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Connecting your email and calendar lets Slant sync your emails to household timelines, display calendar events across your books, and send emails directly from Slant. Slant supports Google, Microsoft (Outlook/Office 365), and Microsoft Exchange accounts. Each user can connect up to two email accounts.

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Connect an account

1

Open email and calendar settings

Go to Settings → Email and calendar.
2

Choose your provider

Click Connect Google Account, Connect Microsoft Account, or Connect Microsoft Exchange.
3

Authorize Slant

Sign in to your email provider and grant Slant permission to access your email and calendar. You’ll be redirected back to Slant when the connection is complete.

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What gets synced

Slant begins syncing immediately after you connect. The initial sync may take a few minutes depending on the size of your inbox.
  • Emails — Slant pulls in up to 7 years of email history. Emails from blacklisted addresses and internal-only emails (messages where every participant is within your organization) are excluded.
  • Calendar events — Slant syncs events from 18 months ago through 1 year into the future, from your primary calendar only. All event types are included — private events are synced but can be hidden from creating meetings.

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Manage connected accounts

Each connected account appears as a card on the Email and calendar settings page. Click the icon to open the account’s detail page, or click the ⋮ (three-dot menu) for quick actions:
  • Edit — opens the account detail page where you can configure calendar sharing, email permissions, and your signature
  • Reauthenticate — reconnects to your email provider if the connection has been lost
  • Disconnect — removes the account and all synced data from Slant
Disconnecting an account removes all synced emails and calendar events from Slant. This cannot be undone.

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Set a primary account

If you have two connected accounts, one is marked as your primary account. Slant uses your primary account as the default when sending emails. To change your primary account, click the ⋮ menu on the account you want and select Set as primary.

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Calendar sharing

Calendar sharing controls which of your books can see events from your connected calendar. To configure calendar sharing, click the icon on a connected account, then select the Calendar sharing tab.

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Expose your calendar to a book

Under Expose your primary calendar, toggle the switch next to each book to start or stop sharing your calendar events with that book.
Your calendar is always shared with your principal book. This cannot be turned off.
When you expose a calendar to a book, events begin syncing immediately. Other users in that book can see your events on the shared calendar and Slant can create meetings from your calendar events.

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Hide private events

The Hide private events toggle prevents private calendar events from creating meetings or notetakers in Slant. Private events are still synced, but they won’t trigger any automated workflows. Turn this on if your calendar contains personal appointments marked as private that you don’t want Slant to act on.

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Email permissions

Click the icon on a connected account and select the Email permissions tab to manage your blacklist and sharing settings.

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Blacklisted emails

Emails from blacklisted addresses or domains won’t appear in Slant. This is useful for filtering out newsletters, marketing emails, or other messages you don’t want on household timelines. To add entries, type an email address or domain pattern into the input field and click Save changes. Use wildcard patterns to block entire domains (e.g., *@example.com).
Your company admin can also maintain a company-wide blacklist that applies to all users. Company-wide entries appear as read-only on this page.

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Share your email access

You can grant teammates permission to view emails from your connected inbox. This is helpful when an assistant or team member needs to see client correspondence sent to your email address.
1

Open the sharing settings

On the Email permissions tab, click Grant access.
2

Select teammates

Check the box next to each teammate you want to grant access to. Teammates who already have access appear as disabled.
3

Save

Click Grant access to confirm. The selected teammates can now see emails from this inbox.
To revoke a teammate’s access, find them in the shared access table and click Revoke access.

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Email signature

Your email signature is automatically appended to emails you send from Slant. Each connected account has its own signature. Click the icon on a connected account and select the Signature tab to set up your signature. Type or paste your signature into the editor and click Save signature. Use the formatting toolbar to style your text with bold, italic, links, and images.
You can also import your existing signature by sending an email to signatures@mail.slant.app from your connected account. Slant will extract the signature automatically.
To remove your signature, click Clear.

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Unsubscribed emails

If any contacts have unsubscribed from your emails, you’ll see a count at the bottom of the Email and calendar settings page. Click view here to see a list of unsubscribed email addresses and when they unsubscribed. Slant automatically prevents you from sending emails to unsubscribed contacts.

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FAQ

Each user can connect up to two email accounts. Both accounts sync emails and calendar events independently, and you choose which one is your primary account for sending.
All synced emails and calendar events from that account are removed from Slant. This includes emails on household timelines and calendar events shared with your books. This cannot be undone.
A warning icon means Slant has lost its connection to your email provider. This can happen if your password changed, your organization revoked access, or your OAuth token expired. Click Reauthenticate from the ⋮ menu to reconnect.
Yes. Granting a teammate access lets them view all emails synced from that inbox in Slant, not just emails related to specific households. Only share access with teammates who should see your full email history.