Why I stopped using ANY Calendar app
When you’re in mobility, sharing your availability with others is a tedious experience on iOS. If you’re in iMessage for example, you need to switch back and forth between apps to simply share a time slot.
Well, good news! For the past few weeks, we’ve been hard at work. We’ve listened to our users & amazing beta community (thanks all!) and improved one of THE things you love about Thingthing: the Calendar.
So, here’s everything about Thingthing v 2.3…
1/3 — A better view on when you are available 🌟
By giving a 3-days week view, it’s very easy to check if you can meet Today, Tomorrow or after-tomorrow and reply in a snap. Also, in Mail.app, it’s very handy when typing an email and quickly check if you are available or not.
Here’s how it works:
2/3 — Share multiple slots in a few taps 😃
Using iCal, the UX journey for sharing your availability is very slow because you always need to switch context (and app), take a note of them [and sometimes, you simply forget — well…I do too!]
With Thingthing, we’re solving this problem in a very simplistic way: Simply tap and share. No more switching blurb and blabla…!
We’ve also added Timezone support to each slots for a more seamless experience for the person you chat with. Yep, they’re important too!
What they receive looks like this…they simply tap the clickable text and create an event instantly.
3/3 — Changing the slots duration = 🔝
Another neat addition is the ability to change the slot duration. So, whether you are chatting with a colleague, friend or a business prospect, you can choose between 15', 30', 1h, 1.5h and 2h.
[…] in iMessage, you need to switch back and forth between apps […]
BONUS
We’ve also added Box as a service inside Thingthing. So, if you are a Box user, your mobile productivity has now jumped by 3000%! Seriously…YES.
Olivier is the co-founder of Thingthing Ltd., a young and dynamic company with the ambition to build the future of messaging.
Today, Thingthing simple and straighforward UX/UI lets users easily share docs, photos, calendar availabilties and more while messaging. We’ve won many awards, been in the press and we’re backed by amazing mentors, advisors and investors.
Tomorrow, we believe the future will be one where switching between apps, single-function keyboards and languages will be obsolete.
