Google, Microsoft, or neither
The first question is not “what can I connect?” It is “where does my life already happen?”
Right from the first conversation, 1Presence asks where you actually live — and brings in the right things for your world instead of assuming everyone is on Gmail.
A Google life
Gmail, Google Calendar and Drive — the trio that gives 1Presence your correspondence, your week and your documents in three quick connections.
A Microsoft life
One Microsoft 365 sign-in brings Outlook mail, Calendar, OneDrive, OneNote, To Do and your contacts — the same trio, one connection.
Neither, thanks
Start from your own files: connect a local folder or import what matters, and 1Presence has something real to work from before any account is touched.
What to connect, in the order it pays off
Every connection earns its keep on its own, but they compound: the moment 1Presence can see calendar and email and files, "brief me for the 3pm" becomes possible. A sensible sequence:
- 1
Email and calendar first
These carry most of the signal in a working life. Immediately useful: "what did I miss overnight?", "what is on this week?", "draft a reply to Sam".
- 2
Then your files
Drive or OneDrive for the cloud, a connected folder for what lives on your machine. Now the proposal it drafts can cite the sheet it read.
- 3
Then where your work lives
Notion, GitHub, Slack, Monday.com, HubSpot — whichever of them holds your projects, code, conversations or pipeline. This is where briefings get sharp.
- 4
Then your meetings
Switch on the meeting paths that fit how you meet — free native transcripts where your platform makes them, the recorder for the rest, Plaud for in person, Twilio for the phone.
- 5
The rest when a need appears
Publishing (LinkedIn, X), training (Strava, Google Health), your site’s numbers (Analytics, Search Console, Tag Manager, YouTube). Connect them the day you first want the question answered — it takes a minute.
The full list, with a page per service, lives on the connectors index.
Personal and work, live at once
Most people live in more than one account — personal and work Gmail, a personal Outlook beside a company one, several HubSpot organisations. Connect them all and keep them all live: 1Presence reads from your main one by default and switches when you ask. Disconnecting one leaves the rest untouched.
Switches to the work account for this ask; your default stays your default.
Both stay live side by side — no juggling, no signing out.
Asked when needed, revocable always
- You sign in to the service itself. Each connector uses the service’s own secure sign-in — you log in to Google, Microsoft, Notion directly. No passwords ever touch 1Presence; tokens are stored encrypted.
- Reading just happens; acting asks. Once connected, reading is seamless. The first time anything consequential is tried — sending an email, posting to a channel, writing a file — it stops and asks you, once, for that specific recipient, channel or folder. Your answer is remembered and changeable any time.
- Revoke in one tap. Disconnect any service and access ends on the next turn. You can also revoke from the service’s side, any time.
- Nothing is trawled in the background. Connections are read in service of what you ask, not mined. Your health and training data in particular is read only when you ask, and never to train anything.
The compounding part
Each connection is useful. Together they are the product.
"Brief me for the 3pm" needs the calendar event, the email thread, the project notes and the file — at once. That cross-tool synthesis is what you are building toward, one connection at a time, at whatever pace suits you.
Common questions
Do I have to connect anything at all?
No. 1Presence is useful from the first conversation — memory, vault, writing and records all work with nothing connected. Connections add reach, on your schedule.
Which single connection gives the most?
Email, almost always — it carries the most context about your working life. Calendar is the close second, and the two together unlock meeting briefs.
Can I use both Google and Microsoft?
Yes — connect both worlds and every account stays live at once. 1Presence uses your main one by default and switches when you ask.
What can it do without my asking, once connected?
Read, when a request calls for it. Anything that acts on the outside world — sending, posting, writing to a service — stops for your approval the first time, per recipient or destination, and remembers your answer. Nothing material happens silently.
Connect the inbox. Ask for a brief.
One connection, one question — "what did I miss?" — and you will see why the rest is worth it.
Every connection is optional, scoped, and revocable in one tap.