Justin Mitchell

Habits by Reclaim.ai - Auto-block time on your calendar for all your routines

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Calendars make it way too hard to find and defend time for your routines. Let Reclaim do it for you. Tell us what you need time for and (roughly) when you need it, and we take care of the rest.

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James Ferguson
The new habit feature is amazing. It's like having your own EA - things just magically move around based on your schedule. Love it!
Henry Shapiro
@jamesf3rguson your early usage of Reclaim has been so awesome in getting to this point. We can't wait to show you what's next!
Patrick Lightbody
@jamesf3rguson thank you James!
Tom Medema
Looks great, although wondering what are the additional benefits of using this service instead of just blocking out recurring times for activities on google calendar? Also left some small comment on your landing page in context, cheers - https://app.usebubbles.com/ercaT...
Patrick Lightbody
@tom4 Thanks for the comments! As for your question: this is the really cool part of Habits. A normal calendar block is rigid and makes you always busy at that time, resulting in less flexibility in terms of availability to meet others. What Habits does is dynamically float the time block and keep it as "free" time (so you appear available to others) until your day gets too busy, and then it will flip it to "busy" if your day gets too full.
Matthew E. Porter
"Show me your calendar and your checkbook, and I’ll show you what your priorities are.” This quote has been attributed to many great men and women. It's also been stolen. Regardless, the point is clear re: calendaring. If it's important, it needs to be scheduled. If it isn't, it's more hope than priority or goal. Habits by Reclaim.ai helps ensure my priorities are *always* scheduled on my calendar. Physical therapy - check. Meditation - check. Checking email (instead of it running my life) - check. They are on my calendar because they are a priority, and Habits handles to ensure that is the case.
Patrick Lightbody
@meporter Thank you Matthew. It was actually your early feedback from one of our earlier launches that inspired us to built Habits. We wanted to give you more control over your day and you were telling us about all those important habits we could help you with. I'm glad we finally can!
Gyan Kapur
Love the product and use it for walking with the girlfriend!
Patrick Lightbody
@kapurgyan Awesome. I do something similar: I have a "family walk" habit that I copy my wife on, so she and I can always be in sync on when the best time I can join her and the kids to get out of the house and walk around the neighborhood.
Henry Shapiro
@kapurgyan Ditto!
Greg Zen at StartupHeroics.com
Just keeps getting better!
Henry Shapiro
Ian White
@mrgregzen and there's more in the works!
Lenny Rachitsky
Nice work Henry and Patrick!
Henry Shapiro
@lenny_rachitsky Thank you! Your early support has been so huge for us, and we're really excited to show you what's coming next. Imagine your to-do list and your calendar actually becoming friends, for reals. 🤫
Ian White
Alberto Gomez
My work life balance in general has never been good for me, I've been trying to fix it for quite some time now, but with the COVID situation started looking into how could I regain control of my calendar. There is no easy solution for that, as your calendar keeps being fluid, there is no fixed time that you can book to have lunch, exercise and do homework with the kids. Found on Reclaim the tool that helps me never miss my personal time, gain control of my dad day as well as my work day. And it also reminds me that I need to exercise, some time between 8pm and 10pm every other day :)
Patrick Lightbody
@albertogomez Thank you so much for sharing. I also have kids at home and like you and many others, life has become crazy. I've been building Reclaim partly for myself, to help bring balance to this new reality.
Nick Hill
This has been incredibly valuable for me to block the time I need to make sure I'm keeping my commitments and not over-committing myself. I've been able to create some blocks to better balance my work-family life, but I also use this to make sure I'm spending the right amount of time on my priorities and to block the necessary working time to prepare for big meetings or presentations.
Henry Shapiro
@nick_hill_2416 thanks! We've been really excited to see all the folks from Khoros sign up and just had a great chat with @philippe_mesritz yesterday. Y'all have been such an awesome group for getting feedback.
Rafael Ferreira
If you were to rank my baseline skepticism of productivity tools in a 1-10 scale, I would be a solid 20. But then the Reclaim.ai folks came along with their easy to use tools and my whole world changed. First I started looking forward (really counting on) my morning and afternoon catchups and now I can dynamically make time for all my important habits with a simple toggle switch - you owe it to yourself to give reclaim.ai (and habits) a shot.
Patrick Lightbody
@cleverfoo thanks Raf, your transition from skeptic to believer is what drives us 😂
Zaw Thet
This is great! Nice work!
Patrick Lightbody
@zawthet Thank you for the support!