How to use the Clockwise Calendar
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The Clockwise Calendar is the first GPT-powered calendar experience that makes scheduling as easy as having a conversation. The personal calendar assistant uses Clockwise time orchestration capabilities that empower you to make better decisions about your day using every day language to help manage your calendar and events.
Clockwise’s scheduling engine finds potentially available times for an event beyond the open space you see when viewing multiple peoples’ calendars because it knows which meetings are flexible and it can facilitate the logistics of moving them. We refer to this as schedule by moving. As a result, Clockwise surfaces more possibilities to you when prompted to schedule an event, including options made possible by moving other meetings that are flexible. If you select one of these proposals, Clockwise will handle both scheduling the new event and rescheduling the conflicting events.
How It Works
Using the power of GPT, Clockwise combines the previously developed technology of Clockwise and combines it with a chat functionality that simplifies scheduling on the go. The chat uses natural language processing (NLPs) so you can make a request as if talking to a real-life assistant.
Clockwise is able to find time in your busy schedule, clear your afternoons, and reschedule meetings when you are out of office, all while keeping you informed in real time – all while maintaining your workday preferences.
What type of tasks can Clockwise make easier for me?
- Scheduling new meetings with teammates
- Rescheduling Focus Time
- Changing recurrence frequency on events
- Comparing many schedules without need of a visual overlay check
Interacting via Web
- Navigate to the the calendar area of the webapp.
At the bottom left of your window, you will see the chat feature. Type messages in the text input box and engage with the calendar as needed.
Clockwise will respond with a suggestion to your request
The suggestion also provides a visual overlay to the right side of the chat where the suggestion will exist on your calendar, highlighted in purple, when you hover over the event changes in the chat.
Respond to the suggestion.
Selecting Confirm will book the event and your calendar will then immediately rearrange. Clockwise will confirm that the action has been completed following movement.
Selecting Cancel will end the proposal and nothing will change.
If you care to, you can provide direct feedback around how your experience worked out with our product development team – good or bad, we want to hear about it! Selecting the 👍 👎 emojis will initiate a ticket to our Product team where you can provide more details. Thank you for participating in the beta!
Note: Nothing will change on your calendar until you explicitly confirm it within the chat by clicking the options presented to you. A confirmation message will follow your choice.
Interacting via Slack
Confirm that the Clockwise integration is installed to your Slack instance.
Use the
/cw"slash command" to communicate with Clockwise from Slack.
Clockwise will offer suggestions to your request within your current view of Slack.
The suggestion provides 3 of the top choices for your meeting to choose from. The clock symbol ⏰ lets you know what kind of impact the suggested meeting choice will provide.
Respond to the suggestion.
Selecting Choose will book the event and your calendar will then immediately rearrange. Clockwise will confirm that the action has been completed following movement.
Selecting Never mind will end the proposal and nothing will change.
Selecting Continue in Clockwise will launch your browser and display the proposal in the Clockwise web app.
This option provides a more comprehensive view of the placement and impact of the meeting.
Security
The Clockwise Calendar runs using the same data processing accesses and security measures you've come to trust with Clockwise calendaring. You can read a bit more about data policies here, and review overall security statements here.