into your calendar app and nowhere else. If it ever ends up somewhere it shouldn’t, say “I need a new calendar link” and the old one stops working on the spot.

  • “I need a new calendar link” gets you a fresh one and retires the old one.
  • “Turn off my calendar link” switches it off entirely.
  • Parents can set up a kid’s link too: “set up Jax’s calendar link”.

The steps for your app

Going the other direction, bringing a calendar you already keep INTO Ourday, is covered at Connecting a calendar you already keep.