I never use Google Calendar, even though my personal email is a Gmail account. I rely on the default apps on my Apple phone and computer to manage work and personal calendars.
My problem with Google Calendar
When someone emails me an invitation, Google tries to “help” by adding it to its calendar and then removing the message from my Inbox. Before Schedule Us, I would have to hunt down the invitation, open the original email, find the calendar attachment, and save it to the right calendar.
Schedule Us already knows
The thing is, most invitations are confirmations of meetings I’ve already agreed to, either in an email exchange, a chat, or face to face. And Schedule Us makes it ridiculously easy to get them in my calendar.
Now, by the time the invitation arrives, the meeting is already scheduled and I can happily ignore what Google does with it.
The algorithm is helpful—until it isn’t
It’s no surprise that Google, like many apps, tries to take care of this for you. Forms are fussy, and putting something in your calendar is the worst.
But rather than offer you a better way to get the event in your calendar, these apps just go ahead and do it for you. That’s great when it’s what you want, but when it isn’t, you end up fighting the algorithm that is supposed to be helping you.
The Schedule Us approach
“Fighting the algorithm that is supposed to help” describes too much of online life. Too often, apps—especially ones with AI—create annoyances instead of solving them.
Schedule Us takes a different approach: it lets you give AI a simple, focused task that it can do exceptionally well.
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Schedule Us is fully functional, even without a user account. Please use it, and share it with friends, colleagues, or anyone who lives by their calendar.