Why we love Vimcal, the SuperHuman of calendars

When you’re busy, managing your diary can feel like a full time job in itself. At Upsource, we’re always looking for ways to increase productivity and tools to streamline workflows, for ourselves and for our clients. 

So let us introduce you to VimCal.

What is Vimcal?

Vimcal brands itself as ‘the world’s fastest calendar, for people with too many meetings’. As you can imagine, we were intrigued. Vimcal integrates with systems like Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook to make scheduling easier, more efficient and more intuitive, without losing the human touch. The team at Upsource has found it to be incredibly user-friendly; we think of it as ‘The SuperHuman for calendars’ except we think VimCal is better than SuperHuman. And the best part? Your OG calendar goes nowhere. You’ll still be using Google or Outlook on your phone and it will be updated by Vimcal, no action required on your part.

Why Vimcal?

If you want to get on top of your calendar, make booking meetings smoother and save yourself some time and energy, Vimcal has a lot of features/benefits you will like:

Slots
It’s easy to share your calendar’s available time slots without the impersonal experience of other scheduling tools like Calendly

Avoid the back-and-forth of email tennis by allowing your contacts to choose times that work for both of you

Slots can be protected if they are marked as non-negotiables, or if an engagement is more flexible, your contact can override it

Customisable templates

You can create templates for recurring meeting types, like sales calls, team check ins or podcast recordings

Pre-set meeting details automatically e.g. length, attendees, default platforms (Zoom, Google Meet etc) and (we love this) colour code them so you can glance at your calendar and get a sense of your week quickly and easily 

Onboarding and tech support

The onboarding process is incredibly smooth, and you can receive 1:1 training to help you make the most of the tool, and navigate shortcuts and features

The customer service is excellent and very responsive should you have any issues or requests to customise your calendar

Streamlined navigation

We love a keyboard shortcut, and you can easily ‘quick schedule’ or adjust events 

Personalised

Vimcal is extremely customisable with colour coding and tagging to suit your needs

You can highlight the event categories that are most important to you, like sales calls or strategy time

Flexible Scheduling

You can share meeting slots in a number of formats, including plain text or URLs, to accommodate your and your contacts preferences

There is an ‘ignore internal conflicts’ feature so you can avoid overlapping bookings while booking in multiple different people and meetings

They have a ‘group voting’ feature (similar to Doodle polls) 

Should you be using Vimcal?

Our answer is: probably! 

If you’re keen to create efficiencies but want to maintain a human/personal touch
If you need a calendar tool that balances flexibility with control
If you want to reduce the time you spend coordinating meetings
If you want something that will integrate seamlessly with your existing calendar

Then Vimcal could well be for you!

If you’re ready to make the switch and save yourself some time and stress, but think you might need some help in the setup, get in touch with Caroline, and she can match you with the perfect Virtual Assistant for the task.