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1. Rutuja Chopade

   | DevOps Engineer at Reliance Jio | almost 2 years ago
   A smart calendar app to boost my productivity

   I love the way I can quickly glance at the next meeting in the menu bar on MacOS. I can also get the overview of all the upcoming meetings with one click from the menu bar icon or with keyboard shortcut. It definitely saves my time in searching the calendar tab in the browser a gazillion times in a day.

   The event notifications are also very helpful as they show up just one minute before the meeting starts and allow me to join meetings with just one click on the ‘Join’ button.

   The notifications come with a great functionality of notifying attendees of the meeting in case I am running late for the meeting via Slack without opening the window of native Slack app and searching for the attendee just to send a small message that I am running late for the meeting. Thank you to the Alkanzo team for saving me from the last minute hassle every now and then while I am running late for my next meeting!

   🏁 Competitors: Superpowered, MeetingBar

   👍 Pros:    Nice and slick design.|Timely notifications, just one minute before the meeting starts.|Runs on mac, windows and linux. i can use it on pretty much any of your laptops and desktops|Connects with google calendar and microsoft outlook calendar, two of the most popular calendar apps at present|Reasonable pricing.

   👎 Cons:    I would really love to see this app expand its scope beyond just giving an overview of upcoming meetings to also help me to keep track and give an overview of the tasks that i want to get done on time.

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