That's how I work. I don't take bookings before the day because most of them cancel and this includes bookings through AW, so much so that I actually discourage them now.
I'll allow bookings the day before, but that's as early as it gets and everybody still has to confirm in the morning, even if I've known them ten years. I do let regulars book slightly further ahead if they're reliable, but not much.
I decided last week to ditch the AW email system altogether; since we can't disable the bloody messages I've changed my profile text and autoreply to tell them that all emails will be deleted unread and they need to text me or call (it already said something similar, but also that I'd reply to their email when I had time).
Since 99% of the emails result in sweet FA and the remaining 1% are not generally punters I would miss, I'm not doing any more unpaid admin and I plan to just go on once a week so and dump the lot. It's done my sanity the world of good
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