Share availability: show which slots I already shared
Vimcal Maestro: There is a toggle switch to “HOLD” times that are offered after you select your availability. For Akiflow, this switch would be in the left panel and would reserve the offered times in your calendar so noone can book over them. When your counterparty selects a time, the holds are removed and a time is booked. Also, if your counterparty never selects a time, you can simply select one of the holds, press delete, and it will ask you if you want to remove all of your holds.
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Federico
May 17, 2024
This would be super useful!
Jeson P
May 20, 2024
Federico: thanks for bumping this!
Todd
Dec 18, 2024
Please please please! Need a way to not book over a time that I've already shared as a potential meeting time with a different person.
[Deleted User]
Oct 18, 2023
Hi Jonathan! So you have already the slot for lunch (like from 1pm to 2pm) blocked by an event but someone else can add themselves to that event? Thank you!
Jonathan
Oct 18, 2023
Stefania: So I have a standing slot on Fridays, 1-3pm to have lunch with investors for example. I don't know from week to week which investor it will be, but I can lock that in as a recurring Time Slot. Then in my Share Availabilities, I set that Time Slot as bookable. Now I can send my booking link to any investor and they can pick a free Friday and we have lunch. :)
This way, I have a standing slot that I can see in my diary each week that reminds me I need to schedule lunch with an investor.
[Deleted User]
Oct 20, 2023
Jonathan: Thanks for explaining Jonathan! We would keep using Events and not Time Slots (that are tasks container basically) for this kind of feature. I think this is request could actually solve your use case: https://product.akiflow.com/features-and-improvements-request/p/share-availability-show-which-slots-i-already-shared What do you think?
[Deleted User]
Feb 14, 2023
One interesting approach is how YouCanBookMe does this: you just define a keyword ("coaching", "call with me", whatever), and any cal event that is named with that keyword is now a bookable slot. The benefits of doing this are:
1) that visually, you know exactly where the bookable slots in your calendar are (for me, I have recurring events on certain times of the week), and
2) if you need to adjust your calendar & the bookable slots, it's just a matter of resizing / moving / deleting the cal. event on that day.
For me to be able to fully switch to Akiflow, I'd hope for this feature to be as flexible as this.
[Deleted User]
Jul 16, 2022
push this feature request: the "HOLD" could be even added as pre-text on the calendar entry and the visualisation could be done by marking the field with grey diagonal stripes (see attachment)