The fact that calendar systems are across the board so awful, is something that blows my mind everything time I think about it. Like you, like EVERYONE, sometimes thing run over, or there's an unexpected delay. Why a calendar system like Google would make you sit there and manually shift everything around is INSANE. There should be a feature to push everything back if a block runs over. Why should i have to manually shift 7 time blocks down, one by one. It's mental.

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

I agree! I think the calendar space could use some competition. It's pretty much just Google or Outlook, and everything else is so indie and lacking in features. Even Google and Outlook aren't enough. I'm really loving that Reclaim is adding a layer of slickness to my existing calendar(s) to compensate.

I like how you clarified the distinction between habits, tasks, and meetings! That's a really helpful way to look at it. Oh I really wish we had buffer and decompress time at work, that's a great idea.

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah, I think the distinction is really important because you need to know what's fixed and what could be moved. I love that Reclaim does that! :)

Really great summary - you covered everything I wanted to know about Reclaim. I also love your other content on Obsidian. Keep up the good work!

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Yay! Reclaim is fantastic, and so is the team. Happy to give them a bit of a spotlight. Thanks for the encouragement!

Just discovered Reclaim and I love it! It feels like it's part of Google Calendar. It really shows how much time I DON'T have and helped me schedule projects accurately.

Thank you so much for this very comprehensive summary and review. Very helpful!

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Glad I could help, Sarah! Thanks for watching. ;)

"Calendar tetris". That's such a funny and accurate explanation of the problem

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

Haha! Thanks, Ryan! Glad I wasn't the only one who was amused. :D

Great video Nicole!! Looks like a great app that would help me stop my google calendar Tetris or analog block sketching approach :D

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Eve! Yeah, I imagine that an analog calendar blocking approach would be very difficult unless you follow your schedule 100%!!

This is exactly what I've been looking for all this time!!!! Thank you so much!

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad I could tell people about it! I love Reclaim. :)

Excellent content as usual. Thanks for sharing.

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

Gracias, Charly, como siempre!

Thank you for this concise and useful video. I'm going to give the free version a try and determine whether it will be a good fit for me and my team. As an engineer with increasing responsibilities, I'm in dire need of a system that will help me make sense of all the competing priorities these days!

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Fabian! That's awesome! Welcome to the Obsidian community! I hope it's as good for you as it is for me. I am also an engineer, so I know what it's like to need to keep track of all the competing priorities!

Wonderful information for obsidian. Thank you. 😊 Very helpful.

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, John! Glad to be of help. :)

Super useful, insightful video. Subscribed!

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Thanks-- for the kind words and the subscribe! Happy you liked it. :)

Really helpful. Thank you, Nicole.

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Scott! Happy to help!

Great video. Well delivered. Thanks for sharing your tips :)

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it! :) Thanks!

Just had to say how much I enjoyed this video! So often software reviews are just a funnel. This was really helpful!! :)

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Alex! I'm so happy to hear that! I love Reclaim, and since I actually already get it for free through my employer, I get absolutely nothing from recommending them but I still do so because they're awesome!

@alexoldroyd770

2 жыл бұрын

@@nicolevdh How does reclaim integrate with obsidian? Also have you tried SkedPal beta 3.0? Very similar - costs and benefits to both. Would be interested to hear your take.

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexoldroyd770 It doesn't! I like to have my calendar separate from my notes, so Reclaim integrates with my Google Calendar and I use them both separately from how I use Obsidian. I have not tried SkedPal, sorry!

@alexoldroyd770

2 жыл бұрын

@@nicolevdh thanks for the response Nicole

Very interesting. Thank you

Thanks for making this video! I'm going to give Reclaim a try as a result. By the way -- your videos are *top notch quality*. Keep it up!

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Justin! Thank you so much for the encouragement-- so nice of you, and I really appreciate it. I'm glad you're giving Reclaim a try! :)

@justindirose

2 жыл бұрын

@@nicolevdh You're welcome! I create also (over at kzread.info) -- I get the ups and downs of it all and just wanted to be a positive note in your day!

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

@@justindirose Oh wow! I'm a subscriber and have been for a while, but didn't connect your channel with your personal name. :) I love your stuff so I doubly appreciate the compliment and encouragement now that I know it comes from you!

Hello Nicole, thank you for this video, i will try Reclaim

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Enrique! :) Great to hear!

Muchas gracias por tu video! :)

How neat! I actually programmed something similar years ago! I called it BinCal, because it’s just a calendar that solves a bin packing problem.

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

Nice! Sounds interesting. That is exactly what it does!

This video was beyond helpful.

Muy buen contenido! ❤️ Sigue así c:

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

Muchas gracias! Me alegro poder ayudarte :)

thanks for this Review 👍

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it! :)

Great video! I need to check this app out! :)

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Ash! Yeah, totally recommend it! :)

Oh this looks cool! I may have to check it out!

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, worth checking out for sure! There are some really nice people on the team as well.

@RachelVMadrigal

2 жыл бұрын

@@nicolevdh Ok signed up and shared your video with my coworkers 😂

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you! Hope you find it as useful as I do! :)

Thaaaanksss 😍

Looks really interesting. My go to is Morgen but will have a look into this.

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

I've never heard of Morgen! I must look it up. Reclaim is awesome though, and even better, the devs/founders are cool people.

@DannyHatcherTech

2 жыл бұрын

@@nicolevdh I have a video about it if your interested. Yeah they name you on their website I saw 😆

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

@@DannyHatcherTech Actually didn't even know they'd quoted me! But the quote is accurate. Thanks, I'll definitely check out your video on Morgen!

Amazing video. Im trying to find a Motion alternative and this might just be it. Can I ask how many Asana accounts it could work with? Like you, I have one for my normal work and another for my side jobs. Thanks!

Great video! I feel like habits are things you'd like to do daily vs tasks being deadline driven. In my time blocking setup I had multiple things I wanted to do every day like "paperwork" or "email/messages", but once I add lunch and workouts the free plan is a bust. Or do you think that all those time-blocking things should be 'tasks' instead?

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Hi Bradley! I see that the free plan only has 3 habits included. One thing you could do is to schedule those recurring habits on Google Calendar. Scheduling them that way means Reclaim won't be able to move them around, but at least you can set them to recur every day. Personally, I opted to pay for Reclaim - the time it saves me was worth the price! Definitely a personal decision, though.

Will definitely have to check this out once they integrate with Asana.

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

Fair enough! I don't use Asana but I can understand why that would be important for you!

Have you tried motion? You should do a comparison video - they seem very similar.

Came back to say that I am now a Reclaim believer. 🤣🤣

Thanks

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, thank YOU. :) So nice of you! Appreciate the support.

Thanks for this video/recomendation we are struggle with our calendar meetings and our todos, I'm also learning to use Obsidian to help me hanlde better my notes and have found very useful your channel and all videos. BTW, is there a way to integrate this calendar/tasks from Reclaim to link with notes from Obsidian, that would be awesome.

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

Hi! Sorry, no, there is no integration between Obsidian and Reclaim. I use Google Calendar for my calendar, so I don't use Obsidian at all for tasks that have a date or time that they should be done.

reclaim is great... and the pricing for individuals is fair, for teams it starts getting a little expensive I think

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

Well, if that's what it takes to keep the individual plan free forever, I totally get it! :)

Dope app review! Is it possible you could compare this to Morgen’s free tier? Btw I’m loving your channel!

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

Hi! Sorry, I have not used Morgen, but it doesn't look like it does the same thing as Reclaim at all. The main value of Reclaim for me is its ability to schedule tasks intelligently to fit the time I have available. Morgen looks like just another calendar app-- you still have to schedule your tasks on it and move them around when you need more time.

@TheAmazinRaven

2 жыл бұрын

@@nicolevdh if I'm not mistaken, when I viewed Bryan Jenk's video, he utilized a feature that allowed him to copy & paste his availability into a plain text file. (Which allows one to efficiently schedule meetings and tasks). I'm not sure if I'm describing this correctly as I could be misremembering the functionality but Reclaim seemed similar to me on that front. I will admit that I am LOVING the habits and tasks features in Reclaim much better. I apologize for making the suggestion. I appear to have misunderstood the similarities between the apps. 😅

Can I use reclaim for Outlook calender?

I prefer iCal and already have a other life/work things integrated there. Does this work with iCal or just Google Calendar?

you are awesome

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video. :)

Do you still use Reclaim. I've been using it for the past year, but I'm not sold due to certain things like my schedule changes regularly. I would love to hear an update.

what about Skedpal？

Hi!! Are you still using reclaim? and have you ever tried sunsama? :)

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

I am still using it daily, yes! And no, I haven't tried Sunsama. :)

@yorgohoebeke

Жыл бұрын

@@nicolevdh Thanks for answering! Great to hear you still use it :) I might try it even though I like sunsama for now

This sounds just like what I need to better block time. However, I use Apple Calendar so it will not work for me. Bummer!!!!!

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

Awww, that's a shame! I have never tried Motion, but I've heard it is similar. Maybe you could see of that works for you?

Do you still use it? Would you like to share another video on that?

No Microsoft Office integrations :(

@nicolevdh

Жыл бұрын

Nope! I haven't used Microsoft anything in over a decade, sorry.

Alas, I can’t benefit much from this tool because my workplace uses Outlook

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

Fair enough! That is the biggest limitation right now, I think.

Hi there, please state at the beginning what your channel is about. I have no idea what you do, or what regular vids will be on. Could be a missed opportunity if someone was going to click subscribe but had some hesitation about whether future content would be relevant to them.

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

Hi! Thanks! I really appreciate the comment, and I will definitely consider that in the future. I had thought about it, but I wondered if it might be boring for people to listen to the same "intro" in every video. It's really useful to hear that's not how it would be for you, thanks!

@artistryartistry7239

2 жыл бұрын

@@nicolevdh No problem :) Really enjoyed your content. I hear you, people can go overboard with intros and logos and whatnot, but a quick bit of text that says "Productivity, etc etc" I can't imagine will be a problem for people. It can even just disappear as you start talking, doesn't even need an intro. You've gained a subscriber!

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

@@artistryartistry7239 Thanks, and welcome aboard! :)

sounds to complicated for me.

@nicolevdh

2 жыл бұрын

Fair enough! It's definitely not for everyone.