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There ’s a reason why some people are die - hard Microsoft Outlook sports fan . It brings together your emails , your calendar events and your contacts in a unmarried app . But . . . it ’s Outlook . And some people ca n’t stomach its convoluted interface .
Amie , one of the most innovative apps in the new wafture of calendar apps , is adding emails to its app so that users do n’t have to change back and forth between their calendar and their electronic mail customer to schedule a meeting or see if they have metre to accomplish a specific task .
This Modern feature is part of the 1.0 release of the app after a couple of years in private genus Beta . People can now sign up and download the app without any invite codification . Dennis Müller , the laminitis and CEO of Amie , told me that the company decided to omit its waitlist because of Notion’slaunch of Notion Calendarlast hebdomad .
“ I ask their launch to be negative for us . It stop up being very positive , ” Müller told me in an email . NotionacquiredCron , another calendar startup , to serve as the basis for its second app .
“ I ’ve got mad respect for Cron . They ’ve build the good calendar out of all the new ace . Very focused on nailing basics , ” Müller tell . But Notion Calendar has n’t changed much since the acquisition of Cron .
It has a few unexampled integrating with Notion ’s chief app and serve , such as the ability to create a Notion document and sequester it to an outcome — this could be useful for merging notes , for instance . Notion Calendar user can also look at a Notion database ( with dates and deadlines ) as a calendar .
Bringing innovation to the calendar app
The launch of Notion Calendar has evince once again that there are other calendar apps out there in addition to Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook . And just like with task management apps , people are look for unlike thing . There ’s room for more than just one task management app , and more than just one calendar app .
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And this brings us back to Amie . Everything that Iwroteabout the app nearly two years ago is still genuine . It ’s an fabulously well - design production full of small detail , voguish shoot on the fundamental interaction model and nice animations .
As a reminder , Amie is a calendar app that works with your Google account . After signing up , the company imports and displays your Google Calendar events in a traditional calendar view .
But Amie is also an opinionated take on the calendar . Many the great unwashed create events that are n’t really events . They act as admonisher of thing they have to do throughout the week .
That ’s why Amie also lets you manage your to - do list . In the remaining column , you could make project without think too much about it . It ’s like adding a new bullet point to an ongoing lean — no need to think about the due escort just yet .
After that , if you desire to define a day of the month and meter for this task , you could just hang back it from the left - deal side and drop it into your week scene . It ’ll look as an outcome , right next to your other calendar events .
If you ’re already using a full - fledge task management app , Amie has make integrations with other third - party services , such as Notion , Linear , Things , Todoist and Ticktick so that you may either import your task from those other overhaul or keep them in sync .
Amie works well in solo , but it really shines if you could apply it as a squad with your co - worker . Each user has their own visibility card and Amie lets you quickly turn back when one of your Colorado - doer is available by hovering over their profile characterization in the sidebar . Amie also hold multiple bill , which can be useful to view your personal and your employment calendar in the same app .
user can also generate Calendly - like links to partake their availableness with other users . The app generates a link that can be pasted into an email conversation . And now , as Amie also brings your email inbox to your calendar , you may send the email forthwith in the app .
Amie ’s e-mail integration is still a chip basic , but it gets the job done when it comes to draft a new electronic mail or checking your latest conversations . “ We built it inspired by CarPlay from Apple . There you get everything you care about on one presentation , we desire to achieve the same for productiveness , ” Müller said .
The e-mail inbox also lives in the leftover column . It appears as another to - do lean that refreshes in real time as young e-mail arrive . you may tap an e-mail to read it and respond directly in Amie .
On Mobile River , you may take in your e-mail and your calendar using an extremely satisfyingsplit - screen feature of speech . you’re able to drag and drop the partition in the middle of the screen to see more of your inbox or more of your calendar .
yooooo,@tryamie , this is so dope.pic.twitter.com/Cnko44HR86
— alexey ( @sekachov)November 10 , 2023
More importantly , as many people consider e-mail as tasks , you may drag your electronic mail onto the calendar to schedule a escort and time to reply to that email or act on the message of the email .
Interestingly , Amie is also taking vantage of the fact that you ’re already in your calendar app . When you draft a new email and you say “ allow ’s meet tomorrow at 4 postmortem examination , ” it shows a trailer bill of fare of your calendar tomorrow at 4 p.m. to see if there ’s any conflict . Similarly , you’re able to spotlight textual matter in an email and turn it into an Amie task .
These are the first features of emails in Amie . I ca n’t waitress to see the smart features that could be added now that Amie can see both your calendar and your inbox .
The other bountiful newfangled feature article that will be usable to premium users soon is the ability to use AI to automatically find time for your to - United States Department of State .
In addition to Notion Calendar , there are many company trying to reinvent the calendar . There’sRise , Routine , Daybridge , Motion , AkiflowandFantasticalif you use Apple machine .
Right now , there are 14 people work on Amie and the troupe has bring up $ 8 million in amount . So let ’s see if it can stand out from the competition in 2024 and become “ a one - in - a - million - product , ” as Müller told me .
