Name: Mayday
Rating: 4.58 (33 reviews)

Hi Product Hunt! 👋 I’m Jeremy, founder of Mayday. Like many makers here, I created Mayday to help solve a painful problem that I experienced on a daily basis – I was spending too much time managing my time. Even with all of the tools out there to help me organize my tasks and meetings, no one seemed to have solved the frustration of having to vigilantly manage and protect my time. I was obsessed. There had to be a better way. 🚀 This is why I’m excited to announce that today we’re launching Mayday’s AI Scheduling Co-pilot. Finding the ideal time for everything you need to do should be easy. Your calendar, task list and scheduling links should understand more about you than your free/busy status and help you plan your day with meaningful context. Whether you’re scheduling meetings or making time for tasks, Mayday helps streamline your workflow so you don’t have to waste time managing your time. What does Mayday do? - 🤹 Combines your calendar, tasks and scheduling links in a single app - ✨ Uses AI to find the best times to meet with others, so you don’t need to decipher everyone's availability - ✅ Auto-schedules tasks into your calendar based on your priorities - 🔄 Reschedules tasks automatically when your priorities shift, or new conflicts arise - 🛡️ Protects your time when you need to focus (or have a life) How does it do that? - 🧠 Mayday learns about your scheduling patterns and preferences based on your usage and preference settings - 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Mayday works smarter with other and can help you schedule seamlessly with other Mayday users by understanding their unique priorities and preferences - 🎩 Mayday understands the context in which you are operating, whether it’s for #work, a #specific_project or your #personal life. Mayday is currently a free tool (in public beta) that lets you connect your Google and Outlook calendars into a single view and powers all of your scheduling needs with AI. Mayday is also native software, built using SwiftUI for Apple devices on macOS, iOS and iPadOS. Can’t wait to hear what you think! From Jeremy & The Mayday Team

Reviews of Mayday

Marc Wegmann

•1 review

Super promising and already a valuable addition to my daily work. Can't wait for the Outlook/iCal integration! Until then, keep up the awesome work! I'd gladly pay for this if it can keep up its promise.

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2yr ago

Joshua Patton

•3 reviews

I've had a great overall experience with Mayday, although I do believe it could use a bit more polish here and there (dragging calendar events feels a bit clunky, notifications can't be assigned on a per-event basis, I couldn't find any Search feature, and the NLP feature is being reworked). I'd say there are four aspects of Mayday that made me decide to switch to it: 1. Smart Tags: The way that I time block is by creating different types of events, each with their own properties. I can technically implement this planning system using any calendar app, but Mayday pairs much better with this system because of this feature. One such time block type is the "Hours" type that I use to indicate the hours a store I need to run an errand at is open. Since this time block doesn't represent time I'm busy, I'd like my calendar app to consider this time as "Free." With Smart Tags, I can automatically allow any event with the "Hours" tag to be considered "Free." 2. FYI Events: Continuing my first example with the "Hours" event type, I don't really need to see an "Hours" event because these events are more so for my task manager in Airtable — which has a Google Calendar integration — then for my calendar. In situations like this one, I can mark such events as "FYI Events," so they don't clutter my calendar. Additionally, I have the option to have this property automatically assigned to events depending on their tag using the aforementioned Smart Tags feature. 3. Scheduling Links: I recently became a team lead for the first time, so I've found myself having to coordinate schedules with people more often as of late. Mayday's Scheduling Links have been a great way to streamline this process, so that finding a mutually available time to meet can be accomplished in one interaction instead of several. 4. Swift UI: I love it when developers are willing to put in the extra work required to develop an app natively instead of relying on development shortcuts, such as Electron. I find that such apps tend to feel more at home on their respective platforms, which leads to a nicer user experience. For instance, Mayday, despite being a fairly young app, has both a nice Menu Bar app and widgets. If you're looking for a simple, yet elevated calendar experience and have the willingness to wait for some of the aforementioned quirks to be resolved, then I recommend giving Mayday a shot.

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1yr ago

Jimmy Hackett

•7 reviews

Love Mayday...feel special I was in on it early, and am ready to get back into it.

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2yr ago

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Jeremy Bell

Mayday

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Francesco D'Alessio

Tool Finder - Find Productivity Tools

@jeremybell Well done folks!

Tornike Tsiramua

@jeremybell Combining calendars, tasks, and scheduling links in one app with AI assistance can be a crucial for productivity. Well done and congrats!

Antoni Kozelski

Evryface

@jeremybell Hi Jeremy, I spent some time (of course not as much as you❗️) and studied the Mayday site. Your product is perfect for everything: the task list and links help me to plan my day easily. Wireframing is very clear and familiar.

@antonikozelski Thank you! There's still work to be done before I can also say it's perfect for everything, but we're making progress ;)

@tornike_tsiramua1 Our goal is to help people achieve schedule/priority fit, so we need to consider everything that affects how you spend time. Meetings + tasks are the building blocks of a typical workday, and any good assistant needs to consider both if they're to effectively help manage your time

💎 Pixel perfection

Congratulations all the team & @jeremybell Enjoyed doing my first impressions covering the AI features.

Kyra Aylsworth

Thank you @francescod_ales ! I've watched so many of your product reviews and explainer videos, it's surreal to see you peek under the hood of Mayday – and it really helps us see Mayday from the outside in.

@kyrio Super congrats on the launch, thank you :)

@francescod_ales Thanks for sharing your thoughts in the first impressions video!

Rajiv Ayyangar

Product Hunt

Exciting launch in a category that has yet to realize it’s potential!!! How do you handle scheduling with teams of busy people? I.e. where there’s no immediate free time? Also curious if managing Outlook + Gcal is on its own a killer feature for some market.

Adam Day

@rajiv_ayyangar We definitely see some of our most active users falling into the camp of folks that just need to manage Outlook and Google together. Funny how Google and Microsoft don't play super nicely together... Regarding scheduling with teams of busy people - this is best handled when scheduling between groups of Mayday users. With every scheduling request, today our AI assesses the constraints and preferences of each user as it relates to the open time in their schedules. But we're also building machine learning models that can predict how many degrees of freedom each existing event has in each attendees schedule - so in the common case where no empty time aligns across all users, Mayday can suggest the best compromise to shuffle existing events around in order to make space for those impossible meetings.

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