Google Calendar Logic Challenge

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Hello,

Been trying to think of a way to do this for ages, & wondered whether any OCers fancy a tech-logic challenge:

So there's 4 of us living in this house, all busy adults - for many operational reasons, we want to set up a (Google) Calendar arrangement (for us all to access through our own clients - think we all use Apple Calendar on Mac & iPhone) so we all will know when the others are away.

I thought about setting up a simple calendar sharing arrangement, but here's the thing: 3 of us work professionally and need to keep our individual meetings, client details, etc confidential so we can't just share out our individual calendars to the others. Also thought about setting up a separate calendar to which we can put 'Person X away, 2pm to 4pm' but that would require us to manually duplicate, delete, modify all of our entries twice - not ideal.

Have tried to think of other ways where we can visually see calendar entries under each other's names to denote when these people will be away from the house, that will be updated without any extra effort from us, but yet keeps all the specific details hidden, and where this new calendar and all of our existing calendars do not interfere or obscure the other in any way.

Any thoughts?
 
Why not create a calendar for work related appointments, invite house mates to share the calendar, but adjust the sharing options to show 'free/busy' only?

Alternatively you could invite house mates to your current calendar but manually make all work appointments 'private'
 
A seperate Google account with shared access works a treat.... I use one for herself and I, so I'm aware of all the things she agrees I'll do, go to etc. Takes a little setting up so it's right, in terms of requirements around privacy/security as you've laid out, but it's doable.
 
You can share specific calendars between Google Accounts.

Me and. y girlfriend used to do this when we worked a rota so we knew easily what we we're both working any given day without having to constantly ask.
 
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