I think doodle works when you’ve already failed to coordinate and clearly need to. (i.e. you proposed a time or two and it didn’t work).
I do feel a certain sense of exhaustion when someone sends me a doodle, or a youCanBookMe – I have to actually look through my calendar (and since there are some things coming up that aren’t on my calendar, I have to search my memory) for possible conflicts. Doodle actually asks everyone to do this too, so it’s moderately costly.
Sometimes you need it though, and it’s still much better than having to do it without the benefit of the doodle poll to coordinate everyone’s answers, for sure.
In one of my social groups ‘send out a Doodle’ has become a meme indicating that a committee has failed at organising itself/is never going to be productive, and the chairman of the committee (thankfully we always assign this role) has to take action right now and suggest a meeting time and place.
In my personal experience Doodle is useful but also one of those trivial inconveniences (reading an email, clicking a link, checking 10 suggested times against your calendar, waiting for another email telling you a timeslot has been chosen, putting the time into your agenda), which is a downside.
You might be right, but whenever I have a thought like this it turns out badly for me.
I think doodle works when you’ve already failed to coordinate and clearly need to. (i.e. you proposed a time or two and it didn’t work).
I do feel a certain sense of exhaustion when someone sends me a doodle, or a youCanBookMe – I have to actually look through my calendar (and since there are some things coming up that aren’t on my calendar, I have to search my memory) for possible conflicts. Doodle actually asks everyone to do this too, so it’s moderately costly.
Sometimes you need it though, and it’s still much better than having to do it without the benefit of the doodle poll to coordinate everyone’s answers, for sure.
In one of my social groups ‘send out a Doodle’ has become a meme indicating that a committee has failed at organising itself/is never going to be productive, and the chairman of the committee (thankfully we always assign this role) has to take action right now and suggest a meeting time and place.
In my personal experience Doodle is useful but also one of those trivial inconveniences (reading an email, clicking a link, checking 10 suggested times against your calendar, waiting for another email telling you a timeslot has been chosen, putting the time into your agenda), which is a downside.