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Calendar is what kills this approach for me. I am not two different people with two different calendars, I am one person with one calendar. Scheduling & making
by ip26 5y ago
Calendar is what kills this approach for me. I am not two different people with two different calendars, I am one person with one calendar. Scheduling & making all my appointments is really troublesome with two separate calendars.
- maxerickson 5y agoIt's a pain, but no way are my appointments any of the company's business, and it's not worth putting work stuff on my calendar. Fortunately my work day ends when I leave work and I can just block off time if I am otherwise out of office for whatever reason.
- BoorishBears 5y agoYou can share a calendar as free/busy
- maxerickson 5y agoIf you are not the administrator of the system in question, that isn't quite the right description.
- BoorishBears 5y ago... not the administrator of your personal calendar?
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- killjoywashere 5y agoThis is one place where you can, maybe, shed a tear for management. Imagine your CEO keeping a separate calendar. Don’t you want them inviting investors over for dinner?
- 3np 5y agoThis sounds strange, but I assume you must have extremely flexible work hours. So just share the calendar and isolate the rest? No need to throw the baby out with the bath water, do what works for you
- kojeovo 5y agoI provide access to my work one from my personal so I can view it on my personal when scheduling events and hide it otherwise. Works pretty well imo.
- avel 5y agoYep, that's the way to go. I do the same. Easy to do with Google Calendar. In your work calendar: Settings -> Settings for My Calendars -> Access Permissions -> Get shareable link. In your personal calendar: Other Calendars -> Subscribe to Calendar With this, I've managed to remove all other traces of work from my personal phone.
- dvk13 5y agoTIL. Thanks!!
- dataflow 5y agoAnd it takes like 12+ hours to update....
- nine_k 5y agoTo me it works instantly between Google calendars, and with a few minutes of delay between Google and Office365 calendars.
- dataflow 5y ago> with a few minutes of delay between Google and Office365 calendars How in the world do you do that? Subscribe to Calendar isn't even possible with Office 365, right? You have to use From URL, to which you give the .ics URL, which Google Calendar normally pulls a couple times a day. Is there a different mechanism you use?
- killjoywashere 5y agoAnd if you are in a high security organization (DOD, banks) … good luck.
- jillesvangurp 5y agoWith google calendar, you can add your private calendar (via a sharable url) and set it up such that it marks your private events as busy. Very useful.
- theshadowknows 5y agoThe only time this bit me so far is that once I had a weekly recurring for…two years. And one day, for some reason, my phone started RSVPing to it again. Except it was every instance of it that had passed…blew up my bosses inbox and made my phone useless for about an hour. It was the weirdest thing. Funny though.
- aksss 5y agoI believe that was an iOS bug, I remember hearing about that in a few instances where the built-in calendar client was connected to Office 365. In all cases it was solved by updating iOS to some bug-fixing point release.
- jjav 5y ago> Calendar is what kills this approach for me. If I have a personal thing during work hours I just block it off on the work calendar. No details, just "Not available". Anything outside work hours doesn't need to be on a calendar.
- majewsky 5y agoSo if you have a dentist appointment in the evening, after work, you don't put it on any calendar? I find that hard to believe.
- KozmoNau7 5y agoI put it on my personal calendar, work has no need to know about it.
- gcatalfamo 5y agoYou do need them on the same calendar if you need to account for travel distance and time before accepting that last minute meeting.
- KozmoNau7 5y agoFor those rare cases, it really isn't a problem to look at my work calendar on the work PC and my personal calendar on my phone and do a quick comparison. In general, if I have a personal appointment, I'm not going to forget about it. Just the act of having added it to my calendar is enough to remember it, without having to look at the calendar. I only ever mix personal events into my work calendar if I there is an overlap with my working hours, everything else is none of my workplace's business, I'll polite decline any meeting that conflicts. Besides, last-minute meetings are a sign of bad meeting culture.
- mr_mitm 5y agoBut you need to check both calendars when making the appointment. I can see how that's cumbersome, and in fact is one thing I deal with as well. It would be nice if I could sync my work calendar with my personal calendar, but with all details redacted except for begin, end, and perhaps location.
- mechEpleb 5y agoEstablishing the habit of regularly checking your schedule and thus being aware of any upcoming events would mostly solve this.