When Is Good: Scheduling A Meeting The Easy Way

There are quite a few online tools to help you schedule a meeting with a lot of people. Say you’re working with a group of ten people on a multidisciplinary project and you want to schedule a meeting to talk about the design. You could send them all an email with the dates and hours you are available and ask them to tell you when they are available, compare all replies and try to find the best moment for everyone. Quite a task.

Luckily there are tools like Doodle and Meet-O-Matic that can help you with this. You tell them your availability and they will compare it with all the other invitees. I like simplicity though. Especially when it comes to simple tasks like scheduling a meeting. There’s actually only one thing you want to know: when is good?

That is exactly what the makers of When Is Good must have thought. Read more

Close All Those Browser Tabs!

How many browser tabs do you have open right now? Be honest. Are you going to have a look at all those websites today or will you keep the tabs open until you find some time to review them, maybe later this week?

Every morning I open my RSS reader (NewsFire in my case) and the feeds come pouring in. Great! Fresh content! I start hitting my spacebar and scanning the headlines. But then there’s a voice inside my head warning me, “if you’re going to read all these articles, it will take you more than an hour, are you willing to spend so much time this morning just reading what other people have to say? Don’t you have to start working?”. It’s good to have this built in warning system, but then what am I going to do, because I already started hitting that spacebar and reading the news? Read more