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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/2\/23283861\/daybridge-calendar-app-social-network<\/a>
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Hypothetical question: would you send your date a calendar invite? You\u2019ve been out, let\u2019s say, twice, and you\u2019re going to meet for dinner on Friday at 7:30PM. You\u2019d text them that info \u2014 you might even tell them over the phone \u2014 but would you send them a calendar invite<\/a>? Or, I\u2019ll do you one better: if you haven\u2019t picked a time yet, would you send them your Calendly link to find a time to meet? Kieran McHugh, the CEO of a new calendar app company called Daybridge, thinks it\u2019s a \u201cno\u201d across the board. But he\u2019d like to change that.<\/p>\n

Daybridge is launching officially today after almost two years of development. What McHugh and his team have built so far is\u2026 well, it\u2019s a calendar app. It connects to Google Calendar (no Outlook yet, but that\u2019s coming), you can move events around \u2014 you get the idea. It\u2019s a nice-looking calendar app, certainly, but a calendar app nonetheless. McHugh estimates the team has spent 80 percent of its time so far just building basic calendar plumbing, but the Daybridge team has lots of big ideas about calendars and time management that they want to work on next.<\/p>\n

The big ideas, when Daybridge gets around to building them, are far more exciting. What Daybridge plans to eventually build is a calendar that understands that not all events are created equal \u2014 and that managing your time is not just about plugging things into identical-looking 60-minute blocks. In an early mock-up of the app that McHugh shared more than a year ago, a running event automatically pulled in stats from Strava, turning it into an exercise journal. The calendar looked more like a Trello-style kanban board<\/a> of time than a grid of hours. Every event had a different icon \u2014 a plane for an upcoming flight, scissors for a haircut, a martini glass for after-work drinks \u2014 to make clear what\u2019s happening and when at a glance. That mock-up, says Daybridge product manager Jami Welch, got a lot of people excited, including him. \u201cIt\u2019s just like, \u2018Here are just the plans each day, get things at a glance.\u2019 And you\u2019re not trying to have time be this giant void with little things floating in.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But before Daybridge could get to any of that, it had to build a calendar that worked. \u201cYou need lots of these links to be in place before the sum can be greater than the parts,\u201d Welch says. Even now, McHugh adds, \u201cIt\u2019s not feature complete, and we don\u2019t have exact feature parity\u2026 but we\u2019re at a point where we\u2019re ready to start rolling this out and getting feedback.\u201d <\/p>\n

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