Calendars and scheduling

Google Calendar

Text the people on an event before it starts.

What you can do

Text the person you’re meeting before an event starts, when their number is on the event.
Text yourself a heads-up before each meeting.

Recommended
Zapier
BlueBot’s Zapier app has a Send Text action and instant triggers for incoming texts and every change of state.
Zapier in the docs
Make
BlueBot’s Make app sends texts and starts scenarios when a text comes in or changes state.
Make in the docs

Recipes

Set one up as written, or change it to fit how you work. The docs have the same recipes step by step.

01With Zapier

Starts when

Google Calendar’s Event Start trigger in Zapier set to an hour before

Put the client’s mobile number in each event’s description.
Start a Zap with Google Calendar’s Event Start trigger set to an hour before.
Pull the number out of the description with Formatter by Zapier’s Extract Phone Number.
Add BlueBot’s Send Text action and map that number to To.

The text it sends

Hi, see you in an hour at {{location}}. Reply here if you’re running late.

From your own number

02With Make

Starts when

A scenario that runs every 15 minutes

The text it sends

Next up: {{event_title}} at {{location}}.

From your own number

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