#mishmash

How do you manage your schedules? On your phone, a printed calendar/diary, or a combination? ️

I’ve asked a similar question before, but it seems online scheduling services multiplied like rabbits while I wasn’t paying attention. (Hmm. It’s kinda like what happened with me & LinkedIn! ) There are now lots of options & they all seem to offer free & paid versions.

Do we need them? I recently met @lonelyroadlover #IRL & we agreed on details via IG DMs. I manually added the date to my Google calendar. Super easy! ✅

Last month I attended a post-launch authors’ workshop for my writing cohort, & I had a few side conversations in the chat window. One was with @dcasha, a fellow author who smart & nice & I wanted to get to know her better. We met on Zoom & clicked. We ended up exchanging copies of our books.

Asha used an appointment service that was unfamiliar to me —youcanbook.me. It worked great & even sent reminders. Most people I know use Calendly or a Google invite to schedule meetings. Have you tried any of these options?

Scheduling apps let you see a list of times when a person is free & you choose one. Boom. Done. Sync to calendar.

It used to be people talked on the phone ☎️ & agreed to get together. Now it seems we plan via email or text. Talking or emailing & texting is personal but take time. ⏳ Scheduling apps are fast⏩ and impersonal, but they address that 1) We are so busy ‍♀️ and; 2) We know we’re going to meet so no need for chit chat beforehand? ️

Whether you use them for travel, ✈️ business, or planning lunches or dinners,‍ scheduling apps can be great. If you don’t already use a scheduling app, do you want to try one?
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UPDATE: #BloggingOnInstagram hardbound edition: My Afterword is in review along with appendix citations. Next step: copy editing, layout & dust jacket!
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PHOTO #MISHMASH: Sarah & me in the historic #PanamaHotel in #japantown; Traveled a lot in #November2016 - #centralcoast #monterey #surferlife; #140conf #Whotel; #schedule #apps #meetups #firsttimeauthor
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So I was trying to tidy up the files on my computer a bit and I realized I had a folder on my harddrive labelled “tumblr-hamsters” from late 2012 that I had forgotten all about. I cross-checked all the images of hamsters in cups in this folder to ensure that they were also in my hamsters-in-cups folder and these 6 images didn’t show up there. Gasp! I KNOW I have posted at least SOME of these before, if not ALL of them (the only one I feel unsure about really is the very first one), just with different filenames apparently, but I have decided to post them all again, as a mish-mash compilation and sort of look back (and  just in case that first one HADN’T been posted already in times past).