In today’s world, it is common to have many friends, colleagues, and co workers living far away from us. Finding the right time to connect is hard, while falling out of touch is too easy. Introducing Orbit, a modern and mindful scheduling solution designed to help you keep your remote relationships closer.

Protect your Time: Orbit is not your average scheduler. Most schedulers are designed where anyone can book out times from your calendar as long as they have the scheduling link. On Orbit, only your friends on the app can propose times to chat with you, while you get to pick a time from the selection and confirm it before the call is officially scheduled. Users are also encouraged to add a short call description or theme to let the recipient know the general purpose of the call beforehand, so they can show up prepared.

Non-Interruptive Calling: Calls out of the blue can disturb your daily flow and lead to back/forth games of phone tag. Orbit can help you reduce out of the blue calls that give you less than 20 seconds to respond and turn your phone into a buzzing nuisance. Calls on Orbit can only be scheduled 5 minutes(at a minimum) into the future so even when someone wants to talk to you soon and you are free- you have enough breathing room to do things like find a better place to take the call before it starts.

Seamless Scheduling: Orbit automatically converts time zone differences and syncs calls to your local calendar so you can keep everything in one place(Google Calendar integration coming soon). Orbit also sends out call reminders ahead of time so that you and your colleagues don’t forget to make it!

Talk more, Text Less
Catching up over text or email lacks all the cues we have evolved to best respond to like the tone of the human voice. Research consistently shows that speaking over the phone is much more effective compared to text based formats. It’s time to talk more and text less!