Connect Apple Calendar for suggestions
To connect your calendar for suggestions, you need at least a Plus subscription.
Connect your Apple Calendar to Keeping and you get time entry suggestions based on your appointments. Keeping reads your calendar through the link of a public calendar in iCloud. This article covers the Calendar app on your Mac.
This only works with calendars stored in iCloud. Calendars under On My Mac can't be shared. Is your calendar hosted by Google or Outlook? Then follow the article for Google Calendar or Outlook.
Step 1: Make your calendar public and copy the link
- Open the Calendar app and make sure the list of calendars is visible in the left column.
- Right-click the calendar you want to connect and choose Share Calendar.
- Tick Public Calendar and click away.
- Right-click the calendar again and choose Sharing Settings.
- Copy the link shown under Public Calendar. It starts with
webcal://.
Step 2: Add the calendar in Keeping
- In Keeping, go to My account > Calendars.
- Click Add a calendar.
- Paste the copied link into the Calendar URL field and give the calendar a name, such as Work. A link starting with
webcal://works fine. - Under Use for, choose which organisations get suggestions from this calendar.
- Save the calendar.
Keeping then reads your calendar. Under Status in the overview you can see how many appointments were found and when the calendar was last updated.
Keep the link to yourself
A public calendar can be viewed by anyone who has the link. The link is long and random, so nobody will stumble upon it, but don't share it with anyone. Want to stop sharing? Untick Public Calendar. Keeping can then no longer read the calendar.
How often is the calendar updated?
Keeping fetches your calendar automatically in the background. Just added an appointment and want to see it right away? Choose Sync now for the calendar in My account > Calendars.
Want it the other way around, with your Keeping time entries in your Apple Calendar? Read Time registrations in your Apple Calendar.
