Arrange Meetings with Diarised
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
Diarised is a web-based tool for groups of people to arrange the best time for a meeting. It looks fantastic.
1. Enter the details of your proposed meeting into Diarised, including the meeting invitees and the possible times and dates for the meeting.
2. Diarised sends out emails to all invitees.
3. The invitees choose the times that suit them best.
4. Once the invitees have chosen their preferred meeting dates, Diarised will give you a summary of the best dates for you to choose from.
5. All meeting invitees will be sent an email confirming the chosen date and time
(Source Daring Fireball Linked List.)
“Doodle” is another web-based tool to the same thing. It is easier to use if you have a fairly large group, because you handle the emailing from your own email system, without having to reenter names and addresses. Diarised looks prettier, and does things automatically, but seems less versatile. Doodle can be used to “poll” a group of people on any question, not only the time for a meeting. It is also multi-lingual:
http://www.doodle.ch/index.php.en
Thanks Conrad, it too looks great, simpler and maybe better (won’t know until I try).