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Manage Your Calendar Settings in Fellow

Control which calendars and events appear in your workspace

Written by Julia
Updated over a week ago

Fellow gives you complete control over your calendar experience. You can sync multiple calendars, exclude specific calendars, filter which types of events appear, and hide individual events—all to keep your workspace focused on what matters most.

Sync Multiple Calendars

If you have events across multiple calendars, Fellow can sync them all so you can take notes for each event within Fellow.

Before you begin: Make sure your calendar type is supported by Fellow. Learn more about supported calendar types.

How to sync multiple calendars

  1. Click on your company's logo in the top left corner to open User Settings

  2. Go to the Preferences tab

  3. Scroll down to Calendar Settings

  4. Check the boxes for the calendars you want to sync with Fellow

  5. Uncheck the boxes for calendars you want to exclude

If a calendar doesn't appear in the list, click the Refresh list button. If it still doesn't appear after refreshing, verify it meets the criteria for syncing with Fellow or contact support.

Note: By default, Fellow syncs only a single calendar. You'll need to manually select any additional calendars you want to sync.

View your synced calendars

Once synced, view your calendars by clicking on the Meetings section in Fellow. The border colour of each event corresponds to the calendar colour set in Google Calendar or Microsoft 365.

Privacy note: These calendars are only visible to you within Fellow. If someone else has access to your Google Calendar or Microsoft 365 calendar, they'll need to sync it separately in their own Fellow account.

Exclude Calendars from Fellow

You may have calendars you don't want to sync with Fellow, such as personal calendars or calendars used primarily for tasks and time blocking.

How to exclude calendars

  1. Click on your company's logo in the top left corner to open User Settings

  2. Go to the Preferences tab

  3. Scroll down to Calendar Settings

  4. Uncheck the boxes for calendars you want to exclude from Fellow

By unchecking a calendar, events from that calendar will no longer appear in your Fellow workspace.

Filter Which Events Appear in Your Calendar

Not all calendar events need to appear in Fellow. Event filtering lets you customize which types of events are visible, helping you eliminate noise and focus on meetings that benefit from agendas and notes.

What is event filtering?

Event filtering enables you to choose which types of calendar events show in Fellow. Events that appear in your Fellow calendar will be synced to meeting notes. You can use filtering to hide events like "Lunch", "Busy", "Out of Office", and more.

Event filters can be changed at any time and are not permanent.

Where to enable or disable filters

Note: Filtering options differ between Microsoft 365 and Google Calendar, so your interface may look slightly different than the screenshots shown.

Option 1: In the Meetings panel

  1. Click the three dots in the upper right corner of the Meetings panel

  2. Click View settings

  3. Check or uncheck the filters you want to enable or disable

  4. To filter by keyword, click Filter meetings by keyword and enter keywords separated by commas (for example, "Lunch" to hide all events with "Lunch" in the title)

Option 2: In Calendar Settings

  1. Click on your company's logo to open User Settings

  2. Click Preferences and scroll to the Meeting visibility section

  3. Check or uncheck the filters you want to enable or disable

  4. Enter any keywords for custom event filtering

Types of filters available

Cancelled meetings

Meetings that have been cancelled or deleted by the organizer. Meeting notes may still exist for these events.

Hidden meetings

Meetings you've previously hidden using the "Hide event in Fellow" option.

Declined meetings (Google only)

Meetings where you've responded "No" and declined the invitation.

All-day events

Events marked as all-day or lasting from midnight to midnight in your calendar.

Personal events

Calendar events where you are the only attendee.

"Out of office" events (Google only)

Events designated as "Out of Office" in Google Calendar.

"Focus time" events (Google only)

Events designated as "Focus" in Google Calendar.

"Away" events (Microsoft only)

Events marked as "Away" in Outlook or "Out of office" in Teams.

Meetings containing specific keywords

Events with specific words in the title will be filtered out. You can customize which keywords to filter (for example, Block, Busy, Lunch).

Hide Individual Calendar Events

Sometimes there are specific events you don't need to see in Fellow, such as time blocks or personal appointments. You can hide these events individually.

How to hide an event

  1. Hover over the calendar event in the Meetings section

  2. Click the three dots menu

  3. Select Hide Event

  4. Click Ok in the confirmation message

  5. Press the manual refresh button at the bottom of the calendar view to see the change

How to view hidden events

If you want to see hidden meetings again:

  1. Click the three dots at the top of the Meetings section

  2. Check the Hidden meetings checkbox to show hidden events

Once you've enabled this filter, all previously hidden events will appear in your calendar view again.

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