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Recording from your calendar

Daisy can show your upcoming meetings and start a recording pre-filled with a meeting's title, attendees, and a tag. It reads calendars through read-only ICS (iCal) links, so nothing about your calendar leaves your machine except the fetch to your provider.

Subscribing to a calendar

  1. Open Settings and go to the Calendars section.
  2. Enter a Name (for example, Work or Personal).
  3. Paste a read-only ICS URL from your provider:
    • Google Calendar: Settings → "Secret address in iCal format".
    • Microsoft 365 Outlook: Share → Publish → ICS link.
    • Apple Calendar: a calendar.icloud.com share link.
  4. Click Add subscription.

For each subscription you can toggle whether it is enabled, pick a color, and choose an Auto-tag. Recordings started from that calendar's events are automatically tagged with the auto-tag.

Viewing and recording events

Open the Calendar view to see upcoming events:

  • Use the Window selector to choose how far ahead to look: Today, 3 days, 7 days, 14 days, or 30 days.
  • Click an event to start a new recording pre-filled with its title, attendees (as participants), and the calendar's auto-tag.
  • Dismiss an event with the × button to hide it from the list. The dismissal persists across syncs.

Keeping events current

Click ↻ Sync in the Calendar view (or ↻ Refresh now in Settings → Calendars) to fetch the latest events. Refresh runs on demand; for periodic updates, add a system scheduler such as cron or a systemd timer.

Good to know

Deleting a subscription clears its cached events immediately. Recordings you already started from its events keep their calendar link — the leftover reference is harmless.