Aerotime updates aerotime.com

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A manager's day is split into tiny slots, each with a specific purpose, whereas a builder’s schedule consists of long blocks of time reserved for deep focus. Aerotime now understands this and your working habits – recommending you meeting slots that optimize your team's efficiency.

No more juggling through the cluttered calendars to find a time slot for your next meeting.

Improvements:

• Multi-calendar support now available in Aerotime, works with all your Google calendars.
• We have updated the Slack emoji for Aerotime’s Focus Time from 🎧 to 🧑‍💻 to avoid confusion with Slack’s huddle icon.
• Aerotime's toasts are now cleaner and easily visible.
• Focus music gets fresh playlists on shuffle for all your working moods.
• Now you can escape from your task drag-and-drop flow by hitting Esc.
• Slack connection starts working instantly now. No need to wait for 5-10 min for the next sync cycle.

Bug Fixes:

• The Aerotime calendar now automatically scrolls as you are dragging tasks on the calendar.
• Creating a meeting on Sunday used to take you to next week, fixed now.
• Add Agenda button used to disappear after deleting the agenda in an existing meeting. We have fixed it now.
• While dragging and dropping tasks onto the calendar, tasks would sometimes vanish and re-appear. We have fixed the issues.

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Aerotime is now able to identify that your tasks are clashing and recommend better alternatives. If your task is conflicting with a meeting or another task, just click on the conflict icon and see the power of Aerotime scheduling.

Improvements:

• We have made improvements to task drag and drop into the calendar. It's faster, snappier, and no more accidental mouse drops.
• Based on all the valuable feedback received, we have re-designed key parts of Aerotime. The new design makes task workflows more efficient.
• Your week now starts on Monday instead of Sunday in the calendar. Want to maintain a healthy work-life balance? Switch to using our brand new “Work Week” view or just press “5” on your keyboard.
• We have simplified new meeting creation, no more juggling between different parts of the screen. Click anywhere on the calendar and experience the smoothest new meeting creation ever.

Bug Fixes:

• Meeting agenda URLs always open the link in a new window. Earlier this would mess up the mac app causing users to restart it.
• While viewing guest calendars, we now show guest colors in unaccepted meetings to distinguish them from users’ unaccepted meetings.

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Aerotime now notifies at the start of your focus hours and tasks. We have curated a Spotify playlist for you to reduce distractions. Snooze your distractions, play focus music, and find your flow state with Aerotime.

Improvements:

• You can now add guests, modify meeting agendas and move meetings from within Aerotime. Modify meetings at the pace you want without disrupting your flow.
• Over the last few weeks, we have been working to improve the UX for all-day events. You can now expand/collapse all-day events based on your personal preference.
• Going on vacation next week? Aerotime has you covered; we will automatically snooze your slack and let your team know you are chilling on a beach 🏖
• Love the zen of your Aerotime calendar colors? Right-click any event or task and color code them instantly!
• De-prioritizing a task? Right-click a task block on your Aerotime calendar and send it back to your inbox.

Bug Fixes:

• If your team uses public calendars, you can now see their actual calendar events when creating/editing meetings on Aerotime. Earlier, we restricted everyone just to see free busy.
• Minor bug fixes for people search auto-complete to make it more reliable and consistent.

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Aerotime is now an approved app on the Slack app store. Do you miss out on essential action items because they get lost in countless Slack pings? You can now create Aerotime tasks directly from Slack and never drop the ball.

Keep your team in sync with what you’re busy with, without lifting a finger. Aerotime will automatically update your Slack status and snooze notifications based on your preferences.

Improvements:

• You can now see your profile picture & pictures of your contacts in the Aerotime calendar. Put a face to the email address you meet often.

Bug Fixes:

• The event pop-up does not flicker from one location to another as you scroll.
• We have fixed the bug that caused the Mac app to get stuck on a white screen during boot up.
• Right-click menu now sticks to the event as you scroll.

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Do you never decline meetings because it is impolite? Aerotime now enables you to decline meetings with the finesse of a Jedi. Starting today, clean up your calendar and decline meetings with pre-populated response templates. You can always customize the response before sending it to add more information.

Improvements:

• Move meetings & tasks in Aerotime instantly. Aerotime now runs with you at the pace you need to be effective.
• You can now delete meetings from Aerotime, just right-click on an event or task you want to delete.
• We now show “outside working hours (OWH)” as the status in new meeting recommendations when the time is outside the working hours of a guest. Earlier this was inaccurately displayed as “out of office”.
• Aerotime automatically recommends “people you meet often” during new meeting creation before you even start typing their names.
• New Mac updates don’t disrupt your workflow and silently notify you that a new update is available. You will encounter Aerotime’s annoying popup for the last time in your next update 😉

Bug Fixes:

• Tasks don’t disappear as you place them on your calendar. Your calendar and tasks are always in your control.
• 15-minute meetings/tasks can now be dragged. Earlier resize anchor would make it impossible to drag 15-minute blocks.
• Today button comes on top of conflicting events on the top-left section of the calendar. Did you know you can press T instead of clicking the Today button?

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Aerotime now supports dragging tasks into your calendar. We truly believe that a calendar is the true “to-do” list. Aerotime now enables you to block time for your tasks and prioritize what is important to you. Just drag and drop any item from your tasks inbox directly on your calendar to get started.

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Improvements:

• New meetings are now instantly accessible after creation. Our team has been continuously working to make Aerotime feel instant over the last few weeks!
• Aerotime now recommends time slots closer to your selected slot as opposed to today. We understand that sometimes you want to meet your team later this week, not ASAP.
• You can now add guests (outside the organization) from your contact list to new meetings.
• You can now resize tasks from the calendar grid itself.

Bug Fixes:

• Connect Slack works from our Mac app. Fixes the issue where callback to app fails after a successful connection between Slack and Aerotime.
• A new meeting with no additional guests can now be created using Aerotime.
• You can type in a custom message when sending running late through Aerotime notifications.
• Users would see a failure prompt when upgrading Aerotime’s mac app, we have now fixed it. You will encounter it for the last time in your next update.

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Introducing notifications for upcoming meetings on Aerotime's Mac app.

• Comes just before the meeting, you can't miss it.
• One click to join the meeting link.
• Two clicks to say you're running late.

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Set an intention for the day, every morning with Aerotime.

You can see if the tasks and meetings align with your goals. If they don't, you have an option to reprioritize tasks to match your intention.

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• Now you can choose to make your tasks public or private. This helps your team understand what you're busy with and avoid double booking. This setting applies to two places.

  • New Meeting
    • Public task visibility: When someone from your company is trying to book a meeting with you, they can see your task names in the calendar grid.
    • Private task visibility: In this case, they can only see that you're busy. No task details are visible.
  • Slack (only applies when you have integrated Slack with Aerotime)
    • Public task visibility: At the time of your scheduled task, your status will show that you're busy and your task name will appear. Your Slack notifications will be snoozed if the task is in your focus time.
    • Private task visibility: At the time of your scheduled task, your status will show that you're in focus mode but the contents of your task will not be revealed. Your Slack notifications will be snoozed if the task is in your focus time.

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• Now add notes to your tasks. This helps you add more details to a single task which enables you to:
  • Add links and docs to a specific task
  • Create a macro task that has smaller items that you want to schedule together
  • Add further notes

• Now you can schedule a task starting a future soft date. Helps you prioritize tasks while creating them.