Use your calendar

Ask the assistant about your schedule alongside your meeting notes. First connect Calendar in Settings → Connections, then open the assistant and make a request such as:

• “What meetings do I have tomorrow, and what should I prepare from my notes?”
• “Find a free 45-minute slot on Thursday between 9:00 and 17:00.”
• “Do I have any overlapping meetings next week?”
• “When am I next meeting [email protected], and what’s on the agenda?”

Name the date or time range and any working-hour constraints. Availability is calculated across your connected calendars; a free period can include evenings and weekends unless you narrow the request.

What’s included

Banter syncs the calendars you own in Google Calendar and Outlook. Shared and subscribed calendars are not included. Event details can include the time, title, agenda, location, meeting link, organizer, attendees, and their responses.

The initial sync covers the previous 90 days and the next 365 days. Previously synced history is retained as time moves forward. Each calendar has its own coverage: one connected later can have less history, and a new account or calendar may still be waiting for its first sync. Missing events in those gaps do not mean you are free. Dates outside the synced coverage are unknown too.

Calendar changes within the rolling sync window refresh in the background, normally about every ten minutes. Secondary Outlook calendars refresh about hourly. Older retained history can be out of date. Check the account’s status in Settings → Connections if a recent change is missing; reconnect when requested. A synced schedule can lag behind the provider.

How availability works

Busy, tentative, and out-of-office events block time unless cancelled or declined. Events marked free or working elsewhere do not block time. The assistant can also identify overlapping events and explain which events were left out of the busy calculation.

Times use the time zone last supplied by your browser to Banter chat. If it is not known, Banter uses the primary Google calendar’s time zone when available, otherwise UTC. Ask the assistant to include the time zone, especially when travelling or using an external AI connection.

An event draft shows the time zone requested for that event, which can differ from the zone used to list your schedule. Around daylight-saving changes, check the time-zone label beside the hour too.

Create an event

1. Ask Banter’s in-app assistant to draft a one-off meeting or time block. Give the calendar, title, date, start and end time, and time zone. Add guests by email address, a location, and an agenda if needed. For an all-day event, give the first and last day you want included.
2. Wait for the assistant to finish, then review the Calendar draft card. Check the account and calendar, dates and time zone, guests, location, agenda, and any warnings. All-day cards show First day and Last day, both included. Guests’ availability is not checked.
3. Ask for changes in chat before creating it. A revised card replaces the earlier version; only the newest finished card can create the event. The draft itself does not reserve time or send invitations.
4. Press Create event for a time block without guests, or Create & invite to create the event and send calendar invitations. The first creation from an account asks Google or Microsoft for permission. Choose the same account shown on the card. In the browser, Banter returns to that chat; in a native app, return to the app yourself. Review the card and press its creation button again after granting access.

Warnings reflect the calendar copy when the draft was written. If time has passed or your schedule has changed, check availability again before confirming.

The card shows Created when creation succeeds, with Open event when the provider supplies a link. Guests still need to respond to invitations. Only your confirmation creates the event, even when automatic acceptance of note edits is enabled.

Use Discard to abandon a draft before trying to create it. If creation cannot be confirmed, the event and invitations may already exist at the provider. Follow the card’s message and use Retry creation on that exact card to check or complete the same event. A replacement draft could create a duplicate. Once creation has been attempted, its draft is locked against edits and discard so the retry keeps the same event details. If the original card is no longer available, check Google Calendar or Outlook before drafting a replacement.

Current limits

You can create one-off events. Use Google Calendar or Outlook to reschedule, cancel, or respond to an existing event, create recurring meetings, or generate a new Google Meet or Teams link. You can put an existing meeting link in a draft’s location.

External MCP clients can read the connected calendar, but calendar drafts and their confirmation cards are available only in Banter’s own chat.

The Chrome extension’s calendar note capture is separate: it can bring the details of an open calendar event into a note. Connecting a calendar makes your synced schedule available to the assistant without opening each event in the browser.