HOW TO
When you're a fractional exec or consultant working across multiple client Google Workspaces, you can't have Client A's meeting titles showing up on Client B's shared calendar view. Here's why the common "just cross-share your calendars" advice is a confidentiality landmine — and what to do instead.
You need cross-account double-booking prevention, but you can't leak client-specific meeting details across those accounts.
The most common advice on the internet for "manage multiple Google Calendars" is: cross-share your calendars so each account sees the others. This works for the double-booking half of the problem — but by default, "share calendar" in Google Calendar shares event titles, attendees, and notes unless you pick the more restricted "see only free/busy" permission.
Even if you pick "free/busy only," you're relying on that setting to hold across every calendar and every future event. One mis-clicked permission and Client A's confidential meeting title is visible to anyone at Client B who can see your calendar.
Calendar sync tools (OneCal, SyncThemCalendars, Reclaim, Amie sync features) copy events across your calendars. Default behavior: copy titles and attendees. Some offer "private title" or "redacted copy" modes — worth using if you rely on a sync tool, but you're trusting the tool to not regress.
Meetingpad never reads your meeting titles. It queries each Google account's freeBusy API server-side to know when you're busy — the API returns start/end times only, no event contents. Your titles never leave your calendars.
When a booking arrives on one of your Meetingpad links, Meetingpad writes a small "Busy" placeholder event to your other connected calendars. That placeholder has no title, no attendees, no notes — just an anonymous block reserving the time so nobody double-books you.
The net result: cross-account double-booking prevention with zero cross-visibility of meeting details.
Meetingpad only reads title/attendee data for events it created. Never reads your existing calendar events' contents.
