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Calendar

BoonMe works with the calendars you already use. You bring them in, choose what goes on the circle's week, and can share the week back out to everyone's phone calendar.

Bring in a calendar​

Tap your circle's crest at the top left, open Calendars and choose Bring in. Paste the calendar's subscribe link (it usually ends in .ics), give it a label, and say whose it is.

  • Your own calendar is yours to connect or remove.
  • An accountable member can connect a calendar for the whole circle.

Who sees your calendar when planning​

A calendar the whole circle plans around is seen by everyone in Plan. Your own calendar can be too, or it can be just yours: on its row in Calendars, or when you bring it in, choose Who sees this calendar when planning?: Everyone or Just me. Only you can choose for your calendar, even if someone else brought it in for you; nobody else sees a Just-me calendar in Calendars at all. Whatever you add to the week from it is seen by everyone, because the week is the circle's.

Each calendar shows when it last answered. Check it now tries again.

Your first calendar​

Start with the one calendar the whole circle plans around: the school's, the team's, or the one you already share at home. One is enough to plan the first week. Everyone's own calendars can come in later, one at a time, each saying whose it is.

BoonMe reads a calendar through its subscribe link, the same link a calendar app uses. It's kept private and never shown again, so keep your own copy.

Google Calendar. On a computer, open calendar.google.com, then the gear, then Settings. Under Settings for my calendars, choose the calendar, then Integrate calendar, and copy the Secret address in iCal format. The calendar stays private; the secret address is the key. (The Google Calendar app on a phone doesn't show it.)

iCloud Calendar. On your iPhone, open Calendar, tap Calendars at the bottom, then the i beside the calendar. Turn on Public Calendar, tap Share Link…, and copy it. The link starts with webcal://, which is fine. Anyone with that link can read the calendar, so share it only with your circle.

Your school's Blackbaud site. Sign in to the school's site and open Calendar. Tap the feed icon near the top right (it looks like a Wi-Fi or RSS symbol); a box called WebCal Feed for External Calendar opens. Under My Calendars, tap Individual Filter Feeds to list the calendars, then touch and hold the link you want, such as a child's Schedule, and copy it. School Calendars are listed on the same page. The link starts with webcal:// and usually contains podium/feed/iCal.aspx. Bring each child's schedule in as its own calendar, and say whose it is. If there is no feed icon, the school has turned feeds off; ask its tech office.

If a link stops working later, it usually means the calendar was made private again or the link was reset. Bring it in again with a fresh link.

Who can see it

Everyone in your circle can see the calendars you bring in when they plan the week. Only the events someone adds go on the week itself.

Plan the week​

Open Plan, then Add to the Week. You'll see what's on your circle's calendars that week. Add the events that matter, with a note on why if it helps. They appear on the week for everyone, and you can remove them again.

Calendar items on the week​

If an event moves or changes in its calendar, the week follows it and a small note on the item says what changed. See Troubleshooting for what each note means.

Open a calendar item on the week to:

  • Mark it done, or reopen it.
  • Update expectations: leave a note for the circle. Your own calendar isn't changed.
  • Ask for support: start an ask from it, like a lift to that practice.
  • Open in Calendar, or Open in Google Calendar for an event from a Google link: goes to that day in the app that can edit it. Edits you make there show up here on the next check.

Share the week out​

In Calendars, choose Share out to get a private link to your circle's week. Tap Subscribe in Calendar to see it in your iPhone's calendar, or share the link. An accountable member can create it, replace the link, or turn it off.