How to Add Travel Time in Google Calendar™ (And Why Other Tools Fall Short)

Option 1: Google Calendar™'s Built-In Travel Time (Use It or Not)

If you've ever clicked the little map icon in a Google Calendar™ event, you know it links to Google Maps™ and lets you add a "travel time" block automatically.

Handy? Sure. But:

• It's a manual step every time.
• You're still doing the work, choosing start point, route, transport mode.
• If anything changes, late departure, traffic update, you're on your own.
• Useful as a quick hack, but not scalable when you're hopping between 5-7 jobs in a day.

Option 2: Clockwise, Machine Learning, Sort Of

Clockwise tries to step in: use ML to detect external meetings, auto-block travel time, and even shuffle things around so your schedule stays neat. Sounds futuristic.

But let's be honest:

• ML isn't magic. If your event name or location doesn't match what the model expects, it fails, like forgetting to tag "off-site meeting" in the title.
• Defaulting errors: if you don't set your work location, Clockwise guesses a generic 30-minute buffer, and yes, it's wrong almost every time.
• All that "smartness"? It's just noise when all you needed was travel time between meetings.

So yes, Clockwise can auto-add travel, but it's still guessing, and you're left babysitting it.

Option 3: Travel Time, Straight to the Point

We invented Travel Time for one reason: we were tired of gimmicks. You don't need machine learning to block travel, you need logic and accuracy.

Here's how Travel Time actually delivers:

• Smart Routing: Starts from your last meeting, no dumb, default "home base" fallback.
• Transport Modes: Car, public transit, bike, walking, select what fits your day.
• Custom Buffer Time: Want prep time before the meeting or a cool-down after? You choose.
• Multiple Calendars: Work + personal + side hustle = no cross-schedule chaos.
• Google Maps™ Powered: Real traffic, real route, real-time accuracy, not guessing.

It's the intelligent, no-frills solution professionals who move every day actually need.

Feature Face-Off: Travel Time vs. Built-In vs. Clockwise

TL;DR (Because You're Busy)