Accounts and settings
Connect and share calendar accounts, and set defaults for new events, reminders, and colors.
Connect your Google and Microsoft calendars, share them with your team, and set defaults for new events.
Connect a calendar account
Missive supports Google, Office 365, and Outlook.com calendars.
Go to Settings > Calendars.
Click Add.
Select your provider and sign in.
Office 365 shared mailbox calendars
To connect the calendar of an Office 365 shared mailbox:
Go to Settings > Calendars, click Add, and select Office 365.
Enter the shared mailbox email address and click Next.
In the Microsoft sign-in window, choose an account that has access to the shared mailbox.
Reconnect an account
If Missive loses access to a calendar account, the account shows Account disconnected and new events stop syncing. A red icon also appears in the calendar header.
The account owner or an organization admin can click Reconnect account to sign in again.
Delete an account
The account owner can open the account in Settings > Calendars and click Delete account. This removes the account's calendars and events from Missive. It doesn't delete anything from Google or Microsoft.
Share a calendar account
Calendar accounts are personal by default. Share one with your whole organization, specific teams, or specific people. Everyone you share with sees its calendars in their calendar sidebar and can pick them when creating events.
Go to Settings > Calendars and select the account.
Click Share this account.
Choose Everyone, teams, or people, then click Save.
To change who has access, click Edit sharing. To stop sharing, click Make private.
Only the account owner and organization admins can change sharing, rename the account, or change calendar colors. Give the account an Account description (like "Work" or "Support team") to change how it's labeled in the sidebar and menus.
When inviting a new member, admins can also choose which shared calendar accounts they get access to.
Calendar colors, notifications, and visibility
Each account's Calendars tab lists its calendars. The same list appears at the bottom of Settings > Preferences > Calendars.
Color: click a calendar's name to pick a color. Only the account owner and organization admins can change colors.
Notifications: turn reminders on or off for each calendar, or use Enable notifications and Disable notifications for the whole account.
Visible: show or hide the calendar in your calendar view. This is personal and doesn't affect teammates.
Hidden calendars don't sync while hidden. When you show one again, its events load right away.
Calendar preferences
Go to Settings > Preferences > Calendars.
Show calendar in invite emails
Shows the invite card above emails with a .ics invite. On by default.
Automatically collapse invite emails
Collapses the email under the invite card. On by default.
Start week on
The first day of the week in the calendar. Sunday by default.
Time format
1:00 PM or 13:00.
Hours visible at once
How many hours the day and week layouts fit on screen, from 6 to 24. 12 by default. See Hours visible at once.
Default meeting time
How long new timed events are. 15 minutes to 2 hours, including 25 and 50-minute options. 30 minutes by default.
Default reminder for timed events
Reminders added to new timed events. 10 minutes before by default.
Default reminder for all-day events
Reminders added to new all-day events. None by default.
Default calendar
The calendar new events go on. When set to None, Missive picks a visible calendar you can write to.
Open map links in
Google Maps, Apple Maps, Bing Maps, or DuckDuckGo Maps.
Hidden calendar prompt
When you create an event on a hidden calendar, Missive asks whether to add that calendar to your view. To change this, go to Settings > Preferences > General and set Add hidden calendar when creating events to Ask, Show, or Don't show.
Reminder notifications
Calendar reminders appear in three places:
Desktop and mobile notifications. Turn them on or off under Settings > Preferences > Notifications, in the Calendar reminders row.
The Activity feed. An orange dot on the bell icon means you have unread reminders. It adds 1 to your app icon badge count, however many reminders there are. To opt out, open the Activity feed settings and uncheck Unread for Calendar reminders.
Per calendar. Turn off reminders for specific calendars in the Notifications column.
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