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Doodle is a versatile tool that is widely used in various scenarios to simplify scheduling and improve coordination. Users have found that …
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What is Doodle?
Doodle is appointment scheduling software from the Swiss company of the same name.
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Doodle is appointment scheduling software from the Swiss company of the same name.
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.3.
The most common users of Doodle are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Doodle is a versatile tool that is widely used in various scenarios to simplify scheduling and improve coordination. Users have found that Doodle's ability to show team availability and find the best meeting time has made it an essential part of leadership development programs, enabling more engaging and accessible training for remote locations. It is also valued as a time-saving training tool for on-the-job skill training and onboarding processes. With Doodle, users can eliminate the back-and-forth of scheduling by providing a seamless process for finding a time that works for all parties, which is particularly helpful when organizing meetings of groups with different schedules. In every department of organizations, Doodle simplifies the hassle of contacting potential attendees via email or voicemail, making users more productive and efficient in their work. Additionally, Doodle streamlines workflow and improves efficiency by simplifying the process of setting up meetings and organizing daily activities. It helps manage communication within companies more efficiently, replacing endless emails and offline meetings. Whether it's scheduling video calls, finding suitable times for training sessions, or coordinating calendars for appointments and decision-making, users appreciate the ease of use and effectiveness provided by Doodle. Furthermore, as a valuable tool for organizing business meetings, finding convenient event times, or RSVPing for activities, Doodle has become a go-to solution for many users who experience simplified confirmation of meeting times and RSVPs.
Users recommend the following for using Doodle:
- Use it to manage time and easily schedule meetings with multiple participants in different time zones.
- Play around with the tools before sending out the first Doodle to avoid mistakes.
- Let invitees know about the Doodle poll in advance to ensure the best feedback for scheduling.
- Highly recommend Doodle for scheduling meetings, especially remote ones.
- Find it easy to use and believe it solves scheduling nightmares, particularly for online video calls across time zones.
- Use Doodle for organizing scheduling, events, and gathering opinions in a company. However, some users caution that Doodle could become cumbersome for larger meetings.
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June 10, 2021
It's great for what it is!
We use Doodle primarily for selecting dates among a diverse group. We primarily use this as an internal tool among colleagues who need to coordinate but business related and non-business related off-site meetings. We love how easy Doodle is to set up, use, share, and change which is what makes it our go-to tool to solve this problem.
- Scheduling
- Sharing
- It's perfect for our needs!
January 21, 2020
This is Why I Doodle!
Currently we are in development mode for programs and I use Doodle to schedule group meetings and community collaboration activities with multiple professionals both in and out of my organization. Doodle supports my efforts ensuring I have the most professionals at the table based on their availability which in turn supports well attended meetings.
- Easily accessible.
- User friendly.
- Currently there are no improvements that I would make with Doodle!
December 05, 2019
Doodle Review
Doodle was basically being used for the purpose it was created in the first place, which is to set up meetings and events that would appropriate time for as many people possible, by creating common spots to which most people would agree. This is a simple idea but the existence of the website was actually helpful.
- Simple.
- Fast.
- Free.
- Convenient.
- Functionality - Maybe it could expand beyond just scheduling time
- Accessibility - I feel like it's not that convenient to use on the phone.
- Audience - It's a great tool but not that many use it, maybe it should be marketed more.
December 04, 2019
Great and helpful scheduling tool
We use Doodle for scheduling a variety of different appointments across multiple departments and have even used it to schedule interview times for something that a staff member was serving on a committee of an outside organization for. It has served us well for all of our needs and we look forward to using it more in the future. It makes wrangling the schedules of multiple people all at once easy and painless with clear reporting.
- Easy set-up of polls.
- Easy scheduling.
- Easy reporting and management.
- Calendar integration is pretty good, but I honestly find just entering the dates easier than trying to manage with the calendar.
December 04, 2019
Perfect for professionalism, efficiency, and your sanity!
My company uses Doodle when we are working with a client and need to schedule a call or meeting between our employees and theirs. Coordinating calendars is something I do pretty regularly, but to do so with people outside of our organization is taxing. Doodle is a more professional and efficient manner of asking "What works for you? Here's what we've got." You get answers easily and quickly and can make a decision just as fast.
- Organizes people's time across companies.
- Gives organizers an easy way to lay out time/date options.
- Gives participants an easy way to convey their availability.
- Is a professional and efficient manner in which to schedule meetings and phone calls.
- Doodle page can be overwhelming with ads.
- If you have a lot of available dates and times, the current scroll feature gets long and a little hard to view.
December 04, 2019
The ease of scheduling meetings with Doodle!
Doodle is used to schedule meetings both inside and outside of the organization. We use it to streamline our schedules and to create seamless organizing of meetings. As of right now, we don't use it organization-wide.
- It offers a series of different dates and times.
- It is user-friendly.
- It emails the results.
- It could link with Outlook.
December 04, 2019
The easiest way to find meeting times.
My team is using Doodle to schedule meetings and find common times for all participants.
Usually, we would send emails to confirm meeting times and RSVPs, but find that a tool like Doodle makes that process much easier. Whether you're organizing a business meeting, finding a convenient event time, or RSVPing for an activity, Doodle helps.
Usually, we would send emails to confirm meeting times and RSVPs, but find that a tool like Doodle makes that process much easier. Whether you're organizing a business meeting, finding a convenient event time, or RSVPing for an activity, Doodle helps.
- Doodle is incredibly easy to use. Just add event name, location and times and have potential attendees sign up.
- The free version of Doodle is functional for most simple use cases, and helps us to save money.
- Sending attendees a simple link to a Doodle poll works even for the not-so-tech-savvy.
- The free version has a cluttered interface, there is simply too much real estate for ads.
- The sign-up should include details like name and email, which would make it easier to know who signed up.
- The email updates are a little annoying. There are ways to adjust the settings, but I think they could be improved.
November 08, 2019
Simplify your scheduling with Doodle!
I have been using this over the past year or so to set up meetings and organize my daily activities. It just makes it so much easier to set up meetings with other people. Instead of sending half a dozen back and forth emails, Doodle just lets you schedule something with the other party by just a few clicks. I have set up my work schedule inside Doodle and it has streamlined my activities significantly. I also use this to set up reminders for different tasks I need to accomplish (like creating reports, sending out important items, etc). And being able to include surveys is just the cherry on the top. It makes organizing group activities just an absolute breeze.
- It is excellent at scheduling meetings. Cuts down on a lot of wasted time sending back and forth emails.
- Surveys make group meetings easier as well. You can easily set up a time that works for most of your team.
- Activity reminders are great too.
- The interface is terrific. It's just so easy to set up and use.
- I had some issues setting up Google Calendar integrations. I was hoping that would work more smoothly.
- Mobile functionality is just not very good. I simply gave up trying it use it on my Android phone.
October 30, 2019
Super useful and user-friendly
Doodle helps us communicate our needs better and actually manage communication within the company in the most efficient way. Before Doodle, we used endless emails or even offline meetings - what a waste of time it was! Since we started using Doodle, we’ve saved a lot of time on the operational tasks.
- User-friendly interface.
- Easy onboarding.
- Easy usage.
- It could work better on mobile.
- Would like to see more features.
November 14, 2018
Doodle Makes Scheduling Slightly Less Painful
People in my organization use Doodle on a case-by-case basis, usually when scheduling many people on committee work. Not everyone uses it, but certain departments - like IT - use it more than others. It saves time by picking out the best date for many people to get together, rather than exchanging email after email or finding a time for a call.
- Ease of use.
- No sign up required for poll takers.
- Fast set up.
- Doesn't handle frames of time as well specific times and dates (e.g. "Which general days of the weeks work best?" is not a Doodle friendly question).
- Editing time blocks can be a bit clunky.
September 14, 2018
Do A Little With Doodle
We are currently using Doodle in two different ways within our company. The first way in which it is being used is the way in which it is intended to be used and it is in that way it has probably been the most efficient and helpful to our company. We can send out a list of dates and/or times to a group of people and have them choose which one(s) would be the best for them to meet. When all votes have been cast, Doodle provides the best choice which allows the most people to attend on that day and/or time. Our company has also used it in its unintended form by doing the opposite and having people pick a day/time that no one else has signed up for. Since it is not what the program was intended to do, it is not as foolproof. However, it does work in a pinch and with small groups who can follow instructions.
- Let's you customize your dates/times and/or other choices for your poll
- Provides you options if you want to give your constituents the ability to view others votes or only their own as well as the ability to vote once or more than once.
- You are able to send the invite to them via their e-mail.
- There is both a free version and a premium version. The free version is able to do most everything; however, the premium version gives the option to see who opened your invites, when they opened them, created events in your calendar, ask for more information, and have no ads.
- The free version is fairly simple and does contain a lot of ads
- Features a variety of languages; however, most of them are European in origin
May 04, 2018
Easy Group Meeting Setup
Working on a university campus, I frequently have to organize or attend meetings of groups composed of faculty and staff from different departments and with very different schedules. Doodle polls make it much simpler for everyone to see the options available, add their best or workable times, and then the organizer has a clear, easy visual to pick the best dates and times.
- Allows options for anonymity of users adding their schedules, or however much they want to provide (first name, full name).
- It is somewhat intuitive. When you start adding times, it picks up on the pattern and then predicts and auto-fills options (i.e. if you're entering times in hour increments back to back, it will start offering the next hour as the automatic option).
- Access to the Doodle can be sent as a simple link via text or email (or even embedded in a document or hyperlinked), or sent to specific email addresses.
- An easy multi-date or block of time with separation of a standard duration (for example, putting in 3:00-7:00 with blocks of one hour each) would speed up the process of setting the Doodle up.
November 29, 2017
Quick and efficient availability detector
I use Doodle mainly in my department, which focuses on onboarding new users to our platform. During our onboardings, we provide site information and training. To train the onboarding presenters, I schedule video calls with them, and to be efficient with our use of time, we try to schedule as many people at once into a single training session. The best way to do this with my team, that we've found so far, is to utilize Doodle's scheduling function to find out when everyone is available. While I use Google Calendar religiously, most of my team members do not, so relying on shared Google Calendars to schedule meetings does not always provide the most up-to-date information about availability.
- Doodle provides options for quizzes, polls, and scheduling, which makes it a versatile tool.
- Doodle very clearly shows you the top choice(s) picked by respondents, making it easy to select a time that is best for the most people.
- Doodle allows you to connect your calendar, which helps to more efficiently select workable time slots - and syncs your events.
- Doodle doesn't require respondents to create an account in order to participate in the poll.
- Doodle's user interface could use an update. The Dashboard is just bullet points right now and could be a little more aesthetically pleasing.
- If you have a lot of date/time options for people to go through, it can be fairly time-consuming/tedious for people to fill out the form. It's not always the best way to schedule events if there is a lot of availability that you want to show.
- The ads on the free version can get a little overbearing, just because of their location.
September 13, 2016
Doodle-tastic!
Doodle is used by many but not all management employees within my school district to identify meeting times that work for groups of 5 or more participants. Although we use Google calendar which allows us to see each other's calendars, I've found that just seeing the calendar doesn't tell the whole story. Its best to give folks a range of options and then go with the one that is suitable for most of the participants. Doodle saves us time in figuring all that out. Participation rates are higher now.
- So easy to generate a poll. Each step is clear and easy to follow so even someone like me (who had anxiety issues with using technology) feels comfortable enough to try it.
- In the moment tutorials are visual and easy to follow. Also appreciate the auto corrections for time settings so the look is uniform. Copy and paste same time slots is a time saver too.
- Basic poll is great and is my go to, but also appreciate the hidden poll.
- Best upgrade is the ability to access Google contacts since everyone in my district uses Google email. What a huge time saver!! Wish they they had a similar integration with Yahoo so I could use it for personal events as well.
- Could add more contact integration. Adding Yahoo would be helpful.