Re:Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion
by hellofunk on Monday June 15, 2020 @06:05PM
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Sounds like you could really use something like https://calendly.com/.
Re:Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion
by nickjj on Monday June 15, 2020 @06:49PM
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That would require mucking around with another external tool. Google's calendar works quite well.
It's one of those things where everything just works with the least amount of set up on my end.
Re:Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion
by hellofunk on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @03:10AM
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In this case, this particular tool saves a tremendous amount of time in doing what you’re describing. I just started using it last year and was reluctant to, and it really does act like a little scheduling assistant.
Example. I recently scheduled 35 podcast episodes with 35 different people.
Each one required me to propose various dates and times to folks, and lock in specific times that didn't overlap. This meant opening my calendar and inbox side by side to see what's available while writing an email to someone to propose a few times.
Then for locking in a specific time, gmail will intelligently auto-complete the calendar event notification email address of the person you have open so you can send them a calendar invite link quickly on their end.
Without this tight integration there would have been a silly amount of copy / pasting.