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Connecting your calendar, step by step.

The live calendar is the heart of your listing — and connecting it takes about two minutes, once, with no software to install. You share a read-only link to your calendar; we check it every hour and translate what we find into the red-and-white availability grid lawyers see. It works with all of the major calendar services: Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar, and Apple iCloud.

How it actually works

Every hour, our engine opens your calendar link and looks at exactly three things about each entry: the date, the start and end time, and whether it’s marked busy or tentative. Then it colors your grid by a simple rule: a busy event covering two or more hours of your morning (9 AM–1 PM) marks the morning unavailable, and one covering two or more hours of your afternoon (1 PM–5 PM) marks the afternoon unavailable. Short items — a 30-minute call, a lunch — don’t block anything. Weekends never appear.

Available All DayNo blocking events — a lawyer sees a fully open date
AM OnlyYour afternoon is blocked; the morning remains open
PM OnlyYour morning is blocked; the afternoon remains open
On HoldA tentative entry — shown as penciled-in, not confirmed
BookedBoth halves of the day are blocked

Confidentiality & Security

This platform is built by lawyers, for lawyers. We know that a mediator’s calendar can name the parties to a mediation, and that this information is protected by mediation confidentiality under Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code §154.073, by Standard V of the ABA Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators, and, for attorney-mediators, by Texas Disciplinary Rule 1.05. Calendar data here is handled with fully HIPAA-compliant security, and the only thing ever exposed to the public is when you’re available. Here is precisely what happens to your calendar data:

  1. We read only dates, times, and busy status. The parser is built so that event titles, party names, descriptions, attendee lists, and locations are never extracted. They are not stored, not displayed, and not logged. They are scrubbed at the moment of parsing.
  2. Nothing raw is ever kept. Your feed is read over an encrypted connection and reduced on the spot to a simple map: this day is available, morning only, afternoon only, or booked. The original is discarded. That colored grid is the only thing that exists on our servers, and the only thing the public ever sees.
  3. Your calendar link is treated as a credential. It is stored securely, never published, and never shared.
Want us to never even receive event names? Microsoft Outlook can publish a calendar that contains nothing but the word “Busy,” with no titles at all (choose “Can view when I’m busy” below). Google offers a similar hide-details option. If your calendar entries name the parties to your mediations, we recommend one of those. Your availability displays identically either way.

Microsoft Outlook / Microsoft 365 Most Private · Recommended

Outlook is the easiest way to share availability only — the published link contains the word “Busy” and nothing else. Several mediators on the list use exactly this.

  1. Go to outlook.office.com (or outlook.live.com for personal accounts) and sign in.
  2. Click the gear icon (top right) to open Settings, then choose Calendar in the left column.
  3. Click Shared calendars.
  4. Under Publish a calendar, pick the calendar you keep your mediations on (usually “Calendar”).
  5. For permissions, choose “Can view when I’m busy” — this is the anonymized option. No event names leave your account.
  6. Click Publish. Two links appear — copy the one ending in .ics (the ICS link, not the HTML link).
  7. Paste that link into the preview tool or your signup form. Done.

Using the Outlook desktop app instead? The same setting lives at File → Options → Calendar Options in some versions — but the web steps above work for every Microsoft account and take under a minute.

Google Calendar

Google gives you two links that both work here. The Secret address is the fastest. If your event titles are confidential, use the hide-details public option instead — it shares busy/free only.

Option A — Secret address (fastest):

  1. Open calendar.google.com on a computer and sign in.
  2. On the left, under My calendars, hover over your calendar, click the three dots, and choose Settings and sharing.
  3. Scroll to the bottom section called Integrate calendar.
  4. Find “Secret address in iCal format” and click the copy icon beside it.
  5. Paste that link into the preview tool or your signup form.

Option B — Availability only (no event names):

  1. In the same Settings and sharing screen, scroll to Access permissions for events.
  2. Check “Make available to public” and — this is the important part — set the dropdown beside it to “See only free/busy (hide details)”.
  3. Scroll down to Integrate calendar and copy the “Public address in iCal format” (not the secret one).
  4. Paste that link into the preview tool or your signup form. Event names never leave your account.

The secret address includes your event details in the feed itself — remember that our parser scrubs everything except dates, times, and busy status either way.

Apple Calendar (iCloud) Shares event details

  1. On your Mac, open the Calendar app (or go to icloud.com/calendar in a browser).
  2. In the left sidebar, right-click the calendar you keep your mediations on and choose Sharing Settings (on iCloud.com, click the person icon beside the calendar name).
  3. Check “Public Calendar.”
  4. Copy the link that appears — it starts with webcal://. That’s fine: paste it as-is and we convert it automatically.
  5. Paste it into the preview tool or your signup form.
A note on Apple and confidentiality: unlike Outlook, Apple’s public calendar links always include event details — there is no availability-only option. Our parser scrubs those details the moment we read the feed, and they are never stored or shown. But if you’d prefer that party names never even transit the wire, keep your iCloud entries generic (“Mediation — all day”) or use the Outlook or Google hide-details methods above.

Stuck? We’ll do it with you.

If any of this feels like more computer than you signed up for, stop and submit the form with your name and phone number — leave the calendar field blank. Premium members get hands-on implementation help: we’ll get on the phone, share screens, and have your calendar live in one call.

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