A number of readers were very interested in more details about the personal and business calendar sync.
Using a Make scenario, only personal events scheduled between M-F from 9am to 5pm are synced to my business calendar. So it’s a one-way sync. And only newly created events are synced. If needed, I manually edit or delete them (which doesn’t happen often).
The Make scenario creates the business event with the title “Personal”.
Then I have another Make scenario that searches my business calendar for any events titled “Personal”. It removes the default notification, since I don’t want to be reminded twice (once on personal, once on business). It also changes the event color to green, to clearly indicate it’s a personal event.
Note: This is a separate scenario because sometimes I manually create a “Personal” event in my business calendar to block off time for deep thinking.
Business events are not synced to my personal calendar. However, my business calendar is shared with my personal calendar. This allows me to see business events in my personal calendar, but it doesn’t officially block off time.
This works because I’m the only one that books time in my personal calendar. I also need to see business events before committing to personal events.
The results looks like this:
The takeaway
A couple of simple automations help manage my calendars. And it’s OK not to be perfect. As long as it covers 80-90% of your regular use cases.