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Exclude Events By Color

Events colored with the selected color won't be synchronized.

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Exclude Events By Color UI
Exclude Events By Color UI

OneCal offers a handy feature that allows you to prevent specific events from being synchronized by using a chosen color. This means that events with a particular color won't be copied over to your other calendars during the synchronization process.

For example, imagine you color-code your events, with all personal appointments in blue and work-related events in green. If you've set it up so that green events should not be synchronized, then any work-related appointments colored green in one calendar will not appear in your other synced calendar. This ensures that you have the flexibility to keep certain events separate and not clutter your other calendars.

By selecting this color-based exclusion option, you can maintain better control over what gets synchronized, allowing you to keep different aspects of your life or work separate as needed. OneCal's customizable features make it easy to tailor your calendar syncing experience to your preferences.


Outlook calendars: exclude by category

Outlook does not color individual events the way Google Calendar does. Instead, Outlook uses categories, and OneCal maps the default Outlook categories to colors. The color options are labeled with both names, for example "Peacock/Blue category".

When the source of your calendar sync is an Outlook calendar, pick the category you want to exclude, and events tagged with that category won't be synchronized. The supported categories are the default Outlook ones: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple and Gray.

Good To Know

OneCal matches the default Outlook category names. If you renamed a category in Outlook, or use custom categories, they cannot be matched to a color. When an event has several categories, the first one determines its color.

Excluding events by color is not available on iCloud calendars, because the iCloud API does not support custom event colors.