Hi there,
New year, new hack to streamline your Google Calendar.
Your calendar will thank you.
Your colleagues will thank you.
⚡ Supercharge of the Week
Remote Octopus recommends putting an end date on recurring calendar invites.
Why? Identifying an end date for recurring calls provides clarity to project scope and improves calendar management.
It’s a setting most people miss. 👀
For example, let’s say it’s January and you need to book a specific legal sync (or even a dentist appointment) for August. You pull up August in your calendar. It’s full of recurring invites for Project A and Project B and Program Y. You think: Are these projects still going on in August? I thought these were all targeting H1?
Not only have these recurring invites now introduced confusion in terms of their scope, but they’re creating blockers to schedule future calls (or dentist appointments). They’re creating drag. Slowing down remote collaboration.
Adding an End Date is a quick extra step to streamline collaboration and mitigate any scope confusion.
It’s an easy two-step process.
First: Within the calendar invite, select <Custom> from the bottom of the dropdown.
Next: After indicating which days of the week your meeting will recur, select <On> and identify the end date. The end date should match when the project or program is targeting delivery. If the project or program delivery dates shift, you always edit the end date in this recurring calendar invite.
P.S. If you’re in a different calendar, such as Microsoft Outlook, most have an end date feature. Ask ChatGPT or Claude how to set it up.
