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Negative Keywords

Stop reminders sending in certain situations.

Updated over 3 years ago

 Please note:  This article relates to Google Calendar. If you are using a different calendar this article might not be applicable.

"How can I take an appointment out of the calendar?"
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Negative Keywords are words Appointment Reminder will scan for withing each google appointment and if detected will be removed from Appointment Reminder. This is really useful for ANY appointments in your Google Calendar that you don't want to get a reminder.

To edit your Negative Keywords do the following:

You will need to repeat this for each Google Calendar you have connected to Appointment Reminder.

  1. Go to settings > Edit Calendars

  2. Click edit on the Calendar you want to edit.

  3. Find the box that says "Negative Keywords"

  4. Enter the keywords you want Appointment Reminder to scan for.

  5. You should no longer see any appointments in your Appointment Reminder calendar that contain a negative keyword.

  6. If you change the Negative Keywords you will need to run a full sync to update previously synced appointments from Google Calendar.

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