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Emailing a text-based meeting scheduler
Merlin Mann | Nov 29 2005
ButtUgly: Main_blogentry_231105_1 [The Iteration List] A very clever and satisfyingly lo-fi way to find the best date for an event based on several people's schedules. By passing around emails with an ASCII, monotype text representation of the possible dates and times, each person uses a symbol to indicate their preference and availability. Very clever stuff.
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I have a similar tool...Submitted by Tim Yao (not verified) on November 29, 2005 - 2:00pm.
I have a similar tool I created back in 1999 but with a CGI interface (easier to manipulate the columns and people can respond asynchronously). See http://thinking.teiru.net/sched I had ideas for improving the interface (allowing the table to be rotated so that the people are listed in rows rather than in columns, only displaying each user's entries while they are editing them, allowing users to add new date/time possibilities, creating a GUI for setting up new scheduler instances, etc) but never got around to implementing them. The existing tool is available under the terms of the GPL if anyone wants to play with it. » POSTED IN:
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