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Social gathering planning
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Social gathering planning
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Have you ever tried to organise a social gathering, only to end up mired in complicated and conflicting schedules, each reluctantly drip fed to you a different way? The phrase “like herding cats” may have come up. Well CatHerd is your solution!
CatHerd is a web-based mobile-optimised tool that helps you plan a gathering, by mashing up calendar invites with surveys.
CatHerd is designed to be:
Enter a few basic details, suggest somes days and times, and add people, then send.
Participants follow an emailed link and choose their available days and times.
All availability is combined so you can pick a date and time that best suits everyone!
And, if it all falls through, you can easily reschedule!
The easiest thing to do is to jump right in and playing with it!
Start Herding
You and your participants need valid email addresses so that links can be emailed.
Other than that CatHerd is a modern website, so a device with a reasonably modern web browser. Most smartphones will do, and computers that have their software updated fairly regularly.
Each event plan and invite in CatHerd gets a random secret key. This key is part of the link sent in the verification and invite emails.
Following one of these links basically does the same as logging in on any other website. The access key is actually associated with the email address itself, so you can easily regain access to events and invites.
CatHerd does not ask any personal details aside from your name and email address, so there's not really anything unsafe that CatHerd can leak.
Access to events and invites in CatHerd can only be gained by clicking on email links with the access key, which means CatHerd is secure as your email provider.
CatHerd is a work in progress and probably has bugs, as well as things that just aren't very good ideas. The only browser that is probably going to work reliably at the moment is Google Chrome.
That doesn't mean its not ready to be used though! The main parts should work and bugs will be fixed ASAP, especially if you help by reporting them (email support@catherd.mobi).
The public beta of CatHerd is up and running. It includes the following features:
CatHerd is superficial similar to a few other planning solutions out there. Classic emailed calendar invites, and custom web surveys have features that overlap CatHerd, but don’t do everything:
| Feature | Calendar Invite | Web Survey | CatHerd |
|---|---|---|---|
| Specialised UI | Yes | No | Yes |
| Emails invitations | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Tracks progress | Yes | Yes1 | Yes |
| No sign-up required4 | Yes | Partial2 | Yes |
| Allows multiple choices | No | Yes1 | Yes |
| Allows guest-supplied alternatives | Yes | Yes1 | Yes |
| Provides consolidate view of all alternatives | No | No | Yes |
| Sends final confirmations | Yes | No | Yes |
| Easy re-planning | Yes | No | Yes |
| Platform agnostic | No3 | Yes | Yes |
| Timezone aware | Yes | No | Yes |
There are a few other other technologies with similar features, but they all have limitations that CatHerd was built specifically to exceed:
The CatHerd Project is the project that is making CatHerd!
The CatHerd Project is independently funded, and works for you, the people.
The CatHerd Project has a robust development plan and a commitment to transparency.
CatHerd and the CatHerd Project uses the following:
CatHerd uses the following technologies
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