Match available resources to the demands of your work by filtering based on resource location, skills, or any tags you need. Folders are a great way to organize your resources, and it’s common for larger organizations to create folders for each location or for teams. This way, I can easily filter for “my team” or […]
Eliminate the Unnecessary
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Scarcity: the Science of Resource Scheduling
We know that working under tight deadlines leads to childish thinking: the greater the time pressure, the more we revert to mental models from childhood. Research also shows that we predictably make bad decisions when we’re short on time. In Scarcity, Mullainathan and Shafir tweak classic experiments in behavioral economics by introducing various kinds of […]
Default Durations for each Resource
KC Embrey has just published a new custom action for assigning default values to new appointments: this is great for giving each resource in your org a default duration or status. This action works in any calendar source, including FileMaker and Salesforce. Here’s what it looks like in action: While you can usually set defaults […]
Breakout Your Schedule by Any Field
Balance Your Workload Now breakout your schedule by calendar, by project, or by any custom field. This new option in DayBack’s horizon view means that any field in any of your calendars can become a swimlane. Here’s a short video of this in action: As you can see, breakout works great with Calendar Analytics. Plot […]