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Can you add an ability for me to upload a calendar file that I scrub out everything I don’t want you to have temporary access to?
This is a really good idea we hadn't thought of yet, thank you! We'd even be able to use the exact same logic to do the calculations...
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I made a similar tool. It just uses user input data. It gives you a good snapshot of the cost of a meeting, but doesn't go as deep as OP's tool. https://www.resumebeacon.com/planning-to-plan.php
Very cool Paul :). One thing we have played with on the business version is to send people who make meetings with more than 5 attendees an email to let them know how much that meeting is going to cost the company and to review who they invite. With the hope that makes them go "oh shit", maybe I don't need 16 people on this check-in.
This is cool, but no way am I granting access to a years worth of calendar. I like how they describe their usage and that they auto remove access. But even if I believe them, there are many errors that would expose hundreds of email, contact info, and docs. I wish they had a scrubber utility I run and can remove unnecessary data. They should not need pii for their stats.
I like this a lot. A similar thing which I'm interested in tracking is the impact of meetings on flow state. I wonder if it would be helpful to have a more nuanced way for "makers" to protect their flow state time than having to block out their calendar for hours / days at a time. I envisage a system where a meeting booker is able to make the decision - "Is the meeting important enough to curtail or split this person…
I love that idea! We are talking to a lot of people in Product roles to do just that. Basically blocking times or days out with no interruptions, as well as giving them the insight to protect their teams so they can work.
I wonder if simply by making the information available on when people are in flow state, a lot of flow state interruptions could be reduced, even without reducing the number of meetings. In particular, encouraging scheduling a meeting at the beginning / end of a flow state period rather than slap bang in the middle would have a big impact. For example, assume you want to work in flow from 10:00-12:30, scheduling a 15 minute meeting at 10:00 or 12:15 is preferable to scheduling one at 11:00, because you might still be able to get into flow for a couple of hours.
I'd like to see a scheduling system which dynamically encourages people to assign other meetings to an already compromised flow period to keep other flow periods free (rather than just blocking things out).
My worry is that without this, just focussing on minimal number of meetings / cost spent in meetings might not be enough. 3 badly scheduled 30 minute meetings might write off a whole day, whereas a single meeting of 1hr30 might have a much smaller impact, but on the raw "time spent in meetings" / "salary cost spent" metric these would seem equivalent.
This is cool, but no way am I granting access to a years worth of calendar. I like how they describe their usage and that they auto remove access. But even if I believe them, there are many errors that would expose hundreds of email, contact info, and docs. I wish they had a scrubber utility I run and can remove unnecessary data. They should not need pii for their stats.
I mean if they can't even comply with GDPR (that awful popup) they obviously don't respect their users data to start.
I like this a lot. A similar thing which I'm interested in tracking is the impact of meetings on flow state. I wonder if it would be helpful to have a more nuanced way for "makers" to protect their flow state time than having to block out their calendar for hours / days at a time. I envisage a system where a meeting booker is able to make the decision - "Is the meeting important enough to curtail or split this person…
However this experience could be due to me working working on a distributed team. When you're all in the location then it's easier to have ad hoc communication without interruption at places like the water cooler.
We built something at a previous company's hack days that was somewhat similar. We were sick of being in meetings when we didn't need to be. http://gotclocked.com/ Angular.js Mandrill email API
This is cool, but no way am I granting access to a years worth of calendar. I like how they describe their usage and that they auto remove access. But even if I believe them, there are many errors that would expose hundreds of email, contact info, and docs. I wish they had a scrubber utility I run and can remove unnecessary data. They should not need pii for their stats.
I mean if they can't even comply with GDPR (that awful popup) they obviously don't respect their users data to start.