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Clockwise — Making your calendar work for you.
Clockwise is an intelligent calendar assistant that frees up your time so you can work on what matters. We use AI to create uninterrupted blocks of time, enhance Slack, take the stress out of complex scheduling, resolve double bookings, and so much more.
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@justinsaas sorry to hear that! Your color coding should revert to the Google Calendar defaults but sometimes it takes a few minutes to process. Feel free to email us at support@getclockwise.com if you're still seeing this issue and we'll get on it!
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@voxmatt so... what's your business model? How is this free, or for how long will it be free?
"Yes! Clockwise is entirely free. However, we do plan to charge for it in the future."
@chrismessina Like Slack, Clockwise plans to remain free for individuals to start, and then sell an enterprise grade product (admin controls, IT compliance, and team coordination functionality) into companies. We're focused on bottoms-up distribution right now, but there's a tremendous amount of value we can give to teams, orgs, and companies as they look to better coordinate time across tools.
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@voxmatt The IT compliance piece is worrying... How do you square individual privacy with an organization's desire to spy on its employees?
Also, I use my personal Gmail calendar for business. No support for that, huh?
@chrismessina Unfortunately, no support yet for non-G-Suite (boy, is that a mouth full). It's something we do hope to add in the future, but I can't promise a timeline. As for individual privacy, that's something we really do think deeply about at Clockwise. In this environment, I'm sure words will come across as hollow, so I hope to prove our commitment to individual privacy over time with actions. But I will say two things: (1) we don't touch the privacy settings inside Google calendar — what you and your colleagues set there, we respect and maintain; and (2) individual trust and cooperation is critical to the proper functioning of Clockwise — it's hard for a system to help open up time, if the users don't trust that system enough to feed it with reliable data.
When I met the Clockwise team, I was immediately taken with their passion for helping us get control of our time, and their new approach to doing it — not by creating a new calendar app, but by using machine learning to make the calendars we already have work better.
Clockwise makes a product and supporting technology that actually gives us time back. They’ve been heads down over the past couple of years building their first product — connect it to your own calendar and it figures out how to optimize your days to give you back meaningful chunks of time in whole blocks.
It’s amazing to see the results — even in the early beta it’s given literally thousands of hours of Focus Time back to folks at some of the world’s most productive companies like Lyft, Asana, Intercom and others.
Go take a look and see if you can get a little more control over your own time.
If this delivers, it's the #1 product I've expected for the past 2 years, thanks @voxmatt & team!
@voxmatt big problem for me after 30 min of usage : it prevents people to book me in calendly, all slots are reserved 😅
@christophepas Hi Christophe - sorry to hear that! Currently if you enable the Focus Time smart hold feature, we will try to protect all of the Focus Time on your calendar, which does make it hard for Calendly to know when you're available. We definitely want to make the amount of Focus Time that we protect customizable in the future! You can turn off the smart holds at any time from the "Smart Holds" section in Settings. Email us at support@getclockwise.com if you have any issues!!
The Slack integration is great
Pros:Set up once and forget. It just works in the background
Cons:Could be a little more intuitive but couldn't everything
i recommend clockwise to almost every one i meet, regardless of whether or not i work with them
Pros:simple and sleek integration with your calendar is like having a digital assistant for you and your entire team
Cons:there are a few things i'd like to customize, but that's all positive, too!
Clockwise is a special product because it acts like a public good and has so many positive repercussions at the team and company level as soon as ONE person starts using it. At first I defined it as a personal assistant whose sole purpose is to make sure I'm protecting my focus time, but after using it for more time, I've observed that its second purpose is to protect my teammates/company's time (even for those not signed up on the product.)
Specifically...
1. When I go to schedule meetings (and I do a lot, because I work in product), it'll always let me know when a meeting decreases someone else's focus time, or decreases my own. This has helped me not be a selfish asshole about my meeting schedule, and has also helped me pick times that won't interrupt my focus time in midway.
2. I love looking at the high level stats on me and my team's focus time. Seems like my fellow Clockwise users have increased focus time, not that I'm creeping...
3. I love that Clockwise tells me how much time I've saved for myself and teammates after autopilot does its thing on a meeting.
Other things I love:
1. The summary in the morning from the Clockwise slack bot that tells me about my day. I love the quick look at my meetings/focus time so I can go in feeling prepared
2. Updates my slack status
Other notes:
I was scared to use autopilot at first, because I feared that I'd piss off coworkers with inconvenient meeting times. Now it's a breeze - autopilot does its thing and is never absurd or selfish with its meeting selections, and I feel like I'm getting my time back :)
@michelle_lu3 Thanks Michelle! It's great to hear that you're loving the product!
@abramdawson Thanks Abram! Clockwise only moves meetings that 1) you tell us are ok to move, and 2) that are internal to your company. You're in total control over how Clockwise optimizes your calendar.
@voxmatt cool, that makes sense...excited about the potential for this to work across organizations as well. Good stuff!
Very excited there's a team focusing on this! I have a daily / weekly manual ritual I do, but have been looking for a solution for a several years now. Is there a way to define how many hours of meetings per day you want to allow?
@philipljohnson Hi Philip! There currently isn't a way to define the max number of hours of meetings, but we do let you set a preference for the number of hours of meetings in row. That's great feedback for the future! Let us know if you have any other ideas as you give it a try.
Would love to know how you're planning to monetize this. You know the saying, if a service is free, YOU are the product. So, before giving this a shot, I'd like to know what, or who, the actual product is.
@andreasduess Yes, excellent question; I often wonder the same about free products. Just like Slack, Clockwise will always be free for individuals to start and will then sell companies an enterprise grade product (admin controls, IT compliance, and team coordination functionality). Right now, we're focused on the core functionality for individuals but I can promise that we will NEVER sell user data. You can read more about our privacy policies here: https://www.getclockwise.com/pri...
@lubibul Great to hear you're liking the product! To sign up for the Slack sync, you need to have the chrome extension installed. As an existing user, you can connect Clockwise to Slack from Settings, but new users will see an onboarding card when they get started. Check out https://www.getclockwise.com/sla... to learn more about how it works!
Clockwise is amazing! I was introduced to it by a colleague just a few short weeks ago and already almost half of my company is using it. As a PM, I both have lots of meetings but also really value heads-down time. Clockwise has done a great job clumping all my meetings together and giving me the space to do extended independent work.
I recommend clockwise to every engineering and product team I work with.
Pros:Easy, efficient and lovely to look at.
Cons:I wish there were versions for different sub-groups of teams (marketing, sales, eng, etc).
Such a smart idea, but good luck magically moving these meetings when dealing with multiple attendees. Meeting scheduling is still so painful, especially with more than 2 attendees and with people you don't have access to their calendar.
@joshuapinter this is why we're focused on automatically moving internal meetings to start — if all attendees are internal (you're all on the same GCal domain) we can check availability in real time. In fact, we go one step deeper than just free/busy and check timezones, inferred preferences, and focus time for all attendees. Now, to your point, external meetings are different — we'll get there someday, but for most folks, internal meetings are the majority of their daily meeting workload.
If it's limited to being a chrome extension connected with Gmail, then it's limiting it's market - and doesn't appeal to me specifically. Additionally, it doesn't appear to take into account that maybe the other people you're meeting aren't going to accept your proposed changes. If you've worked in large organisations with many attendees finding time to get everyone together is already a challenge - when one person attempts to change a meeting time, then get ready to rumble.
Pros:Anything that can help streamline calendar time is great!
Cons:limited to being a chrome extension connected with Gmail. What happens when other attendees don't accept your proposed changes.
Hi Gavin! Thanks for the review! We plan to expand beyond chrome & Gmail, so hopefully will have something that appeals to you in the future! Clockwise actually would only move a meeting to a time that works for every attendee (whether or not they are a Clockwise user) – so if there's a less disruptive time for those larger meetings that works for everyone, Clockwise will find it!
After each week you can see a little summary of what meetings were moved and how focus time was consolidated. Satisfying to see!
Pros:improves my daily schedule without me doing anything.
Cons:Hmm, would like it if my entire org was required to use clockwise for further optimization.
Personally I have enough of an issue letting humans control my time, the thought of letting an AI do that dot not appeal in the slightest to me.
I think if you end up in a position where you need to start using AI to create some order in your otherwise maxed out schedule, you should probably go read the book "Essentialism" and learn to get better at saying no in the first place and treating your time as a more precious asset.
I can see the target audience here though (its just not me, but then I'm weird so thats perfectly OK) and good luck with the product! In the mean time I'll be off being busy being unbusy :-)
@jasondainter Thanks for sharing! We'll check out "Essentialism". "Deep Work" by Cal Newport inspired a lot of the theory behind what we do, in case you're interested in learning more!
Not much more to tell. It does what it days on the tin -- which is very rare.
Pros:Clockwise provides little nudges to clean up my calendar and it looks for opportunities to create focus time for me and my team. I love it.
Cons:I would love an extension to room booking (we really don't have enough meeting rooms).
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