New Feature | Comments

Today we've added a new feature, Comments, anyone can now add comments to any calendar on Meetifyr.  The idea is to give all the people involved in a meetup somewhere to make notes or share a discussion, maybe discuss which bar you're going to or say what time you're going to arrive.

To add a comment you just need to click your name in the list of people attending and enter what you want to say.  Once you've clicked your name we remember who you are so the next time you view that calendar you'll already be selected.

This also means we know when someone re-visits a calendar, which we hope to build new personalised features with, like 'Show me everything that's changed since I last visited' or 'Link my availability across calendars'.  

As ever, if you have any ideas for new features or things you'd like to see Meetifyr do then please let us know.

New Feature | Where

One of the first feature requests we got after the launch of Meetifyr was to add a 'Where' field alongside the 'Why', 'When' and 'Who'.  Its such an obvious request I've no idea why we haven't added it sooner.  Anyway here it is, pretty self explanatory.

We also took this opportunity to make a few teaks to the design hopefully making things a bit cleaner and more consistent.

New Feature | Calendar Overview

We've been noticing for large calendars with lots of busy people it can be difficult to see who's free when and generally what's going on.  To help with this we've just added a new Overview switch which gives you an uncluttered read-only view of everyone's availability.

Once a calendar starts getting busy and you need to see which date is best for everyone try selecting Overview for a clearer picture.

Share your calendar with AddThis

The main idea of Meetifyr is that people create a calendar, fill out their availability then send the calendar round to friends so they can do the same.  Up until now we've not provided a easy way for you to share the link to your calendar, we expected people to copy and paste the Url into email/Twitter/Facebook and distribute it themselves.

 

Today we've added the fantastic AddThis widget to all calendars so you can now share your calendar with incredible ease.  AddThis is the #1 web bookmarking and sharing service and allows you to share a link instantly through any of their 293(!) registered services.  The simplicity of the AddThis service works well with Meetifyr and now makes it even easier for you to arrange that meet-up with friends.  What are you waiting for!

New Feature | Editable Attendee Name

Just a small change which we hope you'll find useful, you can now edit an attendee's name after its been created.

We've also removed the helper panel at the top of the calendar page which showed the first day everyone was available.  We decided this wasn't giving much value since its just as easy to scan the column headings to see the first one with nobody set to busy.  Also the first day everyone is free might not necessarily be the best day to meet up.  

I intend to write a further blog post to elaborate on this but any thoughts in the mean time please let us know.

New Homepage Design

Today we've updated the look and feel of the Meetifyr homepage and made a couple of minor changes to other pages.

The idea was to get rid of clutter on the page and give a more professional look.  We've removed the unnecessary 'marketing' text and put a focus on getting users to actually try the app to see if they like it.  We hope you like it.

New Features | Preferred Days and Last Updated

There's been a couple of changes to Meetifyr recently, the biggest of which is the ability for an attendee to specify a day as 'preferred'.  This allows them to say "although I'm free for this event on several days, these are the days that suit me best'.

So for a particular day an attendee can be either one of three states; Busy, Free, Free + Preferred.  The idea is that adding this extra option will better enable people to find a day which suits everyone best.

To accompany this option we now total the number of Busy and Preferred people in the column headers.  This was already a feature that had been suggested through user feedback but with the introduction of the Preferred option it was even more important to clearly show how well a particular day suits everyone.

The other change we've made is to start showing the last time an update was made to a particular attendee and also the last time a calendar was updated (we also took this opportunity to improve the look of the attendee list).  Again this was a suggestion from user feedback with the aim of making it clearer to see what had changed since the calendar was last viewed.

We'd like to take this idea further and give a more personalised view of what has changed since someone viewed a calendar but first to make this possible we need to start identifying users, either through logging-on or cookies.  If you have any thoughts on this feature or any others please let us know.