How to get a Personal Assistant for free

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by ryancarson • 14 years ago

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jmedwards• 14 years ago

Hidden gem

ryancarson4• 14 years ago

I know - it's amazing huh? I can't believe how useful this has been for me.

wattjustin• 14 years ago

A great idea with a link bait of a headline. Either way, thanks for the tip!

ryancarson4• 14 years ago

lol. It's true though - I was about to hire a PA until I figured this out.

alokv28• 14 years ago

Of course I learn about this great tip a week after I converted all my calendars over to iCloud. Does anyone know of a comparable feature in iCloud calendars?

ryancarson4• 14 years ago

I'm afraid not, sorry. I've always steered clear of Apple's infrastructure offerings as they don't play well with Google (which is bad as our entire IT infrastructure is built on Google Apps)

JoeH• 14 years ago

This was extremely timely. I just got off a call where I was struggling how our team could communicate appointment availability with a third party. This is a great solution and you don't have to share personal/sensitive calendar information with others.

screwt• 14 years ago

I'm surprised it takes more than 1 email each to pick a time.

Offer: Let's have a call. I'll suggest 2pm Tue. If that doesn't work, please let me know any time between 1pm-6pm Tue or 9am-11am Wed.

Response: 9am Wed.

I do think the gmail calendar approach is neater; the only downside being it requires the other party to use google calendar already.

imurray2• 14 years ago

It regularly takes more than one email when I try that strategy. People don't always reply quickly. I either can't keep all the times that I offered open, or end up offering people very restrictive time ranges that they can't do.

endlessvoid94• 14 years ago

I've switched to http://tungle.me . It's a lot better, and it's free.

The appointment slots feature was just not solid enough - lots of weird bugs, the time zones sometimes got screwed up, and lots of double-booking.

ryancarson4• 14 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion - I'll check it out

cmer• 14 years ago

They've been acquired by RIM so who knows if the service will stay alive or not...

imurray2• 14 years ago

I use http://doodle.com/ for appointments (as well as it's original purpose of polling a group for the best time for an event). For appointment slots, set the options: "Participant can only choose one option" and "Limit the number of participants per option" to one. No one ever needs to log in to anything unless they want to (for setup or responses). It also has fancy options for linking with calendars, but I've never used those.

adrianhoward• 14 years ago

These are trez useful aren't then. I've been using them to organise client office hours for a while.

How to get a Personal Assistant for free

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