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This is definitely oriented a bit more around "manager's schedule" (we love that PG post too and are building Reclaim with the manager in mind) and the idea that in addition to the "in-between" time you mention (i.e., "Working", "Focus Time", etc.) managers tend to need high-quality meetings and events that serve their priorities.

Per your point, you could definitely map "working" or "blocked out" time to priorities. Doesn't have to be a meeting, but by having your free time actually represent a concrete objective, we've found it makes it less interruptible by your peers.

Paul Monteiro has a great post about this concept of mapping events -- regardless of whether they're meetings or not -- here (https://medium.com/@monteiro/the-chokehold-of-calendars-f70b...) and we did our own take on it here (https://blog.reclaimai.com/posts/2019-07-16-is-a-busy-calend...).

Thanks much for commenting and providing feedback!

Henry

As a super early version of our product (reclaimai.com), we put together a Google Script that will dump out your upcoming week of calendar events into a spreadsheet and gives you tools for mapping how much time you're spending on your top priorities each week. It's been a great weekly planning ritual for us over the years. We'd love feedback on the approach and -- of course -- if you're interested in Reclaim, give us a shout.

Thx! Henry and Patrick

We've been spinning up a new startup, Reclaim.ai (reclaimai.com) and are excited to share our early thoughts on product direction with you.

Unlike a lot of the calendaring / AI-assistant startups out there, we're taking a pretty targeted JTBD approach where we empower managers with power tools for rebalancing their calendars based on the priorities they have each week. Instead of just "defragging" or blocking out the calendar, we're really thinking in terms of how we can help people to tactfully defend their time and automate the parts of calendar shuffling that just aren't fun.

Additionally, we're really optimizing our offering around the "managers", not the "makers" -- in contrast to how many other companies are thinking about this problem today. We fundamentally believe that software managers are being underserved and that they are actually even more critical players in driving forward company priorities.

We would love to get this community's feedback as well as early signups for when we go into beta! Feel free to add your thoughts here, or drop us a line at info@reclaimai.com.

Thanks much, Henry and Patrick