The new prioritization system offers more granular control for how you can prioritize events on your calendar. There are a couple major changes from how Reclaim used to prioritize events:

High/low priority vs. priority tiers

Reclaim used concepts like “high” / ”normal” priority for Scheduling Links, and stack-ranking your Tasks and Habits to identify which items were most important to schedule on your calendar first.

Now, items can be categorized into four different priority tiers Critical (P1) - Low priority (P4) for even more control over your week. Reclaim will intelligently prioritize scheduling events in a bucketed approach based on which are marked with higher priority levels, from critical to lowest priority. Tasks are further prioritized by due date if marked with the same priority level.

Prioritizing non-Reclaim created events

Previously, Reclaim would never overbook events that it didn’t schedule.

With the new system, you can now set priority levels for non-Reclaim events if you choose. This allows your higher-priority Scheduling Links to overbook those events tagged at a lower priority level to maximize availability for your most urgent meetings.

<aside> 💡 Important things to note:

• All non-Reclaim events on your calendar will always be set to P1 by default (most critical) so they will never be overbooked by Reclaim – unless you manually change their priority level.
• Your non-Reclaim events manually set to a lower priority level can only ever be overbooked by higher-priority Scheduling Links which will show that time as available – non-Reclaim events will never be overscheduled by Habits, Tasks, or Smart 1:1s, regardless of their priority. </aside>

Is switching to the new prioritization system going to mess up my existing Reclaim events?

Upgrading to the new prioritization system will not mess up your calendar (just make it better). All of your smart Reclaim events will be automatically migrated over with default priorities that you can then customize once activated.

Here’s how your existing smart events will be prioritized when you switch:

• ‘High priority’ Habits → High priority (P2)
• ‘Low priority’ Habits → Medium priority (P3)
• Tasks → High priority (P2) + your top three tasks will be added to ‘Up-Next’
• Smart 1:1s → High priority (P2)
• ‘High priority’ Scheduling Links → Critical (P1)
• ‘Normal priority’ Scheduling Links → Medium priority (P3)
• Non-Reclaim events → Critical (P1)