WHAT IF…
Whatsapp had a calendar
You are on your family Whatsapp group planning with your loved ones the next time you would connect for a zoom video call. No one is interested in a particular set timing anymore and the discussion goes on for an hour on when to connect. You realise your grandfather prefers the morning time at 8 am IST because that’s when he would be awake but your uncle who is in the US prefers 9 pm IST and your cousins who would rather play PUBG would prefer late nights because that’s when they would be free for family. And finally a time and date are decided to connect two days after the discussion at 9.30 PM but unfortunately everyone forgets on the day of the meet because there was no reminder for the event.
This is a common occurrence you could say in every household or professional area because everybody is just too lazy to schedule a reminder on a calendar after that hour long discussion or the fact that your grandfather doesn’t know how to use google calendar. A common occurrence it might be but one that can be solved by the most uncommon feature on Whatsapp. A feature that could revolutionize this unwarranted experience would be an inbuilt calendar feature on Whatsapp itself. Now imagine the above scenario wherein after that hour long discussion, you could just scroll right after the calls page and schedule an event for all your group members to see.
This is exactly what a calendar feature on Whatsapp would do, ease the tension of switching to another app to schedule a reminder. The job to be done of the calendar feature on Whatsapp is typically something along the lines of “ A date and time are decided on a Whatsapp group where everybody weighs in and I can immediately create an event for everyone to see.”
This real time instant calendar feature is distinguished by its real time scheduling of events and equipped to ease the number of clicks to create a simple event/remainder.In that spirit, this tutorial below of the calendar feature would no doubt outline the main ways you can equip yourself to create a calendar invite on a Chat app without disturbing the original interface.
Follow the link to view my take on a calendar feature enabled on Whatsapp: