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Plan Less, Do More: Introducing Appointment By Thunderbird

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We’re excited to share a new project we’ve been working on at Thunderbird called Appointment. Appointment makes it simple to schedule meetings with anyone, from friends and family to colleagues and strangers. Escape the endless email threads trying to find a suitable meeting time across multiple time zones and organizations.

With Appointment, you can easily share your customized availability and let others schedule time on your calendar. It’s simple and straightforward, without any clutter.


If you have tried similar tools, Appointment will feel familiar, while capturing what’s unique about Thunderbird: it’s open source and built on our fundamental values of privacy, openness, and transparency. In the future, we intend for Appointment to be part of a wider suite of helpful products enhancing the core Thunderbird experience. Our ambition is to provide you with not only a first-rate email application but a hub of productivity tools to make your days more efficient and stress-free.

We’ll be rolling out Appointment in phases, continuing to improve it as we open up access to more people. It’s currently in closed beta, so we encourage you to sign up for our waiting list. Let us know what features you find valuable and any improvements you’d like to see. Your feedback will be invaluable as we make this tool as useful and seamless as possible.

To that end, the development repository for Appointment is publicly available on Github, and we encourage any future testers or contributors to get involved and build this with us.


Free yourself from cluttered scheduling apps and never-ending email threads. The simplicity of Appointment lets you find that perfect meeting time, without wasting your precious time.

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15 responses

Rimu wrote on

I’d use that.

How does it sync with Thunderbird on a desktop? Does it use Firefox Sync?

Monica Ayhens-Madon wrote on

We hope you do use us! And we’ve asked the team about how this syncs with Desktop, and will let you know once we have an answer!

Rey wrote on

Sounds great! Just got a few questions though: Will this be a standalone application? Could it be integrated into Thunderbird and Lightning, so that you don’t have to set up calendars twice or will somehow work in together with Thunderbird? E.g. mail notification if someone has signed up or off? Thanks!

Monica Ayhens-Madon wrote on

Hey there! We reached out to our services team and will let you know once they have an answer for us!

Monica Ayhens-Madon wrote on

We just heard from our services team, and while we currently do not have a Thunderbird integration for Appointment, stay tuned for further updates!

victorhck wrote on

Looks a great tool!!
Spreading the word in spanish in my little blog:
https://victorhckinthefreeworld.com/2024/09/03/appointment-de-thunderbird-simplifica-la-programacion-de-reuniones/

I have a suggestion, I would change the name. Is a bit large and in spanish a bit hard to write propperly. Mmaybe should be more easy to write and remember, something like meetme or such… just my opinion…

Greetings!

Monica Ayhens-Madon wrote on

Thank you so much for spreading the word about Appointment and everything else! I’ll let our services team know – I’m not sure if the name can be changed at this point, but maybe this is something to think of for future products!

herve wrote on

Hello
Good idea
Will people be able to use it
1/ without registering on the site?
2/ without thunderbird?
I currently use framadaste but I would prefer to promote an ecosystem that promotes the visibility of thunderbird.

Monica Ayhens-Madon wrote on

Hello! It is a standalone app from Thunderbird, but I’m not sure about registration. Let me put that question to the team!

Z PIORO wrote on

Sehr hilfreich wäre eine Sync. Mit Google Terminkalender.

Monica Ayhens-Madon wrote on

Appointment syncs with Google Calendars or CalDAV calendars!

Chrysanthos wrote on

Exciting news!
Can you clear out which operating systems is the app designed for?

Monica Ayhens-Madon wrote on

This is a web application that is mobile friendly, so any operating system that can run a graphical web browser!

Timothée wrote on

Wouldn’t it be better concentrating upon an iOS version of Thunderbird first, then moving on to new projects rather than leaving iOS users up in the air…?

Monica Ayhens-Madon wrote on

I’m an iPhone user myself, so I understanding wanting to have Thunderbird on our phones too! But we needed some key things in place, like a manager for mobile releases, which we now have. We’ll be updating people as other key things happen, like hiring a developer and the first roadmap. But having these services will be another way people can keep ALL of Thunderbird sustainable and moving forward, and that means an iOS app in the hopefully near future.

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