AdjournedStanding meeting review
End the meetings you should not be in.
Standing meetings accumulate like subscriptions. Created for a project that shipped or a crisis that passed, recurring forever, because cancelling is awkward and creating was easy. Adjourned counts what they cost, and holds the door while you end the ones that no longer earn their slot.
Download on the App Store iPhone and iPad. Free to see the cost; $9.99 once for the rest.
12.9 hr/wk
10 standing meetings
- An example week Ten standing meetings, most made for something that has since passed. Scroll to review them.
- The review One question per meeting: does it earn its time? Then a decision. Keep, shorten, or cut.
- Still 12.9 Decisions do not lower the number. Until a meeting actually ends, it still counts.
- The follow-through You end them, and confirm each one. Adjourned never cancels anything for you.
- Actions do The same week, with the slots that no longer earned their time given back.
The honest accounting
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Read from your calendar
Every recurring series, priced at hours per year and an estimated annual cost. Nothing is written, and nothing leaves your device. No calendar? Enter meetings by hand; the app works either way.
02
The monthly ritual
One card per standing meeting, one question: does this meeting earn its time? Then a decision. Keep, shorten, cut, or defer.
03
Decisions are not actions
A cut meeting still counts until you confirm it actually ended. Adjourned records what you decided, and holds you to it.
04
The record
Every review, every decision, over time. A meeting sliding from Usually to Rarely across three reviews is telling you something before you have admitted it.
The day, burning down or clearing up
The color follows your weekly hours. A lean calendar is clear sky; a meeting-swamped one has gone to sunset.
Side by side
On iPad and on the iPhone Duo's inner display, your stack of standing meetings sits beside the one you are looking at. Ask Siri how many hours your standing meetings take each week, find any meeting in Spotlight, and save the whole record as a spreadsheet.
$9.99, once.
No subscription; that would be ironic.
The full picture of what your meetings cost is free, including both widgets and asking Siri. The ritual, decisions, the record, and export are the one-time unlock.