Setting up a calendar sync used to ask for a bit of faith. You picked two calendars, chose a direction and your privacy settings, pressed Create, and then went to look at your calendar to see what happened.
Now you can look first. The sync wizard has a new Preview step, and every sync on your dashboard has a Calendar view. Both show you a real week from your real calendars, with the copies Hetk would make drawn in.
What is the Calendar View?
The Calendar View is a week of your calendars, as Hetk sees them. It shows two things on the same grid:
- What is on your calendars now. Your own events, and the copies Hetk already made. These are drawn solid.
- What Hetk would do next. Copies it would create or change are drawn dashed, and marked “New” or “Will change”. Copies it would remove are struck through.
On a phone you get one day at a time instead of a week. You can move to the previous or next week, or jump back to today.
The whole view is read-only. Looking at it never changes a calendar, and nothing on the page can.
Preview before you create
The sync wizard now has a Preview step, just before Review & Create. The heading says it plainly: this is your week as Hetk would sync it. Nothing changes until you create the sync.
Your settings show up in the preview:
- If you set a title template, like
[Work] {{original_title}}, the new copies carry it. - If you turn on Replace the details with “Busy”, the new copies show as “Busy”.
So if a setting is not what you meant, you see it on the preview, not on your calendar. Press Back, change it, and look again.
The preview never stands in your way. You can press Next while it is still loading, and you can create the sync whatever it shows. It is there to look at, not to pass.
A view for every sync you already have
On the dashboard, each sync card now has a calendar icon. It opens that sync’s week: what is on the calendars today, and what Hetk’s next pass would create, change or remove.
At the top is a short summary, like “Nothing waiting this week.” or “3 changes waiting.”, with counts for what is on the calendars and what would be created, changed or removed. Click any event to see which calendar it is on, where a copy came from, and why Hetk plans what it plans.
It shows the whole picture
Syncs often link up. Your work calendar syncs to your personal one, and your personal one also syncs with a family calendar. A copy can arrive by a route you did not set up in this sync.
The Calendar View shows those calendars too. Each one is listed at the side with its own colour. The two calendars in this sync say “this sync”. Calendars linked in by your other syncs are labelled “via” and the name of that sync, like “via Gym → Home”.
If that is too much at once, tap a calendar in the list to hide its events. Tap it again to bring them back. The summary counts still include hidden calendars, so a change is never out of sight just because you hid where it happens.
Frequently asked questions
Can the Calendar View change my calendars?
No. It only reads. Nothing on the page creates, edits or deletes an event. The copies drawn dashed are what Hetk would do; in the wizard, nothing happens until you press Create.
Do I have to look at the preview before creating a sync?
No. The Preview step never blocks you. You can move on while it loads, and you can create the sync whatever it shows.
Why do I see calendars that are not part of this sync?
Because they are linked to it through your other syncs, and events can reach this sync’s calendars that way. Each one is labelled “via” and the name of the sync that links it in. You can hide any of them.
Where do I find it for a sync I already have?
On the dashboard, click the calendar icon on the sync’s card.
Related
- How to label synced calendar events by source
- How to keep work and personal calendars separate (but synced)
- How to merge calendars across providers
- Features
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