Connecting Google Calendar

When you connect Google Calendar, Google shows you four separate checkboxes rather than one broad grant, because we deliberately ask for the narrowest set of permissions the app needs rather than a single all-or-nothing "manage your calendar" scope. Each one does exactly one job:

Create and manage Auto-Scheduler calendars

Lets us create two calendars on your account, named "Work Tasks" and "Personal Tasks", and write your scheduled tasks into them as events. This permission is scoped to calendars we create ourselves; it does not extend to any calendar you already had.

Check your calendar for conflicts

Lets us see when you're busy, without reading the titles or details of your events, so the scheduler never books a task over something you already have planned.

List your calendars to choose which count as busy

Lets us show you the list of calendars on your account so you can choose which ones should count toward conflict detection, for example if you keep separate calendars for different parts of your life. Choosing Your Calendars below covers what that choice actually controls.

Show your existing events in the calendar view

Lets the in-app calendar view display your existing events alongside your scheduled tasks, so you can see your whole day in one place. We only read events; we never modify or delete anything outside the two calendars we created.

Choosing your calendars

Most Google accounts carry more than one calendar, and they are rarely all equally yours, so Auto-Scheduler asks you to decide about each one during onboarding and again in Settings under Configure calendars. Every calendar gets two independent switches: Show puts its events in your in-app calendar view, and Busy tells the scheduler to work around them. A calendar you share with a partner usually wants both, since those events are genuinely your commitments, while their own personal calendar usually wants neither. A holidays feed is the case for splitting the two, because it is useful to see without it blocking an entire working day.

Hiding event names

Alongside those two switches, each shown calendar has a Hide names option that keeps the time blocked out in your calendar view but replaces the title with the word Busy. It is there for a calendar you want to account for without its details sitting on your screen while you present or share it, and it changes nothing about how the scheduler treats that time.

Events you have marked as free

Marking a calendar as Busy does not mean every event on it blocks your day, because we read each event's own free-or-busy setting from Google rather than assuming an event always means you are unavailable. If you set a single event to Show as Free in Google Calendar, the scheduler treats that time as available, and the calendar view draws it as an outline instead of a solid block so you can tell the two apart at a glance. Events you have declined are skipped the same way.

One thing worth knowing before you connect

Sync only goes one direction, from Auto-Scheduler to Google Calendar. Every scheduling run rewrites the Work Tasks and Personal Tasks calendars from what's in the app, so an edit you make directly inside Google Calendar on one of those two calendars will be overwritten the next time you schedule. Lock the task first if you want to protect a specific time, which is covered in Managing Your Schedule. Any other calendar you have is never touched.

Disconnecting

You can revoke our access at any time from your Google Account permissions page at myaccount.google.com/permissions, or reconnect and grant permissions again from Settings if a scope was missed the first time round. Revoking access stops future syncing but doesn't delete anything we already wrote; delete your account from Settings if you also want the two calendars and their events removed from Google.