My two thoughts:
1) NEEDS ability to coordinate with multiple people, at least for me.
2) Would like the ability to tell it which calendars to sync. Right now it is only doing my personal calendar, but I share my work calendar with my personal account and would like it to take those meetings into account as well.
Otherwise, seems very nice!
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@ffumarola totally agree. Got so excited by this but the lack of ability to select calendars killed it for me.
Just tested it out and I'm surprised at how simple and easy that just was. Scheduled a mtg with another email address of mine and it was seamless. Great work @TheJoWo
Wondering what your restrictions are with the gmail compose message interface? I'd say emails for scheduling meetings are a very small % of emails I send. So even seeing it in the bottom corner of every message I compose is a little distracting. Is it possible to insert into the tool bar or something a little more subtle?
@allnick Think Calendly has done a nice job but our approaches differ. Biggest difference is Assistant.to is integrated entirely in email, so it allows 1) you as an organizer more granular control of the availability you offer per recipient and 2) provides your recipients with a much easier experience (1-click to instantly schedule a meeting, no forms to fill out, no website to visit, etc.). We feel that in having the process email is a more seamless and natural way rather than pawning someone off to some unfamiliar website and go through an entire workflow.
@kristoferTM@ffumarola Thanks for your kind words! The bar has currently two states - minimized and expanded:
Is the minimized state the one that is distracting to you?
Learned about this last week. I'm in love with it. It's already saved me so much time. Hands down the best product I've seen for scheduling meetings within email. Everyone that I've shown it too loved it too. It's rare that I'm this impressed with a product. Bravo.
@EllenChisa I'm the founder of Assistant.to -- we should definitely post a blog post about this. Basically while Betty was catchy and personified the brand/product, some construed it as sexist (not our intention). Also, since the service is used between a user and his/her customer/prospect/candidate in a business setting, the general feedback was that people wanted something more subdued and professional.
So after rebuilding much of the app (far faster and more stable), we relaunched as Assistant.to with a bunch of new features (time zone detection/conversion, sharing non-sequential days, etc.). The name Assistant.to plays homage to the fact that scheduling with the product starts with the "to:" line, will open up exciting product possibilities with personalized URLs, and allows us to expand into other assistant-related services.
Thanks for the kind words!
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Thanks, @EatMentor! Looking forward to hearing your feedback!
@adamsigel@ffumarola Thanks! We're hoping to support multiple calendars and different scheduling scenarios beyond the 1-to-1 shortly.
Thanks @MSG Much appreciated!
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Is the minimized state the one that is distracting to you?