It seems like one of the most time-consuming things we do, ironically, involves finding time to do the stuff we need to do — and that gets made even worse every time we have to work with somebody else. Trying to arrange meeting times among the harried schedules of a group of our colleagues can sometimes be worse than that little bug we picked up from eating raw shellfish at the mini-mart in Merkel…

However, a colleague recently introduced us to a very handy little site that promises to make scheduling group meetings (as well as performing group-input surveys) a joyful pleasure. Doodle offers to streamline the scheduling process by providing participants with an easy-to-use, online web app for indicating when they’re available. One person can set up the basic parameters, and then everyone else can easily indicate which times work, and the software helps tag available times with a nifty color interface.

So the next time you’re trying to schedule your iPhone research team’s Halo 3 tournament regular weekly meeting, you might want to give Doodle a try. We certainly will….