How to use Habits
Set up a Lunch Habit in Reclaim to automatically make space for a consistent, flexible break each day. Habits are smart routines that find the best time in your schedule for regular activities like lunch, workouts, or email catchup. This module will help you experience how Habits work in action.
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How to create a Lunch Habit
Click Habits in the left sidebar.
Tell Reclaim when and how you like to take lunch by setting hours, an ideal time, and the duration for the Habit.
Click Save.
Navigate to the Reclaim Planner or your calendar. Identify Lunch events for this week and next.
Note: Habits will appear as free time 🆓 to others until your schedule starts to fill up. Then it'll automatically flip to busy 🛡️ to ensure you have the time defended.
Reclaim does this in order to maintain maximum availability, until the time in which you’re at risk of running out of options to complete your habit.
Learn more about how Reclaim uses free and busy time to keep your schedule flexible.
How to reschedule your Lunch
Rescheduling allows Reclaim to find the next best time.
Rescheduling from the Reclaim Planner
From the Reclaim Planner, right-click on a Lunch Habit event.
Select Snooze and choose a new time.
Take note of the new time for your lunch.
Rescheduling from you calendar (for Google users)
Install the Google Calendar add-on.
From Google Calendar, click the Google Calendar add-on so that the Reclaim panel is showing side by side with your calendar.
Click on a Lunch habit event.
Click the Reschedule icon in the Google Calendar add-on (hint: it looks like a calendar), and choose a new time for your lunch.
Reclaim will schedule as close as possible to your newly chosen time.
How to skip your Lunch
Skipping from the Reclaim Planner
From the Reclaim Planner, right-click on a Lunch Habit event.
Select Skip.
Note that your lunch is no longer scheduled on that day.
Skipping from your calendar
From your calendar, select a lunch event and click Delete event.
Note that your lunch is no longer scheduled for the selected day.
How to lock your Lunch
You can ensure that Habit events are seen as busy to your colleagues and that Reclaim will no longer reschedule them with the manual Lock action.
Locking from the Reclaim Planner
From the Reclaim Planner, right-click on a “free” Lunch event and select Lock.
From your Google or Outlook Calendar, schedule an event that conflicts with your locked Lunch event.
Verify that your locked Lunch habit doesn’t get automatically rescheduled by Reclaim.
From the Reclaim Planner, right-click on the locked Lunch event, select Unlock, and see it rescheduled.
Locking from your Calendar (for Google users)
If you haven’t yet, go ahead and install the Google Calendar add-on.
From Google Calendar, click the Google Calendar add-on so that the Reclaim panel is showing side by side with your calendar.
Click on a Lunch habit event.
Click the Lock icon in the Reclaim add-on.
Verify that the Lunch event is now displaying with a Lock emoji 🔒 (this can take up to 30 seconds).
Tip: Manually moving an event from the Planner or your calendar will also result in that event being locked as Reclaim honors this change as your preferred time for the event.