Following a Material You redesign and new homescreen widgets on Android, Google Calendar is getting a new “Focus time” event type.
This is part of Google’s digital wellbeing push and offering tools that help manage your work life. “Focus time” joins the standard “Event,” out of office “Task,” and (on workspace individual) “Appointment slots.”
It’s meant to “block out and protect your time for heads-down individual work.” On calendars, it will feature a headphone icon and you can assign a different color to “have a different visibility from your events and other meetings.” Meanwhile, scheduled Focus time will be logged in time insight
Focus time is rolling out starting today in Google Calendar and will be fully available in the coming weeks: