Clockwise

What is Clockwise?

Clockwise is an AI-powered calendar assistant that optimizes your schedule based on personal preferences. It intelligently arranges meetings, creates time for deep work, and handles complex scheduling tasks across teams, working like a super-smart assistant for your calendar.

Top Features:

• Intelligent scheduling: finds optimal meeting times by analyzing and rearranging events across multiple calendars.
• Meeting management: allows bulk actions like clearing schedules or rescheduling multiple meetings with simple commands.
• Availability sharing: generates text lists or scheduling links to share your free time with others.
• To-do integration: converts tasks into flexible calendar holds to ensure important work gets done.
• One-click controls: provides fast RSVP, rescheduling, and flexibility options directly from calendar events.

Use Cases:

• Finding impossible meeting slots: discovers available times for busy groups when manual scheduling fails.
• Managing schedule disruptions: quickly reschedules meetings when you're out of office or need to clear time.
• Protecting deep work: creates and defends blocks of uninterrupted focus time based on your preferences.
• Task management: ensures to-dos get completed by allocating specific calendar time for them.

Who Can Use Clockwise?

• Deep work seekers: professionals who need uninterrupted blocks of time to accomplish complex tasks.
• Busy calendar managers: team members juggling multiple priorities and frequent meetings with colleagues.
• Networking professionals: people who need to coordinate with external contacts while minimizing conflicts.
• Team leaders: managers who schedule numerous 1:1s and need to optimize their availability.

Pricing

• Free: For individuals/small teams; unlimited lunch/flexible/travel holds, calendar sync, smart meeting breaks.
• Teams ($7.75/user/month): Paid plan starting at $7.75/user/month.
• Business ($7.75/user/month): Advanced paid plan up to $7.75/user/month.

Pros and Cons

Pros:

• Time-saving automation: handles complex scheduling tasks that would take humans much longer.
• Team-wide optimization: considers everyone's preferences when arranging meetings across groups.
• Natural language commands: understands conversational requests like "clear my afternoon" without special syntax.
• Focus protection: actively helps create and maintain time for deep work.

Cons:

• Learning curve: may take time to understand all capabilities and how to best use them.
• Team adoption needed: works best when everyone in an organization uses it.
• Potential over-automation: might move meetings without understanding contextual importance without explicit confirmation.

FAQs:

1) How does Clockwise find meeting times when calendars seem completely full?

It analyzes millions of potential calendar arrangements, moving flexible meetings to create new openings while respecting everyone's preferences.

2) Can Clockwise work with external people who don't use the tool?

Yes, you can generate and share availability as text lists or create one-time scheduling links for external contacts.

3) Will Clockwise automatically move my meetings without permission?

No, it requires explicit confirmation before making changes to your calendar.

4) How does Clockwise determine which meetings are "flexible"?

You can mark meetings as flexible, or it learns from your patterns which meetings you typically move.

5) Can I still manage my calendar manually while using Clockwise?

Absolutely! Clockwise works alongside manual calendar management, giving suggestions while leaving you in control.