Focus Time (currently in beta) is the easiest way to carve out more productive hours in your week for heads-down work.
The best part about Focus Time is that you don’t have to commit to time blocking specific events in advance. It proactively ensures you have the time you need around meetings for all the independent work that matters.
🚀 Focus Time is currently in beta and we value your feedback as we perfect the feature! Share your thoughts with us via the live chat in the app.
What is Focus Time?
Focus Time works by defending smart blocks of time on your calendar for productive, independent work. You can leave Focus as generic blocks to stay agile around shifting priorities, or use Focus in tandem with Reclaim’s smart Habits and Tasks to create a more concrete daily plan.
Whichever way you use Focus – it helps you defend time from meetings, reduce distractions, and get more done every week.
How to set up Focus Time in Reclaim
Getting started with Focus Time takes less than a minute:
Head to the Focus page to activate the beta.
Use the slider to set how many hours of Focus Time you want to defend in the week. You can always adjust your goal later too!
Optionally customize the title and description of your Focus Time calendar events.
Adjust your scheduling settings (more on each setting below).
Complete the onboarding and Focus Time will start scheduling on your calendar, so you always have the time you need to get things done.
Note: Reclaim eagerly schedules Focus Time using your scheduling preferences, so that it shows up sooner in your workweek.
Focus Time scheduling settings
Once you’ve set how many hours of Focus you want to make time for in total, you can customize exactly how Reclaim should scheduling those blocks:
Title: The event title that will display on your calendar. Defaults to "Focus Time".
Description: A description to add to your Focus Time events (optional).
Hours: The Hours during which you want to schedule Focus (Working Hours by default).
Time: How much weekly Focus Time you want to schedule, and the max amount per day.
Duration: Set the min and max duration for individual Focus Time blocks.
You can always adjust these settings later to tweak your preferences week-to-week.
How does Focus work on the calendar?
Like all Reclaim smart events, Focus Time blocks help you defend the time you need while staying flexible. Focus blocks intelligently reschedule to the next best time – just like Habits and Tasks – adapting around higher-priority items and meetings.
How Focus is prioritized:
Focus Time is prioritized a little differently than your other Reclaim smart events (learn more about how Priorities work in Reclaim here):
Habits, Tasks, and Smart Meetings will schedule before Focus Time blocks, regardless of priority levels. This allows you to fill 'extra' time with Focus to meet your goals, and create a more concrete plan with other smart features if you're using those.
Scheduling Links will see Focus Time events as High Priority, meaning that only Critical Scheduling Links will show those slots as available times to meet.
Note: Focus Time will schedule your goals this week, plus two weeks into the future.
Capture Habit & Task work in your goal
If you do use other smart features to make time for heads-down work, Focus Time will automatically count Tasks, Habits, and other solo work events toward your Focus Time goals.
This means you don’t have to manually track or adjust anything — Reclaim seamlessly accounts for the time you’re already dedicating to deep work, giving you a more accurate and effortless way to protect and measure your focus hours each week.
We can’t wait to hear what you think about Focus Time! Please share any feedback to help us improve the feature with the team at the via the live chat in the app.