Rare + 
Google Calendar: a brief before every meeting with your people
Connect Google Calendar and Rare gets you ready for the people you meet. Before a meeting with people in your Rare, a brief shows who each one is, your last entry about them, and the few things that bear on this meeting, each linked to where it came from. As the meeting ends, Rare asks how it went.
- Setup
- A few minutes
- Access
- Read-only
- Calendars
- The ones you choose
- Today
- Available on the web and phone
Walkthrough video coming soon
What you get
- A brief before each meeting with people in your Rare: who they are, your last entry, and two or three points that bear on this meeting, each sourced
- Your next meeting at the top of Home in the three hours before it, with Join when it has a call link
- “How did it go?” as a meeting winds down, with a capture that already knows who was there and when
- Answers from your calendar: ask what's coming up, when you last met someone, or what you did the week of March 10
How it works today
- 1
Open Settings → Connections → Calendar
On the web or your phone, connect your Google account. Rare asks only for read-only access.
- 2
Choose your calendars
Turn on each calendar Rare should read, such as a shared team calendar beside your own, and leave holidays and birthdays out.
- 3
Open Rare before a meeting
Home pins the meeting at the top. Open it for the brief, and ask follow-up questions under it.
- 4
Tell Rare how it went
As the meeting ends, Rare asks. Say what happened, and it's filed under the right people on the right day.
Questions
- Can Rare change my calendar?
- No. Rare asks Google for read-only access, so it can see your meetings but never change them.
- Does Rare copy my meetings into my journal?
- No. Rare reads your meetings from Google when it needs them and never writes them into your journal. A meeting reaches your journal only when you tell Rare about it.
- Which meetings get a brief?
- Timed meetings with at least one person in your Rare. Declined, cancelled, all-day and solo events are left out.
- Can I connect more than one Google account?
- Yes. Connect a personal and a work calendar, and Rare reads meetings from both; a meeting on two of your calendars shows once. Google Calendar connects apart from Google Contacts, so it can be a different account.
Related integrations
Google Contacts
Two-way sync that asks before it changes anything.
How it works →
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Coming soonGmail
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