Reclaim sends you notifications to keep you updated on what’s coming up in your schedule so you can better manage your time. Here’s a guide to how these different alerts work, and how to manage them.
Note: You can set different event notifications from both in Reclaim, and your source calendars. Review your settings across both to avoid duplicate alerts.
Notification settings in Reclaim
You can set your preferences for alerts in Reclaim under your Notifications settings:
General notifications
Weekly reports: Weekly Reports from Reclaim provide you with a weekly email summary of your Productivity Stats. Learn more here.
Event starting tab alert: Flash the event name in your Reclaim browser tab when it's starting.
Event starting chime: Play a chime from your Reclaim tab when your next event is starting. You might need to enable auto-play media from browser bar (learn more for Safari and Chrome).
Smart Meeting notifications
Set your specific alerts for notifications around your Smart Meetings:
At risk Smart Meetings (Coming soon): A daily digest of upcoming Smart Meetings that are at risk of not being scheduled in the next 2 weeks.
New meetings detected (Coming soon): An email of new recurring meetings found on your calendar that could be converted to Smart Meetings.
Meeting changes: Notify attendees when meetings are moved, rescheduled, or canceled using standard Google Calendar notification emails.
Days before the meeting to send notification: Select the number of days in the future Reclaim should start sending change notifications.
Note: 'Meeting changes' notifications cannot be disabled for Outlook users. Your attendees will receive email notifications if the meeting is edited or rescheduled.
Notification preferences in Google Calendar
Google Calendar has additional notifications settings for events. By default, Google Calendar sets this to 10 minutes by default, but you can change the alert time to whatever works for you. If you change it to alert you 1 minute before an event is due to start, for example, this notification preference will apply to all Reclaim created events moving forward.
To manage your Google Calendar notification settings:
Click Settings in the upper right corner
In the left menu bar, select your source calendar under Settings for my calendars
Select Event notifications
Set your preferences
If you don't want to receive any alerts, you can also delete all notification options in the Google Calendar settings. This will turn off all notifications for both Google Calendar and Reclaim events moving forward.
Default event notification settings Google Calendar
According to your Google Calendar notification settings, as noted above:
Calendar Sync events always have notifications off so you don’t receive duplicate notifications.
Habits have notifications turned ON
Smart Meetings have notifications turned ON
Tasks have notifications turned ON (this includes synced tasks from other platforms, and Tasks created in the app).
Travel Time will always have notifications turned ON.
Decompression Time and Tasks + Habit Breaks will always have notifications OFF.
You can customize the default notifications above:
Override notifications for Habits and Smart Meetings: Since these are both true 'repeating events' in Google Calendar – simply edit one of the events on your calendar, and disable notifications for the entire series.
Workaround for Tasks notifications: You might want notifications disabled or different from the core primary calendar default notifications. While there isn't a dedicated setting for this yet, you can work around it by scheduling your Tasks to a different Connected Calendar and configure it to have different defaults than the primary. Learn more about scheduling Tasks to different calendars.