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Show HN: Cal.tf – Share a private link to your Google Calendar

4 pointsby niko001almost 8 years ago

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niko001almost 8 years ago
I often run into situations where I want to schedule a meeting with someone, but don&#x27;t want to go through the hassle of configuring a professional appointment scheduling tool (such as doodle.com). The idea of cal.tf is to email a link to your calendar (such as my.cal.tf&#x2F;ajfb429j) and the recipient can simply pick a time where you&#x27;re free and reply with their desired date&#x2F;time via email or IM. This makes it easy for the recipient (because they don&#x27;t have to sign up for anything) and you, because you don&#x27;t have to put your availability in writing, which is always awkward.<p>In Google Calendar&#x27;s built-in sharing options, you can only select &quot;Share via email&quot;, where the recipient then has to import your calendar into his&#x2F;her own Google Calendar (so this is meant as a more permanent solution, not for quickly scheduling a meeting) or make your calendar completely public (which will lead to it showing up in Google search results!).<p>On cal.tf, you can choose whether to show the full event titles or just &quot;Busy&quot; indicators on your public calendar, and the sharing link is long enough to make it hard to guess.