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Hi friend 👋,

Managing a calendar becomes more difficult as you advance in your job. You are responsible for an expanding number of people and teams, and at the end of the day, you need an update from them. People, on the other hand, tend to include you in any conceivable meeting in order to share responsibility for the task. No, I won't be lecturing you on the importance of having an agenda or contributing to the meeting's work. But, let me give you a secret, calendar is a terrific place to exercise your “no” muscles. No one can force you to attend a meeting; these are invitations with three responses: Yes, No, and Maybe. If you believe that participating in that meeting is pointless, simply say No and explain why to your colleague. Another issue is scheduling meetings at inconvenient times. There may be consecutive ones that require too much preparation, and sure, joining a meeting straight after your pitch is not the best experience. People scan calendars to find an empty slot, not a suitable slot. Mark your schedule accordingly if you have any plans or demanding meetings for which you will want extra time before or after the meeting. I've been following that method for a while now, and I couldn't be happier with the results.

The majority of us use Google Calendar to see and organize our days. However, there are some missing elements. First and foremost, it resides in the browser, and the primary reason for the existence of today’s product is that it is not a separate application that can enable keyboard shortcuts or native notifications. Another missing aspect is the inability to share your availability options with Google Calendar and the lack of input for external users. Normally, I prefer to be conservative in these circumstances and attempt to get the most out of them, but since I started using today's product, I've never needed to go back to Google Calendar.

Today, cron is our product.

Cron is started as an indie project and it is a native application for calendar. It was acquired by Notion last summer, and I believe there is a tremendous chance to integrate these products natively as tasks and notes within calendar. If Notion allows Cron users to share meeting notes with Notion URLs, they can turn this into a growth potential. Cron has all of the functionality that you would expect from a calendar application, plus it is extremely fast.

Cron was awarded a Productivity Application Golden Kitty by the PH community in 2021. They have invested heavily in the product since then, and with M&A, it is now more promising than ever. It is still fully free to use, but as they say, providing feedback is the only way to pay at this point. If you try it out - which I highly encourage - please don’t forget to provide feedback.

We’ll talk again tomorrow.

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