Dear Atymic (Calndr.link)

Dear Atymic - or whatever your real name is,

Thank you for being you. I don’t know much about you, but I do know that you are a generous person and a talented programmer. I also want to thank you specifically for your tool Calndr.link, which I really love.

I haven’t actually had a use case for using the tool yet, but a potential one did come up recently. Reflecting on it now, I wonder if I would have had the foresight to search for a tool like this had I been presented with the use case before knowing about it.

The situation is this: at one of the social profit (new name for non-profit I’m hoping to push, at least in the US) organizations I work with, we are setting up a call using Zoom, but we don’t want our students to use the Zoom registration feature. Instead, we use a form tool called FormAssembly because it connects to our Salesforce account (wow, lots of feelings about Salesforce in our social profit community over here right now - I’m curious how people in Australia are talking about it). But without a registration page, how can we help our students signing up for the call create calendar events with the Zoom link?

I’m trying to put myself in some hardcore beginner’s mindset and forget that I know about Calndr.link. Would I have searched Ecosia for an answer, or maybe asked ChatGPT? Maybe I wouldn’t have even thought to do that, and I would have advised my colleagues to use the follow-up email to ask students to make their own calendar events. We have been working pretty fast to get this registration form out, so I might have thought I didn’t have time to find a nicer solution to this.

But luckily I had been introduced to the tool just a few days before we needed it for this use case. I received an email after submitting a Google Form, and the email contained the calndr.link in it. I recommended your tool to my colleagues and I hope they choose to use it.

It’s weird, I can’t really think of how else I could use this in the future, but I feel confident that the situations will arise, and I’ll be ready with this solution for them. I was thrilled to buy you a coffee as a small thanks for this tool, and for you being you. Keep doing the good work you do :-)

Peace,

Emily