Too many people feel like they're always late, always behind, and never have time to do real work. A bunch of startups are betting that better calendars are a key part of the future of work.

ReclaimAI also takes scheduling a step further into the next phase of calendar reinvention: optimizing your schedule. Lightbody, for instance, has several different kinds of things on his calendar. There are a few immovable events, time slots that can’t change no matter what. But most things are more flexible: They just need to happen that day, or that week, or sometime soon. So when Lightbody sends his scheduling link, it shows every slot he could possibly make happen. “It’s totally flipped around,” he said. “This is your most deferential self.” When I picked a time on his calendar, for instance, I grabbed a half-hour slot originally reserved for Lightbody to spend with his 3-year-old son. But ReclaimAI’s software just automatically pulled that forward 30 minutes, so he was wrapping up some kid time when I called.

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Big if true:

Studies have shown that things that get scheduled tend to get done. “Put an event on the calendar — not a recurring event because that’s easy to ignore, but an actual event on your calendar — and I guarantee you’re more likely to do it,” Campos said. There, too, Campos said, adaptability is important. “Life happens! You get stuck in traffic, or somebody goes into the hospital. Things change, and if I have to go back in and update thousands of things on the calendar, that’s just not going to happen.”

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https://www.getclockwise.com/

Rework the workday Clockwise optimizes your team’s calendars to create more time in everyone’s day.

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Check here for reclaimAi … its a plugin for google calendar atm, but appears to be looking at outlook:

https://reclaim.ai/

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Here’s video introduction to Reclaim:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=GpVkdcrHavE

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