Every developer knows the feeling: back-to-back meetings until 3 PM, then you finally have time to code — except now you are exhausted. The problem is not meetings themselves. It is that most people have no idea how much of their week meetings actually consume.
Google Calendar Sync
xeve now syncs your Google Calendar and breaks down every week into two buckets: meeting time and maker time. Connect your calendar in settings, and the Calendar page shows your meetings alongside your app tracking data — so you can see the actual ratio, not the one you imagine.
Four stat cards at the top give you the week at a glance: total meeting hours, meeting count, average duration per meeting, and your busiest day. Below that, a stacked bar chart shows daily meeting hours vs. productive app and coding time.
The Meeting-to-Maker Ratio
The most telling metric is the time allocation view — a large percentage visualization showing what fraction of your tracked time goes to meetings vs. maker work. For most developers, the ideal ratio is 20% meetings or less. Above 40%, deep work becomes nearly impossible.
This ratio is not about eliminating meetings. It is about making them visible. When you can see that Wednesday consumed 5.5 hours of meetings and produced zero coding sessions, you have data to push back on recurring syncs that do not need to exist.
Recurring Meeting Analysis
The page also surfaces your top 10 recurring meetings ranked by total time. That weekly "quick sync" that always runs long? Now you know it cost 3.2 hours this month. The standup that could be a Slack message? You can see exactly how much time it consumes across the team.
This is not about being anti-meeting. It is about being anti-invisible-cost. Every meeting has an opportunity cost measured in maker hours. The Calendar page makes that cost concrete.
Today's Schedule
The top section shows today's meetings with times, attendees, location, and whether they are recurring. Think of it as a minimal calendar view focused on what is relevant right now — not a full calendar replacement, but a context panel for your productivity dashboard.
Connect Google Calendar from your settings page and see where your time really goes.