I wrote a blog the other day about my first year on my own, and one of the points I made was about spending money on things that make your life easier. So I thought i’d do a quick blog on what I use, because maybe it will help someone else (and maybe/probably someone will recommend me something better than what I use!) So here goes
Meeting scheduling
Urgh. This is one of the biggest time drains going. So I use a meeting scheduler. I’ve tried a few
All have some good bits, none of them are perfect even the paid versions. I currently use a paid version of Savvycal mainly because of quite a nice interface for visually seeing space in a diary rather than just time slots. I also actually still have the free version of x.ai attached as I quite like the “meeting prep” reminder which shows me my meetings for the next day. If anyone knows of others that do everything you need please let me know!
Cost to me £9 per month
Email/calendar/docs
I use G suite for email, calendar and docs. I can’t really complain, although I am tempted to use Hey for email if I can find a good calendar app to go along with it. I used a personal Hey account for a little while and it is really really good. It’s now available on business, and I’m thinking about it…update….turns out you can integrate with Google calendar, but then i would still need G suite. Is the…
