The yellow time is fragmented time the turquoise is time you can really use to do productive, concentrated work. You can see from the animation above that Clockwise can figure out which meetings are movable (like weekly 1–1s) and which aren’t (like staff meetings), and can rework your weekly calendar to give you back time to think & time to work. For old school nerds (🙋♂️), it will remind you of a disk defragmenter:
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They’ve been heads down over the past couple of years building their first product - connect it to your own calendar and it figures out how to optimize your days to give you back meaningful chunks of time in whole blocks.
This was a team I wanted to be in business with, building a technology that needed to exist in the world.Ĭlockwise makes a product and supporting technology that actually gives us time back. The approach would take a deep mix of product, UX, machine learning and systems thinking to make work, and that’s precisely what Matt, Mike & Gary demonstrated. Which is why I’m really happy to be able (finally!) to talk about our investment in Clockwise! I met the Clockwise founders Matt Martin, Mike Grinolds, and Gary Lerhaupt early in 2018 and was immediately taken with them, their passion for helping us get control of our time, and their new approach to doing it - not by creating a new calendar app, but by using machine learning to make the calendars we already have work better. Between meetings, notifications, alerts and on and on, we’ve lost the ability to control our calendars, to have time to think and to work in focused ways. The combined macro trends of mobile, cloud, modern design, and machine learning have paid huge dividends in our ability to create, collaborate, and build things quickly.īut one of the ironies of the age is that as amazing as these tools are, it’s gotten increasingly tough to find the time to sit down and use them productively. We’re are living in a golden age of productivity tools: Slack and Zoom and Figma and Dropbox and Quip and Crew and many more.
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