Boomerang Schedule comes to Outlook to make meetings easier
Easy to create, easy to respond, easy stuff.
Virtual or in-person, meetings are among the most useful tools in any busy professional’s box of tricks, so the introduction of Outlook support for one of the most useful Mac, iPhone and iPad email utilities, Boomerang Schedule, may be welcome news.
Making meetings much easier
I looked at Boomerang Schedule when it arrived in early 2022 It’s a useful solution for anyone desperately struggling with the nightmare of organizing meetings for multiple people.
At that time, it was compatible with Gmail, but it has now been made just as compatible with Outlook, and that’s going to be great news for workers coalesced around use of Microsoft’s products.
What Bookable Schedule does is that it enables people to quickly schedule and accept meetings in their inbox. Bookable Schedule completes Boomerang’s suite of Inbox-integrated meeting scheduling tools for Outlook and is now available as part of Boomerang’s Add-In for Outlook on Desktop and Outlook on the web, and is built-in to the Boomerang iOS app.
How it works
People can set up a schedule of available times in their inbox and share it with as many people as they like. The patented, clickable, Magic Live Calendar in the email invite is always up-to-date so there’s no double booking or out-of-date time slots offered.
In addition, Bookable Schedule checks for conflicts across multiple calendars, can automatically add video conferencing details for Microsoft Teams and Zoom, and displays dual time zones so that everyone is on the same page.
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I spoke with company co-founder and CEO, Aye Moah last year. On the introduction of support for Outlook, she said,
“We thought deeply about how to make a tool that lets you schedule efficiently without losing your humanity. Movements like “The Great Resignation” are a clear signal that we’ve exhausted ourselves and our social capital for the sake of efficiency at work. Navigating power dynamics and subtext is at the core of this exhaustion. Bookable Schedule makes meeting scheduling as seamless and easy for those being invited as it is for the host, levelling the power dynamic.”
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