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1B Calendar guide

The complete 1B Calendar guide

Everything you need to bring all your calendars into 1B Calendar and keep your week in order, with real screenshots. Pick a chapter or jump straight to a common task.

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For 1B Calendar 0.1.1 on Windows and Linux.

1B Calendar on Linux: a week with five accounts, each in its own ink (sample data).
1B Calendar on Linux: a week with five accounts, each in its own ink (sample data).

Chapters

Ten short chapters, in the order you'll probably need them. Texts in bold are the ones you'll see in the app.

  1. Chapter 1

    Getting started

    Install 1B Calendar on Windows or Linux, find your way around the window and connect your first calendar.

  2. Chapter 2

    Google Calendar

    Sign in with Google in your browser and bring in every calendar of your Gmail or Google Workspace account.

  3. Chapter 3

    Microsoft 365 and Outlook

    Connect Outlook.com, Hotmail or your work or school Microsoft 365 account, with your organisation's approval if it's needed.

  4. Chapter 4

    iCloud

    Create an app-specific password in your Apple account and connect your iCloud calendars with it.

  5. Chapter 5

    CalDAV and .ics links

    Add Fastmail, Nextcloud, mailbox.org or your own server, subscribe to read-only calendars and keep calendars only on this computer.

  6. Chapter 6

    Events and repeats

    Create, move and change events, make them repeat, edit one day or the whole series, reminders and search.

  7. Chapter 7

    Invitations

    Every invitation in one tray, with the overlap in sight: Accept, Maybe or Decline, and how the organiser finds out.

  8. Chapter 8

    Trash and Undo

    Undo right after a change, and a trash that keeps deleted or overwritten events for 30 days.

  9. Chapter 9

    Privacy

    No 1Byte server: what 1B Calendar connects to, where your events and passwords are kept, and how to remove everything.

  10. Chapter 10

    Updates and settings

    How 1B Calendar updates itself with signed packages, and what you can change in Settings.

Common tasks

Nobody in between

Your calendars never pass through 1Byte

Each account connects from your computer straight to Google, Microsoft, Apple or your own server. There's no 1Byte account, and passwords and sign-in keys are stored encrypted on your computer.

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