[atonse]

I don’t use calendly but do feel the current “organic” way is broken (manually eyeball and type out times)

I did like the last approach the most though. Have something like calendly spit out your available times and you paste it into your email message.

They can click on what may work for them. This way it feels like you’ve done some work.

The other thing maybe could be that calendly can generate out your availability in a sentence form that can be pasted in. “I’ve got availability from 10-3 tomorrow, or 10-11 Wednesday” etc.

The point is that you still suggest times in the message but aren’t writing it all out yourself. Keeps it a bit more personal.

[jeffinpdx]

Yeah, I feel like the sender should do the extra work of embedding the times in an email. I like your idea of a script that's auto-generated.

[ShakataGaNai]

But what happens when a person is busy and only has 30mn here and there? A huge blob of text for available times? What about when they get scheduled for a meeting 5 minutes after they send out that auto-generated blob? You could very well pick a time, set it aside, create calendar invites, etc... just to find out they _aren't_ actually available at that time.

[jeffinpdx]

It's a good point. There is a feature which allows the sender to "reserve times" in a one-off meeting. That way, they don't get booked before you have an opportunity to select a time.