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 looks:

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.