Reclaim uses your Hours to know which days and times to schedule your work and personal smart calendar events, as well as to sync events from other calendars.

You can set your system Meeting, Working, and Personal hours under Settings > Hours, and even create Custom Hours as options for when you want certain events to schedule.

Your Working Hours are when Reclaim schedules your work Tasks (categorized and color-coded as ‘Solo Work’), work Habits, as well as your work Smart Meetings and select Scheduling Link meetings.

If you are using Calendar Sync and have opted to sync events only during Working hours, this is also when Reclaim will block synced events from your other calendars. Learn more about that here.

Your Meeting Hours are when Reclaim schedules your Smart Meetings and Scheduling Link meetings by default.

Your Personal hours are when Reclaim schedules your personal Tasks and Habits, as well as Smart Meetings and Scheduling Links that you set for Personal Hours.

Optionally, you can create additional custom time policies with Custom Hours for when you want specific events to schedule (available in all paid plans).

You can manage your Hours in the Reclaim settings.

Optional actions:

Changes to your Hours settings are automatically saved and applied to existing and future Reclaim events.

Reclaim can use your Working, Meeting, and Personal hours to schedule any smart event around your preferences. Custom Hours allow you to create additional time policy options outside of these default hours for when you want to schedule certain events.

To create a new set of Custom Hours:

Your Custom Hours will then show as a scheduling option for the smart events you selected – both for existing events and any new event you create.

To delete Custom Hours, click the three dot menu to the right of the time policy and select ‘Delete’.

Before being able to delete, you will need to choose an alternative time policy or any events that were scheduling during these hours.

Under each of your Scheduling Hours, there is also a drop down for 'Calendar to schedule Tasks on'. This setting allows you to toggle which calendar you want to schedule Tasks when they use your Work, Personal, or additional Custom Hours.

For example, you might want to select your personal calendar to schedule Tasks on when they use your Personal Hours, or create Custom Hours for 'Side Gig' to schedule specific Tasks to a different calendar than your primary work calendar.

You can add additional calendars under Settings > Accounts in the app. Learn more in this article.

Set which Hours you want Tasks, Habits, Smart Meetings, and Scheduling Link meetings to schedule by select from the 'Hours' dropdown in that event's details page.

You can pick your Working, Meeting, or Personal Hours, or choose from your available Custom Hours. Hover over the ⓘ of your selected Hours to view a preview of the time policy, or click the link below to navigate to the Hours page to make adjustments.

Reclaim will schedule that event at the best time on your calendar within your set time window for those hours.

If you want your Habit, Scheduling Link, or Smart Meeting to schedule in a separate time window from the Hours you have set up, you can also select ‘One-off hours’ from the dropdown in any Habit, Smart Meeting, or Scheduling Link to create a unique set of hours for that specific Habit, Smart Meeting, or Scheduling Link.

Note: ‘One-off hours’ will apply only to the Reclaim item they are set on and will not be saved as an Hours option for other items in Reclaim. Additionally, you cannot set one-off Hours for Tasks.

All your Hours are set in the timezone displayed on the page. Reclaim uses the timezone you have set in your Google Calendar settings.

If the displayed timezone is not correctly, reference this help doc to learn how to update your hours to the right timezone via Google Calendar settings.