Calendar

Dustav's Calendar tab is your real Google Calendar, mirrored into the app — the same events, live, beside your mail. Connect the calendar half of your Google sign-in, tick the calendars you want visible, and your actual schedule renders here: your working calendar first-class and editable, a subscribed feed (holidays, a partner's calendar) shown quietly as busy time.

There is no second calendar to maintain. An event you create or edit here is created or edited in Google Calendar — your phone, your booking tools, and everyone else's view of your schedule stay a single source of truth.

Dates found in your mail

When the reader finds a date — an appointment request, a deadline, a class booking — it doesn't write your calendar. It stages a proposal: fully formed with title and time, shown on the email's card and as a ghost slot on the calendar itself. One tap — Book it — and it lands on your real Google Calendar. Not right? Not this, and it's gone. The same applies when mail implies a move or a cancellation: proposed, never performed.

This is the send rule applied to time: Dustav proposes; your tap books. Even in chat — "put lunch with Sam on Friday" — the event stages with a confirm chip, and your tap in the conversation is the commit. The only hands that write your calendar directly are your own, in the edit modal.

Guests are sacred — which is why you press the button

Anything that would notify another person is send-shaped, and send-shaped acts stay human. That doesn't mean Dustav won't go near it — it means the tap is yours, and the button tells you what it's about to do.

Changing a meeting that has guests works like any other proposal, except the chip says who it emails: "Save & email 3 guests." Google notifies them when you commit, and there is no quiet version — moving a meeting out from under people silently is worse than telling them.

Inviting someone is the other direction, and it's the part most people are doing by hand. When a meeting gets agreed in an email thread — "Tuesday at 2 works" — the other person usually ends up with nothing: no calendar entry, no reminder, no way to hear if it moves. So Dustav stages the event with them on it, and offers where: your shop address, or a Google Meet link it asks Google to mint. One tap — Book & invite — books it and sends them a real invitation.

Two limits worth knowing. Dustav will only propose inviting an address that's actually in that thread, or one you gave it yourself — it can't invent a person to email. And it never invites anyone to something you're hosting: a class with registrations is a class, not a private appointment, and your students don't get invitations to it.

An invitation you receive is already on your calendar — Google put it there — so Dustav doesn't stage a copy. It tells you if the meeting clashes with something, and offers the answer: Going? Yes / Maybe / No, on the event itself or as a staged reply from the email's card. Your tap is what the organizer sees.

Reminders

Book an event and a reminder is armed with it. When it fires, it arrives as a short note written for the moment — in the app, and by email or push if you've turned those on (quiet is the default).