Find a Time
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Propose a few times, send one link, see when everybody can make it
- Say what it is for, and pick two or more dates — or press one of the quick buttons.
- Press Make the link, and send that link to whoever needs to be there.
- Watch the answers come in. The option most people can make rises to the top.
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About this tool
Propose two or three times, press the button, and you get a link. Send that link to whoever needs to be there. They open it, tick what suits them, and the option most people can make rises to the top. It is an availability poll and a group scheduling tool in the only sense anybody needs: one question, one link, one answer. Nobody needs an account — not you, and not them, which is the part that decides whether a poll gets answered at all. It is a Doodle alternative in the sense that matters: the same job, done in about fifteen seconds, without a sign-up wall in front of the people you are waiting on. If you have arrived looking for a free Doodle alternative or a when2meet alternative, this is the same idea with less standing between the question and the answer. Three answers rather than two, and the third is the useful one. "Yes", "at a push", and "no". Most polls have no time that everybody can make, so the real question is which near-miss to choose — and a tool that only counts yeses cannot tell four-yes-one-no from four-yes-one-at-a-push. Those are very different things to tell a group. An "at a push" counts for half. The answering page needs no JavaScript. Whoever you send this to is on a phone, quite possibly inside a chat app's own browser, and they will give it a few seconds — so the page is plain HTML that works everywhere, including with scripting off and with a screen reader. A time is optional. "Thursday" is a real answer to when shall we meet, and it is the commonest one for anything that is not a meeting, so an option can be a whole day. The poll is thrown away when the date you choose passes, along with everybody's names.
Frequently asked questions
Does anybody need an account?
No — not you, and not the people answering. That is deliberate rather than a shortcut: the people you are waiting on are exactly the ones who will not sign up to answer a question about Thursday, and every sign-up screen loses some of them. The link is the whole thing.
What does "at a push" mean?
That you can make it, but it costs you something. It is the answer that makes a poll resolvable, because most polls have no time everybody can make. It counts as half a yes, so one "at a push" is worth less than a yes and two are worth more — which is how people actually talk about it.
Can somebody change their answer?
Yes, using the link they get back after answering. That link is the only proof they are the person who voted, so it is worth keeping. There is no account, so there is nothing else it could be.
Can I propose a whole day rather than a time?
Yes — leave the time empty. "Thursday" is a real answer to when shall we meet, and forcing an hour onto it would make this worse at the thing it is most used for. You can mix them: a whole day and two specific times in the same poll.
Who can see the answers?
Anybody with the link, which is how a poll works — everybody answering can see what the others said, and that is usually the point. Do not use it for anything you would not put in a group chat. The page asks search engines not to index it.
How long does a poll last?
As long as you chose when you made it — a week, a month or three. After that the poll stops answering and is deleted, names and all. A scheduling poll is a short-lived thing, and keeping somebody's colleagues' names after the meeting has happened is holding them for no reason.
What if two options tie?
It says so instead of picking one. A tie is a real result and choosing between them is your decision, not the tool's — usually you know something about the two that the poll does not.
Does the answering page work on an old phone?
It should. The form is plain HTML that posts to itself and needs no JavaScript to work, so it goes through in a chat app's built-in browser, with scripting turned off, and read aloud by a screen reader.
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