Calendar sync

Calendar sync puts your confirmed trip plans into your phone's own calendar, so a dinner booking or a departure sits next to the rest of your week. Limbo keeps them in a calendar of its own, which you can switch off whenever you like.

This is a personal setting on your device. It changes nothing on the trip and nobody in your crew can see it. member

Turn calendar sync on

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   On the Home screen, tap your avatar in the top-right corner to open your account screen.
2. 2
   Scroll down to App Preferences.
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   Tap the Calendar sync switch.
4. 4
   Allow calendar access when your phone asks.

The row explains itself: "Keep confirmed upcoming plans in a dedicated Limbo calendar." Once it settles, Limbo confirms with Calendar sync is on and writes your plans across straight away.

Turning it on needs a connection, because Limbo fetches a fresh list of your plans first. Offline you get Calendar sync needs internet and nothing changes. If your phone declines calendar access, Limbo tells you so and leaves the switch off; grant access in your phone's settings and try again.

The Limbo calendar

Limbo does not scatter events through your personal calendar. It creates one calendar named Limbo, in Limbo's red, and keeps everything inside it. It appears alongside your other calendars, so you can show or hide it like any of them. If a writable calendar named Limbo already exists, Limbo uses that one.

Limbo owns the events in there. Every refresh brings the calendar back in line with your trips:

• Plans that should be there get an event.
• Events you renamed or moved by hand are put back to match the plan.
• Events for plans that have gone, or that no longer qualify, are removed.
• Duplicates are cleaned up.

So an edit made in the calendar app does not stick. Change the plan in Limbo instead and the event follows.

A refresh runs when you turn sync on, each time you bring Limbo back to the front, and when you open your account screen. Each one needs a connection; while you are offline Limbo simply waits and catches up next time.

Which plans sync

A plan reaches your calendar when it is confirmed, has a date, and sits on a trip you own or have joined.

These stay out:

• Proposals waiting on a vote. An open ballot never appears in your calendar. Once the crew approves it, it joins at the next refresh. A rejected proposal never appears at all.
• Plans with no date, including everything in the Anytime section.
• Plans on trips that have already finished, or that are archived.
• Trips that start more than roughly a year ahead, until they come closer.

A synced event carries the plan's name and its timing. A plan with a start but no end becomes a one-hour event. If you want the address on the event too, add that plan with the button below.

Add a single plan

You do not need calendar sync on to get one plan across.

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   Open the plan from the Plans timeline, a map pin, or a linked plan in chat.
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   Tap the calendar button in the details header.
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   Allow calendar access the first time.

Limbo confirms with Added to calendar. The event carries the plan's name, its timing, its location, and, where the plan has one, its time zone. A plan with no date cannot be added, so you get No date instead, and a plan with no end time becomes a one-hour event.

Where the event lands depends on the switch:

• Sync off: it goes into your phone's usual calendar as an ordinary entry. It is yours to edit or delete, and Limbo never touches it again.
• Sync on: it goes into the Limbo calendar and is looked after with the rest.

Adding a single plan works offline, because it uses the plan already stored on your phone.

Turn calendar sync off

1. 1
   Open your account screen and scroll to App Preferences.
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   Tap the Calendar sync switch again.

Limbo removes every event it created for your account and confirms with Calendar sync is off. The Limbo calendar itself stays behind, now empty, so delete it in your phone's calendar app if you want it gone. Events you added one at a time while sync was off are ordinary entries and are left alone.

Switching off does not need a connection, since it only clears events from the phone. It does still need calendar access, so Limbo can remove what it made.

Good to know

• The setting belongs to your account on that phone. Turning it on here does not turn it on for your other devices, and signing back in on the same phone picks up where you left off.
• Nothing you do here changes a plan, a date, or a ballot. Calendar sync only reads your trips.

Permissions

• Turn calendar sync on or off: anyone, for their own phone. member
• Add a single plan to your calendar: every crew member who can open the plan. member