Meetings

Meetings are usually the largest unexamined expense in a team's week. Meetings in TimeCampus makes them accountable: every meeting carries its type, duration, cost, participants, a rating, and the action items it produced — so you can cut the meetings that don't earn their place and make sure decisions actually happen.

Open Meetings in the TimeCampus navigation at app.timecampus.com. Create one from Meetings → New; the roll-up lives at Meetings → Analytics.

Meeting records

Each meeting captures:

Field	Notes
Title and type	Type is one of the meeting types below
Start / end time and duration	The time actually spent
Cost	The true cost of the meeting — duration across everyone in the room, in money
Rating	Rate the meeting after the fact; averages surface in analytics
Recording link	Attach a recording URL if one exists
Calendar event reference	A meeting can reference the calendar event it came from

Meeting types

Type	Use for
ONE_ON_ONE	1:1s
TEAM	General team meetings
STANDUP	Daily standups
REVIEW	Reviews and demos
PLANNING	Planning sessions
RETROSPECTIVE	Retros
EXTERNAL	Client and external calls

Typing meetings is what makes the analytics useful — you can see which kind of meeting is consuming the hours.

Participants

Add participants to a meeting with a role and an RSVP status:

Roles	RSVP statuses
ORGANIZER, REQUIRED, OPTIONAL	ACCEPTED, DECLINED, TENTATIVE, PENDING

The participant list is what makes cost honest: a 60-minute meeting with eight required attendees is an eight-hour spend, not a one-hour one.

Action items

The other half of meeting accountability is follow-through. On the meeting's detail view, capture each commitment as an action item with an assignee, a due date, and a status:

Status	Meaning
PENDING	Captured, not started
IN_PROGRESS	Being worked
COMPLETED	Done — completion time is recorded
CANCELLED	Deliberately dropped

Action items are first-class records, not chat messages — they survive the meeting, and their completion rate rolls up into analytics.

A typical flow

1. Meetings → New — log the meeting with its type, duration, and cost.
2. On the detail view, add participants with roles and RSVP status.
3. Capture every commitment as an action item with an owner and due date.
4. Afterwards, rate the meeting — was it worth its cost?
5. As work happens, mark action items complete.
6. At month end, open Meetings → Analytics and review the total.

Meetings → Analytics

The analytics view rolls everything up over a date range:

• Total meeting duration — the hours your meeting culture consumes
• Total cost — the same hours, in money
• Average rating — whether attendees think the time was well spent
• Action-item completion — completed vs total, the follow-through rate

This is the view for the monthly question: how much did meetings cost us, and did they produce anything? A high-cost, low-rating, low-completion meeting series is a cut candidate; the data makes that conversation factual instead of political.

Meetings on the Timeline

Meetings land on your Timeline as the MEETING category, alongside deep work, communication, and breaks. That's what makes trade-offs visible: meeting hours and deep-work hours come from the same finite day, and the timeline shows exactly how one crowds the other. Aggregate meeting load also feeds team capacity views.

Roadmap

Two-way calendar sync — automatically creating meeting records from your connected calendars instead of logging them — is part of the channels roadmap. Today, a meeting can reference its calendar event, and records are created in TimeCampus. See Channels.

Tips

• Log the cost every time, even roughly. The number changes how people schedule.
• Rate meetings honestly and watch the average per meeting type — recurring meetings drift into low value quietly.
• If a meeting produced zero action items and zero decisions, that's data too.
• Review action-item completion in your next meeting of the same series; it's the cheapest accountability loop there is.

Next steps

• Analytics — meetings in the context of your whole day
• Team Analytics — aggregate meeting load across the team
• Reports — export the period's numbers