Product Database: Email and Calendars
Unpacking the email and calendar products you might not have heard of
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Hi product people 👋,
Rich from Department of Product here. Product Databases are a hand curated selection of some of the most interesting, practical tools we’ve found across the web.
According to a recent 2022 study, over half of workplace respondents now prefer to use instant messaging over email, up from 31% in 2020. Despite this, email is still widely used in tech companies, but is typically now used for more formal communication that’s less suited to instant messaging.
Alongside email, meetings and calendars are still very much part of the fabric of worklife, but they’ve recently found themselves the subject of greater scrutiny by tech . Shopify’s decision to dissuade employees from putting in unnecessary meetings by building their own Calendar add-on which calculates the cost of a meeting is a testament to that. Async-work is also on the rise, challenging the linearity of a typical work day that most of us have become accustomed to.
Despite these changes in workplace habits, calendars can be used for much more than just scheduling meetings. Sure, we all know about Google Calendar and Outlook, but this year has seen the rise of a bunch of new, exciting entrants into the space.
Needless to say that for this Product Database, we’re going to explore some of the most widely used tools for tech professionals: email and calendar tools.
Let’s take a look at some of the most interesting ones we’ve hand picked together.
The full product database
Before we explore each of the email and calendar products in a bit more detail, here’s the list of products in full. You can bookmark this page for reference later or pick the products you like best and save those.