This is the most useless, most annoying, and generally most time-wasting scheduling app that I have tried in the last year. The most revealing thing I can say is that I was profoundly relieved when I found out how to disentangle myself from it entirely.
For context, I use Trello (for long term projects) and Todoist (for smaller projects) regularly.
Over the last year, I have installed and tried other time management or time blocking apps, including skedpal, sunsama, etc. I've been exploring especially AI features, such as automatically adding travel time, shifting tasks when a conflicting meeting was added and so on. All of the other apps had both useful and not so useful features.
I think that most scheduling apps are at least somewhat intuitive to me. But, the following remarks should take into account that perhaps I was utterly unable to read and follow the user guides to Reclaim, which might in itself affect your interest in it.
All Reclaim did was clutter up my calendar with junk. If I entered a court appearance in Google calendar, Reclaim helpfully filled the calendar with "work commitment." Really? How helpful -- no kidding, it never occurred to me when I entered a court appearance on my calendar, that it was - gasp! - a work commitment. Thank goodness for AI! Enter 5 hearings in a morning and - wow! - Reclaim adds five "work commitments" to the same times, making Google Calendar almost unreadable. I understand that perhaps this would have some use in a team environment, i.e. if one person enters an event, other team members could see that he or she had a "work commitment." If you're on a team where knowing that a colleague had a "work commitment" but not what it was, had some purpose, then Reclaim might have some merit.
The advertised AI features, where tasks etc would be moved as schedules changed, simply never happened for me to any helpful extent. Reclaim simply jammed more uninformative clutter into the same space on Google Calendar.
It's either too complicated for me to work with or too much of a mess to deal with. Better luck to smarter users.
I should say that an app that is primarily online (or that is online and must be the primary scheduling/task management locus) is not helpful to me as I am frequently offline, due to lack of cell service or WIFI. It is essential to me that I can enter info in Google calendar first.
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