Have you ever needed to coordinate a conference call, online chat, or Skype session with people in multiple time zones?  It’s a pain to calculate all the local times for everybody, especially with all that stuff related to daylight savings time.  And forget about it if someone wants to change the time!

It’s now so easy to deal with this situation with Presdo.

In the time editor, there’s a new checkbox called “Show local times to guests”.  Take a look:

Turn it on, and it shows you and your guests the local times happening for all guests for the event.

Let’s say you are on the west coast of the US, your friend Harry is in Paris, and Sally is in Hong Kong.  You want to schedule a conference call with them next Tuesday.  Here’s what enabling the checkbox would make the time of the event look like for you:

(6am is early, we know!)  And here’s what it would look like to Harry:

You get the idea!  Presdo shows the local times for you and everyone else involved in this event so you don’t have to do the math, and no one can complain they missed it by one hour!

Local times for guests can only be shown after they have been onto Presdo.  (You’ll see a message if some guests are new.)

So, do your part and invite them to that important meeting of yours using Presdo!

Presdo is looking for a few good engineers to join its team.  Looking at all the things we wanted to do this year, we decided we need help.  We’re planning to invest to take our product to the next level.

If you’re passionate about building great products with a great team of people, you’ve come to the right place. Check out our job posting on LinkedIn.

We are looking for talent in other areas too.  If you are an entrepreneurial product manager or product designer, drop us a note.

On March 11-13, the first-ever GTD Summit will take place in San Francisco, and noted speakers such as David Allen, Guy Kawasaki and James Fallows will be headlining the conference.  I’ve been invited to participate in the Summit and join several panels.

No doubt, many Presdo users are already familiar with GTD and its approach toward productivity, and many of our colleagues swear by it.  The whole idea behind writing things down and prioritizing as tasks come our way helps us focus on the most important things.

At Presdo, we are especially concerned about helping people organize their time.  Besides having spirited discussions about GTD and the technologies used to support GTD, I’ll have the opportunity to talk about how Presdo helps those who want to take advantage of GTD principles.

One of the several ways Presdo helps is by enabling people to “write things down” for meetings even if the time for them is still unknown.  For example, take a look at our “no time” event feature.  With this feature, you can make a note to yourself to meet with someone or a group of people at some point in the future, even if you don’t know exactly when.  Then, when there’s an opportune time to meet, schedule the event and send the event to them.

At the Summit, I’ll be showing more examples of how Presdo can be used to productively get things done.

If you haven’t registered for the Summit, contact us and receive a discount off the registration.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Eric Ly
Founder, CEO
Presdo