It’s much easier to understand the feature with a screenshot: From the app, you can then check what’s the best time and date, view comments and turn your proposals into a calendar event. You can now send event proposals to several invitees. Flexibits has quietly improved that feature to turn it into a Doodle alternative. You could create an event in the app with multiple times and dates. Other improvementsįantastical also offered a scheduling feature called “Proposals”. But if you’re a Fantastical user and you want to start sharing Calendly-like links, it’ll be much easier to turn on Openings in Fantastical. When someone requests a meeting with you, your Fantastical app will create the meeting and invite the other person.Ĭhances are if you’re already using Calendly or another equivalent tool, you might keep your existing workflow. The booking is actually done in the app, not on the web. If you’ve set up automatic approval, the person requesting the meeting will receive a calendar invite in their calendar - they don’t have to use Fantastical and they don’t have to create an account to request a meeting. When someone clicks on the link, they’ll see when you’re available, pick a time and request a meeting. You can also turn on automatic approval or choose to manually approve meeting requests in Fantastical once they come in.Īs you may have guessed, you then get a link that you can share in an email conversation, in a WhatsApp message or even on a website. There are a few options for event types, such as a title, a description, an event duration, a custom link and more. For instance, if you like to schedule sales calls on Monday and Wednesday mornings, you can create an event template for sales calls on those days between 9 AM and 11 AM. Flexibits doesn’t grab the names of your events or the list of invitees, as it doesn’t need that information to make the feature work.Īfter that, you can configure multiple event types. “It scans your Fantastical database and it only takes the dates and times,” Simmons said. You can choose a calendar set as the main source of truth to figure out when you’re available and not available. Once you enable the feature, it is directly tied to the calendar accounts that you’ve already added to Fantastical. “You should be the person to opt in, you’re in control of your data,” Flexibits co-founder Michael Simmons told me. You have to set it up manually to start using it. By default, Openings is disabled for all users.
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And, of course, it’s built into Fantastical directly, which means that you don’t need another tool, service or subscription.Īfter you update the Fantastical app to version 3.6, you’ll see a few new options in the settings panel - the new features are available on macOS, iOS and iPadOS. While Calendly seems to be the dominating player in this space, Flexibits pitches its new “Openings” feature as a privacy-first scheduling feature. Flexibits, the company behind popular calendar app Fantastical, has added several new features that should help with scheduling.
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