Presdo’s New Calendar Makes Scheduling Even Faster
Over the last couple years that Presdo has been around, we’ve had the opportunity to talk to many users about their experience with our product. And while we’ve strived to design a product with simplicity that is the first in the world to accept and recognize time information through text phrases, users kept telling us that incorporating a calendar user interface into Presdo would make it more familiar to them.
Today, we’re finally delivering on your desire. We’d love to tell you about the center of our new scheduling user interface.
Upon creating your event, you see our new calendar UI for selecting times.
It does all the things you’d expect for selecting times, like clicking to add times and dragging time blocks to change a proposed time. You can change the duration of your event by resizing the time block. You can propose up to 3 times, since as before, guests are allowed to pick from 3 times to indicate their availability from the times you choose.
The gray areas are the times you have already booked, so you can now see what times should not be proposed (unless you want to). Combine this with the ability to sync with Google Calendar and now you have an up-to-date view of your availability when scheduling.
Oh, there’s a nifty thing that Presdo does. If you don’t want to poke through the calendar to look for free times, let Presdo do it for you. On the home page, you can still type in a phrase for a time window, like “Friday”. Presdo uses its Time Suggestion Engine to suggest 3 suitable times for you based on your availability, spreading out times to give guests some good choices to pick from. Of course, you can fine tune those times before sending the event to guests.
All these things go toward making scheduling even easier.
We’ve gather a lot of detailed feedback over the years, and out of all this feedback, we are re-thinking and streamlining the process to make scheduling faster and easier than ever. This release is the first of many enhancements around the calendar to come in our quest to make Presdo more usable and useful to more people. More to come!