Super-simple scheduling with Doodle
Rafe Needleman Former Editor at Large
Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business.
Doodle is a brilliantly simple polling system that helps people coordinate times when they can all meet. There's no fancy Web 2.0 code. Just a simple grid with red and green squares that looks exactly like the spreadsheet my poker buddies and I use to find days to play . The link to a poll is just sent via email; no sign-up is required.
Missing features? Yes, buckets of them: Time-zone coordination, Outlook synchronization, privacy, you name it. And although replying to a Doodle poll is clarity itself, the interface for the meeting organizer isn't very pretty. But I don't care, and if you use it you won't either, because it just works.
First spotted on 43 Folders.