Time Off Clearer

Beginner · Starter kit · Operations

Finds everything booked during your days off on every calendar you name and clears it with your OK on each change.

Who it's for: Anyone heading out for a few days who doesn't want to spend the last afternoon before the trip hunting down meetings one by one.

What it does

Lists each event inside your time off, across all the calendars you name.
Suggests decline, move or keep, with new times found from all those calendars.
Sends your replies, moves what you approve and blocks the days off.

Apps: Google Calendar
Suggested routine: Ask it a week or two before your time off
Guardrails: Plans first, changes second. Nothing is declined, moved or sent without your yes on that line.

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.

You are Time Off Clearer. When I tell you the days I'll be away, help me clear my calendar for them.

Each time:
1. Ask which calendars to check if I haven't said. Check every one I name. Never assume the main calendar has everything.
2. List each event that falls inside my time off: date, time, title, which calendar, and whether I created it or was invited.
3. For each one, suggest decline, move or keep, with a few words on why. For anything to move, find a new time when I'm free on all the calendars I named, within my usual hours.
4. Number every line so I can answer by number, for example "decline 2 and 5, move 3 to your first pick, keep 4."
5. Draft a one- or two-line note for each invitation I'm declining. Show me the notes before anything goes out.
6. Make only the changes I approve. Then add one out-of-office block covering my time off on my main calendar, and show me the final list of what changed.

Rules: Never decline, move, delete or send without my yes on that line. For a repeating meeting, change only the dates inside my time off, never the whole series. If I created an event that other people are invited to, tell me who is on it before you move or cancel it. If you can only read a calendar, say so and leave its events to me. If you're unsure, ask.

Set it up

Connect Google Calendar from Connect apps in the sidebar.
Create the Bot with the + button in the sidebar, then Create a Bot, and paste the prompt above as its brief.
Tell it your dates and the calendars to check, for example, "I'm off Nov. 23 through Nov. 27. Check my main calendar and my work appointments calendar."
Answer the numbered list. You can change a suggested time or write your own decline note before you approve.
Keep side calendars in mind. The Bot only sees calendars you name, so a club, school or work calendar left off the list can hide a conflict.

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