Use Cases

People reach for calendar sync the moment they have more than one calendar that matters. A freelancer juggling two clients. A consultant on three overlapping engagements. A lawyer with a firm calendar and a family one. The pattern is the same: events scattered across systems that don’t talk to each other, and a missed meeting waiting to happen.

The pages below walk through specific setups: what the problem looks like in practice, how to configure Hetk, and which privacy settings keep client information from leaking sideways when calendars belong to different people or organisations.

Find your situation

• Freelancers, consultants and client work — for freelancers, consultants, recruiters, virtual assistants and real estate agents who work in calendar accounts other people give them, with each client seeing only that you are busy.
• Lawyers, accountants and executives — for keeping a firm or company calendar and a personal one aware of each other while client names, matters and board business stay where they belong.
• Teachers and healthcare workers — whose timetable or rota lives in a school- or employer-managed account, kept in step with a private personal calendar.
• Work and personal life — one calendar for the job and one for everything else, so a dentist appointment blocks work time without broadcasting the details.

What the setups have in common

Two patterns show up again and again. The first is a read-only mirror: a one-way sync that copies events from a source into another calendar so you see them everywhere, without letting edits flow back. The second is a private busy block: a sync with the Replace the details with “Busy” setting turned on, so a meeting reserves the time on a shared calendar while the title, description, location, and attendees stay behind. Most real configurations are a handful of these pointed in the right directions.

Privacy is the part people underestimate. A calendar shared with a colleague, a partner, or a client is a channel, and anything you sync into it is something they can read. The use-case pages are specific about which syncs should carry full detail and which should reduce to “Busy,” because getting that wrong is how a client name ends up on the wrong screen.

These pages describe setups Hetk supports. They are not customer stories. Each one also says what Hetk does not do: it syncs Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook / 365 and Apple iCloud calendars, and it does not connect to industry software. If your situation isn’t here, write to [email protected].