Welcome to Smart Meetings and Habits 2.0! This exciting new launch delivers an innovative way to schedule recurring team meetings at the best time for everyone, and also includes major improvements for your Habits and smart meeting scheduling.

The team has been hard at work bringing this together for you. Let's take a look at some of the updates that are ready to explore, and an overview of what's coming next.

Smart Meetings and Habits 2.0 introduce a lot of improvements and upgrades. Let's take a closer look.

The big highlight -- you can now set up Smart Meetings with 3 or more people! Just add them as attendees on any meeting, set their hours, and you're off to the races.
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This update delivers even more frequency options (anything you can do in Google Calendar) for Habits and Smart Meetings, including:

Custom in particular allows you to set up really complex frequencies, such as scheduling a Smart Meeting or Habit on the 2nd Friday of each month:

What's really neat about these new settings is that they can be modified directly from Google Calendar -- in other words, if you have a Habit or Smart Meeting with a recurrence frequency and want to change it, you can do it from either the app or Google Calendar and the changes will sync in both directions!

Previously, you could only set min and max durations on Habits, but you can now do the same for your Smart Meetings. For example, you can set a meeting to be at least 30m and no more than 45m if you want it to flex around busy weeks.
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When creating a Smart Meeting or Habit v2, you can now select which calendar you want it to schedule on:

This is great for scheduling personal Habits on a calendar that doesn't block up work availability, or for setting up 1:1s for different corporate identities if you're consulting, for example.

You can now fine-tune how Smart Meetings and Habits schedule relative to each other with dependencies.

For example, you could have a "prep for weekly team meeting" Habit always come before the weekly Smart Meeting. Or, you could make sure your exercise Habit never comes after your Lunch Habit, or that you never do two specific Habits on the same day.

When editing and viewing a Smart Meeting, you can now clearly see the timezone of each attendee and the overlapping hours (or lack thereof) of all required attendees.

You can set attendees to optional to exclude them from being considered for a Smart Meeting, which gives you flexibility in cases where you have a meeting that includes a couple of people with very busy schedules.

When viewing a Smart Meeting or Habit, you can see all the periods of time when it should schedule – as well as periods that have been skipped because no free time could be found.

Additionally, you can select View change log and get a deeper look for any event for a Habit or Smart Meeting and understand why it was skipped or rescheduled due to a conflict.

Lastly, you can edit the details of any Smart Meeting or Habit starting on a particular date. For example, you may want to edit just events after a certain date to include another attendee, or change the frequency.
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Reclaim now gives you the ability to leave Smart Meetings and Habits on the calendar when it can't find time for them. This is really useful in cases where you're setting up a Smart Meeting that involves a ton of busy people, and want to ensure that the meeting doesn't get removed if it can't find time. Instead, Reclaim will just leave it at its ideal time, which means it won't disappear from the schedule.

You'll see a ⚠️ emoji on events that Reclaim left on the calendar after being unable to find time for them.

You can now access emoji settings for your Habit and Smart Meetings to customize which emojis you want to display on your calendar events, and where in the title they appear. Update your emoji settings under Settings > General. If you preferred the old 🆓 or 🛡️ emojis, you can re-enable them here.

Manage which email notifications you and/or your attendees receive for Smart Meetings:

Smart Meetings help you find time for meetings that have been subject to conflicts and cancelations, so your lower-priority meetings don't fall through the cracks over the course of busy weeks. Reclaim does this by "boosting" the priority of lower-priority meetings if it detects that they've been skipped or missed for several weeks in a row.

For example, a Medium Priority weekly meeting will automatically be prioritized as a High Priority if missed the previous week, and then Critical Priority if missed two weeks in a row.

In addition to videoconferencing links and custom locations, you can now choose from your Google Workspace resources to set conference rooms as the location for your Smart Meetings.

You can instantiate Zoom links and Google Meet links directly from our integrations, or you can use your Zoom calendar add-ons (or any other videoconferencing solution) to add videoconferencing details to the events directly on your calendar.

It's now easier than ever to modify or add videoconference and location details to your Smart Meetings and Habits, with or without using Reclaim's app.

Now, you can use Reclaim's Travel Time feature to automatically add travel time to Habits and Smart Meetings when a location is detected.
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Because Smart Meetings now use natural recurring events for scheduling, they will integrate seamlessly with any platform that uses recurring events as an anchor. That means that associating (for example) your agendas in Lattice or Fellow with your Smart Meetings, or using things like Zoom Rooms, will work just the same as they would on any normal recurring meeting.

Getting started is simple:

Smart 1:1s will now merge into Smart Meetings. When you activate Smart Meetings, your existing Smart 1:1s will be converted into Smart Meetings between two people, and offer more customization for frequencies, target calendar support, dependencies, and more. Your Habits will also be automatically converted to the latest and greatest.

Smart Meetings (including 1:1s) as well as Habits, now functional as true recurring events, the same as you’d experience in Google Calendar or other similar calendar platforms.

This means that your Smart Meetings and Habits will now schedule into the future, even beyond your Reclaim smart scheduling window. As time draws closer to those events outside the scheduling window, Reclaim will start adjusting them. Events outside the scheduling window will have a ⚠️ emoji on them.

You will notice yourself as an attendee on your Habit events, as well as Smart Meetings.

This will also impact how Reclaim displays Free and Busy events for Habits and Smart Meetings. Previously, Reclaim used 🆓 or 🛡️ emojis to denote when events were marked free or busy.

In this release, those emojis are disabled by default, and instead will use RSVP to determine whether an event is marked free or busy. If an event is marked free, it will have diagonal lines over it and be RSVP’d Maybe. If it is marked busy, it will be RSVP'd Yes and be filled in.

You will also notice that Habits now have an RSVP on them for yourself. You can decline Habits to have them reschedule.