Series · read in order · 6 parts · ~85 min
Scheduling without the back-and-forth.
A meeting takes six emails because nobody ran the search. Your calendar's empty space isn't the same as your availability, and the first part closes that gap: getting from a free grid to three times you'd still stand behind on Thursday. Everything after it adds a constraint. A client on the other end who has to pick, and holds that keep the offer honest while they decide. More than one calendar, and the question of which one a meeting gets written to, since that decides who can move it later. A time zone, which turns a one-week search into two. Then the move itself, once as a drag that skips four checks, and once as a reply asking for one in prose, with no event attached. By the end, the back-and-forth is a lookup you already did.
- 01
Finding a slot without the email chain
The reason a meeting takes six emails is a lookup you never did. What your calendar's empty space is really claiming, and how to get to three times you would still stand behind on Thursday. - 02
Letting a client book the hour you meant to give them
A booking page shows one week to everybody. How to let a client pick from live times you chose for them, held on the calendar while they decide. - 03
An emailable calendar when you keep more than one
What you can actually email somebody when you keep three calendars, and why which calendar a meeting gets written to decides who can move it. - 04
Booking an hour that is good at both ends
Across zones the search runs over two weeks instead of one. What that changes about the hours you can offer, the holds you place and the account the invitation leaves from. - 05
Rescheduling a booked hour without reopening the week
A move is one gesture and four checks the gesture will not run for you. Which ones a drag skips, and how to see the far end in the second before you let go. - 06
The move that starts in somebody else's reply
A request to move a meeting arrives as prose with no event attached. Where it lands, what has to join it to the meeting, and how to answer it out of a week you have already checked.