Email and calendar

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

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What gets synced

Slant begins syncing immediately after you connect. The initial sync usually takes up to 24 hours depending on the size of your mailbox — you can keep working while it runs.

• 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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Track sync progress

While the first sync is running, a progress badge appears in the top bar showing the connected email address, a calendar status ring, and an email status ring. Hover the badge for a breakdown — calendar syncs first, then email fills in by percentage. If multiple accounts are syncing, the badge shows a +N chip for the extras. The badge disappears once the sync finishes.

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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

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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. 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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Share your calendar with your own book

If you’re the principal of a book, that book’s row controls whether your primary calendar is visible to everyone on the book. Toggling it off applies across all of your connected email accounts — it hides your primary calendar from your book members regardless of which account the events come from.

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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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Calendar edit access

By default, teammates who can see your calendar can only view events. Use Calendar edit access to let specific teammates create, update, reschedule, and delete events on your behalf — useful for assistants or paraplanners who manage your schedule. Granted teammates can act on events directly from Slant. The original calendar owner — you — stays the owner of every event, so changes still sync through your connected calendar provider. To revoke a teammate’s access, find them in the Calendar edit access table and click Revoke access.

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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).

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Share your email access

You can grant teammates permission to view email from your connected inbox, and optionally to send and reply from it. This is helpful when an assistant or team member manages correspondence for your email address. Each shared teammate has one of two access levels:

• Read only — the teammate can view email from this inbox.
• Read and send — the teammate can also send and reply from this inbox.

New shares default to Read only. To change a teammate’s level, use the Access level dropdown on their row and choose Read only or Read and send. The change takes effect immediately. To revoke a teammate’s access, find them in the shared access table and click Revoke.

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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. 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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