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📊 Time Insights and Conflict Blocking

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Review meeting load privately and mirror selected commitments as generic Busy blocks on another calendar.

Review Time Insights

Open Time Insights from the calendar’s planning tools. Choose the range and calendar scope. InstaCal summarizes meeting load, focus-ready time, after-hours work and the projected cost of recurring meetings.

InstaCal Time Insights showing meeting load and focus time
Time Insights summarizes the selected calendar scope on the device.

The analysis runs on the device against the calendars you selected. It is a planning view, not an analytics upload, and does not create an InstaCal account or profile.

Configure Conflict Blocking

Open Settings → Calendars → Conflict Blocking. Choose the source calendars whose occupied times should be protected, then choose a destination calendar.

InstaCal mirrors matching private commitments as generic Busy blocks. The destination receives the time needed to prevent double-booking, not the source title, attendees, notes or location.

InstaCal Conflict Blocking settings for source and destination calendars
Conflict Blocking copies only the time as a generic Busy item, not the private title or notes.

Avoid loops and duplicates

Do not select the destination as one of its own sources. Review the preview before enabling a rule, especially when two accounts already subscribe to each other’s free/busy information.

Remove a rule

Disable or delete the Conflict Blocking configuration from Settings. Review any destination blocks according to the confirmation shown; the source events remain untouched.

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