Keeping work and personal separate without keeping them apart
People keep two calendar apps to keep work out of their evenings. It is a reasonable instinct solved the wrong way.
What most people assume
That separation requires separate apps.
What the boundary is for
The point is not to be unable to see work. It is to not be ambushed by it — to look at Saturday without a wall of meetings, and to look at Tuesday and see everything.
Two apps deliver that badly: they hide work when you need the overview and surface it when you do not, because the split is by app rather than by moment.
Doing it by visibility instead
Colour by account and you can read the week at a glance. Toggle a calendar off and the evening is yours without the work events ceasing to exist.
The overview survives, which is the thing two apps take away.
Where the paid tier helps
Managing events across accounts — moving something from work to personal, or the reverse — sits in the paid tier. Viewing everything together does not.
If all you want is to see it all in one place, that is free.
The numbers
| What it describes | Value |
|---|---|
| Accounts in one view | 3 |
| Monthly cost of cross-account management, in dollars | 0.49 |
What it looks like
What to do
- Colour by account, not by topic.
- Toggle work calendars off at the weekend rather than closing the app.
- Keep one calendar as the one you write to by default, so nothing lands in the wrong place.