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AI calendar vs Calendly
Booking appointments, sharing a calendar, and finding meeting times are different workflows. Here is how to distinguish them from mmddyy’s current invite links.
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“Share a link” can mean very different things in a calendar product. A booking link offers appointment choices. A calendar invitation gives someone access to a calendar. A public calendar page lets visitors read published plans.
mmddyy v1 offers the latter two. It does not provide booking links or automatic availability checking.
Decide what the recipient should do
If the recipient needs to pick an appointment, evaluate a booking service such as Calendly against your actual requirements. Check its current documentation for the meeting types, integrations, and plan features you need.
If the recipient needs to help maintain shared plans, calendar access may be the better fit. In mmddyy, a recipient signs in and accepts a viewer or editor invitation. Viewers read event details; editors can also add, change, and delete events. Neither role is an availability-only view.
If the recipient only needs to read published dates, an optional public calendar page can work. mmddyy’s public pages show selected calendars’ ongoing and upcoming titles and times, without notes, locations, or membership details.
Finding a time is another task
An automatic scheduler could weigh working hours, timezones, meeting load, and focus preferences. Those are useful design goals, but they require functionality beyond storing and sharing events.
Our AI scheduling roadmap is a future direction. Today you choose the event’s time yourself. The app does not rank meeting options or check everyone’s external calendar.
Choose for today’s workflow
| Need | What mmddyy v1 provides |
|---|---|
| Let someone book an appointment | Not available |
| Invite a colleague to read a calendar | Viewer invite link; sign-in required |
| Let a colleague manage events | Editor invite link; sign-in required |
| Publish dates for visitors | Optional public /@handle page |
| Automatically find a group meeting time | Planned, not available |
Read the sharing guide before sending a link. A link should communicate the access it grants, not leave the recipient guessing.