Amitue is a (work in progress) platform to help you easily and automatically schedule meetings and events with other people. It eliminates negotiations around what time to meet, for anything from 1-1s to large groups.
By joining groups, you can also get paired up for coffee chats and mentorship opportunities with other users in those groups.
Using the app, enter any times you’d be available for a meeting. Optionally, you can include restrictions on what people and groups you want to meet with for a given availability. That’s it! You can now request meetings with other people via the reachout function, as well as participate in group meetings, coffee chats, and mentorship opportunities you’ve opted in to.
Unlike other scheduling tools, you only need to worry about your own schedule, and Amitue will do the rest.
Amitue works with your current calendar solution – no need to change anything. Instead, it is a layer on top of your current calendar, to help facilitate scheduling. Currently, you can use it to automatically schedule 1-1s, and if you’re part of groups, automatically get paired up for coffee chats and/or mentorship with other members in your group. And there’s lots of additional features planned for the near future!
Navigate to the calendar page, find the timeslot you want to mark as available, then hold and drag to select the interval. Don’t worry if it isn’t perfect – you can always edit your selected availabilities by tapping them and editing.
Right now, the simplest way to get quick responses is to send an email to vabresto at uwaterloo.ca, or use the built-in feedback feature in the app (the rightmost icon on the bottom bar).
I firmly believe that positive human interaction is a critical and necessary component of a happy, healthy lifestyle. Amitue aspires to be the platform that helps facilitate this interaction, and helps users get the best experience possible.
Amitue stems from the French word “ami” which means “friend” and the ending of “virtue”, so means something akin to “the virtue of friends/friendship”.
It also makes a great pun in the phrase “It has been a pleasure to Amitue (a-meet-you)”!
Unfortunately, Apple requires that users download Apple’s TestFlight app in order to use alpha/beta apps. There isn’t anything we can do on our end, but if this is a big deal for you, let us know and we’ll do our best to launch quicker!