Installing Clarity Board, using it, and what happens to your data. Anything else: hello@theclarityboard.com.
A free Google Calendar add-on that turns your calendar into a project and time management system. A panel beside your calendar holds your projects, tasks and hours, and everything is saved in a Google Sheet in your own Drive.
It is free during the beta.
A Google account and Google Calendar in a browser on a computer. It works with personal Gmail accounts and with Google Workspace accounts, if your organization allows add-ons.
Not yet. Calendar's phone apps don't show side panels, so Clarity Board runs in Google Calendar on a computer. Events it creates or recolors show up on your phone as usual.
Clarity Board is built by Dr. Adam Abramson. Questions and feedback go to hello@theclarityboard.com.
Make a copy of the template, open Extensions → Apps Script in your copy, and click Deploy → Test deployments → Install. Then open Google Calendar and click the Clarity Board icon. The set-up guide and the demo video show every step.
Google's review of Clarity Board isn't finished yet, so Google shows this notice during the beta. Click Advanced, then Go to Clarity Board. What each permission is for is listed in the set-up guide.
Reload Calendar. The icon is in the strip on the right edge; if the strip is hidden, click the small arrow at the bottom right. If it's still missing, repeat the Install step and check that it finished.
Your copy keeps the version you installed. When a newer one is ready, make a fresh copy and install it the same way. On the welcome card, open Already have one? and paste the link of your current worksheet. Your projects, tasks and hours carry on.
You rate each project's urgency and importance, and the panel groups them as an Eisenhower matrix: Do Today, Do Soon, Schedule and Delegate. Projects you set to Waiting or Parked are listed under those headings.
Press Start now and pick a task. When you're done, press Stop, Stop + Break or Stop + Work Block. The time you tracked is saved as an event on your calendar and counts in your hours.
Yes. Click the event in Google Calendar to open it; there's no need to press Edit. The panel lets you count it toward a project, task or category, and the event takes that color.
It's the work time still ahead this week with nothing on your calendar. Set your work days and hours with Work days & hours under HOURS THIS WEEK.
Yes. Add tasks on the Tasks tab or edit projects on the Projects tab, then click Clarity Board → Sync with Google Calendar in the worksheet's menu and reopen the panel. Please don't rename the tabs or the column headings.
Tick a task's box and it moves to the Task Archive tab of your worksheet, with the date and time you finished it.
In your own Google account: projects, tasks and hours in your worksheet in Google Drive, and the time you track in your Google Calendar. Clarity Board has no servers of its own.
No, not unless you share it yourself.
Uninstall it from your copy (Extensions → Apps Script → Deploy → Test deployments → Uninstall), and remove its access at myaccount.google.com/permissions if you like. Your worksheet and your calendar events stay where they are.
In the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service.
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