Reclaim schedules your Habits at the best time in your calendar according to how you prioritize them. As your calendar books up, this helps Reclaim make sure that you have time defended for your most important Habits first, and make tradeoffs around lower-priority items if needed.
There's a few ways you can tell Reclaim which Habits are most important to you and which you can be more flexible with using Priorities.
Priorities for Habits
Set the priority level for each of your Habits from Critical (P1) to Low priority (P4) to drive smarter, more flexible scheduling for your recurring routines.
Reclaim will schedule your Habits according to the priority level you set, around other events on the calendar including other Habits, Tasks, Smart Meetings, and Scheduling Link meetings.
Priority levels for Habits:
Critical (P1): Reclaim will schedule Critical Habits before all other Habits. These can overbook lower-priority Habits, Tasks, and Smart Meetings as your calendar books up.
High priority (P2): High priority Habits will be prioritized before Medium and Low priority events, and can be overbooked by Critical events.
Medium priority (P3): Medium priority Habits will be prioritized before Low priority events, and can be overbooked by Medium - Critical priority events.
Low priority (P4): Low priority Habits will be prioritized last, around your availability, and can be overbooked by your higher-priority items.
How Reclaim prioritizes Habits
Habits will schedule before lower-priority Habits, Tasks, and Smart Meetings. For example, critical Habits will schedule before high priority, medium priority, and low priority Habits, as well as lower-priority Tasks and Smart Meetings.
If your smart events have the same priority level, Reclaim will prioritize scheduling your Smart Meetings first, Habits second, and Tasks third based on your availability.
Note: Habits will never overbook Scheduling Link meetings or non-Reclaim created event – even if that Habit is a higher priority level. Learn more about how Reclaim's prioritization system works in the Priorities overview doc.
How to prioritize your Habits
You can set the priority level for your Habits in a few different ways:
Creating new Habit: Set the priority when creating a new Habit under the 'Priority' setting on the create form.
Habits page: Click the 'bar' icon 📶 on your existing Habit events from the Habits page in Reclaim to edit the priority level.
Planner: Click the 'bar' icon 📶 on a Habit from the right-hand sidebar of the Planner to edit the priority level or drag-and-drop your Habits to a new priority category in the sidebar.
Priorities page: Click the 'bar' icon 📶 on a Habit to update the priority, or drag-and-drop your Habits to a new priority level from the Priorities page.
Time Defense settings for Habits
Reclaim uses smart 'Free'/'Busy' controls to keep your schedule flexible until your calendar starts to book up or as an event draws near.
You can tell Reclaim how aggressively you want to defend your Habit events by marking them as Busy🛡️ sooner via the individual edit pages under Time defense. Learn more about Time defense settings here.
