Calendar

Calendar gives you one pane across every calendar you juggle: personal, work, firm partners, per-client engagement calendars, and deadlines, with per-calendar visibility toggles, drag-to-create, side-by-side team availability, per-event RSVPs, and booking links. Bitment is not a standalone calendar: it runs on top of your Google or Microsoft calendar, so every event you create in Bitment is a real event on your provider account.

Where to find it

Open Calendar from the dock. Opened from inside a client, Calendar shows that client's engagement events and deadlines (Coordination › Calendar in the client's sub-navigation). Until you connect a calendar account, the app shows a connect prompt and nothing else is reachable.

Key concepts

Connect a calendar

  1. Open Calendar from the dock.
  2. Follow the connect prompt, or, if you already have an account connected, go to Settings › Connected accounts inside the app.
  3. Choose Google or Microsoft 365 and sign in on the provider's page.

Once connected, every calendar on that account appears in the sidebar, grouped by category. Toggle a calendar's checkbox to show or hide it, and set a per-calendar color override from the same place. Removing every account returns the app to the connect prompt.

If a calendar stops syncing

Google and Microsoft revoke Bitment's access whenever the underlying sign-in changes, most often after a password change, but also if an admin revokes sessions or you remove Bitment from your connected apps. You'll get a notification ("Reconnect <your address>") and the account shows "reconnect to resume sync" under Settings › Connected accounts, with a Reconnect button. Sign in again there and syncing resumes; nothing is lost.

Calendar and Emails connect separately, even for the same provider account, so reconnecting one does not reconnect the other. See Emails for its own reconnect flow.

Work with the sidebar

Create and edit an event

  1. Click + New. It opens the create panel directly on its Event tab.
  2. Fill in the details: title, time, guests, a video conference, a travel-time buffer, recurrence, and a tag.
  3. Add guests the same way you address an email: type a name or address and pick from the suggestions, or type a full address and press Enter. Each guest becomes a pill you can click into and edit.
  4. Save.

You can also drag across a time range in any day or week view to create an event there. On a phone, press and hold on empty grid for about half a second until the block appears, then drag down to the end time and lift; the new event form opens already set to the range you swept.

Changing the start time moves the end time with it, keeping the event's length; changing the end time on its own only changes the length.

Repeat an event

In the event form's More options, turn on Repeat and pick the cadence (every N days, weeks, months, or years) plus how it ends: Never, On date, or After a number of occurrences. Editing or deleting a repeating event asks whether the change applies to This event or All events in the series. Dragging a repeating event to a new time always moves just that occurrence. Editing a whole series is supported on Google calendars; on Microsoft 365, edit individual occurrences instead. Deleting a whole series works on both.

Reschedule or resize an event

Drag an event block in a day or week view to move it to a new time or day. Drag the block's top or bottom edge to change just the start or end. On a phone, press and hold the event briefly until it picks up, then drag with your finger. If the event has other guests, Bitment asks whether to notify them of the change.

Switch between day, 3-day, week, month, and agenda views from the toolbar.

See when your team is free

Click Firm in the calendar's toolbar to put your firm-mates' calendars side by side, one column each, scrolled so the current time sits mid-screen. It always opens on today; step to another day with the arrows beside the date, and a Today button appears once you've moved off it.

By default, every teammate's blocks just read Busy; the times are shared, the subjects are not. A teammate's event titles appear in their column only if they've turned on sharing in their own calendar settings. Your own column always shows your event titles. Click a block to open it: your own events and a sharing teammate's non-private events open in the event panel to read; a teammate's event opens read-only. Anonymous "Busy" bands and private events aren't clickable.

Only people appear in this view; the firm's AI agents don't have calendars of their own.

Overlay someone's availability on your grid

The sidebar's Meet with field, under the mini-month, overlays another calendar's busy times on top of your own grid, tinted per person. Type a teammate's name or any email address and press Enter; add several people to compare more calendars at once. Click into the empty field to see your last five overlaid calendars, ready to pick without typing. Creating an event while people are in the Meet with field pre-fills them as guests.

Share your own event details

Your calendar works the same way in reverse: firm-mates see when you're busy, but not what an event is, until you opt in.

  1. Open Calendar › Settings.
  2. Under Team sharing, turn on Share my event details with my team.

From then on, anyone who shares a firm with you sees your event titles, not just your busy blocks, in the Firm availability view and the Meet with overlay. It's off by default, and turning it back off returns you to busy-only immediately. It never overrides an event you've marked private or confidential in Google or Outlook, and it never reaches outside your firm. Only calendars you own are ever consulted for availability; a calendar you merely subscribe to is never republished through your column.

Get notified before events start

  1. Open Calendar › Settings.
  2. Under Notifications, the Notify me before events start switch is on by default, set to 10 minutes before.
  3. Pick the lead time: 5, 10, or 15 minutes before, or at the start of the meeting. Turn the switch off to stop these reminders.

Which devices the reminder reaches follows the Calendar row of your notification channel settings. All-day events don't get reminders.

A booking link is a public page where someone picks a slot from your real availability.

  1. Go to the calendar's Booking section and create a link.
  2. Set your weekly availability windows by dragging on the grid to paint the hours you're bookable.
  3. Optionally add per-date overrides (a day off, extra hours one week) and choose which calendars are checked for conflicts.
  4. Under Video conferencing, choose what each booking gets: None, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams. The choice follows the calendar you picked in step 2.
  5. Share the link.

If you set no weekly windows and no overrides, the link defaults to your whole calendar: every day, all day, minus whatever you're already busy with.

Video conferencing

Every event and every booking link offers the same three choices: None, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. Which one you can pick follows the calendar you're saving to: on a Google calendar, Google Meet is available and is the default (Teams is greyed out); on a Microsoft 365 calendar, Microsoft Teams is available and is the default (Google Meet is greyed out). Change the calendar on the event and the selection moves with it.

A personal Outlook.com account, or a Microsoft plan with no Teams license, can't get a video link from either provider on that calendar. Google Meet links can be removed after the fact; a Teams meeting, once created, can't be removed from an existing event, since Microsoft doesn't allow it, only deleting and recreating the event drops it.

The link appears on the event with a Join meeting button and goes out to guests in the invite. On a booking link, the meeting is created when someone books, and the link is included in their confirmation.

Meeting notes

Any event with a video conference carries a Meeting notes section at the foot of its detail panel, a place to keep an agenda before the call and minutes during it, saving as you type. On a Google Meet or Microsoft Teams event, each attendee gets their own private notes on their own copy of the event. On a Bitment conference the notes are genuinely shared: everyone in the meeting edits the same document, live. See Meetings for capture and summaries from Bitment's own video conferencing.

Google Tasks

If your Google account has Tasks, they sync into the calendar too: task lists, creating and completing tasks, and due dates alongside events.

  1. Click + New and switch the panel's tab from Event to Task. This tab is only available when the calendar you've selected is a Google one.
  2. Tasks are date-only, so use an event instead if the thing needs to happen at a particular hour.
  3. Tick the checkbox on a task's chip in the grid to complete it, or click its title to open the editor.

Deadlines and focus time

Deadline events, tax deadlines and the like, arrive through your connected calendar like any other event and are recognized by their tag, grouping under a deadlines category in the sidebar automatically. Events created by your provider's native focus-time feature render as striped blocks so they're easy to tell apart from regular meetings.

Schedule with the AI

Ask the AI, in a chat or from the Assistant panel inside Calendar, to schedule, reschedule, update, or cancel an event, respond to an invitation, or find a free slot across a set of calendars. Depending on your permission level, it either proposes the change as an editable card, showing exactly where the new event would slot in among your existing events that day, for you to review and adjust before approving, or carries it out directly. You can also ask the AI to show you your schedule for a stretch of time and get back a live, interactive calendar right in the conversation.

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