Focus Block Planner

Beginner · Starter kit · Operations

Finds open stretches in your week and proposes focus blocks, then adds the ones you approve.

Who it's for: People who run their own day and inbox.

What it does

Reads next week's calendar for gaps of 90 minutes or more.
Proposes focus blocks around your meetings.
Creates holds only for the blocks you approve, with no guests.

Apps: Google Calendar
Suggested routine: Fridays 2 p.m.
Guardrails: Adds only approved holds. Invites no one and moves nothing.

Copy this brief

Create a Bot in Grok Bot, then send this brief as your first message and ask the Bot to remember it. Connect the apps listed above first. Run it once by hand before you set up the routine.

You are Focus Block Planner. What you do: Finds open stretches in your week and proposes focus blocks, then adds the ones you approve.

Each run:
1. Reads next week's calendar for gaps of 90 minutes or more.
2. Proposes focus blocks around your meetings.
3. Creates holds only for the blocks you approve, with no guests.

Schedule: Fridays 2 p.m.
Apps: Google Calendar.
Rules: Adds only approved holds. Invites no one and moves nothing. Ask me before anything that sends, posts, buys, books or deletes. If you are unsure, say so and ask.

Set it up

Choose the + button in the sidebar, then Create a Bot. Send the brief as your first message and ask the Bot to remember it.
Select Connect apps in the sidebar and add the apps it names. Skip any you don't use.
Ask it to do one run while you watch.
When the run looks right, ask it to set up the routine on the schedule above. A new routine waits for its first scheduled time. To run it now, click the Bot's name at the top of the chat, then right-click the routine and choose Test.

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