I really like http://www.tempinbox.com you just make up an email address something@tempinbox.com and use that to subscribe to something and then you can see all the mail that goes to that address and get an RSS feed of it. Beats getting spam from everything you want to sign up to!

Christopher

Nice tool! As far as I can tell, the only problem with Doodle is that the dates and times are in European format. E.g., Date = 15-10-2006; Time = 18:00. I entered 2 as a possible meeting time and Doodle read it as 2 am. Couldn’t find a way to switch this, but then again I am know for being dense.

Hate to admit that I’ve sold my soul to Google, but I do like the Google homepage, especially the add-on to display incoming Gmail directly on the homepage. The Search History tracker is a little bit disturbing, but it’s also quite useful, since I can browse through my past searches and bookmark some of the sites that came up. This tool also makes me realize how obsessive I get about random topics at any given moment.

I’ll answer my own request with the sublime Is Lost a Repeat?

The best thing about that site is the RSS feed…

Good tool. It might come in handy in college, where it’s a near impossible task to schedule basic meetings :P

Doodle looks a lot like Meet-O-Matic (www.meetomatic.com), which I love. They provide only the calendar link — you write your own email, because they believe that invitations should come from humans.

My favorite ridiculously simple site of the moment is one I developed myself for my language studies:

just paste in a foreign-language text and each word will be hyperlinked into a bilingual dictionary. It’ll then make a vocab list from each word you click. Cuts down on all that tiresome dictionary fumbling. I use it to read the daily foreign-language news.

It’s over at http://www.semi-fluent.com

Office fu: What caught my eye was your mention of whiteboards with electrical tape. You can draw marks that are difficult to erase from a whiteboard if you use a thick Vis-a-vis overhead marker. I’m a teacher, and I use this all the time. I expect the lines on my assignment grid to last for half a year. While I’m at it, it took me YEARS to realize how much easier it is to tear the border strips off of a whole sheet of adhesive labels when you want to use them.

I wanted to say Pandora, but I guess it’s not really a tool, nor is it idiotically simple. It is, however, the most important thing on the web for me.

It was A9 until they decided to discontinue the personalization capabilities. So, Google Bookmarks.

And for what it’s worth it looks like you have 43f’d Doodle.

I actually don’t use too many web tools these days, but one that I can’t get away from is Newshutch for news aggregation. It is probably the simplest reader I’ve used. It has it’s set of problems, but they are instantly out-weighed by its simplicity and easy workflow. Read and alt-/ is my mantra.

I actually don’t use too many web tools these days, but one that I can’t get away from is Newshutch for news aggregation. It is probably the simplest reader I’ve used. It has it’s set of problems, but they are instantly out-weighed by its simplicity and easy workflow. Read and ctrl-/ is my mantra.

This one’s so simple I’m not sure I should even call it a tool.

I generally need to keep track of week numbers, but online and desktop calendars tend to know nothing about them. Vecka.nu (literally “week.now” in Swedish) does absolutely nothing but tell me what week it is. Now.

I love it to death.

I’ll answer my own request with the sublime Is Lost a Repeat?

Okay, that “Lost” website is funnier than heck; even though the show is SO Web 1.0. “Heroes” is 2.0, baby.

Two words: Indestructable. Cheerleaders.

I’m in love with Webshot’s AllYouCanUpload free image hosting service. No sign-up. Just upload and point. Also like its built-in image resizing feature.

It may be old school and ad-ridden, but still proves very useful when my ISP decides my DHCP lease just isn’t working out for them.

Yeah… that site will NOT work for me. While entering dates at the create stage, it just won’t finish loading after I hit any date… I can click another date, but now that I’ve got all my dates entered the page is just sitting there spinning, and noooottthhhiinnng is working. Gay.

I like… um… i don’t think I like any simple webapps, I’m feature obsessed…

Ah! http://cl1p.com/ <— THAT is a useful simple website. Lets you just… clip stuff to it! So you can access it anywhere. Sort of like http://pastie.caboo.se/ but for normal stuff and really small files instead of code, and it uses named pages instead of random numbers.

I’d have to go with backpackit.com They’ve got a good thing going on - and it even works well on my dial up connection!

Definitely, My Yahoo!

Create a temporary email account thats forwards to your real account for an hour. Great way to prevent spam. http://spambox.us/

Create a temporary email account thats forwards to your real account for an hour. Great way to prevent spam! http://spambox.us/

I love joesgoals.com.

Very simple interface (although it’s slowly getting a little more bells and whistlesy but the basic idea of just clicking in a box to track any of a number of goals is the essence of “Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work”.

I love GishPuppy—passionately. - disposable email addresses (à la nameofsite.abc@gishpuppy.com) - each disposable address can forward to a different “real” address - contextual “Gish It!” menu item in Firefox (and IE, but really… ick) pops up a window to automatically create an address for the site you’re on or, if you’ve already created one (or more), gives you the address(es) you previously associated with a site. Fields: target email, keyword (will become the first part of the email address), description (handy note box), expiration (radio buttons ranging from “1 week” to “never”), and domain. ::swoon:: Suddenly I can keep track of my insane number of site registrations (not including 43Folders, because Merlin is mean and I don’t want to spend a night in the box) and cut down on the spam I receive in the process.

This site does the same thing but then better. It’s now only for sports teams. www.mysportsplanner.com

…does it count if I say notepad?

OMG! THANK YOU!!!!! This is the best thing I’ve seen in AGES!

lol@paperghost! Yes, definitely Notepad :-)

Great and simple tool that just works, thanks for the heads up.

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Yes, I heard of a really killer stealth start-up doing a serious commercial version of Doodle with some really killer features, somewhere in San Francisco. Should be interesting to follow their launch soon.