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Create Meeting or Appointment

Instructions on how to create a meeting or appointment. But first let's explain the difference between these two.

Meeting
 - Purpose: A meeting is a calendar event that involves inviting other people.
 - Participants: You invite one or more attendees.
 - Use case: Scheduling collaborative events, such as team meetings, client calls, or multi-person discussions.
 - Calendar behavior: Marks your calendar as busy or otherwise, and tracks attendee responses.
 - Invitations: Sends meeting requests to attendees, who can accept, decline, or propose new times.
 - Additional features: May include meeting location, online meeting links (e.g., Teams, Skype), agenda, and attachments.

Appointment
 - Purpose: An appointment is a calendar event that involves only you.
 - Participants: No other attendees are invited.
 - Use case: Scheduling personal time blocks, such as a dentist appointment, a focused work session, or a reminder.
 - Calendar behavior: Marks your own calendar as busy, free, tentative, or out of office.
 - Notifications: You receive notifications/reminders for the appointment.
 - No invitations: Since no one else is involved, no invitations or responses are sent.

Summary

Feature Appointment Meeting
Attendees Only you You + others
Invitations sent No Yes
Calendar status Busy, Free, etc. Busy, Free, Tentative, etc.
Responses tracking Not applicable Yes
Use case example Doctor visit, personal time Team meeting, client call