Brenna Donoghue

Morgen Assist - Your workflows, automated your way

Morgen Assist is like a smart calendar configured by you, that works with your stack, and ultimately, automates your time your way. Select from ready-built workflows, customize them with code, or build your own with Morgen's APIs.

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David Tedaldi
👋 Hey Product Hunters, David here, CEO at Morgen! I'm thrilled to introduce Morgen Assist - a whole new way to automate your schedule, meetings, projects, and more. This community has shown us how unique each team’s workflows are and how, as teams expand and become full-time, they need to adapt. That’s why Morgen Assist is not a “smart” calendar that decides how your time should be prioritized and allocated. 👉 Morgen Assist is the first automation platform of its kind. Let Morgen Assist flex you with:
  • 🛠️ Ready-Built Workflows, like scheduling travel time or optimizing your team’s schedule for max-maker time
  • 🤓 Nerd Mode, so you can alter ready-built workflow by editing the code to meet your needs
  • 🫵🏽 Custom Workflows built by you using our powerful and expressive SDK, APIs from your other tools, and run on Morgen Assist 👉 So what have people built so far? The possibilities for custom workflows are endless. Here are some neat community-built custom workflows we’ve seen so far:
  • 💤 Lara’s custom workflow runs daily at 4 a.m. and fetches her schedule. It then sets her ⏰ Alexa alarm based on the time of her first meeting.
  • ✅ Federico has all incomplete tasks automatically rescheduled for the following day
  • 🔔 every time a new version is pushed to production the PM in Borg’s team gets an automatic reminder in his calendars 3 days after the CD pipeline is run to make sure new metrics are checked With Morgen Assist, your calendar can help you get more done, be on top of your key priorities, and spend less time managing your time. And as your team, stack, and commitments change, Morgen Assist will adapt with you. Exclusive Offer for PH Users: To celebrate our launch, we're offering any team who signs up to Pro a one-hour support call with our developers to create their first custom workflow. 🌟 We're eager to hear your thoughts! Please comment below with your feedback, questions, or suggestions. Your insights will be invaluable as we continue to evolve Morgen Assist to serve you better.
  • Gaetano Zanon
    @david_tedaldi1 and Morgen team: congrats in reaching this amazing milestone - keep up the good work!
    Gadir
    @david_tedaldi1 Thanks for the detailed video with explanations. Your product looks very useful. Good luck with your launch!
    Marco Ancona
    Hi PH 👋, Marco here, CTO at Morgen. With many automation platforms out there, what makes Morgen Assist unique? Here are our 3 USPs: 1️⃣ Specifically designed to manage time. Handling time programmatically is complex. Time zones, recurring events, read-only invites, multiple attendees and multiple calendars, fragmented (and often outdated) APIs, etc. Morgen Assist is the first automation platform specifically designed to manage time, providing high-level APIs that simplify complex operations. 2️⃣ Fully customizable. Made by developers for developers, Morgen Assist has been designed to be fully customizable, down to code level. You can even build custom automation from scratch and share them with the community. 3️⃣ Fully integrated with the Morgen Calendar. We built out background automation and front-end apps to work seamlessly together. You can automate your time in Morgen Assist while keeping your calendar view clean and tidy in Morgen. Morgen Assist currently works with Google Calendar, Outlook, and Slack but we haven’t forgotten our mission to bring the best tools to manage time to everyone. iCloud and CalDAV users, get ready to enjoy the most powerful time automation platform on the market soon! In addition to building your own custom workflow, we also have ready-built workflows you can set up and deploy in minutes, including: - Sync calendars, even across different calendar providers - Automatically schedule travel time to get to your next event - Optimize your team’s schedule to maximize maker time - Add buffer time between meetings - Improve meeting effectiveness with our GPT-powered agenda assistant - Connect your other tools to your calendar via the Morgen APIs What should we automate next? Throw us some ideas below.
    Gregorio Zanon
    @marco_ancona2 Amazing to see Morgen adding so much to its belt! Morgen calendar has been my go to calendar and todo app for over a year now. Looking forward to try out Assist!
    Luigi Pederzani
    Maker
    Launching soon!
    📌
    Hey Product Huntersss! 🕒 Meeting. 👨‍💻Work. 🕒 Meeting. 👨‍💻Work. 🕒 Meeting. 🕒 Meeting. Does this sound like a familiar workday? It's the common cycle we all fall into... Just as you're diving deep into a task, another meeting pulls you away. The result? Longer hours, just to catch up. 😩 There should be a better solution! We think so too: That's why we developed Morgen Assist: Focus Optimizer! 🚀 ✅ We rearrange your calendar and your team's to group meetings efficiently. ✅ This leaves you with uninterrupted blocks of focus time. ✅ You get more done with stretches of deep work, without the extra hours. Here you can see how it works:
    Let Morgen optimize your team meetings so you and your colleagues have more time to get work done instead of scrambling from one thing to another. Go try it out!
    Brenna Donoghue
    @pederzh few things are as satisfying as seeing focus in action.
    Olive Haus
    I’m very curious to see how in-depth Nerd Mode can go, especially with Airtable calendars. I have a million of them and would love to have them all in one place! Having that level of customizability in a calendar is a really neat idea. Plus your branding is 💯
    David Tedaldi
    Thanks @olive_haus! I can't wait to see how you are adapting what we built to your needs! If you need any support don't hesitate to reach out, we are actually jumping on tens of calls with developers to discuss both how to implement new workflows and how to improve the platform as a whole!
    Brenna Donoghue
    @olive_haus oooooh we should chat. I had a call with a team the other day who has big visions for creating custom workflows leveraging Airtable, and I think the possibilities are rich! If you're ever game to connect, we'd love it!
    Jonas Haefele
    Really excited for Morgen Assist. I think it was called TimeTo a little while ago? Either way, the promise of Assist is amazing. That said, Morgen in general has become a bit less useful over the last few months, as the team seems to be spread a little thin across the many many projects. Morgen started as the only Calendar app that supports different kinds of calendars and integrates them into a seamless experience. A few months ago they introduced a partnership with @fastmail1 which I was personally super excited about. Sadly that integration is buggy to this date. Now with Assist, we get only Google and Outlook calendars, all the other ones were dropped "for now". I thought Morgen had a calendar abstraction layer that would make it easy to build new features across all platforms. It would be a shame if Morgen becomes another "GSuite only" app. As someone who's been paying for Morgen Pro since pretty much day 1, I really need to see the platform to get more stable before any new fun or buzzword-y features are added. Sync on all platforms often hangs indefinitely, the mobile app doesn't properly cache calendars and has to re-fetch them every time you start the app, CalDav and Fastmail integrations are buggy and lots of the planned features on the roadmap board have been siting there waiting for a 2023 Q2/Q3 release indefinitely. Like linking the booking links to payment workflows with Stripe/PayPal/LemonSqueezy which has a huge amount of upvotes and has been "coming soon" for months now. https://www.morgen.so/roadmap I hope Assist has secretly been a project to get the calendar abstraction layer more solid and the delay of CalDAV/Fastmail/non-Google calendars is because the team is spending extra time fixing things that will improve the whole platform. Would appreciate an update on the roadmap with focus on things like: - when do you plan to close the main bugs and problems with existing features in Morgen? - are you still committed to the features that have been upvoted, and scheduled in the product board? - are you planning to become a Google/Outlook only platform? Or stay a multi-platform app? - If you are planning to stay a multi-platform app, what's the rollout-schedule for new features going to be like? Is it going to be GSuite first, everything else "eventually"/months later? Or was that a hiccup with Assist? Again, Morgen has everything it needs to become the most useful calendar platform ever. Still super excited, but a little worried it'll become a little bit of everything without doing anything really really well.
    Marco Ancona
    Hi @jonashaefele, thanks so much for taking the time to share this depth of feedback. I understand your concern, so let me explain what has kept the dev team busy in the last few months. Yes, this was once called TimeTo, and now that we've moved it out of alpha we've changed the name. Your feeling that we've been stretched thin is frankly... accurate. Morgen Assist has been a big lift. On the other hand, as part of it, we invested a lot of time in some major refactoring of our backend that will now make it much easier to keep improving speed, stability, and adding new features. This work of refactoring and tackling technical debt is not yet completed, but we are getting there. We are now in a good place to revisit the roadmap and the feature requests, and map out what is coming up and what isn't. We are definitely not becoming another GSuite-only tool 🙅‍♂️ Supporting all calendars has always been our focus and will stay our focus. Specifically on Assist and CalDAV, and why CalDAV is not yet supported: most of our automation requires us to act fast when something happens on the calendar. Google and Outlook allow us to be notified when something changes on the calendars, but most CalDAV providers do not implement a standard for real-time change notifications, so we have to find a different solution. In fact, we are in close contact with Fastmail and they are developing a real-time notification feature for us to support their calendar on Assist. I cannot make promises in terms of timeline, but rest assured that Morgen will be the most powerful calendar tool that works across providers.
    Sarag Hovsepian
    Morgen is one of the best products that I have used in my workflow! It is absolutely amazing for time blocking, combining calendars and just organizing my life!! My favorite subscription by far. Love love love it!
    Brenna Donoghue
    Thanks so much @saragh27, this absolutely makes my day. Have you tried the new workflow automations yet?
    Alejandro Carrera Santos
    It's one of the best productivity apps I tried in a long time. All the integrations and the addition of Morgen Assist are what make Morgen so great 😃. Keep up the hard work team!
    Brenna Donoghue
    Wow, thanks @acarrera. That's high praise and we appreciate it so much.
    Steven Birchall
    Congratulations on the launch team. Product looks really interesting, will definitely be checking it out!
    David Tedaldi
    @stevenbirchall can't wait to see how you'll streamline your workflows with Morgen Assist!
    Brenna Donoghue
    Thanks Steven! Really looking forward to hearing your feedback on the experience.
    Hiro - Atsuhiro Teshima
    @david_tedaldi1 @brenna_donoghue Congrats on the launch Morgen team! I signed up, and the plugin-based calendar management looks very new and flexible. Also, the feature adjusting the meeting time automatically sounds like magic, Great job. I will take more time to explore.
    Brenna Donoghue
    Thank you @atsuhiro_teshima! I'm really excited to hear your feedback.
    Olivier Laplace
    Amazing vision of empowering users to automate their time management. Looking forward to see the best ideas the community can come up with! the first examples of propagation, time blockers etc are really cool.
    James Chang-Davidson
    Best platform to customize and automate your productivity workflows!
    Brenna Donoghue
    Thanks @jamescd18! Have a favourite workflow so far?
    James Chang-Davidson
    @brenna_donoghue custom workflows! I love tinkering and building my own. I have one that summarizes my tasks each day.
    Brenna Donoghue
    Oh very cool @jamescd18! You might find this workflow Luke developed neat then, combining Morgen Assist, Slack and OpenAI to get a daily summary DMed every morning. https://dev.to/luke/morgen-assis...
    August Bradley
    Morgen is already my favorite calendar app, and this takes it to the next level! Such an innovative product and team. Congrats on the launch, excited about this!
    Brenna Donoghue
    Thank you @augustbradley. So excited to chat about the potential of building workflows with Notion here!
    Patrik Kruntorád
    Congratulations on the launch! Morgen looks absolutely amazing!
    Brenna Donoghue
    Thanks so much @patrick_kruntorad.
    Brenna Donoghue
    Thank you @olenabomko!
    Abhishek Vijayakumar
    Congrats on the launch. Any plans on adding a built-in Pomodoro timer?
    Brenna Donoghue
    @abhishek_vijayakumar this has been hotly discussed lately and definetly rising in the ranks of feature requests!
    Svyatoslav Dovbakh
    great task scheduler and life organizing thing, I love to using it.
    Brenna Donoghue
    @svyatoslav_dovbakh thanks so much!
    Glenn Stevens
    I love Morgen! Searched for ages to find a great calendar that was simple & elegant yet fully functional! Morgen is it! Thank you
    Brenna Donoghue
    @glenn_stevens1, we're so glad you found us! Thank you!
    Itai Handler
    Looks amazing. Can’t wait to see what people will cook up. 🎉🎉
    Brenna Donoghue
    Us too @itaih... the custom workflows have been so creative and interesting so far!
    Eugene Yarovoii
    The entire team wants to congratulate you on such a wonderful launch! Wishing your project tremendous success in the future. We have followed you on Twitter!
    Brenna Donoghue
    Thanks so much @eugeneyarovoii. Really appreciate that and hope the team is keen to try it. We're having co-creation sessions with new teams coming in create a first custom workflow. Would love to work together!
    Leon Ostrež
    This is amazing and it looks very slick! Congratulations on the launch
    Brenna Donoghue
    @leon_ostrez thank you! Hope you give it a go Leon.