What do you like best about Reclaim.ai?
Unlike most people (possibly), I started using Reclaim.ai for it’s meeting links feature (think Calendly) and was pleased to learn that they had smart scheduling (think Clockwise), and integration with external calendars (Outlook, Gmail).
I love the interface, aesthetics, and the idea of recurring tasks, habits, and focus time that are dynamically rescheduled by AI. I also found the multiple priority levels concept for the purpose of automated rescheduling to be immediately intuitive.
I have not tried yet the multi-calendar syncing, but it is great to know it is an option without recurring to an additional paid service outside of Reclaim.
As I write this review, the product is in early stages, so I am excited to see where they go next. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Reclaim.ai?
These are more missing features than dislikes:
1. Lack of support for iCloud Calendar. One of the founders recently expressed he shares this pain point with me, but there seems to be no concrete plan for this feature right now. I imagine it is a matter of handling the majority of business cases first. I know that Apple can also be obtuse when it comes to third party integrations sometimes, so I understand.
There is a workaround, but it is not ideal: enable public links on the iCloud calendars you want to sync to Reclaim, subscribe your Outlook or Google Calendar to these iCloud calendars (this creates a new calendar for each link), then go to Reclaim’s settings and select the calendars to sync (they appear as a checklist under the Outlook or Gmail calendar). If you have Outlook or Gmail synced to iCloud, the new subscription will cause your iCloud events to be synced back to iCloud, causing duplicates. To solve this, just hide either the iCloud calendars or the subscription calendars in Outlook/Gmail. Oh and this setup may lead to a significant delay in your iCloud events showing up in Reclaim (minutes to hours). I know, quite the trip, but it works.
2. I’d love to have the ability to elegantly show tasks and events I want to focus on during a Focus Time. For now, the only options are: choose either one or the other; or play with settings to NOT reschedule your focus times and tasks when they clash, which causes the events to show separately, next to each other. None is elegant or pleasing.
3. Scheduling links and schedules (“Hours” in the settings): you can only select the existing core schedules (personal, work, meeting times). When setting up your scheduling link, you cannot select any custom hours you create. Seems like a non-issue until you want your work meeting times to be different from your scheduling link meeting times. For instance, imagine a recruiter who wants to allow company meetings during working hours, but wants to constrain candidate meetings to the morning only. As it currently stands, the recruiter would not be able to restrict the hours in this way for the links they share with candidates. If you go the other way around, you can set the custom hours to apply to a certain links, but these show as preferred times (green dot on a time) rather than available times, which the candidate may not understand or respect.
4. I think there is lack of clarity and granularity in choosing what events people logged into Reclaim will see when comparing with their calendar. They say you can do this in the calendar sync settings, but this is for sync between external calendars (Outlook, Gmail), not with Reclaim calendar. A feature to show and change event/calendar visibility as shown within Reclaim is needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
