Imagine someone sends you an invite to a meeting a couple of weeks or months out. You accept. The next day you need to check something that was in that meeting invite. Fuck, was that meeting set in march or april? And what was it called? There are like three plausible names for it… Woldn’t it be nice to just scroll down to yesterdays emails and have it there?
Either treat invites as a message, or do some completely separate calendar-notification system. But the inbetween is kinda the worst of both worlds.
As insane as my work calendar is, yes. I’ve accepted meetings and days later needed to go back to find the entry. Unless you memorize when they meeting was you’re going to have to find that manually. It’s a very avoidable inconvenience.
no, they could have been received different days, that is why losing them from inbox is a pain. It doesn’t happen when you are a junior/intern/small company, but in big companies you end up receiving a ton of invites, being able to easily access the one you accepted today, two hours ago or two days ago by reception date rather than meeting date is a huge help. You basically have an additional sorting of those invite emails.
to the point where I just don’t accept any to keep them in the inbox.
The fact that your particular use case doesn’t need this, doesn’t mean everyone else is doing it wrong. jeezz, the audacity of people… you must work for Microslop, they think exactly like you: “if I don’t need it, surely no one does, or they are doing something wrong”
In case this wasn’t a sarcastic/rethorical question:
In a thread of people complaining about the problems they have with the subject, it is easily taken as audacious to ask “do you really have that problem” without further elaboration as it sounds like incredulity, disbelief or minimization of the reality of the problem. When you start that way and then continue just asking questions, the initial impression is only strengthened.
In my case (and I suppose in the case of the majority) processes invitations would simply clutter up email and duplicate information that is already in the calendar and available there for searching and viewing.
Do you really have troubles with finding stuff in your calendar?
Imagine someone sends you an invite to a meeting a couple of weeks or months out. You accept. The next day you need to check something that was in that meeting invite. Fuck, was that meeting set in march or april? And what was it called? There are like three plausible names for it… Woldn’t it be nice to just scroll down to yesterdays emails and have it there?
Either treat invites as a message, or do some completely separate calendar-notification system. But the inbetween is kinda the worst of both worlds.
As insane as my work calendar is, yes. I’ve accepted meetings and days later needed to go back to find the entry. Unless you memorize when they meeting was you’re going to have to find that manually. It’s a very avoidable inconvenience.
Check out this guy that has two meetings a week. And none of them have similar titles, attendees or anything.
Then they would be similar in mail form, wouldn’t they?
no, they could have been received different days, that is why losing them from inbox is a pain. It doesn’t happen when you are a junior/intern/small company, but in big companies you end up receiving a ton of invites, being able to easily access the one you accepted today, two hours ago or two days ago by reception date rather than meeting date is a huge help. You basically have an additional sorting of those invite emails.
to the point where I just don’t accept any to keep them in the inbox.
The fact that your particular use case doesn’t need this, doesn’t mean everyone else is doing it wrong. jeezz, the audacity of people… you must work for Microslop, they think exactly like you: “if I don’t need it, surely no one does, or they are doing something wrong”
I’m simply asking questions. Is that considered audacity?
In case this wasn’t a sarcastic/rethorical question:
In a thread of people complaining about the problems they have with the subject, it is easily taken as audacious to ask “do you really have that problem” without further elaboration as it sounds like incredulity, disbelief or minimization of the reality of the problem. When you start that way and then continue just asking questions, the initial impression is only strengthened.
By the way: in UX you can’t please everyone.
In my case (and I suppose in the case of the majority) processes invitations would simply clutter up email and duplicate information that is already in the calendar and available there for searching and viewing.
yes. I have meetings for around a dozen projects at any week in time, and some people really suck at titling meetings.
“issues touchpoint” OKAY BUT FOR WHICH ISSUES ON WHICH PROJECT, JESSICA
the one about titling meetings in emails properly.