Changing your default Task settings

By default, Tasks in Reclaim have default preferences set for:

• Task Duration: the total time to be scheduled for a Task event (default: 1 hr).

• Hours: whether you want Tasks to scheduling during Personal or Work hours (default: Solo Work). Learn more about setting your scheduling hours here.

• Event Duration: how long Task events should be scheduled for at a time, minimum (default: 1 hr) maximum (default: 2 hrs).

• Start delay: if Reclaim should wait to schedule new tasks or schedule them right away (default: No delay).

• Due date: how many days out to schedule a Task's deadline, if not specified (default: 3 days).

• Visibility: how others see Task events on your calendar (default: calendar privacy settings from Google) .

When are default Task settings applied?

Default Task settings are applied to Tasks

• created via the Reclaim app

• Tasks synced from our integrations.

Default Task settings are not applied to Tasks

• created from Gmail

• created from the Slack integration.

Edit default Task settings

You can change the defaults for Task settings by navigating to Settings > General.

Updated settings will apply to new Tasks moving forward, but will not affect existing Tasks.