Splitting long work
Letting a task spread across days, why every block is at least thirty minutes, and what should never split.
Updated 9 September 2026
By default a task is placed as one block, so it needs one free gap as long as the task. Three hours of work on a day of back-to-back meetings waits for a day with three clear hours.
Check Can be split and the task may be placed as several blocks. Each block is at least thirty minutes. The scheduler takes the first gap of at least that length, fills as much of it as the task needs, and continues in the next gap, the same day or the next.
An example
A fifty-minute follow-up, marked splittable, on a day booked solid until 4:30 pm with a 5 pm finish. It takes 4:30 to 5:00 today and the remaining twenty minutes at 9:00 tomorrow. Without splitting it would have waited for tomorrow entirely.
No block shorter than thirty minutes
The scheduler never leaves a final block too short to be useful. If a split would leave ten minutes at the end, the previous block is shortened so the last one is a usable size.
What should not split
Anything continuous: a meeting, a workshop, a flight, a call. Plain-words capture guesses this for you and you can change it in the form.