Work-calendar mirror

If you juggle several calendars, the mirror gives you one place to look. Meetingpad copies every real event from your ticked source calendars into a single destination.

Setting it up

1. Menubar → Calendars….
2. Tick the calendars you want to include in the mirror (usually your identity calendars).
3. Under Work Calendar mirror, pick a destination calendar. This is usually a new empty iCloud calendar (create one in Calendar.app first).
4. Turn Mirror real events into this calendar on.
5. Hide your source calendars in Calendar.app and look only at the Work calendar.

How it stays in sync

Meetingpad runs a reconcile every 30 seconds while it's open: any new event in a source calendar shows up in the mirror; edits propagate; deletions remove the mirror copy. The mirror only covers the next 14 days by default.

Traceability

Every mirrored event's notes carry a header line like:

[meeting-scheduler-mirror] source:<event-id> synced:2026-07-15T18:00Z updated:2026-07-15T18:00Z

Use these timestamps to trace when a mirrored event first appeared and when it was last touched.

Cross-calendar blockers

Separately, Meetingpad can drop private "Blocked" placeholders on your other identity calendars whenever you have a real meeting on one. This prevents double-booking when guests check availability. Toggle it via Mirror busy across calendars in the menubar popover.

Free tier vs Pro

Cross-calendar blockers and work-calendar mirror are Pro-only. Free-tier users see the toggles disabled.