Favorite on-line meeting scheduler?

[OogieM]

What’s your favorite place to go to have people select times for a meeting?

I’ve got to set up some meetings with people across 3 timezones and would rather not play email tag for very long.

[oldblueday]

• Everyone loved Doodle, but those eventually grew so cumbersome with people providing pages and pages of options to go through.
• Outlook (which we use at work) has a scheduler within it, though I’ve never used it.
• A lot of people talk well of Calendly, though I’ve not used it.
• I made a shortcut called “When can I meet?” that puts a list of open 30 minute time slots on my clipboard that I share with people to pick from.

[acavender]

I used to use Fantastical’s Openings for this, but now I’m just using Google’s Appointment schedule feature.

For me, that works well, and it saves me the Fantastical subscription.

For those not in the Google universe, I actually think Fantastical’s the best option for Mac users. It’s less expensive than Doodle, for instance, and it does more. (It looks a lot better, too.)

[ibuys]

I’ve seen Calendly used quite a bit.

[Percussor]

Also WhenWorks that I believe @RosemaryOrchard has a hand in: free for up to five schedulings per month IIRC

[MitchWagner]

I use Fantastical. Several times a month, often enough that I have the link programmed in the Mac’s Text Replacement. And this service has been recommended to me as well:

Free Online Scheduling Tool - YouCanBookMe

[shandy]

SavvyCal.

Thread here on why I like it.

Fantastical openings confusion

It’s a bit difficult to explain, but I’ll give it a go. The things which I do with Savvycal which (afaik) I can’t do with Fantastical or Calendly: Create a re-usable booking link which I can send to multiple different people to book 1:1 meetings with me, based on my chosen availability on different days without blocking those times out of my calendar. (Can do this in Calendly, but not Fantastical) Define my availability on different days by visually dragging, not by manually entering time…

[lkhrs]

Cal.com. Can self host too, but I just use the free plan.

[bowsertune]

Fantastical, by far.

[shandy]

Discussion here on why I pay for Savvycal (while also paying for Fantastical)

Fantastical openings confusion

I’m similarly frustrated by this limitation of Fantastical. It’s a sufficiently frequent & high-value usecase (for me) that, in addition to Fantastical, I pay for a separate service (SavvyCal) to enable third parties to schedule meetings with me. Calendly would be another option, but SavvyCal includes extra functionality which I find useful, which is missing from Calendly.

[MitchWagner]

I’ve been using Microsoft Booking since I started a job in April that’s standardized on O365. It’s a little fussy but it works.

[Rob_Polding]

I recently switched to Calendly, and it is expensive but works flawlessly. I recommend if you want an easy to use service. It solves the problem, and previously I was using Fantastical but it was not reliable with my work calendar and would randomly add 2-3 events at the same time when I used proposals. Calendly is 100% reliable for me on all my calendar services.

I like that I was up and running with all the links I need in about 10 minutes, then I use snippets to type the types of events when I email people (I have online, offline, 60min, 30min etc all set up). Saves so much time, and for me worth the cost as it means less email!