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Re: Show HN: Boomerang Calendar - a smart calendar assistant in your Gmail

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post #10

Boomerang for Gmail is already amazing, and this seems like an even more incredible addition to streamline email + calendar scheduling. Awesome job guys! Keep up the good work.

Should have put the code in the post title. Sorry about that! Use the invite code 'showhn' (no quotes) to skip the line :)

Re: Show HN: Boomerang Calendar - a smart calendar assistant in your Gmail

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WOW! Just downloaded, watched the video and tried it out. Simply brilliant. Only one extra feature request/tweak - instead of defaulting for a meeting location when using the "suggest times to meet button" could it also have an option for my conference call number as a lot of my meetings are by phone.

Re: Show HN: Boomerang Calendar - a smart calendar assistant in your Gmail

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I started using Boomerang last summer as I had so many emails that were getting lost in the mix. It was like having a personal assistant always reminding me to follow up.

Excited that you have moved on to a calendar assistant as well. It's definitely where I struggle the most. Looking forward to using the product.

Thanks.

Re: Show HN: Boomerang Calendar - a smart calendar assistant in your Gmail

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Doesn't work for me on latest mainstream Chrome on 10.7-- when I download, the button says "Keep" instead of "Continue" (i.e. it's treating it as a file instead of an extension). Then when it's downloaded the CRX, attempting to load it causes Chrome to try and re-download the same CRX file, bringing up a save dialog...

Re: Show HN: Boomerang Calendar - a smart calendar assistant in your Gmail

#16

WOW! Just downloaded, watched the video and tried it out. Simply brilliant. Only one extra feature request/tweak - instead of defaulting for a meeting location when using the "suggest times to meet button" could it also have an option for my conference call number as a lot of my meetings are by phone.

awesome, thanks!

we'd like to have the locations dialog remember your previous entries (and making your phone number one of those options is a great idea) in a future update.

Re: Show HN: Boomerang Calendar - a smart calendar assistant in your Gmail

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Doesn't work for me on latest mainstream Chrome on 10.7-- when I download, the button says "Keep" instead of "Continue" (i.e. it's treating it as a file instead of an extension). Then when it's downloaded the CRX, attempting to load it causes Chrome to try and re-download the same CRX file, bringing up a save dialog...

uh oh, that's not what's supposed to happen. Can you install other extensions? If so, please email us at support@baydin.com and we'll see if we can help out.

Re: Show HN: Boomerang Calendar - a smart calendar assistant in your Gmail

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Fascinated by the nascent eco-system of apps built on top of email. To PG's point in one of his essays about fixing email...I wonder if the transition to the future of email lies in using email as a protocol.

As applications are developed that better utilize some of the structured data within email, do we eventually transition to a world where very few emails under a certain threshold are read...but instead parsed for information content. Thus potentially putting the receiver back in control of the overall experience?

Re: Show HN: Boomerang Calendar - a smart calendar assistant in your Gmail

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Doesn't work for me on latest mainstream Chrome on 10.7-- when I download, the button says "Keep" instead of "Continue" (i.e. it's treating it as a file instead of an extension). Then when it's downloaded the CRX, attempting to load it causes Chrome to try and re-download the same CRX file, bringing up a save dialog...

uh oh, that's not what's supposed to happen. Can you install other extensions? If so, please email us at support@baydin.com and we'll see if we can help out.

Same thing happened to me. Downloaded it instead, and tried to install and it still didn't work. OSX Lion, chrome v 19.0.1084.30

Re: Show HN: Boomerang Calendar - a smart calendar assistant in your Gmail

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post #8

Why hasn't Google acquired this company yet? They've been doing such great work and they obviously have the right passion to make email/calendar better for the world.

Because they has been busy updating gmail design.

To me it looks like Google has stopped caring about what their customers want and is focusing instead on things that they think we want...

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