Reclaim Assistant automatically finds and defends time on your calendar for you to get stuff done, and preserves your work-life balance by keeping your personal and work calendars in sync.
Huge fan of the Reclaim Assistant. As a manager / leader, it's so easy to get caught up in feeling like the job is all about meeting after meeting when in fact the real value that you provide as a leader is your time alone, focusing (https://theamericanscholar.org/s...). Reclaim helps me find that time and helps me be a better leader.
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Reclaim is my favorite new additional to my WFH arsenal. Everyone having different timelines for when they have lunch can really easily cause your own lunchbreak to disappear one day. At the same time just lodging away 40 minutes a day isn't always doable. This fits perfectly in the middle, allowing me to remain flexible all the while ensuring i get that nice health work life balance.
@paul_thompson_21 Thanks Paul. That's how we felt as well: rigid recurring meetings just weren't flexible. Most people really want to be helpful and available and too often sacrifice their own well being or their own priorities in doing so. We think the stuff we're building strikes the right balance.
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Solving real problem in an elegant and simple way. Highly recommended! Saving me to a of back and forth guarding my daily activities.
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I love that Reclaim automagically blocks my personal events out on my work calendar. I used to have to manually block those times out, and it's great that now it just shows up and people know I'm busy. I just enabled the new Slack integration and look forward to seeing how that helps me as well!
Making my calendars work for me...the way it should be. And I am enabled to work in a way that is more efficient and effective...so much less calendar Tetris. I would not want to go back to a pre-Reclaim calendar.
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Definitely a fan. Great stuff.
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Awesome tool to automate the management of your calendar in a flexible way so that others can find time to meet with you and you can be confident you'll have time for lunch and for yourself.
Also, the way it brings your personal events into your work calendar is magic. I used to have to invite my professional-me to those events so that they show up in my calendar and often that was not possible so I had to copy them and manually keep them in sync! So much time saved ...
Thank you so much for building this and looking forward to what's coming next!
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I've loved that it blocks off my time automagically and that I really don't have to do anything to make that work. On top of it, I like that I don't have to remember to set things private for my personal meetings on my work calendar anymore. That's important for sure. Looking forward to trying it with Tripit (once travel starts up again).
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I've always given access to my multiple calendars so I can view them at once in layers, but had to remember to block my work calendar if scheduling something during work hours or vice versa and sometimes missed that step resulting in having to reschedule a personal or work event. Reclaim helps me avoid that extra step and ensures I don't miss something. I also used Google Goals to block time for focused work, but often my calendar would fill up - reclaim helps me easily find it/ reschedule it but keep it on the calendar so I'm not just back to back meetings. Also since working from home, the need to block time for lunch - if only to get away from my desk/zoom for a bit and go outside - is more important than ever. I love being about to give a window of time when I usually eat and let reclaim block it for me - making me flexible for work, but also ensuring I get that break. Really enjoying using reclaim.
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