Connecting your cloud space

From Settings, connect your cloud space — Google or Microsoft — and two features unlock at once: syncing your deadlines into a dedicated calendar, and filing documents in your Google Drive or your OneDrive.

Signing in with Google or Microsoft is not the same thing

Two distinct things, easily confused:

	What it is for
“Continue with Google” or “Continue with Microsoft” (sign-in screen)	Opening your Kimori session without a password.
“Connect Google” or “Connect Microsoft” (Settings)	Authorising Kimori to write to your calendar and file your documents.

You can perfectly well sign in with Google without ever authorising the calendar and the documents — and the reverse is true too. Nothing even obliges you to use the same provider on both sides. It is the second authorisation that Settings asks for.

What Kimori can and cannot do

The authorisation requested is the narrowest each provider offers. Its scope is not the same on both sides:

	Google	Microsoft
Documents	drive.file: Kimori only sees the files it has uploaded or the ones you point it to.	Files.ReadWrite.All and Sites.Read.All: the authorisation covers the files you have access to. Kimori only opens those it has uploaded or that you point it to.
Calendar	calendar.app.created: only the “Kimori” calendar is visible to it.	Calendars.ReadWrite: the authorisation covers your calendars. Kimori only writes to “Kimori”.

With Microsoft the authorisation is wider — and that has to be said

With Google, the authorisation covers only what Kimori has created or what you point it to. With Microsoft, that authorisation does not exist: the narrowest one available covers your files and your calendars.

Kimori only writes to the “Kimori” folder and calendar it creates, and reads nothing else — but here it is Kimori that denies itself access, not Microsoft.

That is what you will read on the consent screen when authorising: the wording is broader on the Microsoft side. Better to know it before clicking than after.

Your files do not pass through our servers

A document you attach is uploaded straight to your cloud space. Kimori keeps only a reference — never the file itself.

One cloud space at a time

Kimori works with a single space: the “Change space” button replaces Google with Microsoft, and the other way round. Switching deletes nothing at the former provider — your files and the events in the “Kimori” calendar stay where they are, they simply stop being updated.

Subsequent documents go to the new space, where a “Kimori” calendar is created at the first sync. So for a while you end up with documents on both sides — and Kimori can no longer check the state of those left with the former provider: you still reach them, but it will no longer tell you whether they have been moved or deleted. All the more reason to settle on one space once and for all.

Disconnecting

The “Disconnect” button in Settings breaks the link. Neither your calendar events nor your files are deleted: they stay with you, they simply stop being updated.

You can also withdraw the authorisation from your Google or Microsoft account: Kimori loses access immediately, and there too, nothing is erased.