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Open Thread: Doodle & your favorite simple web tools
Merlin Mann | Oct 13 2006
This has been mentioned here before (just in comments, I think), but I have to repeat: I can't say enough good things about Doodle. It takes the idiotically over-complicated problem of figuring out when all of n people are available to do something, and in the simplest way conceivable, polls all the participants to find the optimal time and date. 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. I'm risking the indignity of a double-post on an "old" link for a good reason: with all the foam and fuss over "Web 2.0," and the ever higher (Ever! Higher!) technology we shovel to solve stupid human problems, it's refreshing to see adoption of a tool that ends up being no more complicated than a white board with electrical-tape columns. I wish stuff like Doodle would inspire more developers to start with the Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work. No Arial Rounded, no whizzy AJAX, and no angel-round-attracting gradients. Just a modest solution to a single dumb problem. That is a life hack, defined. What's your favorite idiotically simple web tool right now? 32 Comments
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Yeah... that site will NOT...Submitted by e (not verified) on October 13, 2006 - 2:08pm.
Yeah... that site will NOT work for me. While entering dates at the create stage, it just won't finish loading after I hit any date... I can click another date, but now that I've got all my dates entered the page is just sitting there spinning, and noooottthhhiinnng is working. Gay. I like... um... i don't think I like any simple webapps, I'm feature obsessed... Ah! http://cl1p.com/ <-- THAT is a useful simple website. Lets you just... clip stuff to it! So you can access it anywhere. Sort of like http://pastie.caboo.se/ but for normal stuff and really small files instead of code, and it uses named pages instead of random numbers. » POSTED IN:
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