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Access tokens: what they are and 5 cases for revoking them
How a token differs from a password, why there are two types, a table of five cases for revoking them and what you'll notice in the app afterwards.
EmailCalendar and tasksPrivacy
Privacy
Privacy: news and guides
What happens to your data when an AI reads your mail: encryption, retention, consent and GDPR.
25 articles
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Broken sync: 6 signs to spot it and a table of causes
What shows that Gmail, Outlook or an iCal calendar has stopped updating, how to check it and what cause lies behind each failure.
EmailCalendar and tasks
3 min read
Single or Multiple Calendars: A Practical 3-Tier Setup
A single calendar mixes work and personal life, while ten scatter your day. Learn what to separate and what to unify across your daily schedule.
Calendar and tasksPrivacy
3 min read
European Union servers: key differences and table
Hosting databases in the EU determines which laws apply to your personal data, what safeguards the GDPR demands, and how erasure requests are handled.
EmailCalendar and tasks
3 min read
How connecting two apps works and what data you share when authorising it
Discover how app authorisation works, what permissions you grant when linking accounts, and how to control the data you share between digital services.
EmailCalendar and tasks
3 min read
When to let AI draft a reply and when to write it yourself
Delegating drafts to AI saves time on routine tasks, but in negotiations or apologies it can backfire. Here is where to draw the line.
AI assistantsEmail
4 min read
How to request a copy of your data from any app
Learn how to exercise your right of access: where to find the download option, what to ask for by email if there is no button, and what data they must provide.
EmailPrivacy
4 min read
How to stick to your daily routines without them becoming another chore
A routine stops working when it triggers guilt. Reducing friction, defining baseline versions, and separating habits from tasks keeps them from becoming a burden.
EmailCalendar and tasks
3 min read
How to check which apps have access to your Google or Microsoft account
Learn how to find and revoke third-party permissions in Google and Microsoft to keep your emails, calendar events, and documents secure.
EmailCalendar and tasks
3 min read
Encryption at rest and in transit: what each one protects
Encryption in transit protects data on the move, while encryption at rest secures stored files. Here is what each one does and what neither can prevent.
EmailCalendar and tasks
3 min read
Shared family calendars: what to include and what to leave out
Sharing a family calendar prevents logistical mix-ups when done thoughtfully. We look at which events to put on the shared calendar and which to leave out.
Calendar and tasksPrivacy
2 min read
Electricity prices and air quality, in the same glance as the weather
The electricity price right now, the cheapest slot left and your town's air quality and pollen, in the same glance as the weather. Each line can be turned off in Settings.
WeatherPrivacy
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“Time to leave”: your iPhone tells you when to set off for your next appointment
If your next appointment has an address, your iPhone works out with Apple Maps how long it takes from where you are and tells you when to leave. Your location never reaches our servers.
Calendar and tasksGetting around
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tokidu in Madrugo: your tasks in the daily plan and the calendar, in one tap
Connect tokidu in one tap, with no codes to copy, and its next tasks appear in your daily plan and, if they have a date, in the calendar. Tapping one takes you to it in tokidu.
Calendar and tasksIntegrations
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What permissions an app that reads your email asks for (and which you can refuse)
Reading mail, calendar and tasks to show you the day; writing only if you are going to let it act. They are separate blocks and can be granted one at a time.
EmailCalendar and tasks
3 min read
How to compare alternatives for calendar, email and tasks without getting lost
They nearly all promise the same thing. These six questions separate the tools that fix your day from the ones that just add another screen.
AI assistantsEmail
2 min read
Todoist and Google Tasks in a single list for today
With both connected, what is overdue and what is due today meet in one list with the origin visible. Nothing is copied between managers, and neither is crowned the winner.
EmailCalendar and tasks
2 min read
Seeing Gmail and Outlook on one screen without blurring the accounts
You connect both over OAuth and each keeps its own panel and identity. What gets unified is the reading of your day, not the accounts or the replies.
EmailCalendar and tasks
3 min read
A daily AI summary of email and calendar: what it is and what it can tell you
A daily briefing is a short text that crosses your mail, calendar, tasks and the weather to tell you about the day before you open it. Here is how it is built and what it must not do.
EmailCalendar and tasks
3 min read
Apple Reminders on the iPhone and on the web: how to see them off the phone
Apple offers no public server-side API for Reminders. The approach that works is letting the iPhone itself read them and sync them to your account.
Calendar and tasksPrivacy
3 min read
How to see Google Calendar and iCloud together
Two routes actually work: the iPhone app, which reads the phone's own Calendar, and a published iCal link from iCloud. Here is when each one is the right choice.
Calendar and tasksPrivacy
3 min read
How to organise email, calendar and tasks in one place
You do it by connecting the accounts you already use to a single reading surface, not by migrating anything. What changes is where you look, not where your data lives.
EmailCalendar and tasks
2 min read
Integrations that should not exist
Half the integrations in a productivity app exist to compensate for the fact that the app does not read the calendar. The calendar already is the integration.
EmailCalendar and tasks
3 min read
Every AI assistant reads your email. The question is how.
An AI assistant that does not read your email cannot help with your day. What matters is not whether it reads, but what it stores and for how long.
AI assistantsEmail
2 min read
What an assistant that reads your email knows about you
Memory with an expiry date, field-level encryption and a working forget button: three things that should be mandatory and almost never are.
AI assistantsEmail