Version 1.1
Review – “Easy Conference Call Scheduler and Organizer”
App developer: Showbox Apps Inc
Website: http://shoeboxapps.com/
Shoebox Apps has put together a simple and useful little tool to schedule, and organize all the conference calls you may need to make. I must-have for the person who’s constantly needing to schedule and remember daily, weekly or hourly conference calls. When you’re overwhelmed, or really like to stay organized, Join The Call helps.
Join The Call is a simple tool – while it seemingly only does one thing, schedules and maintains a record of upcoming and past Conference Calls, this is an incredibly useful tool for people who need it. It does it well, and without being complicated or difficult.
It’s designed to look like all other native Apps on the iPhone which makes it feel like a built-in feature of your phone. You start by creating a new event, either Scheduled (upcoming), Favorites or General. Go ahead and add all of the information you want, for Scheduled Title, Date, Time, Duration and Phone # are all required, but for Favorites and General Conference Calls you need only the Title and Phone number. There is of course, also a space to enter in the passcode for the call too.
One of the unique features of Join The Call is that when you are creating an event you have the option to add a screenshot (or, for that matter, any photo from your iPhone) to the event. While it won’t import the information you need automatically, this could be very helpful for when you are entering the details of an upcoming call, instead of having to writ it down or continue to go back to the email while creating the event, you can simply Load a screenshot and all the information is right there, whenever you bring up a field in the event. I do not think that this is something you’ll realize is so helpful until the first time you use it. I think the developers were very smart to include this option.
Once you have your event(s) loaded you can easily find them under “Scheduled” or “Favorites” from the main-page menu, or under “General” in the Setting section. Actually, the easiest and most efficient way is by going to the Search section of the main menu page, as all of your events are listed there, and are easily found if you want to search for the title with text. There is also a History Section from the main menu page in case you want to look up a past event to reschedule, quickly.
Sharing your scheduled events is super easy. Tap on your event and you are given several options, obviously the first one is to Call the Number (to be used obviously when you want to connect to your Conference Call), otherwise you have two options to share the info: Email, or Text Message (wherein the App copies all the details to your Clipboard and bring up your Contact list to select the recipient for a text – close enough to in-app texting, I suppose).
If there was one feature I’d hope for in future updates it would be an option to set an alarm to notify you (at the determined interval you request, 5min, 10min, what have you) of upcoming events, or the option to export your events to the Calendar App. However, for a simple App, it really does get the job done – and if you have several calls a week, you should definitely pick this up.
~ChantelleJoy
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