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Picking days
- Open the link, tap Start, pick your name or add it, tap the days you're free and tap Finish. You don't need an account.
- Picking for someone else, like grandma? Pick her name.
- Private plans ask for your email first. We email you a 6-digit code, or you can tap the button in your invite email.
Checking your calendar
Check my calendar puts stripes on days that look busy. You still tap your days.
- Google skips events marked free, so they don't look busy.
- We check only your main Google calendar and your default Outlook calendar.
- To remove our access at Microsoft, sign in at account.microsoft.com, open Privacy, then the apps that can see your data, and remove This Date Works. Work or school accounts: myapplications.microsoft.com.
- To remove our access at Apple, sign in at account.apple.com, open Sign-In and Security, then App-Specific Passwords, and delete the one you made for This Date Works.
- Signed in, you can turn off Google or Outlook in Your account.
Organizing a plan
- Lost your organizer link? On the phone you made the plan on, sign in. Then sign in on your new phone.
- If strangers got your link, remove their names, or delete the plan and make a new one.
- To set the date, open the plan and tap Set this date on the row you want.
Invite emails
- Signed in, we email your invite to people with an email, after you check it and tap Looks good. We list everyone else so you can send them the link yourself.
- Each organizer can send a limited number of emails a day, and each address gets only a few. People over a limit are listed so you can send them the link.
- Every invite has a link to stop emails from that organizer or from us, and a way to report abuse. We stop emailing addresses that bounce or report spam.
- After complaints from different people, we pause that organizer's email invites.
How we read dates in a plan's name
Words in a plan's name, like next weekend or Thanksgiving, pick the dates we start with. You always see the dates and can pick others.
- We read words by fixed rules, never by AI.
- Words that go out of date, like next weekend, are taken out of the saved name.
- Summer is the Saturday before Memorial Day through Labor Day. Fall is the day after Labor Day through November 30. Winter is December 1 through the end of February. Spring is March 1 until summer starts.
- A holiday alone means its long weekend: Thanksgiving is Thursday to Sunday, Easter is Good Friday to Sunday, and Monday holidays are Saturday to Monday.
- Christmas alone starts on Christmas Eve and runs through that weekend. New Year's alone starts on New Year's Eve.
- Early November is the 1st to the 10th, mid November the 11th to the 20th, and late November the 21st to the end.
- Month and season words count only after words like in, during or this, so Dinner with June isn't June.
- For now we know US holidays and Northern Hemisphere seasons.