Reclaim

How to customize your Reclaim settings, enable buffers between meetings, and color-code your calendar using Reclaim.

Buffers, Settings, and Color-Coding

How to use buffers between events to give yourself time to travel, take breaks, or chunk up Tasks and Habits.

Travel Time, Decompression Time, and Tasks + Habit Breaks

Set your Scheduling Hours in Reclaim to tell Reclaim when to block time for your smart calendar events and learn how to create Custom Hours.

Set your Working, Meeting, Personal, & Custom Hours

Reclaim automatically color-codes and categorizes your events to keep your schedule visually organized.

Automatically color-code your calendar events

Set your events to auto-lock so your schedule doesn't change at the last minute.

Auto-lock your Focus Time, Habits, Tasks, and Smart Meetings

Tell Reclaim at which start time intervals you want meetings to be scheduled.

Set start time intervals for Smart Meetings & Scheduling Link meetings

You can change default settings for your Tasks that will be used for any new tasks you create.

Changing your default settings for Reclaim Tasks

Customize your event descriptions for events created by Reclaim with markdown.

Using markdown formatting to customize Reclaim event descriptions

A basic guide to Reclaim notifications and how to manage them.

Manage notifications for Reclaim events

Learn more about fine-tuning event scheduling settings for your Tasks, Habits, and Smart Meetings.

Customize your scheduling settings for Reclaim events

How to change your default settings for Reclaim features and enable buffers.

Reclaim Settings

Reclaim uses the timezone from your Google or Outlook Calendar by default. Here's how to update your calendar settings or via Reclaim.

How to set your timezone in Reclaim

Edit the day of the week you would like your Planner to start via your Google Calendar settings.

Set your starting day of the week via Google Calendar settings

Select how you want dates and times to be displayed in Reclaim via your Google Calendar settings.

Setting your date and time format in Reclaim via Google Calendar

Reclaim generally grabs all your profile information from Google, but there are some details you can edit directly in Reclaim.

Updating your profile details, name, and avatar

Settings that Reclaim gets automatically from Google Calendar, and how to modify them.

Reclaim Settings in Google Calendar

How to tell Reclaim which calendars to check for your availability when blocking time.

Connected Calendar overview

Calendar Sync and Connected Calendars sound similar, but they're pretty different. Here's how to understand them.

When to use Calendar Sync vs. Connected Calendars

Selecting and managing which calendars Reclaim uses to check your availability.

How to select and manage Connected Calendars

How to change which calendars Reclaim is looking at for your availability.

Connected Calendar Settings

Ensure you are notified of your events on your Apple Watch, iPhone, and MacBook

Get Reclaim notifications on Apple devices

If your calendar color-coding is having issues or seems stuck, here's how to fix it.

My color-coding isn't working properly

After a video call, you may find decompression time isn't blocked out or can even overlap with another Reclaim-created event.

Decompression not appearing or overlaps with a Habit or Task

Reclaim will never send you notifications for synced copies of events. However, Apple's Calendar app has a bug that can cause notifications.

Why is Apple Calendar notifying me for synced calendar events?

Running into issues with your settings? Read these docs.

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