Find Free Dates With An Iteration List
Trying to organize a day where everyone is available? A work meeting or drinks with your enormous entourage; it can be difficult to find that one day when we’re all free. In comes the Iteration List.
This is a very simple, bare-bones, text-based calendar that allows each person to edit in their free and not-free days. Forward this one through everyone’s emails and you’ll have that special day set in a few hours.
From this table, it’s easy to see what would be suitable dates for everyone (marked with “*”). The initiator of the sequence suggets Thursday 8th, and everyone agrees. And while they were at it, they agreed on holding the 15th as “tentative”, so that they get to continue the game if it’s not finished in time. One of the advantages of this calendar is of course that you can immediately see who might not make it – and while everyone is equal, missing someone might not be.
The Iteration List – [TheButtUglyWeblog]
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Michael Langford says on July 30th, 2007 at 10:07 am
Doesn’t work.
Not enough people have plain text email that they read in a fixed width font anymore. I’ve tried this method several times a year and a half ago
However, the free service at http://www.doodle.ch is *great* for this exact same thing.
–Michael
Lorie Marrero says on July 31st, 2007 at 11:16 am
This is very interesting… I also really like this tool I found at http://www.meetingwizard.com. It works very well!
- Lorie Marrero, http://www.clutterdiet.com
Thomas says on July 31st, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Here’s another such tool, called Doodle:
http://www.doodle.ch/
Don’t know which is better, have used neither.
Daniel Kim says on August 1st, 2007 at 3:45 am
A similar service can be found at http://www.timetomeet.info.
My problem is that so many people I work with seem to be allergic to following a link that’s sent to them by email, even when I write things in the message text that make it clear that the message is trustworthy and relevant. In the end, I find myself playing phone tag to get meeting times scheduled.
Ryan Krahn says on October 2nd, 2007 at 2:13 am
Was I the only person who thought this was going to be about meeting women?