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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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I love GishPuppy--passionately. - disposable email...Submitted by Julia (not verified) on October 14, 2006 - 1:58am.
I love GishPuppy--passionately. - disposable email addresses (à la nameofsite.abc@gishpuppy.com) - each disposable address can forward to a different "real" address - contextual "Gish It!" menu item in Firefox (and IE, but really... ick) pops up a window to automatically create an address for the site you're on or, if you've already created one (or more), gives you the address(es) you previously associated with a site. Fields: target email, keyword (will become the first part of the email address), description (handy note box), expiration (radio buttons ranging from "1 week" to "never"), and domain. ::swoon:: Suddenly I can keep track of my insane number of site registrations (not including 43Folders, because Merlin is mean and I don't want to spend a night in the box) and cut down on the spam I receive in the process. » POSTED IN:
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