Tempo Smart Calendar App Review - Your Free Personal Assistant
Tempo is a revolutionary smart calendar app that manages your busy day-to-day schedule, prepares you for your upcoming meetings and networking events, and has a warm dinner waiting for you on the table when you get home each night.Okay, it won’t actually make you dinner, but this productivity app (while not perfect) can be extremely helpful to today’s business owner, especially if you are just starting your business. Tempo is an iOS app that aggregates anything you may need for meetings or events by connecting your calendar to your email, location, documents and social profiles.Created by experts in search and artificial intelligence, this app utilizes technology similar to the iPhone’s Siri although, unlike Siri, Tempo actually works like a personal assistant.
How Can Entrepreneurs Benefit From This App
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Always Be On Time
- Get upcoming event location details, directions, drive time and parking recommendations directly from Tempo
- If you are late, Tempo will let you send attendees a pre-populated text or email “I’m running late, be there in ___ minutes”
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More Efficient Networking
- Get helpful information on event attendees with one-click access to their LinkedIn profile and stored contact information
- Easily pull up data such as past and current employment, contact details, business connections, education, etc.
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Be Prepared for Every Meeting
- This is one of Tempo’s greatest and worst features.
- With enough preparation, Tempo will also attach documents and emails associated with the meeting to the meeting event page
- However, unless you use a very specific naming syntax with your documents and email subject lines, most users find that Tempo struggles with this functionality. Tempo has provided some recommendations below:
- This is one of Tempo’s greatest and worst features.
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Get Flight Information and Status Updates
- No need to call the airline or scan the airport flight status boards again, Tempo will provide you with your flight information and update the flight status in real-time
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Simplify Conference Calls
- Log in to conference calls directly from your Tempo app in one click, so there is no need to find your passcode
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Find Meeting Locations in Unfamiliar Areas
- Instant access to Yelp Reviews and Foursquare to discover appropriate meeting places near your current location
- Sends the directions and recommended parking options to attendees right from the Tempo calendar dashboard
- This was also beneficial to franchise owners retail shops with multiple locations
- Owners prepared for their store manager reviews by accessing the Yelp Reviews and Foursquare page when they arrived to each location
Tempo App User Reviews
According to Tempo, the most used feature is the ability to review documents that are related to a particular event in your calendar. While this sounds like a helpful feature, it is still “very buggy” and often loads documents and emails not associated with the event. With enough planning and a determined naming syntax, issues with this can be avoided, but right now there is not a way to remove the extraneous files that Tempo has associated with the event.However, a quick look at Tempo’s Twitter Feed shows that Tempo is working hard to stay on top of the customer reviews and fix these issues Tweets by @tempoai