Now, Events Without Times
This week, we are announcing a really great enhancement to Presdo. It’s now possible to create events within Presdo without a time, at least not at first. Why is this good, especially when Presdo is all about making time with others?
That’s because some of you told us that you’d like to keep events around to remind yourself to do them later… but that you did not know exactly when later. We couldn’t agree more with being able to do this. And we took it even farther.
For example, it’s sometimes better to ask your guests “when” than to pick the time yourself, even though Presdo gives you a lot of flexibility in suggesting multiple times to guests. If you’re open to meeting someone and it doesn’t matter when, or you know the other parties are busier than you, these are perfect occasions to use the un-timed event feature. And of course, if you want to keep an un-timed event around for yourself to organize later, that’s fine. Combined with Presdo’s new status enhancements, you’ll know which events will still need attention.
Here’s how it works. When you create an event, just make sure the “decide later, ask guests first” option is selected in the WHEN section:
Presdo selects this option automatically if you don’t enter any time information when creating the event.
When your guests receive their invites, they answer “yes” or “no” as before and can optionally enter a time:
They can give a specific date and time, but of course, they could also offer choices like “Thursday or Friday night”. Those suggestions come back to you, and like before, you decide the final time based on their suggestions.
The un-timed event is a perfect example of “less is more”. By taking away the need to give a time in advance, it actually makes the product even better. We think it’s a great enhancement, and we hope you think so too!
–Eric
September 9th, 2008 at 7:31 am
This is a type of activity that we call a propostion at mixin.com. The people you invite can suggest dates and times, but also places and even change the event activity. As the creator of the proposition, you can decide to let this choices opened or not.
This is very useful, mainly when you are available and want to ask your friends what to do and where