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Shared calendars made easy
All calendars easy aligned and very easy to use
Synki does not contain ads and does not share data
Shared calendars made easy
All calendars easy aligned and very easy to use
Synki does not contain ads and does not share data
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Easy calendar alignment
Share all your relevant appointments with your partner, your family or your friends.
Share all your relevant appointments with your partner, your family or your friends.
Always have all calendars at hand
Watch Synki on your smartphone, tablet or PC, wherever you want.
Watch Synki on your smartphone, tablet or PC, wherever you want.
Very easy to use!
No technical hassle, always works. Use your own calendar background.
No technical hassle, always works. Use your own calendar background.
Easy calendar alignment
Share all your relevant appointments with your partner, your family or your friends.
Share all your relevant appointments with your partner, your family or your friends.
Always have all calendars at hand
Watch Synki on your smartphone, tablet or PC, wherever you want.
Watch Synki on your smartphone, tablet or PC, wherever you want.
Very easy to use!
No technical hassle, always works. Use your own calendar background.
No technical hassle, always works. Use your own calendar background.
Your shared calendar created in 4 easy steps:
1
Subscribe to Synki and get one year for FREE
2
Create a column for each calendar
3
Connect email address(es) to each column
4
Give each family member a login account to Synki
Ready to use! All members can share their events with Synki
Your shared calendar created in 4 easy steps:
1
Subscribe to Synki and get one year for FREE
2
Create a column for each calendar
3
Connect email address(es) to each column
4
Give each family member a login account to Synki
Ready to use! All members can share their events with Synki
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An easy way to get all calendars together..
The idea for Synki became apparent a couple of years ago. With all the email and electronic calendars available from work and the well known providers, we noticed that we still needed an old-fashioned paper calendar in the kitchen to get the family planning done. Why can't we share calendars in a simple way between phones from different brands? Why is it so difficult to share calender information between providers?
As there was no solution at hand - with 'technical backgrounds' - we started digging into the wonderful and complex world of calendaring and started building a prototype. The goal: build an open system that works with any calendaring solution. The system needed to consist of an electronic display to replace the traditional paper calendar at home and an app to view the calendar when not at home. One thing lead to another: we created 'Synki'.
Synki team - September 2018
Well,.. it's short, easy to remember and it stands for a couple of things:
1. Synchronize - as simple as possible - all your calendars... no matter..you keep using your favourite tooling.
2. 'Sink' all the calendar information from your family/group members to 1 shared calendar in real-time...so you have overview.
3. Distribute the shared calendar to whom you want. To phones/tablets/pc's.
We created Synki out of personal need. We like to stick to some of our original thoughts about the service:
1. No advertisements. Next to the fact that these would take up valuable calendar space, we think they are not appropriate when looking at a calendar.
2. Keep your data...yours! You already share planning data with the calendar software or service you use. If you share your planning data with Synki, it will be used only for calendar purposes. We use the data to a minimum, data we do not need is flushed. We do not share data with third parties.
3. Create a universal experience ..independent of the equipment you use. This is quite a technical challenge for something seemingly trivial as a calendar.
4. We strive to support a model where you can quit using paper calendars altogether and re-use equipment that you already own: your phone(s), old ipad(s) etc.
An easy way to get all calendars together..
The idea for Synki became apparent a couple of years ago. With all the email and electronic calendars available from work and the well known providers, we noticed that we still needed an old-fashioned paper calendar in the kitchen to get the family planning done. Why can't we share calendars in a simple way between phones from different brands? Why is it so difficult to share calender information between providers?
As there was no solution at hand - with 'technical backgrounds' - we started digging into the wonderful and complex world of calendaring and started building a prototype. The goal: build an open system that works with any calendaring solution. The system needed to consist of an electronic display to replace the traditional paper calendar at home and an app to view the calendar when not at home. One thing lead to another: we created 'Synki'.
Synki team - September 2018
Well,.. it's short, easy to remember and it stands for a couple of things:
1. Synchronize - as simple as possible - all your calendars... no matter..you keep using your favourite tooling.
2. 'Sink' all the calendar information from your family/group members to 1 shared calendar in real-time...so you have overview.
3. Distribute the shared calendar to whom you want. To phones/tablets/pc's.
We created Synki out of personal need. We like to stick to some of our original thoughts about the service:
1. No advertisements. Next to the fact that these would take up valuable calendar space, we think they are not appropriate when looking at a calendar.
2. Keep your data...yours! You already share planning data with the calendar software or service you use. If you share your planning data with Synki, it will be used only for calendar purposes. We use the data to a minimum, data we do not need is flushed. We do not share data with third parties.
3. Create a universal experience ..independent of the equipment you use. This is quite a technical challenge for something seemingly trivial as a calendar.
4. We strive to support a model where you can quit using paper calendars altogether and re-use equipment that you already own: your phone(s), old ipad(s) etc.
Synki Terms of Service.
Effective April 1, 2019
Thank you for using Synki. Synki services are provided by Synki B.V., a company incorporated and operating under the laws of the Netherlands (Registered number:72626844).
By using our Services, you are agreeing to these terms. Please read them carefully.
You need a Synki (Calendar Manager) Account in order to use our Services. You may create your own Synki Calendar Manager Account, or your Synki Account may be assigned to you by an Calendar Manager. If you are using a Synki Account assigned to you by an Calendar Manager, your Calendar Manager may disable or remove your account.
To protect your Synki Account, keep your password confidential. You are responsible for the activity that happens on or through your Synki Account. Try not to reuse your Synki Account password on third-party applications. If you learn of any unauthorized use of your password or Synki Account, please make a report to info@synki.com.
Calendar Manager Subscription
Your Synki (Calendar Manager Account) Subscription will start when Synki confirms your order and payment and will continue for the Subscription period you selected. Subscriptions purchased on the Synki website are paid in full in advance. Before the end of the Subscription period, Synki will send you a notice for renewal.
Subscriptions are non-cancelable and non-returnable. No refunds will be paid on any remaining Subscription period.
End of your Subscription
If you do not renew before the end of the Subscription period, Synki will terminate your Subscription after the end of your Subscription period and remove your data.
Synki knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting Synki.com, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
Information Synki gathers
We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. Information consists of your personal details we are required to collect in order to allow you ordering a subscription and do a payment. Furthermore we process (calendar) information you exchange with Synki related to the Service we offer.
Cookies
Cookies are unique identifiers that we transfer to your device to enable our systems to recognize your device. Synki uses functional cookies to ease the use of the site. More specific, we use cookies to store your language preference and identify your session.
Does Synki share information?
As part of the Synki Service your calendar information is shared with other members of the shared calendar(s) in which you participate.We do not share your personal information with companies, organizations, or individuals outside of Synki except for legal reasons: we will share personal information outside of Synki if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation, or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to:
- Meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request.
- Enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations.
- Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues.
- Protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Synki, our users, or the public as required or permitted by law.
Secure information
We work hard to protect you and Synki from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of information we hold, including:
- We use encryption to keep your data private while in transit.
- We use encryption to identify and validate your requests to Synki
- We review our information collection, storage, and processing practices, including physical security measures, to prevent unauthorized access to our systems
- We do not reveal your (credit) card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire (credit) card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing.
We are constantly changing and improving our Services. Synki may add, change or remove functionalities or features belonging to the Service.
We provide our Services using a commercially reasonable level of skill and care and we hope that you will enjoy using them. But there are certain things that we don’t promise about our Services.
Other than as expressly set out in these terms or additional terms, neither Synki nor its suppliers or distributors make any specific promises about the Services. For example, we don’t make any commitments about the content within the Services, the specific functions of the Services, or their reliability, availability, or ability to meet your needs. We provide the Services “as is”.
Some jurisdictions provide for certain warranties, like the implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all warranties.
When permitted by law, Synki, and Synki’s suppliers and distributors, will not be responsible for lost profits, revenues, or data, financial losses or indirect, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages.
To the extent permitted by law, the total liability of Synki, and its suppliers and distributors, for any claims under these terms, including for any implied warranties, is limited to the amount you paid us to use the Services (or, if we choose, to supplying you the Services again).
In all cases, Synki, and its suppliers and distributors, will not be liable for any loss or damage that is not reasonably foreseeable.
Synki recognizes that in some countries, you might have legal rights as a consumer. If you are using the Services for a personal purpose, then nothing in these terms or any additional terms limits any consumer legal rights which may not be waived by contract.
Synki may modify these terms that apply to our Service to, for example, reflect changes to the law or changes to our Services. You should look at the terms regularly. We’ll post notice of modifications to these terms on this page. Changes will not apply retroactively and will become effective no sooner than fourteen days after they are posted. However, changes addressing new functions for a Service or changes made for legal reasons will be effective immediately. If you do not agree to the modified terms for a Service, you should discontinue your use of that Service.
These terms control the relationship between Synki and you. They do not create any third party beneficiary rights.
If you do not comply with these terms, and we don’t take action right away, this doesn’t mean that we are giving up any rights that we may have (such as taking action in the future).
If it turns out that a particular term is not enforceable, this will not affect any other terms.
This agreement shall be interpreted under the laws of the Netherlands.
Any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this contract, or the breach, termination or invalidity thereof, shall be settled by the Netherlands Commercial Court, Amsterdam. The language used in proceedings before this court shall be Dutch or English. To the extent permissible under law, parties hereby waive their right to settle disputes before any other competent authority.
Synki Free Beta Trial Offer Terms and Conditions
Effective as of February 18, 2020
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY AND IN FULL. THEY CONTAIN CERTAIN CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS ON THE AVAILABILITY AND USE OF THE SYNKI FREE BETA TRIAL OFFER, INCLUDING WHAT HAPPENS AFTER YOUR FREE TRIAL PERIOD ENDS.
Introduction.
This Synki Free Beta Trial Offer (the “Synki Free Beta Trial Offer”) is made available by Synki B.V.
The offer.
The Synki Free Beta Trial Offer entitles you to access Synki.com - a form of Paid Subscription, as defined in the Synki Terms of Use:
(A) for an initial 1 year trial period (the “Free Beta Trial Period”); and
(B) without charge,
from the moment that you activate the Free Beta Trial Period by submitting your details.
By submitting your details: (i) you accept and agree to these terms and conditions (the “Synki Free Beta Trial Offer Terms”); and (ii) acknowledge and agree to the Synki Terms of Use.
Duration and cancellation.
Synki reserves the right to modify or to earlier terminate this Free Beta Trial Offer at any time and for any reason. After such time, Synki shall not be obligated to redeem any further attempts to take up this offer.
Service modifications.
Synki reserves the right to make modifications to the service during the Free Beta Trial Offer period.
After the Free Beta Trial Period, you will be offered a subscription to the payed Synki service unless you cancel prior to the end of the Free Trial Period. To cancel, you must send a cancellation request to info@synki.com. After cancellation your data (accounts and calendar data) is removed from the Synki service.
Eligibility.
In order to receive this Synki Free Beta Trial Offer, users must satisfy the conditions listed at (A)-(B) below (each an “Eligible User”). You must:
(A) be new to the Synki Service. If you have subscribed to a Synki service or have taken a trial or introductory offer previously, you are ineligible for this offer;
(B) provide Synki with your correct details.
Eligible Users may only redeem the Free Beta Trial Offer once - previous users may not redeem the offer again. The Synki service may not be available on certain personal devices.
Synki creates a shared calendar for a family or a group of people. A calendar manager creates this group. Each member of the group gets a column in the shared calendar. Members can can keep on using existing calendar software and invite the shared calendar in events they want. These events are displayed - in real time - in the members column of the shared calendar.
Synki eliminates the need for a paper calendar, it can display the shared calendar on an electronic calendar device (which is a pretty cool gadget in your kitchen) and a number of apps on the phones of calendar members.
These plans require you to use only accounts from that provider. It is not possible/difficult to synchronize calendars from other accounts, like other providers or work etc.
Synki uses technology to overcome this problem and allows members of the same calendar to use the provider/equipment/calendar (or even multiple) they want. Synki focuses on calendars, it does not solve sharing issues on other services.
Synki runs parallel to whatever calendar software you use. After the calendar manager configures your email(s) in the shared calendar, all you have to do is invite Synki in the meetings you want to share. Synki takes care of the rest: processing your event, updating the shared calendar and triggering updates to all member apps.
It should. However, there might be restrictions imposed by your country's government regarding the use of certain functions like encryption. If there are restrictions Synki might not work. You can also be in a network where restrictions may be applied (e.g. to certain internet destinations, ports are filtered etc.) that might block. Also, the system and your browser you want to run Synki on might block it from working.
Yes. The shared calendar app as well as the calendar manager work on mobile.
Synki publishes an overview in resource view. Every member has its own column on the shared calendar. The calendar manager can authorize sources that are allowed to publish on a column of the shared calendar. For a column, there can be multiple sources: e.g. your work email, your calendar(s) with google/apple/microsoft etc..
Instead of processing e-mails with a calendar attachment (ics file), it is possible to send e-mails without any calendaring info. Synki wil use it's artificial intelligence NLP (Natural Language Processing) functie to scan to e-mail for dates. Any relevant dates are placed automatically on the calendar. At the moment, Synki's AI supports English and Dutch. The AI can plan ahead up till three years (from the current date). Activities with a date in the past are ignored in the scan.
Just include me@synki.com as one of the participants to the meeting. We advise you to make me@synki.com one of your contacts.
The first password is given to you by the calendar manager. So (s)he knows the password. To prevent anyone from knowing your password, you have to change it at the first login.
Currently Synki uses English and Dutch languages, but making an additional number of other languages available is high on our wishlist.
Yes. Timezones are supported. The shared calendar is in a particular (configurable) timezone. If events come in from different timezones they are translated to the shared-calendar timezone. Except for all-day events like newyearsday.
If you invite Synki on a meeting that is private, it is treated as private.
When you log in with the 'remember me' checkbox checked, a token will be installed on your device that allows direct login. The token is valid for one month. Your password is not stored. It is important to NOT check the 'remember me' box on a shared/public device as other users will be able to login on your account. When you select 'logout' in the calendar, the token will be removed.
Synki has an import function that allows you to import ics calendar files.
In most cases, the e-mail is in your spam folder. Alternatively, the calendar manager can renew your activation by deleting/adding your email address. The activation e-mail will be sent again.
Your Synki Calendar works much better: the address bar is hidden, so more room for calendering, the icon is linked to https://synki.com/Login. This way the login takes up less time. When you selected the 'Remember me' option, you are logged in seamlessly.
If your Android device supports PWA, Synki will show a red + sign on the top of the screen. Clicking this will install the App automatically. You can also select the browser menu option 'Add to Home Screen' to install.
When you opened the Synki site on your Apple device you can select the share button on the bottom of the screen. In the menu select 'Add to Home Screen' to install.
On the desktop you can create a shortcut to https://synki.com/Login. If your browser supports PWA, Synki will show a red + sign on the top of the screen. Clicking this will install the App automatically.
You can use the password manager of your device to remember your credentials. On private devices you can also tick the 'remember me' option when logging in.
The calendar manager can reset your credentials with a temporary password. You have to renew your password at the first login. Store your credentials at a save place.
In the app, press the top line with your calendar members. The menu will open. Choose exit to leave the menu
To see the previous week, press on the << button on the bottom of the screen. To see the next week, press on the >> button on the bottom of the screen. If your can swipe on your device, you can also swipe left/right on the week overview screen. Buttons and swiping won't work while viewing a day or an event.
In the app, open the menu by clicking on the top line. Select 'Current week' to go to the actual week.
In the app, open the menu by clicking on the top line. Select 'Go to week'. A date picker allows you to select a date/week. Press the desired date.
In the app, press the day/calendar member square. Day view will open.
In the app, press on the left side of the screen where the hours are displayed or press in the middle of the footer. This brings you back to week view.
If you are in day view, press the event and details will appear.
If you are viewing event details, press anywhere on the event details to go back. If you press the top line, the menu will open.
Click search in the menu. After that, enter your searchstring (part of an event title). Synki will go into search modus, events that conform to the searchstring will highlight.Buttons will bring you to the previous/next week with 1 or more events that conform to the searchstring.
Clicking the center button on the bottom of the screen or opening of the menu will exit searchmodus.
You can book events directly in Synki (internal). These events can be changed/deleted by everyone in the shared calendar. External events can be booked from authorized e-mails. They can be countered with a change proposal. The meeting organizer has to accept the change(s). Most systems allow changes in time and location.
When you go in the details of the meeting, you see either a black star (internal) or white star (external) symbol. You can also look at the organizer. The organizer contains either a Username (internal) or e-mailaddress (external).
No. The meeting organizer (an authorized e-mail) is the only one who can send out a cancellation.
In the app, open the menu by clicking on the top line. Select 'Settings'. Select your desired timezone.
In the app, open the menu by clicking on the top line. Select 'Settings'. Select your desired scheme. We will be adding more color options in the future.
In the app, open the menu by clicking on the top line. Select 'Settings'. Select one of the colorschemes starting with 'picture'. The background pictures are specific for you and for the browser you use. We will be adding more background setting options in the future.
If you are browsing in private/incognito mode we cannot access local storage where pictures are stored. Please use another colortheme in these situations.
You have to contact the calendar manager. (S)he can add new users.
These icons give indication of the status of your app. A green clock means the app is able to handle alarms. If the clock is red, unfortunately it not (yet) possible. The icon next to it gives an indication of your app's activity: e.g. this icon will flash red if there is an incoming update on the shared calendar. Depending on your activity, the calendar will refresh.
The red exclamation mark indicates that one or more sources (e-mail addresses) used for this column are not validated yet. Invitations for these sources will not show up on the calendar.
The red exclamation mark indicates that this is an external meeting that is adapted in your shared calendar. The meeting organizer has not confirmed the changes made yet.
Yes. Use the refresh/reload button of your browser.
When you define an alarm on an event, Synki will generate a notification. Notifications are handled on your device. Often, specific settings are available on your device to deal with Notifications (e.g. for sound)
In order to generate alarms in your device, Synki uses service-worker and notification technology. If your device/browser supports these, Synki will ask to enabled them. If successfull, a green clock will appear in the calendar screen. If support is not (yet) enabled, the clock will turn red.
Yes. That is possible. Synki allows up to 3 alarms per meeting in an alarmlist. Synki has pre-defined alarms, but you can specify/tailor your alarms for yourself too.
When you create a meeting, click on the clock-icon. Alarm definition fields will appear. In the first line you can specify when you want your alarm to go off: before the start, after the start, before the end, after the end. On the next line you can specify the time (days/hours/minutes). The last line specifies if the alarm should be repeated and what time interval should be used (hours/minutes). To add the alarm to your list, push the 'green clock-button'.
You can receive alarms for all members of the calendar by selecting the columns in the reminders part of the 'Settings' menu. Only alarms will be generated for the columns you activated. You can change the setting at any time.
No, if you close the app, alarms will not be generated anymore. If you have Synki active, but as a background process, alarms will be generated. This is a typical smartphone scenario.
Yes. Make sure the option 'Notifications' is on in the experimental features tab of Safari.
In the app, open the menu by clicking on the top line. Select 'Import'. Select your ics file and the calendar member(s) you want to import to. Click 'Import'. After the file is parsed you are able to Accept or Discard the imported result. The organizer of the imported events is/are the column user(s) that you selected
Yes, if nothing changes in the events, import the calendar file again and discard it. The imported events will be removed.
The import will try to map any attendee email address to column(s) on the calendar. If the email cannot be mapped, Synki will skip it.
Close your browser or browser tab.
Click on the 'shop' button. There you can select one of our propositions. Synki accounts become active direct after payment. If your order included hardware, please account for shipment time to your address.
Synki supports payment via creditcard. In the Netherlands also iDeal is supported.
Drop us an email on info@synki.com with your information.
Well..this depends on the systems operating system and the particular browser (version) you use. The functions Synki need, have to be supported by your system's OS. Synki needs a relative new browser that supports Server-sent events, web crypto. We advise to check your system capabilities and browser version before ordering.
Yes, javascript needs to be enabled. If not, synki will give a message that it cannot run. The dynamics of calendar needs functionality that we cannot realize with html/css alone.
As there are countless combinations of browser/platform it is hard to give an extensive list. This list below shows our findings that work:
| Browser | OS |
|---|---|
| Google Chrome 69.0.3497.81 | Windows 10 Pro 1803 |
| Opera 47.1.2249.129326 | Android 7.0 |
| Google Chrome 68.0.3440.91 | Android 7.0 |
| Firefox 62.0 | Windows 10 Pro 1803 |
| Safari | IOS 12.0 (16A366) |
Yes, but with different device accounts. Device accounts only work on 1 system.
Yes, that is possible. However, a device account can be active on only 1 device. If you use it on another device, the first device will be logged out.
Most browsers have an option to 'add to home screen' a certain page. This will create a button on your tablet desktop. When you open this, Synki will load without address bar.
We're on twitter. In the app, you can also select the Help/What's new menu option.
Send an email with your support question to info@synki.com.
Calendar login
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