Weld

When you get an email about scheduling, Weld will tell you if the proposed time fits your schedule with an interactive push notification. Through a combination of predictive intelligence and machine learning, Weld has the ability to learn about how you and your network communicate scheduling preferences. 

Weld knows when you have a potential scheduling conflict

                                    Weld notifies you if there is a time conflict with the proposed date and time from the email. From the push notification, you can easily jump right into your calendar and propose a new time with shared availability.

                                    And if the time works, Weld will tell you that your'e free! You can tap Accept and set up the meeting directly to your calendar from the push notification.

Weld works naturally with the emails you receive from your friends, family, and colleagues. These interactive push notifications contain the appropriate actions for you to efficiently schedule your meetings, provide alternative times, or chat instantly about times.

Here’s a handful of examples phrases that Weld can understand and intelligently provide you with the right action to get the meeting in the books:

4:30PM PST happy hour on friday

friday the 31st around 1:30pm

wed afternoon - say around 2 pm

11/21 at 1:00 2:30pdt

7 breakfast on tomorrow

Today, we're bringing you an improved version of Weld and showing-off some new capabilities!

Here’s what we’ve been working on:

Add events to your calendar directly from your email

                                    Along with scheduling requests, you’ll begin to see emails that contain .ics files or confirmed event details in Weld with the ability to add the information directly to your calendar.

Conference Calls

                                    Simply schedule a meeting and add a conference call number through UberConference with a couple taps.

Keep track of your sent requests and actions

Your ‘Action List’ is updated to differentiate between emails that require an action from you and those that have been completed. 

Customize your conversations with a subject/event name to keep track of your messages.

We’ve been pretty quiet lately, but that’s because we’ve been working on amazing improvements to Weld. We’d like to give you a peek at an improved version and to show-off some new capabilities!

Weld’s push notifications are better than ever

                                    With the release of iOS 8, we took the opportunity with interactive push notifications to add another layer of efficiency to Weld. These new Weld interactive notifications allow users to access their email and calendar from the lock screen and the new notifications center. You will be able to reply to messages from the push notification alert without opening the app.

Accept or decline a meeting

Send a message / response

See each other's shared availability

Check-in to your flights

Book a ride to and from your flight

Find parking for your dinner or meeting with a client

The new feature represents significant opportunities for efficient scheduling and productive actions, so please shoot us an email if you have cool ideas to help you with! [email protected]!

Keep track of your sent requests and actions

Your ‘Action List’ is updated to differentiate between scheduling emails that contain or require an action from you.

Web Accept: A cross-web scheduling platform

This new feature allows a non-user to click over to Weld’s scheduling website and click a confirm button to accept the meeting. It also works for Weld users who happen to be in their email.

Conference calls and location details

We’ve added the ability to simply 1-click schedule a meeting, add a conference call number, or a location.

                                    We all have our own strategies to deal with email, but welcome new methods to tame the beast. From prioritizing to sorting, setting inbox zero goals to using third party unsubscribing services, it’s obvious that email is a problem.

Triaging email (using apps like Mailbox) means that you’ve developed a system to prioritize messages into different levels of urgency -- either to respond immediately (with the possibility of giving up) or defer to a later time. Gmail Inbox Tabs and other filtering methods attempt to funnel the emails into different views. Regardless of the approach, what’s left in your inbox are uncompleted tasks that you’ve decided to push off until you get back to your laptop.

Regain your focus and save time by getting stuff done on Weld. Stop waiting until you get back to your desk to deal with that build up of tasks you’ve been putting off. By starting with the frequent and tricky task of scheduling, Weld brings together the right context and action buttons to make it super easy to put it on your calendar.

Weld’s mission is to simplify complex tasks down to quick actions that you can complete on your smartphone. With Shared Availability, you can see when your colleagues, customers, and friends are free to meet. Shared Availability lets you cut down the back and forth, which makes everyone happier. We’ve added inline action buttons so you can confirm your availability, add the meeting to the calendar, and send a reply all in a single click.

You already have enough on your mind. Get Weld today and lessen the burden of scheduling.

You don’t need a personal assistant to manage your schedule -- you need the right tool for the job. At Weld, we’re building that tool just for you -- learning your preferences and giving you smart action buttons to help you get stuff done.

Weld is a free and easy tool for handle scheduling appointments that you can use to skip the back and forth with shared availability and smart action buttons. You save time and money when scheduling with Weld.

Download Weld for iOS today!

When you receive an email request to meet, quickly view your schedule, reply, or simply add the event to your calendar in just one tap.

                                    P.S. At Weld, we’re constantly looking to improve your experience -- we’ll be adding a new feature that lets you simply tap and add a location to your meeting from your common event locations or add a new one.

You don't need another calendar app

The calendar apps do a great job of reminding you of appointments and where you need to be. But they miss the important difficult task of actually scheduling and putting something in the books. You need something to help make this back and forth easy.

Some people hire a personal assistant, subscribe to a “virtual” scheduling middleman, but we’ve built Weld (which is FREE), to make it easy for you to manage your time and coordinate with friends, colleagues, and customers.

Historically on desktop and mobile, the actions required to agree on a time and then put an event on your calendar requires quite a bit of elbow grease. With Weld, minimize the back and forth (see how this works in our previous post) with Weld’s Shared Availability.

A few weeks ago, we teased our new approach towards dealing with scheduling emails by making it natural and fast to have conversations about meeting details on your iPhone. Today, we are excited to release Weld to you!

Here's what to expect:

                                          A curated inbox with meeting requests and at-a-glance information for each conversation

A clean conversation view where you can read the back and forth messages

                                            In-line action buttons within the conversation view so you can act quickly (add event to calendar, propose a time to meet, see shared availability)

Dynamic event status updates with the ability to edit and propose if something comes up

                                            Shared availability calendar allows you to pick the right time for both people, the first time

Simply tap on the date and time, change the event duration by extending the block, and propose!

According to a recent study by Flurry, the US consumer spends an average of 2:42 hours on their mobile device per day AND app usage accounts for 86% of that time. With the increase in time spent on mobile and the significant shift in productivity app usage, it’s safe to say that we are excited to get stuff done on mobile.

By spending more time on mobile, we want and expect our smartphones to be just as useful and have the same powerful capabilities as our laptops and desktops. But it is still in the early days for getting stuff done on mobile.

Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook work great on desktop by offering shared availability -- a feature that allows users to share and view schedules to makes scheduling a breeze. However, both have failed to bring this crucial feature to mobile.

Current calendar apps focus on reminding you of your many meetings and keeping you on track. But none focus on the problem of coordinating a new meeting or event and getting that on your calendar.

Weld brings you the best parts of the desktop scheduling experience like shared availability, combines it with an easy way to complete a task on your phone, and communicate about your schedule. With shared availability, you can see when your colleagues, customers, and friends are free to meet. With inline ‘action’ buttons, you can confirm your availability, add the meeting to the calendar, and send a reply directly without ever having to leave the app. Finally!

When we sat down to work on scheduling, we realized one of the trickiest parts is dealing with multiple time zones. Finding a time shouldn’t require arithmetic. Adding a few hours, subtracting a couple -- it all just became too confusing.

With Weld, you don’t have to worry about taking different time zones into account.

Here's what to expect if you're in New York and setting up some time with a colleague in California:

                                    When you pull up the calendar, you’re shown your schedule AND when your colleague is busy. This makes it easy to suggest a time when you are both free. Looks like 10:00 AM EST is open.

                                    What your colleague will see is that you suggested a time at 7:00 AM PST. Weld automatically converts the time for you.

Start saving time and reduce the back and forth when you schedule.

You’ve come to accept the disconnect between your email and calendar. Emails are opened on one screen and your calendar displayed on another -- neither one is communicating with each other so you have to manually haul the information back and forth. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Scheduling is a common task that we deal with daily and by using Weld, we can cut scheduling steps in HALF.

                                    Here’s a typical process when dealing with an email about scheduling:

You open an email from your colleague asking, “When are you available next week to go over the travel plans?”

You think about your schedule and switch to the Calendar app to check your availability.

After checking your calendar, you switch screens back to the email.

Tapping on the Reply button, you start typing out the dates and times you memorized, “I am free Wednesday after 1PM and Thursday after 10AM.”

But wait, we’re not done yet. Your colleague still needs to check and confirm:

Your colleague opens the email with the dates you suggested.

Switches to their Calendar app and sees that Wednesday is available.

If both times had not worked, there would have been more back and forth, more emails, more steps. Let’s say it works this time. 

Your colleague creates an event on Wednesday at 2PM, fills in your information, and sends you an invite.

What a pain in the ass.

                                    Here’s how two people schedule if they’re both using Weld:

Your colleague starts a new conversation with you through Weld, which shows that you’re both available next week on Wednesday at 2PM. You don’t have to blindly select times that might not work.

Tapping on the time slots, your colleague sends the message with the suggestion.

You receive a Weld push notification from your friend asking to meet next week.

Tapping on the message, you see that Wednesday was suggested and that your schedule for that day is clear.

You tap on the “Wednesday at 2PM” button to send your colleague a confirmation and Weld puts the event onto both calendars.

Voila!

Weld steps in to do the work so you don’t have to. Give Weld a spin -- sign up now!

When we started to think about frequency and types of actionable items coming from our inbox, scheduling emails came up as one of the top priorities. Wouldn’t it be nice to efficiently tackle these emails right from your mobile phone or respond without having to wait until you get back to your laptop? Weld is your answer.

Your Weld ‘Action List’ displays emails related to scheduling so that you can quickly book your meetings. We’re constantly updating our systems to make sure that emails about scheduling are identified and consolidated right where you want them.

"Let's meet up!"

Without a doubt, these three simple words lead us down an unending chain of emails. We're busy people and locking down a good time with colleagues and friends can mean playing a game of email ping pong (or email foursquare for big groups!).

Time spent scheduling is time wasted so we want to get it right from the start.

SHARED AVAILABILITY

Weld users can see shared availability of their contacts who are also using Weld.

         When you enter a contact's name, we'll automatically populate your message with a few suggested times to meet. If you want more options, you can choose from shared free times in the upcoming days and weeks. Weld makes it easy to schedule with other users while still maintaining your privacy.

The power of using shared availability comes from viewing all the right information on one screen so that you can act quickly.

      We are Weld and our goal is to get you to be more productive on your phone.

Much like you, we love our phones. We take them with us everywhere we go. So let’s maximize productivity with this device we hold so dear.

Our approach -- to simplify decision making processes and create simple actions buttons so tasks can be completed in just a few taps.

We're starting with a basic task that comes across our inbox everyday. Scheduling. Everybody does it, but it can be a pain to do on the phone. Multiple people are asking for our precious time. There's an urgency to scheduling so putting it off till you get back to your computer is never ideal.

Weld makes sure you can take care of your scheduling needs right away.

Here's how:

FEATURES

Action Alerts: Stay on top of scheduling emails as they're sent.

Shared Availability: Find common free time with other Weld users to coordinate right away.

Add to Calendar: Create events and automatically copy email details into your calendar with a couple of taps.

Schedule with Anyone: View the request and your calendar all on one screen to quickly coordinate with anyone.

Awesome, right? We're making it easier to get things done on our phones so that we're not wasting time using multiple apps only to get frustrated and put it off till later. Even typing that is getting us a bit stressed.

We've been forging together a personal assistant app to make you more productive on your mobile phone.  Our mission is to simplify complex tasks by boiling them down to simple “yes” or “no” decisions.  

To start, we’re tackling the tricky task of scheduling.

    We broached this problem because we often found ourselves fumbling with multiple apps or pushing this burden off till later -- for both calendar and non-calendar users alike.  We’re attached to our phones for its mobility and productivity so why should scheduling weigh us down.