Several client calendars → one hub

When this is for you

You're a freelancer with a calendar per client and no single view of your week — so you double-book.

Before you turn it on

How it works

You can point two to eight client calendars at one hub, and take on another client later by editing the same sync rather than building a second one. The hub does not need to be an empty calendar — copies arrive as ordinary events with their original titles, so you can tell a client booking from your own at a glance. If a client's calendar is one they shared with you and you cannot write to it, that is fine here: this recipe only ever reads from it.

What you'll pick

Setting it up

1. 1Pick the client calendars you want feeding the hub. Nothing is written to these.
2. 2Pick the one calendar you actually open as the hub.
3. 3Choose "Use original title", so you can tell whose booking each block is.

Variations

Two filters you can add to this sync at any point, without rebuilding it.

• Sync everything except all-day events

  Add an "All-day events" exclude rule and holidays, birthdays and travel banners stay out of the calendar you sync into. It also catches birthdays from a subscribed calendar, which "Special dates from contacts" cannot — those arrive as ordinary events, so only the all-day rule sees them.

• Only invitations you've accepted

  Set "Which events to sync (RSVP)" to "Only-yes" and meeting requests you haven't answered stay out of the calendar you sync into until you accept them.