Calendar quickstart
Connect Google or Microsoft 365 calendars via OAuth so alfred_ can detect conflicts, suggest open times, and prepare you before every meeting.
Once your calendar is connected, alfred_ becomes useful in three ways: scheduling, conflict detection, and meeting prep. This page covers how to connect and what alfred_ can do once it has access.
Connect your calendar
Pick the integration that matches your inbox provider:
- Google Calendar — for Gmail / Google Workspace
- Microsoft 365 Calendar — for Outlook / Microsoft 365
Both connect via OAuth. You can connect multiple calendars (personal + work + family + project).
What alfred_ can do for you
Once connected:
- List what’s coming up — “what’s on my calendar today?”, “what do I have Tuesday?”
- Schedule events — “schedule a 30-min sync with Sarah next Tuesday morning”
- Reschedule and cancel — “move my 3pm to 4pm”, “cancel my Friday morning”
- Find availability — “when am I free for an hour this week?”
- Share a booking link — let people pick from your real open time, see Booking links
- Detect conflicts — alfred_ checks your calendars before booking a time or proposing one on a scheduling thread
- Prep you for meetings — drafts a brief from email + calendar context before each meeting
- Manage Zoom / video links — auto-attach your default link, or pick a named one
What you can ask via chat / SMS
Anywhere you can talk to alfred_:
- “What’s on tomorrow?”
- “Schedule a 1:1 with Marc for Thursday afternoon”
- “Move my 2pm to 4pm”
- “Cancel Friday’s standup and apologize on my behalf”
- “Block 2 hours of focus time tomorrow morning”
- “Prep me for my 3pm with Acme”
- “When am I free for 45 min this week?”
How alfred_ knows your calendar
When you ask scheduling questions, alfred_ pulls from all connected calendars and treats them as one unified view. Conflict detection considers every calendar — so a personal appointment will block work scheduling automatically.
alfred_ proposes your own openings rather than computing mutual free time across a group. See Suggesting times for how that works in practice and for when alfred_ sends those times to a participant on your behalf.