Managing multiple calendars can be a challenge, especially with a busy schedule. Flatcal can help you streamline your calendar management and keep up with your schedule with its range of features. Here are some ways in which Flatcal can benefit you:
Merge Multiple Calendars into One
Flatcal allows you to combine multiple calendars into one, giving you a single source of truth that contains all your busy schedules. When you have multiple calendars from work, home, or social events, Flatcal can help you combine them into one consolidated view to share with your peers.
This is not the same as the Microsoft Outlook overlay view, which lets you view all your events from multiple calendars in a single view, or similar counterparts in other calendar apps. When sharing, each calendar must be shared separately anyway. You cannot simply share one link with all your calendars included.
Ensure Calendar Privacy with Filters
Flatcal lets you ensure calendar privacy with filters, allowing you to choose what information to share and what to hide. You can protect your privacy while still sharing the information that you think will be useful to the people you want to share your schedule with.
Normally, you only have the option to share all or hide all. However, simply indicating that you are "busy" does not provide your peers with enough information. Every case is unique.
Have a Single Source of Truth for Your Availability
With Flatcal, you can have a single source of truth for your availability. You can ensure that your availability is up-to-date across all your calendars, making it easier to schedule a meeting or plan your day without checking multiple calendars.
To share your real availability with your standard calendar, you need to share all of them, one by one. Otherwise, your peers will only know about the busy states of your primary calendar. Some manage to keep all their appointments in a single primary calendar, but we don't know why. Or we know, they're not yet aware what Flatcal can do for them.
Transform Your Calendars into Totally New Ones
Flatcal can help you transform your calendars into totally new ones. For example, you can create an out-of-office calendar for your team by collecting their individual OOO, a work-from-home calendar for your team members by collecting their calendar location entries, or a marketing calendar of social media or blog post schedules from different sources creating a consolidated publishing calendar. This way, you can curate calendars for different audience groups and focus on what is important where not all information is necessary or should not be shared. And that's just a small list of example use cases.
Calendars in your usual app are manually created. What you type in is what you will get. Sometimes you can import external sources like your Facebook events calendar or Meetup events you're subscribed to. But those are also delivered as they were originally created, they're just updated by other people or software.
Automate Your Calendar Chores, Simplify Your Work
Flatcal can help you automate your calendar chores, simplifying your work. For example, you can inject public holidays into your calendars, set automatic out-of-office for public holidays, or filter/pick events by keywords. This way, you can focus on what's important and let Flatcal take care of the rest.
None of the calendar apps offer such features. That's not what they were created for. And that's good, specialized features should be left to specialized services and transparent for your day-to-day calendar app.
Wrapping up
In conclusion, Flatcal is a powerful tool that can help you manage your calendars more efficiently. With its range of features and benefits, you can streamline your calendar management, protect your privacy, and keep up with your schedule. If you're looking for a way to simplify your calendar management, give Flatcal a try today.