Getting started

Principles of note-taking

Daily journaling

Linking your notes

Real-world examples

Getting started with Reflect

Product

How to use Reflect

Using backlinks and tags

Keyboard shortcuts

Split pane view

Security and encryption

Note history

Import, export, backups

Advanced Search

Artificial Intelligence

Using templates

Bookmarking websites

Publishing notes

Calendar and contacts

Audio memos

Integrations

Kindle sync

API

Tasks

Calendar and contacts

We support connecting your Google, iCloud and Office 365 account(s) to Reflect. This lets you:

• Pull in your calendar events, so you can easily add meetings to your daily notes.
• Easily backlink contacts (we'll auto-populate the backlink menu). This is currently limited to Google Contacts only.

Is my data safe?

Yes. We never share it with third-parties. We only use it for functionality listed above.

How do I add my Google or Office 365 accounts

1. Go to Reflect's preferences: cmd ,
2. Navigate to Connections
3. Click Connect an account. Pick either Google or Office 365.
4. Go through the authorization steps. For Google accounts, make sure to select the check-boxes - they're easy to miss!
   • For Google accounts, make sure to select the check-boxes - they're easy to miss!
   • For iCloud accounts, you’ll need to generate an app specific password using the process in the section below.
5. After a few seconds you’ll see your connected account. Now:
   1. Calendars will be accessible by your daily note.
   2. Google contacts will be synced and available when backlinking.

Click on ‘Connect an account’ to add a new Google or Office 365 account

Make sure to check these boxes during the authorization process.

How do I add my iCloud/iCal events in Reflect?

Apple requires you to generate an app specific password for certain integrations. This is so you can connect your Apple ID to 3rd party apps without giving away your login credentials.

To generate an app specific password:

1. Sign into your Apple ID at appleid.apple.com.
2. Click on the “App Specific Passwords” box in the lower left corner.
3. Click on the “+” icon and give the app password a name of your choosing (probably related to Reflect).
4. Enter your Apple ID password one more time.
5. You’ll see a box with a unique passcode on it. Use this password when adding iCloud to Reflect using the process above.

You can watch a video walkthrough of how to do this here.

Calendar sync

We'll pull in your meetings directly next to your daily notes. Only events associated with the accounts you’ve added will be listed.

You can choose which calendars you want to import from our preferences.

Choosing which calendars to import events from

Adding a meeting

Simply click on one of the meetings listed, and we'll prompt you to Add a meeting. Essentially this is a shortcut to append a bullet point about that meeting to your daily note. We'll auto-create notes for each of the attendees and backlink them.

What does *Create backlinked note* mean? Well you may want to create a note dedicated to this meeting if in the future you're going to want to refer to any notes referencing it.

If this meeting is a recurring meeting we'll check this by default.

Contacts sync

We currently only support contact syncing from Google Contacts.

Once a Google account has been added, we'll start syncing its contacts. This will take a few minutes. Once that's complete, your contacts will be available in the backlink menu.

We will refresh your contacts every two days. Note that we don’t sync all of your contacts - see below.

<aside> ⚠️ Note that we only sync contacts that have a name, an email, and aren’t in Other Contacts.

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