Conflicts before they are any
Overlaps it reports as they are entered — not the morning after. And when it proposes a time itself, it keeps the estimated drive before and after free.
OCTOVO reads and writes your calendar via Apple Calendar, Outlook, Google or CalDAV, finds free slots and keeps form of address, role and history for every contact. When it proposes times, it factors in an estimated travel time.
Calendar and contacts
Appointments that estimate how long you’ll drive
Create, move, estimate the drive in between. OCTOVO reads and writes the calendar you already use: Apple Calendar, Outlook/Microsoft 365, Google or CalDAV. No second calendar.
It creates appointments and moves them, spots overlaps before they become one, and proposes free times to others without you passing your calendar around.
Before it proposes a time, it estimates the drive in between — on your device, from a postal code table shipped with it, without an address ever leaving your device. An appointment at 9:30 with 25 estimated minutes of travel means, for it: the morning is taken from 9:05, not from 9:30. An estimate is not a route: it knows the straight line and a detour factor, no traffic jam and no roadworks — and OCTOVO says so every time. If it does not know the place, it does not calculate; it keeps the fixed buffer free and tells you why.
If it moves an appointment for you, it then stands in your calendar as “moved, unconfirmed” — until the other side has agreed. If someone declines, or the appointment has passed, it removes the mark again; two days ahead with no answer, it tells you.
One morning
Why 9:30 does not start at 9:30
The day runs from the overview through mail and appointments to the end of the day.
- 8:00 Office
- 9:05 estimated drive, 25 minutes
- 9:30 Appointment Bauer & Sons
- 11:00 free — this is where it proposes
Proposals to others
It names three times that are genuinely free and holds them until they are accepted or declined.
Quiet hours hold
Evenings, weekends and holidays from your profile are off-limits for proposals unless you say otherwise.
Contacts
An appointment is an appointment with someone
Address, role, history — as readable sentences.
Each card says who’s on first-name terms with whom.
Everything here comes from your own mail and your corrections. It lives on your device, and you can change or delete every line.
- Form of address
- Formal or first-name with this person? It’s on the card, followed in every draft, and you can override it.
- Role
- Customer since March, supplier, accountant, public office. From that follows how formally it writes.
- History
- When what was discussed and what stayed open — read from your own mail, not from someone else’s database.
- Right of way
- Whoever should always get through rings even when you have quiet hours on.
- Duplicates
- Two cards for the same person it spots and proposes merging — merged only after your yes.
Limits
What it doesn’t decide alone in the calendar
The connection clicks into the mailbox.
Connect
Connecting happens through your own account: Microsoft 365 and Google with one click, Apple Calendar and CalDAV through the device. OCTOVO creates no second account and no address book of its own.
Confirm
Confirmations to known contacts it sends itself from “Balanced” up. The first message to a new contact always comes to you first — even on autopilot.
Delete
It cannot delete appointments for good without you. Cancelled appointments stay visible, so you know what fell through and why.
How that becomes an email How it knows who you’re formal with