🚀 NEW Priorities are here! Unlock the update for your account here. Your UI might look slightly different as we update our help docs for the new system – check out the Priorities overview to learn more.
You can leverage universal Priorities for Habits to prioritize scheduling your most important routines first by assigning them one of four priority levels from Critical - Lowest priority.
Additional ‘Time defense settings’ allow you to further inform Reclaim how aggressively you want to defend a Habit on your calendar.
Time Defense for Habits
*Priorities settings are available in the new prioritization system. Enable Priorities for your account in one-click here.
Habits are initially added as 'Free' 🆓 to your schedule to keep your calendar flexible. As time comes closer to the Habit's start time, or as your day starts to fill up, Reclaim will mark the event as 'Busy' 🛡️ so it gets defended from being overbooked by other events.
Each Habit has its own Time Defense setting so you can customize exactly when you want a Habit to switch from Free to Busy.
Reclaim considers two variables when it comes to Time Defense:
The amount of time left for the Habit in the Habit's time window
The amount of time left before the Habit is scheduled to begin
Each of Reclaim's Time Defense options adjust to these variables differently:
Most flexible
Always free 🆓 and prefer ideal time over max duration.
Let Reclaim decide (default)
Let Reclaim intelligently choose Free 🆓 or Busy🛡️, duration, and time based on Habit's priority and your overall calendar. *Recommended for maximum scheduling flexibility
Most defensive
Always busy 🛡️ and prefer the max duration over the ideal time.
Previous Time Defense settings for Habits
*This setting has changed in the new prioritization system. Learn more about prioritizing your Habits in the new system here.
With new Priorities settings for all the events on your calendar, you have more control over how Habits are prioritized over other Habits as well as lower-priority Tasks and Smart 1:1s.
Previously, 'Time defense settings' allowed you to inform Reclaim how aggressively you wanted to defend the Habit event on your calendar as your week booked up, from Most defensive - Least defensive:
Always Free
This will always mark Habits as Free time on your calendar, regardless of your availability.
Least Defensive
Marks Habits as Busy when Reclaim is down to the very last minimum slot for the Habit, and/or 30 minutes before the Habit is scheduled to begin.
For example, if you have a "Least Defensive" Habit called "Exercise" that blocks between 45 minutes and 1 hour, Reclaim would mark that Habit as Busy when there is only 45-minute slot remaining in the Habit's time window, or 30 minutes before the Habit is scheduled to begin.
More Defensive
Marks Habits as Busy when Reclaim is down to the second-to-last minimum slot for the Habit, and/or 60 minutes before the Habit is scheduled to begin.
For example, if you have a "More Defensive" Habit called "Reading" that blocks between 1 hour and 2 hours, Reclaim would mark that Habit as Busy when there are only two 1-hour slots remaining in the Habit's time window, or 60 minutes before the Habit is scheduled to begin.
Most Defensive
Marks Habits as Busy when Reclaim is down to the very last maximum slot for the Habit, and/or 24 hours before the Habit is scheduled to begin.
For example, if you have a "Most Defensive" Habit called "Networking" that blocks between 1 hour and 2 hours, Reclaim would mark that Habit as Busy when there is only one 2-hour slot remaining in the Habit's time window, or 24 hours before the Habit is scheduled to begin.
Always Busy
This will always mark Habits as Busy on your calendar, regardless of your availability.