Dola is the AI calendar assistant you’ve been waiting for

I’m a sucker for smart, simple, single-purpose software—the types of tools that do one seemingly small thing and do it so well, you wonder how you ever lived without ’em.



And if there’s one area where I’m  always  itchin’ for something new, it’s in the dusty ol’ domain of the humble digital calendar.



Whether for work or for personal purposes, our calendars have become guiding forces in our meandering lives. I don’t know about you, but I’d barely know what I’m doing or where I’m expected on any given day if it weren’t for that trusty agenda on my various screens and devices.



And yet, for as powerful as they can be, no one has taken all the new high-tech toys at our disposal these days and truly wowed us—with a calendar tool so cool, so cutting-edge, so flippin’  useful  that it completely changes how we interact with that info.



Until now.



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A whole new way to interact with your calendar



No exaggeration: This week’s Cool Tool is something I’ve been thinking about and hoping to see show up for  ages . And at long last, someone has made it happen.



➜ It’s a natural-language, chat-like interface for managing and interacting with your calendar. And it brings some  really  clever and hassle-saving concepts into the mix.



⌚ The tool is called  Dola , and it’ll take you about  two minutes  to set up and start using.




Dola integrates with your choice of four standard messaging platforms: WhatsApp, Telegram, Line, and Apple Messages (a.k.a. iMessage).



If you aren’t already using one of those services, you can start a free account purely for this purpose in a matter of seconds. That’s what I did, with Telegram.



Then, once you add Dola into the service and connect it to your calendar, you can simply chat with it to do all sorts of interesting stuff…




☑️ You can add an event into your calendar simply by telling Dola what you want in plain English—with as much or as little detail as you need.



A few quick words to Dola is all it takes to interact with your calendar.



❎ You can cancel or move an existing event in the same way, with virtually zero effort—and with Dola automatically remembering and being able to reference anything you’ve told it before.



Dola can move or cancel events for you with full context of your past interactions.