TimeBridge: Solving Almost All Of Your Scheduling Problems
If you’ve ever tried to set up a meeting with people then you know know how messy it can become. People don’t know their schedules and have to get back to you later. People think they know they’re schedules and that perfect meeting time is down the toilet because of previous commitments. You almost have to plan a meeting just to figure out when to have the real meeting. Who wants to do all of that. After the jump, we’ll take a look at TimeBridge, an online application (or web app if you don’t feel like typing all of that out) that attempts to take care of that for you.
Here is what I think of TimeBridge.
The Good
- It’s free. And unlike most other web apps that I’ve seen lately there is no need for everyone to register with TimeBridge, only the person scheduling the meeting has to be a member. So it gets a large nod of approval for that too.
- It takes care of the e-mailing for you. After the possible meeting times are decided upon TimeBridge e-mails everyone involved with a link so that a meeting time can be decided upon. After everyone has responded, TimeBridge e-mails everyone to let them know when the meeting will take place. It can also send a reminder e-mail at a predetermined time before the meeting.
- It has more options than ‘Yes’ and ‘No.’ There is also an option for the best time.
- Selecting the meeting times is easy. Just go to the day and drag a box for the time. It’s very similar to setting up a new event in Google Calendar or Sunbird.
- You can add people to the meeting later. Is there someone that you forgot in the original planning stages that needs to be added? Was there a new hire that should come to the meeting? They can be added later and it’s just like they were there from the start.
But nothing is perfect, so let’s take a look at what I think can be improved.
The Bad
- You can only select up to 5 meeting times. This might seem like a lot for some people, or it might seem like a way for the system to force you to pick the possible meeting times more carefully. But I see no reason why there should be a limit at all. Especially when students are using it to plan a meeting and have to work around a class schedule that could have 5 possible meeting times in 1 day.
- It will sync with Google Calendar and Outlook, but nothing else. I use Sunbird and would like to sync with that. I looked at how it syncs with Outlook and it’s a plug in, so I can’t just use it. If I really wanted to I could create a Google Calendar and sync that with Sunbird.
Overall, I’d say that TimeBridge is a very useful web app. Finding a time when everyone can meet is a pain. But at least with this there’s less work involved.
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I don’t suppose you could…post a link?
Yeah, I noticed that and fixed it. Thanks for the heads up.
With ScheduleOnce you can suggest up to 10 different times. Your invitees can suggest as many times as they wish. No registration in required (not for the organizer and not for the invitees) and time conversion if you have several time zones is completely accurate. I invite you to give it a try!
I like choices. I’ll have to go check this one out.