Overview
Creating a meeting is about picking which kind of availability grid you need and giving it a title. Everything else — who joins, when they respond — happens after the meeting is created.
The types below are in the same order they appear in the app’s new-meeting form. Each one has 2-3 ready-made examples — clicking one instantly creates that meeting (if you don’t have an account yet, one is created anonymously, with no name required).
Meeting types
Time of day
Finds a time window on one specific day. Example: a group of friends helping someone move needs to settle on what time to start this particular Saturday — everyone marks the hours they’re free that day.
Time of week
Like days of the week, but split into time windows within each day, so you can pin down not just the day but the hour too. Example: scheduling a recurring 1
that happens “most weeks” — participants mark the time windows that generally work for them in a typical week.Days of the week
Finds which days of the week generally work — no specific hour, no real dates. Example: a team wants to settle on which two weekdays to reserve for a recurring standup — everyone marks the days that usually work for them, and the days with the most overlapping picks win.
Day of month
Finds which day of one specific month works, useful for a one-off event not tied to a particular week. Example: picking a day in March for a quarterly all-hands, where any day of the month is on the table as long as enough people are free.
Day of year
Finds which day of the whole year works, useful for a recurring yearly event on the same day each year, not tied to one particular month. Example: picking which numbered day of the year best fits an annual family reunion or a recurring birthday.
Custom dates
Pick any set of real calendar days yourself instead of a whole week or month — either a continuous range (e.g. August 17 to September 10) or a handful of unrelated days (e.g. August 5, 6, 7, 10, and 20). Decide whether participants mark whole days only, or also pick time windows within each date. Example: a multi-city trip where only certain specific days work for a shared group dinner.
General vs. specific
Every type (except Custom dates, which is always specific) comes in a “general” or “specific” variant. General meetings ask about a recurring pattern (“Mondays generally work for me”) with no tie to a real calendar date. Specific meetings are tied to a real week, month, or day — which is also what unlocks calendar (.ics) import, since only real dates can be matched against events in your calendar.
Timezone handling
Turn this on when participants are spread across different timezones and the meeting should show each person their own local time on the grid, instead of one shared timezone for everyone.
Describe it instead of filling it in
Instead of picking each option by hand, you can describe the event in plain language and Meetingrid will fill in the type, title, and settings — or dictate that description instead of typing it. See AI prompting.
What’s next
Once the meeting exists, the next step is filling in your own availability — see Marking availability.