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.Documentation Index
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Connect an account
Choose your provider
Click Connect Google Account, Connect Microsoft Account, or Connect Microsoft Exchange.
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.
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
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.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.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.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.Only the book’s principal sees this toggle for their own book.
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.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.Open the calendar settings
Go to Settings → Email and calendar, click the icon on the connected account, and stay on the Calendar sharing tab.
Select teammates
Under Grant calendar edit access, check the box next to each teammate you want to grant access to. Teammates who already have access appear as disabled.
Only teammates who can already see this calendar appear as eligible. If a teammate isn’t listed, expose your calendar to one of their books first under Expose your primary calendar above.
If you stop exposing this calendar to all of a teammate’s books, their edit access is automatically removed.
Email permissions
Click the icon on a connected account and select the Email permissions tab to manage your blacklist and sharing settings.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.
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.Select teammates
Check the box next to each teammate you want to grant access to. Teammates who already have access appear as disabled.
Sharing access also controls what teammates see in the team activity feed. Email entries only appear for inboxes the viewer owns or has been granted access to here.
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.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.FAQ
How many email accounts can I connect?
How many email accounts can I connect?
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.
What happens to my data if I disconnect an account?
What happens to my data if I disconnect an account?
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.
My account shows a warning icon — what does that mean?
My account shows a warning icon — what does that mean?
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.
Can teammates see all my emails when I share access?
Can teammates see all my emails when I share access?
Who owns events created by a teammate with calendar edit access?
Who owns events created by a teammate with calendar edit access?
You do. The original calendar owner stays the owner of every event, even when a teammate with edit access creates, updates, reschedules, or deletes it. Changes still sync through your connected calendar provider.