Hello everyone and welcome back to the keep productive YouTube channel today's feature we're taking a look at clockwise clockwise is a Chrome extension
That essentially analyzes your Google Calendar eg sweet
bringing together all of the free time or focus time that you could be working and basically
reallocating your meetings
We're going to be diving into the application today also diving into where we found it and how you can get started on this application
So without further ado guys, let's jump in to clockwise
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So here we are as you can see
I'm on the blog post of the release about this and obviously this is the article and
It was actually posted by Greylock partners and the Greylock. I believe are also the investors
Behind, I believe it's coder and I remember that because of Reed Hoffman
But I'll double check and add it description below, but I actually first found it when I was browsing Twitter
I saw a couple of posts about it and I thought just from this, you know gif preview
I was like wow
this application looks pretty smart in terms of at what it can do in allocating time and
Reallocating your time and then I saw it on product and I was like, okay, I probably got to check it out
now it got above 600 votes and was product of the day now this application aims to try and
Optimize your time by reallocating some meetings and also giving you this
Uninterrupted time which is a concept by Cal Newport who also developed the book deep work
And it's about working on longer sort of sessions to go deep inside a one piece of work now, obviously
This is only a 4G suite and Chrome. They did mention they will get an office 365 integration. I believe it was up here
Yeah office 365 you can sign up on that link
But it also has a swag application which will dive into but I've got it overall him out here on my Google Calendar
So without further ado guys, let's dive in
So the clockwise integration appears on this right hand side. It's like this sort of like mini
Application that works with your G suite now you can bring in your personal calendar
There were a few cards here and there was an option to connect with your personal calendar and you can see that it brings it
In but obviously everything is highlighted. It is like busy or free
And as you can see there, there's the actual meeting
So this was brought in by my Google Calendar, which was quite easy to do now, obviously, it will annotate
Anything you add in so I added these two meetings here and you can have this option called clockwise autopilot
so basically it may be automatically changed if there's less disruptive times that become available so
obviously
You might not want that on just to be clear as you're getting started because it might move stuff around
But you do have a range of options here so you can allow it or you can not allow it
Disable it and you can also change the timing flexibility
So whether you want to move it in within the day or within the week at best, so obviously if things become a bit
Too busy and you're losing out on those focus time sessions, then it will automatically move that meeting
So this is more designed for trying to analyze your calendar and work out how to optimize
those longer sessions and these Brown sort of
You know focus time hours
so what's cool is if for example andddd something in the middle of here and put
clockwise autopilot on let's say I added another meeting three and
Press save as you can see here
What it will do is it will sort of it squash that
focus time session and it will start processing that this is a meeting and
It will begin to add it to the clockwise calendar. So it should go purple in a moment. Yeah, there we go
So go to purple and you can see that the meeting here is part of that
Autofocus so you can reschedule that up here like you would be able to do so and that's quite simple
so what it just does and tries to do is just
Consistently analyze your calendar define these longer blocks of time so that you can work on stuff
now obviously got the assistant it came up with a load of parts when I started and
It made it quite easier, but the the real way you can improve this is actually when you go to schedule a meeting
So scheduling a meeting
Is quite easy you can add attendees here. How long do you want meeting whether you want it within this week?
So that's cool
It gives you sort of like a a bit of a slot to some extent
You can have a meeting room or without a meeting room
And what it will do is the autopilot will analyze your existing meetings and also all of the time there
Gives you the best time so
apparently the best time is
Tuesday, June 18th at 2:30 a.m
It's actually UK time. So it's 10:00 a.m
but actually analyzes that's the best time and that's quite cool because it will
Originally, it will move across the week if you need it to banana a really cool tool because you're actually just finding time
That's already
Pretty busy. So all sort of batch everything in a sort of organized manner
So that's one thing you can do with the new meeting or scheduled meeting ability
You get what's called team analytics on the right
So if you and your team have a few people in your dream sweet
You can basically see and click into each person and per week. You can obviously see how much focus time they've had
How much fragmented time and this is sort of fragmented time anything in purple?
how many meetings so obviously you have to go through the schedule meeting feature through that and
other events that obviously
Will allocate be allocated so you can see sort of funkin analysis
Okay, my focus time on Wednesday is the Basten and it basically will you know give you this rating? Okay. Good great
hi, and you can basically continue to
Improve that so the goal is really to
Make sure you're you know, continually analyzing and improving this figure so that you get it all the way up here
so if I go here and obviously go to the system, I
Can click and get access through that a little bit easier and I do have a menu with settings so I can invite coworkers
I can define my team members who they are and what they do and I can go into that autopilot meeting and
Actually see, you know, how I'm how much time I've saved in each one now. We'll come to the sunk integration
but I'm gonna go to settings one thing I had to do is actually go to the
The Europe timezone and as you can see here, you can change your lunch times
You can also change your preferences like when do you want to have open time?
I tend to want to have open time in the afternoon actually
actually the morning because obviously I don't want
A lot of the us calls during the afternoon and I can also change these smart hold
so for example the show focus time smart holds on my primary calendar and
You can have like travel time and lunch time. You've got a few integrations
So I've connected that obviously with my personal calendar
Slack integration and you can really modify the coloring here
If it's something that you really want to go detailed in and you can change more of the account details and the invitations
So let's move to the slack integration
So you can see here. I've got sync you calendar with slack. So obviously this pops up
Um, I won't show you what it does. I will show you how it works. I'm using some of the demonstration images
It's really simple whatever happens it will update
With your calendar so your slack status will have for example in an external meeting
Via clockwise and that will updating automatically do not disturb
So you won't get any notifications
During that focus time and it will also prepare you with a daily forecast now
I used to use an app that was in slack
That would send me a daily forecast my Google Calendar every day
and this is really neat because it gives you an idea of how many meetings you've got when you're first meeting starts and
How much focused time you do have that day, and finally you get other updates like how much time you were successful?
Who do you?
You know were in meetings with etc
So it's it's quite a neat application
So guys, I'm obviously I'm not a user of G suite I use my personal calendar to organize most of my stuff
But I will keep giving this a go. I think it's something that will probably improve over time
Not because I'm a necessarily a bad user right now
But I don't have enough in my dream sweet account for it to fully optimize. I think so
it's for me this demo was more of a
collective
Appreciation at the features and I will probably be testing out even more but I see this application could be a good way for people
That have got G Suites that are for and want to be able to coordinate a bit more
You know dedicated time by reanalyzing meetings, so I would say give it a try it's free, which is great
There's no plans at the moment
I'm not that I'm aware of any way but again apparently teams that are in like lyft and
Even intercom and asana and Twitter are using this one. So apparently it's got a lot of attention at the moment anyway
So guys, please do let me know in the comments below what you thought of clockwise. I will see you guys in another video
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You probably won't even get time to do clockwise, but I will see you guys very very soon
So make sure have a great week. Keep it active. I'll see you guys later
cheers, everyone