Outlook Calendar integration: meetings in, timesheets out

Connect your Microsoft 365 or Outlook calendar to Tackle and every meeting becomes tracked time - tagged by client, project, or activity, ready to report or export. No timers, no manual entry.

Google Calendar Calendar
Thursday, 6 August
Acme Kickoff
9:00–10:30 · 4 guests
Internal: Sprint planning
14:00–15:30 · 6 guests
Tackle Tackle
Thursday, 6 August
Acme Kickoff
Type: Meeting Status: Billable
0.0H0.5H1.0H1.5H
Internal: Sprint planning
Type: Internal Meeting Status: Non-Billable
0.0H0.5H1.0H
Total Billable Today
0.0H1.5H

What connecting Outlook to Tackle does

Sign in with your Microsoft account and Tackle syncs the Outlook calendars you choose – personal, shared, and delegated – and keeps them updated automatically. Events arrive complete: title, time, duration, attendees, description.

Tackle’s tags and properties then structure that raw calendar into time data you can analyze. A recurring “Acme weekly sync” gets tagged Client: Acme, Type: Meeting once, and every future occurrence follows automatically.

Data flows one way – from Outlook into Tackle. Your Outlook calendar is never modified.

Calendars in. Structured, reportable time out.

Tackle sits between the calendars your team already lives in and the systems your business runs on – enriching, tagging, and totalling every event on the way through.

Sources

Tackle

Destinations

Google Calendar logo Google CalendarEvents, guests, duration
Outlook Calendar logo Outlook CalendarShared & delegated
CRM logo CRMAccounts & deals
More sourcesZoom, Slack, task tools
Tackle

Every event, processed on arrival

Enrich data
Automation
Team analysis
AI tagging
Budget planning
Google Sheets logo Google Sheets
Excel, CSV, PDF logo Excel, CSV, PDF
Tackle API logo Tackle API
Zapier & MCP logo Zapier & MCP
CRM write-back logo CRM write-back

One-way sync in. Read-only on your calendars – Tackle never edits or deletes events.

See it in two minutes

From Microsoft sign-in to your first tagged report: watch a full week of Outlook meetings become a reportable timesheet.

Why teams connect Outlook to Tackle

Zero-effort time capture

Meetings land in Tackle as they happen. Timesheets and reports build themselves from the calendar your team already keeps.

Calendar audits for busy executives

EAs and Chiefs of Staff sync an exec's Outlook calendar and get monthly breakdowns of where their time went - by meeting type, department, or priority.

Reports your stakeholders can open

e to Excel, CSV, or PDF - or push it to a live Google Sheet - formatted for billing, payroll, or leadership reviews.

How to connect Outlook Calendar to Tackle

Step 1

Create your free Tackle account

  • Create your free Tackle account Go to Sign up and choose Continue with Outlook.

Step 2

Choose the calendars to sync

  • Grant calendar access and select which Outlook calendars Tackle should read – yours, a shared mailbox calendar, or a delegated exec calendar.

Step 3

Set up tags and properties

  • Define tags for clients, projects, and activity types, with keyword rules that tag past and future events automatically.

Step 4

Report, export, or build timesheets

  • Use Insights dashboards, export to Excel/CSV/PDF, or generate approval-ready timesheets.

Who uses the Outlook integration

Executive assistants & Chiefs of Staff

in Microsoft-first organizations running calendar audits.

Law firms & professional services

on Microsoft 365 reconstructing billable hours from meetings.

Enterprise teams

that need time visibility without asking anyone to adopt a new tracking habit.

Operations leaders

feeding accurate hours into payroll, staffing, and capacity plans.

Outlook integration FAQ

Tackle works with Microsoft 365 work and school accounts and Outlook.com personal accounts.

Yes. Connect once and Tackle keeps your calendar in sync – new, updated, and cancelled meetings are reflected automatically.

Yes. Tackle imports calendar history so you can report on previous months right away.

Yes – shared and delegated calendars can be synced, which is how most EA and Chief of Staff teams use Tackle.

No. Tackle reads your calendar. Tags, notes, and edits made in Tackle never write back to Outlook.

Yes – calendar sync is included in the free plan. See pricing.

Connect Outlook. Stop reconstructing your week.

Two minutes to connect. Free forever, no credit card.