Available for Chrome

Coordinating a meeting request especially when it comes to an overstacked schedule can be somewhat tricky even if things were to be done face-to-face.

Things can be even more challenging when it comes to doing so over the email since, at times, it can be so frustrating and time-consuming to switch between your email tab and the calendar one.

Thankfully, there's now an easier way - and it's called Available for Chrome. In short, Available is a Chrome extension (version for Firefox, Opera, Brave, and Safari in the works) that allows you to share your Google Calendar availability directly to your Gmail.

If it sounds a bit vague, here's a more detailed explanation: it helps you select specific timeslots from your Google Calendar and insert them with one click right in Gmail's email compose window.

For some, the best part will definitely be the fact that your calendar events will be inserted into your emails as plain text - which means less writing, less switching between tabs, more time saved. You can select anywhere from 15 min, 30 min, 45 min to 1-hour slots from your Google Calendar entries.

Available for Chrome is a prime example of how simplicity is almost always the right answer. It's not exactly a complicated extension, and some might even be reluctant to give it a shot because it might seem "gimmicky," but the truth is that it totally deserves your attention because it works really well.

Sure, it's simple now, but the developer behind the extension has big plans for future releases which include support for multiple calendars, click and drag to select available time slots, multi-browser support, and timezone output selection, just to name a few.