ics from booking sites are generic (for all comers) and don’t have your booking details. Notes – there’s plenty of room for extra info. For past events do you want an annual reminder or only on major anniversaries like five or ten years.įree / Busy - Outlook makes appointments/events ‘Busy’ by default but that’s not always appropriate.Ĭategories – choose one or more to group items within a calendar. Recurrence – combined with reminder to pop-up at anniversaries. Reminder – how soon before the event do you want a reminder (if any). For example, not just the venue name but the address as well. Location: make sure the Location details are complete for you. That especially applies to flight details which you’d think would include correct time zone for departure and arrival airports but often do NOT (we’re looking at you British Airways).

ics items have a TZ setting and if you’re working across time zones there’s plenty of room for appointments to with the wrong or no time zone.

Time Zone – make sure there’s a time zone setting. Too often web site developers make a simple iCalendar file to ‘check the box’ without proper testing or considering the needs of end-users. ics was made the and choices of the event maker. An imported calendar item might not have all the right settings.

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