1. Build the world clock group
Add every active teammate's city to the world clock and save the layout as a named group (Leadership, Engineering, Sales). The group is the durable artifact — everything downstream reads from it.
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2. Read the overlap visualizer
The overlap visualizer maps each city's working hours against a shared UTC axis. The green band is the daily window where all cities are awake and in working hours — your meeting candidates.
3. Plan the recurring meeting
From the saved group, open the meeting planner with the same cities loaded. Pick a slot inside the green window, generate a UTC-anchored invite description and (with Pro) save the recurring schedule for the team.
4. Pin the schedule in your workspace
Your workspace surfaces saved groups, recent tools and pinned schedules in one view. New team members open the workspace and immediately see when the team works, when stand-ups happen and what's coming up.
5. Re-confirm around DST
Two weeks before any DST switch in the team's regions, re-confirm recurring meetings. The world clock and timezone converter make verification take one minute, not one hour.
6. Layer in deadlines and milestones
Use the project deadline calculator for business-day-based commitments and the countdown tool for milestone visibility. Both feed back into the same workspace, so scheduling, deadlines and milestones stop living in three different tools.
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Frequently asked
How long does this workflow take to set up?⌄
About 15 minutes for a 5-person team. The world clock group is the only piece you have to build once; the rest is reusable across every meeting and every quarter.
Do I need a paid plan to run this workflow?⌄
No — the world clock, overlap visualizer, meeting planner and workspace are free. Pro adds saved recurring schedules, larger groups and embeds for dashboards.
What's the single most valuable step?⌄
Saving the team's cities as a named group. Everything else compounds from there — the visualizer, the planner, the workspace all become one click instead of ten.
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