Aimful augments Google Calendar to protect your time from bad meetings: — ask the host to specify why you are needed — ask invitees to confirm in advance that they come prepared — collect topics before each recurring meeting
Wow, i really like this concept! Do all my meeting attendees need to add the Aimful chrome extension to be able to see the details though? And also, is there any way to "force" people to use Aimful when im on the host?
@britt_joiner Aimful is applied to all the meetings you are hosting as Aimful user and all the data are written also into invitation description so everybody see them - no need to install it to everybody.
There are several actions which you can trigger as Aimful user to "force" others to do something but they can do so again without Aimful installed. We are using Slack app (inside the organisation) and polite e-mail notifications with one-click action for responding.
@dan_muller1 cool! i was wondering if it put the info inside the event description, but i didn't see that on my end, maybe because i do have aimful chrome extension. will share this with my team! looks pretty cool! congrats on the launch!
This is one of those things you see and are just like... wow, how did we make it to 2022 and not have this already?
So much of a knowledge worker's waking life is spent in meetings and it makes a lot of sense to do whatever we can to ensure they're the best use of everyone's time. Great to see Aimful solving this problem.
Thanks @winston_christie_blick, we were thinking the same things when we first approached the problem. It is a difficult one, dealing with people, but we feel we are getting closer to the solution
Hey PH community 👋
I’m Dan Co-founder & Product Owner of Aimful. We are excited with the whole team (shoutout to @veronika_gabrielova@honzakral@jiri_janousek) to announce launch of Aimful.io for Google Calendar
❓Why are we building Aimful
Calendar apps haven't evolved for decades. Especially the meeting invites. All recent innovations are about keyboard shortcuts + smart scheduling + time zone support.
🤔 However, nobody seems to ask:
— what should be the results of the meeting?
— is it necessary for you specifically to attend?
— what is the expected contribution from you?
— is meeting the best format to reach what is needed?
Why doesn’t your calendar autonomously ask the host to answer these questions, if the meeting invite is poorly prepared?
Instead of building a new calendar (which we would love to do!), we decided to start with augmenting an existing one.
4️⃣ Versions later…
We have already killed 4 previous versions. They were invaluable, they taught us about the hidden workings of meetings that are rarely talked about. Each time we took the lessons learned and produced a new version.
🙏 We're hungry for honest feedback
Help us shape the product. Help us design the product around you.
Special thanks to @kevin for hunting us!
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