Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Open Thread: Doodle & your favorite simple web tools
43 Folders: "I’m always thrilled when colleagues send a meeting invite in the form of a Doodle email; it requires zero fiddling on my part and pleasantly skirts the need for the endless email threads that most people rely on to get a group of people extant in one time-space unit."
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Let me know how that goes for you next time you try to schedule something with actors.
This sounds like a great tool for SM’s and PM’s. Trying to schedule a meeting among three people during HOBL was crazy, this program would help a lot, and in our field the 24 hour time system would be great, because a meeting could take place at 1 AM or PM, 24 hour time simplifies it.
Very cool. I like the concepts of being able to see what the other people in your group are up to. I use Google Calendar for keeping track of things for myself and my husband, and we can send invitations with that where people respond. It is more of a full calendar program, but for purposes of group scheduling this is great.
Also, the link to "The Simplest Thing You can Do" provides a great article that is great for really keeping things in perspective. Similar to the article from 43 that discusses action/decision, this is a good reminder that the solution to a problem does not have to be complex. Sometimes easy is better. Especially when you are dealing with other people and sharing the idea.
all these scheduling tools are great and make life easier. but the problem is you have to make sure everyone is using it or in the case where their are different types that everyone is using the same program.
There is something really fantastic about a simple program. At the same time, it is really nice to have super-comprehensive sparkly programs to that do the most amazing stuff including but not limited to updating automatically, referencing other things and synchronizing (soon to come: cleaning your house too). This program seems like it would be ideal for dealing with people that don't have an oracle calendar or who are just not computer savvy. I'm not 100% sure how it works, but I'm going to have to fiddle with it now to find out. We could use more tools for doing simple mundane tasks. Life is complicated enough.
- Jen Owen
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