What is Reclaim.ai?
- Reclaim.ai is a smart calendar application that enhances productivity, collaboration, and work-life balance. It is helpful for productivity and is especially helpful if you use Google tools for work or school. The application integrates with Google Calendar and offers various features designed to optimize time management.
Features:
- Habits: habits create routines on your calendar for your work and personal priorities. Unlike normal recurring events, Habits flex around your schedule and adapt as things come up, giving the time needed without being overly rigid and jamming up your calendar.
- Tasks: Reclaim Tasks help bridge the gap between your always-changing to-do list and your calendar, so you can ensure you have the time to work on your important items before deadlines come up.
- Smart Meetings: automatically schedule, reschedule, and manage your recurring meetings.
- Scheduling Links: send links to your and your team’s availability, allowing others to book time across one or many calendars.
- Connected Calendars: check your availability for blocking events.
- Calendar Sync: a powerful way to make sure people who book time with you always see your true availability across multiple calendars. Calendar Sync takes events from a source calendar – called source events – and creates smart copies of them on a destination calendar – called synced copies.
- Stats: provides an overview of where your time is being spent across Habits, Tasks, Meetings , breaks, and more – allowing you to analyze productivity and work-life balance to plan better workweeks.
- Integrations: Reclaim is designed to block flexible time for your Tasks and automatically pull in tasks and projects from the platforms you already use. You can integrate tasks and sync their status across platforms automatically.
- Buffer Time: give yourself time to decompress after your meetings, ensure you have enough travel time for your event, and add some breaks between your Tasks and Habbits. Reclaim adds flexible buffers to your schedule for you to prep and get where you’re going.
- Slack Status Sync: Reclaim’s integration for Slack can automatically update your Slack status so others know that you are busy, as well as enable Do Not Disturb during events where you want to stay in focus mode.
- Add-Ons and Extensions: Reclaim can be used alongside your existing Google Calendar interface with our Google Calendar Add-on, as well as natively on your MacOS desktop or laptop using our Raycast extension.
Use Cases:
- How to use Reclaim Habits to create Focus Time
- Personalizing and sharing one-off links and times from Scheduling Links
- How to create Todoist items to sync to Reclaim
Watch Out For:
- Protect Your Data: Reclaim.ai makes the user experience smooth by allowing the user to sync it across multiple platforms. Make sure to keep personal data that you do not want to be synced to your calendar separate.
- Avoid Complete Dependency: Reclaim.ai may make syncing errors, or you might input the wrong data. Reclaim.ai notes that there is a known issue with using Google Calendar where even if your timezone is set correctly, your settings may incorrectly report UTC as the timezone.