For those familiar with Raycast and who are using the “My Schedule” feature, you can now choose Rise as the default calendar to open events with. For those who haven’t heard of Raycast before, it’s “a blazingly fast, totally extendable launcher. It lets you complete tasks, calculate, share common links, and much more.”

Other changes and improvements

• Improvement: the app is even faster, most noticeable when you have a lot of events and contacts

• Improvement: lunch events only move when there is a conflict

• Fixed: in some weird scenarios it could happen the top part of the app was missing. No more.

• Fixed: some support links in Rise would not break out of the app when clicked.

• Fixed: external scheduling link pages were not correctly resizing on mobile

Another day, another list of improvements to flexible events. New in this update:

• Events are optimized no later than 10 AM on the day before they occur, instead of 4 PM. So less surprises and more predictability in your schedule.

• When a meeting cannot be optimized or will not be rescheduled anymore, a lock icon is now displayed on the event. This enhancement improves clarity what’s happening.

• Flexible events automatically disables when you manually move a flexible meeting

We're introducing the month view to give you a birds-eye view of what's going on. See upcoming trips, project deadlines and schedule multiday events. To see the month view simply press M on the keyboard.

We shared an early demo of the month view on Twitter. Watch it to see all the little details we added.

Today we’re shipping something that has been worked on for months! Flexible events got its biggest update ever. Flexible events automatically improve your schedule to increase focus time and resolve conflicts. So what changed?

• Reclaims 2x as much focus time as before! The new engine now tests up to 40x times more different scenarios when moving your meetings. This significantly increases the likelihood of finding the optimal time for your meeting.

• It’s more thoughtful. Moves only happen when they significantly improve your schedule. It’s also more careful with moving meetings to early or end of the day.

• A new update email that highlights the benefits from the reschedule in more detail. You will now see exactly who reclaimed focus time or got a conflict resolved.

Cross-calendar blocking helps you to navigate a life where not everything happens in a single calendar, by automatically keeping those events synchronized. By default Rise will copy over any event, but now you can change it so it will only block events that happen during your working times. This will remove any copies of private events that happen in your evenings and weekends, which keeps things clean. Additionally you can also customize the title for the copies Rise makes to make it more informative to your teammates.

Other improvements

• The month indicator now also shows two months if you happen to have multiple months into a single view

• We improved contrast in the calendar view to make text easier to read in both light and dark mode

• FocusGuard emails now contain correct deeplinks to the relevant settings page

• You can now set the default duration for new events in Rise

• In your profile you can now see with which email address you’re signed in and you can edit your last name

• When switching your active calendar (where new events go as you click) we show a toast so you’re aware of your switch

• We added a search button to the navigation so it’s a bit easier to discover that actually have the feature

Bugfixes

• Adding an invalid custom conferencing solution link does not show an error to the user

• If you create a working location event and click away, the event would stick around

• The initial FocusGuard analysis would sometimes run twice for new users, resulting in two emails. Unharmful but very annoying.

• If you add a group as an attendee, we now instantly show availability for group members

• In some cases a flexible event does not show what is optimized

• When you have Rise open and the date changes, the today indicator does not change

• Yearly all-day events for birthdays do not render on the correct date

• If you create a one-off scheduling link with custom slots, it should not skip slots that are happening in the next 4 hours (which is the default for our normal scheduling links)

Lots of us are in hybrid working mode these days: a few days working from home, a few days working from the office and all kinds of places in between. We’re excited to roll out working locations in Rise, which allows you to see and manage your own working locations, as well as see the working locations your teammates set. Working locations seamlessly sync back and forth to Google Calendar so this works with teammates on and off Rise.

Next up: we have a lot of ideas to also start adapting our scheduling engine to include working locations as a relevant signal. Stay tuned for that – and let us know what kind of ideas you have on this front.

We're building a calendar that changes the way you work and is a pleasure to use. We put design, speed and building a wonderful experience at the center of everything we do. This update is packed list of quality of life improvements.

Change calendar color

You can now change the calendar color from within Rise by hovering a calendar in the left sidebar and clicking the three dots.

Change how many hours you see at once

It was always possible to zoom in and out of the calendar, but that command (available with ‘zoom in’ and ‘zoom out’ under cmd+k/ctrl+k) was not super easy to find. We now expose this setting in settings as well, where you can easily change the number of visible hours presented in your calendar.

Start your week on Sunday, if you want

In addition to the visible hours, we now also opened up a setting to change the start of your week, which was requested by a sizeable group of you! You can now go ahead and make sure your week looks exactly like you want it.

Duplicate events with alt+drag

One for the professionals: next to using the context menu to copy or duplicate events, you can now also use alt+drag to copy any event. It makes adapting your schedule and planning tasks even faster.

Other improvements

• Event which is marked as available will never be moved as a flexible event since it does not influence focus time or availability, so we’ve disabled the button in that case to make the behavior clear

• Disabling a calendar in the left sidebar will now also reset the active calendar (where new events are created into) to eliminate confusion when creating new events

• We heard you on the amount of emails we sent, so we created a dedicated page in settings to get a quick overview of the different emails we sent so you can review those in one place

• The desktop app will now also show an in-app notice when there is a new upgrade of the app available to install

• External scheduling link timeslots are now sorted by time and preferred slots are repeated at the top for improved visibility

• Toasts now stick around a bit longer so you can actually read them
  
  

Bugfixes

• Pressing the enter key does not save changes in save dialog

• When using share availability, custom timeslots disappear when paginating weeks

• The color indicators in the menubar would sometimes disappear

• Menubar would (still) eat up a ton of memory over time, which is now fixed again (sorry)

This was a fun one. What started with a widespread bug in Google Chrome which causes Rise (and a lot of other products) to mess up the local time, turned into a feature that allows you to change your local timezone. Whether you need to adjust the timezone to correct for errors, or you want to use it to temporarily switch to a different timezone and take a peek at your schedule ahead of traveling: we now got you covered.

Changing your timezone is simple: click the current local timezone indicator on the top left, or use cmd+k/ctrl+k → ‘Change display timezone’ to open up the timezone search. While we were at it we also improved the search to make it easier to find timezones by city, country or abbreviation.

It is now possible to create a customized repeating event schedule that fits exactly what you need. You can specify a custom set of days, interval and specify for how long a recurring event should continue to run. Simply click Custom... in the repeat setting dropdown.

Cross-calendar blocking is a neat way to automatically copy over events so you don’t have to manually keep track of them anymore. One of your requests: allow blocking one calendar into multiple other calendars. Head over to your calendar settings to simply select multiple calendars in the list, and we’ll make it happen.

You can now mark attendees to meetings as optional. You know the drill.

Other improvements

• Our rendering of events was fast, but we tackled the biggest calculations to make it even smoother, especially with a lot of events

Bugfixes

• The last version of the Rise desktop app now no longer eats up gigabytes of memory when you are using the Menu bar (sorry about that one)

• Toasts (the in-app messages that appear in the bottom center) now also correctly appear on top of the settings screen

• In a specific scenario when using Reschedule Rise would crash

• Long calendar names would run out of the event hovercard

• If you use a default conferencing solution (like Google Meet or Zoom), you were not able to clear that option

• It was possible to create an invalid event by putting the end time before the start time, this is now handled nicely

Scheduling links help let others find a suitable time on your schedule without the back-and-forth. And if you didn’t already know: we even highlight options that fit your schedule best to nudge people to not mess up your time too much. Before, others would only be able to find a time at least 4 hours into the future. We now made this configurable, so you can pick a desired number of minutes, hours or days to not run into those surprise bookings again. You can configure this setting differently for each scheduling link, too.

This one has been requested many times, we can finally share that we now have full support for Google Groups! This means that you're able to add a Google Group email as an attendee, but also see the response status of the individual group members. Also, if you added a group to a flexible meeting we consider the schedule of all the group members when finding a better slots for the events.

Other improvements

• We now also show blocking all day events in the teamlist

• We added a few hints (e.g. to the teamlist section) to better explain how they work

• You can now set a custom duration when using meet (e.g. 31 minutes)

• We've been finetuning a lot of steps in the onboarding flow

• We added cross-calendar blocking to the steps of the onboarding

Bugfixes

• Some public and birthday calendars were not synced correctly with Google

• You were getting an error when going to settings without being logged in

• Our desktop app crashed on Linux, can be solved by upgrading to v1.18.0

• Information about a flexible move in the hover card was sometimes empty

• Enabling/disabling cross-calendar blocking was not immediately reflected by the toggle

As we add features to Rise it's important that there is a good place to configure them. Therefore we revamped our settings pages by making them full screen and regrouped the different options. For several features like focus guard and flexible events we added better explanations, and you can watch videos where Rick walks you through them.

Cross-calendar blocking automatically marks that appointment at the dentist from your private calendar as "busy" in your work calendar, for example. This will prevent you from being double booked and will not require any manual work after setting it up. The exact details of your appointment will not be shared, your teammates will just see you're busy.

How do I enable cross-calendar blocking?

• Open Settings by pressing G then S on the keyboard

• Navigate to Calendars

• Select the calendar you like to copy events from (e.g. your private calendar) and the destination calendar (e.g. your work calendar)

• From now all events (that are marked as busy) will be blocked off in the destination calendar

We're on a mission to give teams more control over their schedule, and believe this to be another great step in that direction.

Other improvements

• If your flexible meeting moved to another day you'll now also see a preview of changes in your email

• Rise Meet is more reliable and will no longer return a timeout when using with many teammates

• Added a gorgeous animation to an event schedule with Rise Meet to improve its visibility

• When viewing your colleagues calendar you'll now be able to distinguish events that do not influence their availability making it easier to schedule

• Added an animation to the calendar view if you navigate to another week using the keyboard or buttons

• You can now make a meeting repeat on the same date every month (e.g. every month on the 28th)

Bugfixes

• For some people the UI was glitching after we released continuous scrolling

• Sometimes the action menu for the meeting participants did not show up

• Best time to meet suggestions show up again after you change weeks you have in

• The app no longer crashes when you move a meeting to the all-day section

We want you to be able to navigate your days and weeks in a fast, fluid and beautiful way. That's why we decided to upgrade the weekview to allow you to horizontally navigate through your calendar. It's a great way to quickly zip between weeks, and it allows you to take a quick peek at what's just beyond the last day of the week. We love it and we hope you like it as well.

With a lot of things going on, it's useful to be able to quickly look up an event by title. You asked for it and now it's here: quick search. Access it by pressing /. Find it by typing 'Search' in the Cmd (or Ctrl on windows)+K command launcher.

Other improvements

• When presenting meeting rooms while adding attendees to an event, we'll try to suggest a few rooms that are actually available

• When an event contains a meeting room, we move it to the top of the attendee list as well as slightly change its appearance so it's easier to spot

• Our scheduling engine now takes 'busy' all day events into account when finding a time, moving flexible events and when showing meeting slots in scheduling links

• Ppreviously, flexible events would be rescheduled on a fixed time for all teams. This is now changed: we're calculating the most fitting timezone for your team and are moving events for the next working day at 16.00 hours. That gives us a good picture of what tomorrow looks like, and gives you enough time to get notified.

Bugfixes

• Jumping to the future or the past using jump to date (.) or via the datepicker on the top left would cause data in some weeks not to be loaded

• Depending on the configuration of your menu bar app, the first event of the next day would not be highlighted

• In some cases with recurring event exceptions, the incorrect status of a colleagues would be presented

The number one feedback we got for flexible meetings: "I’d love to make flexible events even more flexible." That is possible now. You can adjust your flexible meetings to either stick within one day, move to one day before or after or anywhere in the week, and we have even more flexibility planned.

Rise comes with powerful scheduling links that you can customize and share with others to let them book slots on your schedule. But what if you want to share specific times and let people select an option – you can now. Click Availability → Share specific times (or press S), highlight times in your calendar and toggle the Single use scheduling link.