Copy only the events you choose: filter rules on Plus and above

Until now a sync could skip events, but it could not say "copy only these." Now it can. Copy only the meetings that have guests, only the events with a client's name in the title, or only what sits on your work calendar, and leave the rest behind. A preview shows what your rules do to the next seven days before you save anything.

What you get

• Copy only if (Plus and above). Add rules to the Copy only if box and only the events that match are copied. Each rule checks one detail of the original event: the title, description, location, organizer, guests, meeting link, which calendar it comes from, how long it runs, when it starts, the weekday, privacy, or free or busy.
• Also skip if. A second box for events you never want copied. An event is copied when it passes the first box and does not match the second. If it matches both, it is skipped.
• All or Any. Each box has its own choice. With All, an event must match every rule in the box. With Any, one match is enough. The two boxes hold up to 20 rules together.
• A preview of your next 7 days. It shows how many events would copy, how many would be skipped and how many can't be checked, grouped by the rule that decides them. Press a day to look at only that day, or search for an event by title. Change a rule and the preview updates straight away.
• Rules for each direction. In a two-way sync between different providers, such as Google and Outlook, each direction has its own rules, because each provider shares different details.
• Set by your Team. On a Team, the owner can set the copy only and skip rules that members' syncs use.

What it means for you

• Keep a shared calendar to the events that matter, instead of copying everything and adding skip rules one by one.
• Before you save, SYNCDATE checks your rules against a sample of your next 7 days and tells you how many events would copy and how many would be skipped. It is a sample, not a full count, and copies outside those 7 days can be removed too. If no event in the sample matches Copy only if, you have to confirm that the sync would copy nothing.
• Copies that no longer match your rules are removed, and you can't undo that from inside the app. Read the count before you confirm.
• If your plan drops below Plus, a sync that uses filter rules pauses before it copies anything. Your existing copies stay where they are and we email you. Upgrade, or take the filter rules out of the sync, and it runs again.

Good to know

• The filters you already use stay as they are, on every plan: skipping all-day events, free events or titles with a word, copying only invitations you accepted, chosen days and hours, and Google's special event types.
• Not every calendar shares every detail. Outlook doesn't share event colors, and some CalDAV servers and calendar feeds leave out guests, organizers, privacy or free or busy. A rule shows a note when a calendar can't supply its detail.
• If a rule needs a detail SYNCDATE can't read for an event, and that detail could change the result, the event is not copied and the preview lists it under Can't check. A copy that already exists stays where it is when a detail stops being readable and you haven't changed your rules.
• Weekday and time rules read the time in the source calendar's time zone.
• The preview checks up to 100 events. If your next 7 days hold more, it says how many it checked.
• Filters apply to the whole sync, not to one calendar in it.

Open a sync, go to Which events copy and add a rule under Copy only if.