Timely

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the calendly comparison you made is the right framing, calendly puts the work on the other person and plenty of clients read that as impersonal. curious about the EA use case you mentioned, when an assistant pulls availability on behalf of a principal, does the output text make that clear to the recipient, or does it read exactly like the principal typed it themselves

This is the boring problem I hit every week — Calendly feels like homework for the person I'm inviting, so a plain-text 'here are my slots' paste is exactly the day-one workflow I'd want. Does it pull from more than one calendar at once (work + personal) so it never offers a slot I'm secretly busy in, and when it converts to the recipient's timezone is that baked into the pasted text or does the reader have to trust I did the math? Also curious whether the pasted times come out as plain text or clickable.

Keychain is the right call. The gotcha we hit doing client-side token storage with no backend was Google rotating the refresh token on some refreshes, so if you don't persist the new one atomically before the old is invalidated you can lock the user out with only a full re-auth to recover. Do you handle that rotation, and do multiple Google accounts get separate keychain entries or share one?

The part I keep coming back to is that it runs locally and talks straight to Outlook and Google with no server in between. Doing calendar OAuth fully client-side is more painful than it looks, holding and refreshing tokens with no backend is the annoying bit, so respect for shipping it that way instead of the easy route of proxying everyone's calendar through your own server. Does the local app refresh tokens silently in the background, or do I have to re-auth every so often?

This is a nice narrow fix for a genuinely annoying task. The timezone-for-the-recipient part is the detail most tools skip. Does it handle back-to-back meetings or blocked focus-time the same as free/busy, or does it only pull the raw calendar state?

Pulled my schedule in seconds without opening the calendar app and the timezone swap for my colleague in Tokyo just worked. Nice that nothing leaves my machine too.

honestly this looks super useful for scheduling across teams. one thing that would make it even better is letting me set a default working hours window per timezone, so suggestions automatically fall inside 9 to 5 rather than midnight on someone

That is a good idea, but how do I integrate it into the email, or how do I set it up as a shortcut?

Congrats James! I coordinate daily between a US and India team, so my life is IST-to-PT conversion math and I felt this launch personally. One thing I didn’t see asked: when Timely pulls my free slots, can I set rules on what counts as available? My calendar shows 7am free, but I never want that offered. Working-hours boundaries per calendar would be the difference between raw free slots and slots I’d actually accept. Is that in there or on the roadmap?

congrats on the launch. booking on behalf of someone else is where the timezone pain doubles, so the assistant use case makes a lot of sense. when an EA sets up timely for their execs, does the exec have to grant anything on their side?

Really smart to make the timezone the recipient’s, not yours — that’s the part everyone gets wrong. Right now you pick it from the list; any plans to infer it from the thread (the recipient’s email/domain or their past replies) so even that step disappears? Congrats on the launch!

One thing that could make Timely even more useful is integrating with other calendar services like iCloud or Exchange, not just Outlook and Google. Would love to see that in a future update.

Love the local-only approach for a scheduling tool like this. One thing that would make it even better for my workflow is adding a quick way to insert booking links directly into email replies, maybe with a keyboard shortcut that grabs the snippet and drops it into Gmail or Outlook without leaving the message window.

Finally something that nails the timezone problem without making me open another tab. The single keystroke shortcut feels right and it stays local, which is a nice touch.

Finally something that just reads my calendars and figures out the timezone nonsense for me. Loved that it runs locally and doesn't need yet another login.

The fact that it runs locally and only reaches out to Outlook and Google is such a thoughtful choice, feels respectful of privacy without sacrificing convenience.

@james_ketteringham , the time zone juggling is the exact part of scheduling that quietly drives me up the wall, so seeing it handled for me is a real relief.