How to use Tungle

I’m a big fan of Tungle, a meeting site that makes scheduling meetings easier and has kept me from having to play email ping-pong with people to set up interviews for stories I’m working on.

I give my Tungle address to almost everyone I need to schedule an interview with, but lately a few too many people have had difficulty understanding how it works, so I thought I’d offer a quick intro to it. The video above should help, and the company’s website has a lot of great info on how it works.

The main way it saves me time (and time is money as a freelancer) is in setting up meetings without having to go back and forth (and back and forth multiple times) via email or phone calls to find a time that works best. Tungle also works on whatever timezone your computer is in, so if you’re in New York and pick noon, my calendar at my end will say 9 a.m. because I’m on the West Coast. But you won’t know that; you’ll only see your timezone.

I think the site is self-explanatory, but here are the basics:

If you go to my Tungle page or someone elses’s, a calendar will appear where you only have to pick a few dates and times to propose a meeting. You then hit “submit” with the option of including a note to give a phone number to call or other details, and an email is sent to the person you want to meet with.

I’ll then pick one of those times, and you’ll get a confirmation email of the meeting. It syncs with my Google calendar, and can sync with other calendars. You don’t have to join Tungle to set up meetings with me, or give any personal information to the website. Just set up a meeting and go. It shouldn’t take more than a minute to do.

That’s it. Simple and very easy. Try it and let me know what you think.