Add Travel Time to Your Calendar Every Morning

A muse can check the next two weeks of your calendar every weekday morning and add travel time before any meeting that happens away from your desk, so the drive or the walk is blocked off before the day fills up around it.

What it does

A calendar shows meetings back to back as if you can teleport between them. You cannot. A muse can run a standing morning check instead. It reads the next 14 days of your calendar, finds the meetings at an office, a site, or any address that is not where you will already be, and works out how long it takes to get there. It then adds a travel block before each one, sized to the real trip, so nothing else can be booked into the time you need on the road. Meetings at your own desk or on a call get no block. The check runs again the next weekday, so a meeting added yesterday gets its travel time today, without you remembering to ask.

How to use it

1. Connect your calendar and say where your days usually start, such as home or the main office.
2. Set the rule in plain words: "Every weekday morning, look at the next 14 days. For any meeting away from my base, add a travel block before it with the time it takes to get there."
3. Say how you travel, by car, train, or on foot, and add a cushion if you want one, such as ten extra minutes.
4. Check the first few blocks it adds. Confirm the addresses and the trip times look right.
5. Correct any place it got wrong once. It uses the correction on the next run.

What you need

• A muse account
• Your calendar connected
• Addresses on your calendar events, or a short list of the places you visit often
• Your usual starting place and how you get around

What to watch for

• The blocks are only as good as the addresses. An event that just says "meeting" with no place gets no travel time, so put the address on the event or tell the muse where that regular meeting happens.
• Traffic changes by the hour, and a morning check cannot see an accident at noon, so treat the block as a planning buffer, not a promise about the road.
• If a block lands in the wrong place, fix the event rather than deleting the block, or the mistake comes back tomorrow.
• The muse keeps the calendar honest, you still decide when to leave.