What arrived
Need to move Thursday's appointment
The dentist's office asks to move Thursday's appointment. The message lands in the middle of a meeting you are already in.
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Personal admin
The dentist needs to move your appointment, and the request lands while you are mid-meeting. You have no time to switch mental gears. Beemy handles the whole reschedule inside your personal silo. You make a single approval.
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When personal admin lands at the wrong moment
A request to move a dentist, doctor or other personal appointment arrives in the middle of a work day. Dealing with it properly means stepping out of whatever you are doing.
The example
Illustrative example, built with mock data.
In Gmail · personal
What arrived
Need to move Thursday's appointment
The dentist's office asks to move Thursday's appointment. The message lands in the middle of a meeting you are already in.
Beemy's draft
Re: Need to move Thursday's appointment
Beemy drafts a reply that proposes a new time from your personal calendar's free slots. It is ready when you are back at your phone. Approve it and the calendar entry moves with it. Your work calendar never sees any of this.
One approval covers the reply and the calendar, and your day carries on.
How Beemy handles it
Beemy reads the message that asks to move the appointment. It then checks your personal calendar for a slot that works.
Beemy drafts a reply that proposes the new time. It writes in your voice, so you do not write a word.
You approve the reply. The calendar entry then moves with it, so you do not update it by hand.
What you still decide
The honest scope
Reads
Can do
Never
The hard part: keeping a personal errand out of work
Drafting the reply is the easy part. The hard part is keeping a personal errand from interrupting your work. It must also leave no trace on the work side. Beemy keeps the two calendars separate, and not only visually tidy. That lets the reschedule happen without the day noticing.
Questions
No, the reschedule happens inside your personal calendar, which sits in a separate silo from your work one.
You approve, edit or reject the drafted time before Beemy sends anything. Nothing moves until you say so.
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