Jiffle Shares Your Availability More Effectively
Jiffle is a scheduling tool which seeks to put an end to the back and forth deliberations that proceed a properly scheduled meeting. Plug in your availability and let people request a slot.
Jiffle is web-based but there is integration available for both Outlook and Google Calendar. The premise is simple enough. You tell Jiffle when you’re available and then share your availability. You can share it either publicly or with a set of contacts. When someone needs to schedule a meeting with you they can see instantly when you’re available. They don’t need a Jiffle account, just the URL you share with them. From there they can pick a time, enter in their contact info and notes, and the request appears in your email inbox.
When you accept a potential meeting time your calendar is populated with the information from the other party and your own additional notes if you’ve added any. Other users only see when you are available, no other information about your calendar is shared. If your problem isn’t scheduling snags when dealing with one on one meetings but trying to get your whole department together at an optimum meeting time, make sure to check out previously reviewed solutions like WhenIsGood and Congregar—both are focused on finding the best time for groups of people. Jiffle is free for individual use.
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jifflenow.com
Link, please.
Juan
@darkstar - Fed up with the useless emos: *pulls out phone, pretends to look through calendar* Aww, man. Sorry. I'm booked solid through, like, July. :-(
Wish I could help, man. Sorry.
@OCEntertainment: So when are you available?
Heck no. No, no no.
Don't get me wrong, kudos on the tool, and maybe it will help someone else. But I for one don't want anybody but me knowing where my freetime is until they ask. And then *I* will tell *you*.
Am I missing a link to the Jiffle site?
Hourtown.com looks a lot slicker and more useful really
Jack Studer
Sweet. Nice adjunct to doodle.com. If I want to show when I am available, I can use Jiffle. If I want to have several people collaborate to find a mutually agreeable time, it's Doodle.
@OCEntertainment: It does what you want. Sign up. You indicate when you are free, then send someone the URL. Then they can request a meeting at times YOU chose.
www.doodle.com does the same
EmilBB
Have you guys seen Tungle? (Disclosure: I don't work there, but I've spoken with some guys who do) -- it lets you set invitation times like Whenisgood, then updates your proposed times by sync'ing with Outlook/iCal/GCal and doesn't show times when you're busy.
You can even schedule things after your initial invitation and have them disappear from your proposed times!
Aidan Nulman
@OCEntertainment: Exactly. this could make assassination a tad easier...
Avielus
Timebridge anyone?
Do you know how Jiffle compares to Timebridge? I have been using timebridge but am not sure if someone else (without an account) can book time to meet with me. In my experience most contacts (especially ad-hoc ones who are computer brain-dead or simply not geeks) would rather drink poison than register for an account.
Farrel
@OCEntertainment:
I hear you. Just because I'm not scheduled for something doesn't mean I'm free. It seems to have more application for work than home, maybe to share free/busy info to outside companies (inside the company they're probably seeing that info already in Outlook or equivalent.)
@Meeem: They claim it syncs with Outlook though. Before my Palm Tungsten T3 died of multiple causes, I had reluctantly switched to Outlook sync and never looked back. And I don't even use Outlook for email, which was the reason for my reluctance and which turned out not to matter. It also made it easy for me to switch to another mobile platform (Pocket PC) later.
Palm OS left out in the cold again. This + Doodle would be perfect for me if I could sync it to Palm desktop.
Meeem
Would this be helpful if you were a mob boss and you needed to keep track of which paid thugs are available for contracts and when?
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