Comments on: Ultimate planning calendar

Question: Ultimate planning calendar

crapmatic — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 20:27:50 -0800

Is there some sort of online calendar that can help me pick out weekends when people are most willing and able to attend an event? Obviously it's easy for me to look up Thanksgiving but more difficult for me to figure out things like NBA playoffs, school semesters starting, conflicts with popular wedding dates, airfare peaks, etc.

By: hms71

hms71 — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 20:34:01 -0800

Have you looked at Doodle?

By: benzenedream

benzenedream — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 21:33:50 -0800

Whenisgood.net

By: Lady Li

Lady Li — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:20:40 -0800

I'm assuming that what you mean here is not specific people, but people as a general class - "don't schedule your big conference on Super Bowl weekend, no one will come".

I don't know of anything that does that, but it sure does seem like a good idea. Some things, like popular wedding dates or airfare, are going to be hard to find (airfare in particular is not really freely given info by the airlines).

You might be able to do a semblance of this by googling the specific date(s) you have in mind. Then you might see something like "8/8/08" give "Thousands To Wed On 8/8/08". It won't catch more over-arching things like school breaks (which are highly locally variable) or even the weekend after a major holiday, but googling around the dates you're interested in would be at least one trick to use.

By: radioamy

radioamy — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 13:13:08 -0800

Doodle!

By: crapmatic

crapmatic — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 23:51:17 -0800

Er, how exactly is Doodle supposed to recommend dates? I checked it out but it just looks like a general purpose scheduler.