Your calendar without DOFOTT, and with it

Published 26 September 2026

Ali is busy. He works nine to six in an office in Maslak, on Büyükdere Caddesi. On an ordinary day he has at least three meetings outside it, and he goes back to the office between them. Twice a week he meets friends for dinner at a restaurant across town. He lives in Ataşehir.

Ali is made up, and so are his meetings. His week is not unusual. Every one of his meetings has a place in his calendar. What the calendar does not have is the road to it.

Ali's week, as his calendar shows it

Seventeen events: fifteen meetings and two dinners. It looks like a full week with room to breathe. Between nine and six the calendar shows Ali free for 30 hours. A colleague looking for an hour with him on Monday sees 11:00, 14:00 and 16:30, all open. On Tuesday afternoon there is a long free stretch before the meeting in Ataşehir.

None of it is true.

The same week, with the road on it

Each orange block is a trip, with its length in minutes: from the office during the day and from home in the evening, there and back, the way DOFOTT writes them. There are 34 of them. Between nine and six Ali is really free for 17 hours 35 minutes. The other 12 hours 25 minutes his calendar called free, he spends in a car.

Monday's open hours are gone: at 11:00 he is driving back from Levent, at 14:00 from Beşiktaş. Tuesday's free afternoon starts with 35 minutes to Ataşehir and ends with 35 minutes back.

On Wednesday two blocks sit side by side. The drive back from Karaköy and the drive to Mecidiyeköy overlap by fifteen minutes. On paper the morning works; on the road it cannot, because Ali cannot be on his way back to Maslak and on his way to Şişli at once. DOFOTT does not hide a clash like this. It draws both blocks and leaves the choice to Ali: move a meeting, or switch on smart travel, which goes straight from one meeting to the next when there is no time to go back in between.

How much of the week is road

Nearly fifteen hours in one week. That is about 64 hours a month, and over a working year of 46 weeks, some 680 hours: about eighty-five eight-hour working days. And that is without the drive to the office in the morning and home at night, which is not a meeting and so is not in the count at all.

Ali does not know any of this. Nothing in his calendar adds it up, so he has never seen the number. He only knows that he is often late, that he takes calls from the car, and that the hour after an off-site meeting always seems to fill up with something.

What the missing road costs

• Other people book it. A calendar's one promise is that free means free. Every colleague who looks for an hour with Ali sees the road as available and books it.
• He runs late, and it looks like his fault. The meeting was at two; the car got there at ten past.
• The way back is never counted. Even people who block the drive there almost never block the drive back.
• Evenings start earlier than they look. Dinner at eight in Nişantaşı means leaving Ataşehir at twenty-five past seven.

What changes with DOFOTT

DOFOTT reads the place in each event and writes the trip before and after it into Google Calendar™, with its length from Google Maps™ for that time of day. During work hours it starts from the office, the rest of the time from home. The blocks show Ali as busy, to himself and to anyone looking for his free time, and they move when a meeting moves. Ali does not type anything and does not guess anything. The second calendar above is simply his week with the road on it.

Every trip was looked up in Google Maps™ by car, for that weekday and hour in the week of 5 October 2026. Maps gives a typical range, such as 10–18 minutes; the length here is the middle of that range, rounded up to five minutes. The office is Nurol Plaza on Büyükdere Caddesi, home is Ataşehir Bulvarı, and the meetings are at well-known places in each district. Ali, his meetings and his friends are made up.

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