The assistant you would hire, running in your inbox
Scheduling, booking, fielding the same questions, chasing replies, and keeping the noise off your desk. These are the jobs you would hand a personal assistant. this+that does them across every channel you already use, off your real calendar and your own answers.
You are doing assistant work you never agreed to
Half a dozen emails go back and forth to find a 30 minute slot. Someone asks what you charge, and you write the same paragraph you have written forty times. A reply you were waiting on never comes, and you only notice a week later when it matters.
None of this is hard. It is just constant, and it lands on you because there is no one else to hand it to. So it gets done late, or in the gaps between real work, or not at all.
A good personal assistant would absorb all of it: book the meeting, answer the routine question from what they know, remind you of the thing, and keep the rest off your desk until it actually needs you. Most people cannot justify hiring one for it.
Connect your inbox and calendar, and this+that takes the assistant work
Scheduling and booking, off your real calendar
this+that proposes times that actually work, sends the invite, RSVPs, and reschedules when plans move. Share a public booking page and people pick a slot themselves through a live booking widget.
Drafted answers to the questions you keep getting
When someone asks what you charge, whether you offer something, or if you are available, a workflow drafts a reply grounded in your pricing sheet, capabilities list, or FAQ held in the brain, then drops it in your queue to approve.
Reminders and the follow-ups nobody chases
Waiting on a reply that has gone quiet? this+that nudges them and flags it for you. Need a reminder before a deadline or a call? You get one.
Screening so the noise stays off your desk
Inbound gets triaged, so the routine stuff is handled or queued and only what genuinely needs your attention surfaces. Everything else waits where you can find it later.
Assistant workflows that run on their own
These are the kinds of workflows you can describe in plain English and have running in minutes. Replies are drafted for your approval by default, never auto-sent.
A booking link schedules. An assistant handles the rest
Scheduling tools give people a link to grab a time, and that is genuinely useful. But the meeting is one job out of several. The harder part is the inbound that needs an answer, the reply that never came, and the steady stream of routine messages that all expect you personally. this+that runs the whole loop: it books off your real calendar, drafts the answers from your own pricing sheet and FAQ so they sound like you, chases what stalls, and keeps the noise screened. The answers come from knowledge pages you write and version yourself, so you stay in control of what gets said. Replies wait in your queue for a yes before they go out.
Stop being your own assistant. Hand it the work.
Connect your inbox and calendar and see what this+that would schedule, answer, and screen based on your actual messages.