Can I synchronize with my personal information manager or other electronic diary (including Web-based calendars)?
This is currently under investigation, but the overwhelming evidence from our empirical studies is that people prefer to ‘do their own thing’ rather than leave auto-synchronization in the hands of a software tool. Auto-synchronization and constraint checking is a nice idea on paper, but does not accord with psychological reality. The fundamental problem is that a software tool can never know that I would abandon very-very-important-meeting-X in favour of just-announced-and-even-more-very-very-very-important-meeting-Y, no matter how many levels of flags and options I include in my calendaring software. That is a personal decision, and is the key intuition that makes Meet-O-Matic so simple to use. Meet-O-Matic leaves the date choices personal, and puts its effort into a nice display of the people-vs-dates constraint table (and helps you manage that). If your organization has successfully deployed group synchronization tools and you can arrange meetings using it, then your particular work
