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Updated 21 September 2026

The DOFOTT figure drawing a route between two pins on a paper map, a toy car and a clock beside it

Everything we have worked out about travel time and calendars, written down. The guides explain the problem and the manual way round it. The comparisons put DOFOTT next to the alternatives, including where they beat us. The app pages cover the tools people keep beside their calendar.

Guides

Automatic breaks between online meetings A 5, 10 or 15 minute block before or after every Zoom, Meet, Teams and Webex call, one block between back-to-back calls. Free, in Google Calendar™.
Back-to-back meetings in Google Calendar: getting room between them Fewer back-to-back meetings in Google Calendar™: Speedy meetings, working hours, focus time, a team rule, and a break that goes in by itself.
How long should a break between meetings be? What 5, 10 and 15 minutes between meetings are each good for, what the research on back-to-back calls found, and the sum on a mixed office and online day.
Show travel as busy in a shared Google Calendar When colleagues book you for the time you're on the road: busy, private and sharing settings in Google Calendar™, and getting the trip into the calendar.
Planning client visits in your calendar, travel included For anyone visiting several clients a day: the order of visits, the trips between them, the way back, and telling a client in time when you are late.
Buffer time and travel in Google Calendar booking pages What buffer time in a Google Calendar™ appointment schedule does, and how your booking page keeps the trip free when appointments are in different places.
How to add buffer time between meetings in Google Calendar Room between back-to-back meetings: Google Calendar™'s Speedy meetings, a buffer by hand, travel time when the place changes, a break for online calls.
How we keep travel blocks live Before you leave, DOFOTT asks about today's road and moves the trip if it must: when it looks, when it moves, what goes where, and what it never does.
Your calendar without DOFOTT, and with it A made-up week in Istanbul: three meetings a day from an office in Maslak, two dinners. What the calendar shows, what the road takes, and the hours in between.
You know the way. Does your calendar? A meeting with no location still sends its reminder, but the trip is left to you. Why the place belongs in the event, what research says, and where it stops.
Clockwise is gone: what replaces its travel time Clockwise shut down on 27 March 2026 and its travel-time holds went with it. What they did, what you can do now, and how DOFOTT puts the trip back.
Travel time for a meeting that repeats A weekly meeting needs travel time every week. What Google Calendar™ does, where doing it by hand breaks, and how one repeating block covers the series.
How to add travel time to Google Calendar Google Calendar™ has no travel-time setting. Two ways to add it: by hand, event by event, or automatically with DOFOTT, from Google Maps™, there and back.
Google Calendar and travel time: what is missing, and what it costs Google Calendar™ shows where a meeting is but keeps the road to it free. Why that matters, what a real fix needs, and how DOFOTT does it.

DOFOTT and the alternatives

DOFOTT vs Add Travel Time Two tools that write the same travel blocks, with the same price on the label. Where they really differ: Outlook, the free tier, and what a quiet month costs.
DOFOTT vs Morgen Morgen is a daily planner that also blocks your commute. DOFOTT only blocks the commute. Which one you need, and what each costs.
DOFOTT vs Reclaim.ai Reclaim defends a whole week and has a real free plan — but its travel time sits on the Business tier. What that costs, and what it buys.
DOFOTT vs Motion Motion schedules your whole day and lets you block 15, 30 or 60 minutes of travel by hand. DOFOTT blocks the trip Google Maps™ actually measures.

Works with

Why Apple Calendar travel time doesn't reach Google Apple Calendar's travel time stays in Apple's app: Google Calendar™, colleagues and booking pages never see it. What does reach them, and how to check.
Apps DOFOTT works with DOFOTT writes travel blocks into Google Calendar™, so any app showing your Google account shows them too: Apple Calendar, Notion Calendar, Akiflow and more.
Add travel time to Notion Calendar Notion Calendar has no travel-time setting. DOFOTT adds travel blocks to your Google account, and Notion Calendar shows them, timed by Google Maps™.
Add travel time to Akiflow Akiflow added Travel Time in October 2026. DOFOTT writes the trip into Google Calendar™ itself, before and after, and re-checks traffic before you leave.
Add travel time to Cal.com bookings Cal.com's buffers are the same for every booking. DOFOTT adds the real trip from Google Maps™ around each in-person booking, and your booking page respects it.
Add travel time to Superhuman Calendar Superhuman Calendar has no travel time, so the free times you share can land on the drive. DOFOTT adds travel blocks to Google, and Superhuman respects them.
Add travel time to Calendly Calendly's buffers are the same for every meeting. DOFOTT adds the real trip from Google Maps™ around each in-person booking, and your Calendly link respects it.
Add travel time to Sunsama Sunsama has no travel time, so the day you plan looks roomier than it is. DOFOTT adds travel blocks to your Google account, and Sunsama shows them.
Add travel time to SavvyCal SavvyCal's buffers are the same for every booking. DOFOTT adds the real trip from Google Maps™ around each in-person meeting, and your SavvyCal links respect it.
Add travel time to TidyCal TidyCal's buffer is a fixed gap after each booking. DOFOTT adds the real trip from Google Maps™ before and after it, and your booking page respects it.

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