Office 365/Outlook Calendar Integration
What you'll learn
How to connect your Office 365 or Outlook Calendar to RescueTime
Click here to open your calendar integration settings.
1. Select "Add a new calendar" and choose Outlook Calendar.
2. You will be redirected to sign in to your Office 365 account. Signing in connects RescueTime to your Office 365 Calendar.
3. When you connect RescueTime to your Office 365 Calendar, you will need to grant the following permissions:
This is necessary to create the dedicated RescueTime Calendar where your calendar summaries will be posted each day.
NOTE: RescueTime will not add, edit, or delete anything from your existing calendars. If these permissions are not granted, the integration will not function.
4. Once connected, open your calendar. Refresh your Office 365 Calendar in order for your RescueTime Calendar to populate on the bottom left of your screen under "My calendars". Once it appears, click the check box to see RescueTime appear in your calendar.
If you have time logged your calendar will now look like this:
4. Once connected, open your calendar. Refresh your Office 365 Calendar in order for your RescueTime Calendar to populate on the bottom left of your screen under "My calendars". Once it appears, click the check box to see RescueTime appear in your calendar.
If you have time logged your calendar will now look like this:
How to use the Office 365/Outlook Calendar Integration
RescueTime creates a new calendar that shows a daily summary of your activity. Each day, a new summary is created showing details of your logged time in RescueTime and your time spent in meetings.
Note: Summaries are available for previous days but not the current day.
To view an expanded overview of your day, select the timer or calendar emoji and then select the expand arrow.
Daily Overview:
- Total time logged
- Total time in meetings
- Daily Focus Work goal
Troubleshooting
I can't find the RescueTime summaries on my Office 365 Calendar or Outlook Calendar:
Open the calendar integration settings, click the gear icon, select Settings, and click "Regenerate Summaries."
This will regenerate your summaries from the last 7 days. 
RescueTime is not recognizing my meetings/events correctly:
This may happen if the email address for your RescueTime account does not match your Outlook email address.
- RescueTime recognizes a non-meeting event as a scheduled meeting because your Outlook email is considered an invitee in an event with only one participant. You can use #notameeting in the title or description of your event for non-meetings.
- For meetings that RescueTime is not acknowledging, use #meeting in the title or description of your calendar event.
- Learn more about calendar hashtags here.
Another option is to update your RescueTime account email address to match your Outlook email address.
How to disconnect your Office 365/Outlook Calendar from RescueTime
Each step is required to disconnect your calendar.
1. Open the calendar integration page > gear icon > Remove calendar
2. Open your Calendar integration page > gear icon > Settings > Remove Outlook Calendar
3. Open your calendar.
4. Hover over the RescueTime Calendar and select the ellipsis that appears.
5. Choose “Remove".
