Habits
Calendar Buffer Minimum Rule
The calendar buffer minimum rule inserts five to fifteen minutes between events—cutting meeting stacks that erase breaks and afternoon focus.
The calendar buffer minimum rule adds five to fifteen minutes between every meeting and focus block for bio breaks, note capture, and mental reset—preventing back-to-back video marathons that erase lunch and spike stress snacking. Auto-shorten default meeting lengths to twenty-five or fifty minutes to create hidden buffers.
Decline invites that stack without gaps three days in a row. Ohga links buffer gaps when step count flatlines across dense meeting hours and afternoon focus crashes follow calendar density spikes.
Treat buffers as busy so schedulers see real limits.
Common questions
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Do buffers need to be labeled on the calendar?
Explicit buffer events help beginners; shortening meeting defaults works too. What matters is protected minutes you actually stand up and breathe.
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