Hey guys today we're gonna look at something new and very useful that you can do with the calendar so we covered recently the fact that you can now search for things when is my next doctor's appointment, when is my next zoom meeting, that sort of thing. You can also now ask for your availability. Now if I say my appointments are tomorrow you'll see I've got nothing in the diary. Alexa what am I appointments tomorrow?
There are no events scheduled for tomorrow. So let's create one. Alexa make an appointment called test appointment tomorrow at 1pm. I'll schedule test on Tuesday the 29th of December at 1pm.
Okay. Yes. Okay. I've added that.
Brilliant. Now we can ask her what I'm doing tomorrow. In fact you can't say what am I doing tomorrow. That won't work but you can say what's on my calendar, what's my appointments etc.
But I'm actually going to do it a different way. I'm going to ask for my availability tomorrow. Now this is incredibly useful if like me you've got four or five things in your calendar and you want to be able to write down or give somebody your availability. You have to swap everything around by noting down first of all when the things are that you're doing and then working out the gaps in between.
Check it out. Alexa what's my availability tomorrow? You're available until 1pm tomorrow and tomorrow from 2pm through the rest of the day. There you go.
So that's a simple example but if you had several it would be much easier to be able to quickly grab the gaps and one other thing which I think is new is that you can now move appointments. Alexa move my 1pm appointment tomorrow to 3pm. Okay. I'll move test tomorrow from 1pm to 3pm right?
Yes. Okay. I've updated the event. Okay.
Let's add in one more. Alexa create an appointment called another test tomorrow at 10am. That's another test on Tuesday the 29th of December at 10am right? Yes.
Okay. I've added that. Alexa what's my availability tomorrow? Your schedule is open until 10am and from 11am to 3pm tomorrow.
Hmm. There you go. It didn't say about four o'clock onwards. Weird it didn't say and also from 4pm.
Hmm. Not sure. But anyway. There you go.
That is so cool. Really really cool. And of course you don't have to say tomorrow. You could have said next Thursday.
You could have said the 27th of November 2027. Whatever you want to say. Really and really really powerful. This is Robin signing off.
We'll speak again tomorrow. Is it over already? That wasn't long enough. I'm sure.
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