On Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 1:24:11 AM UTC-7 Mohammad wrote: > Can Tiddlywiki be used for *How to Find a Meeting Time That Works for > Everyone*? > If you have developed such a tool in Tiddlywiki or have heard about it > please let me know. >
Fundamentally, this is a problem of finding the intersection of multiple sets. For a small enough set of people (say 5 or less), it is relatively easy to figure out which days and times are "open" for everyone. However, let's assume the problem is more complex, so that it isn't *obvious* on the face of things as to which days are available for *everyone*. For instance, suppose there are 15 or 20 very busy people, each of whom have only a few open timeslots in any given month. This is when a computed algorithm for finding the subset of open timeslots starts to really make more sense than just using the "fuzzy" pattern recognition skills of a human brain to find those open timeslots. Although I don't have a direct, immediate, and general-purpose solution in hand, let's start by simplifying the problem to finding open *days* rather than timeslots within a day. For this use-case, my Calendar and Events plugins might be helpful (see http://tiddlytools.com/timer.html). We could start by using the "EventList" feature (http://tiddlytools.com/timer.html#TiddlyTools%2FTime%2FEvents) functionality, in which each would create and submit single a tiddler, tagged with "events", containing the dates for which they already have events scheduled. Each tiddler is composed of multiple lines of text using the format "YYYYMMDD;Description text" (where the MM and DD date values are zero-padded as needed). When all these tiddlers are then combined into a single TiddlyWiki, you would just display a monthly or yearly TiddlyTools Calendar. All dates that are *not* available will appear filled with a color (default is LightGreen for Events). You can then visually spot the days that lack any color (defaulting to White), and create a new EventList tiddler listing only those days, using a non-default event color (e.g., red) to mark those *available*). Next, send that EventList tiddler back to each of the intended meeting participants, who would visualize this list by adding it to their own TiddlyWiki, using a TiddlyTools Calendar to view it. They could then select *any* red dates they like, with the confidence that *all* the intended participants are available on that date. All that remains is for them to send those selected dates back to you, where you could tally up which dates have the most "votes", and then announce that date for them to add to their existing EventList schedule. Q.E.D -e > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/f4864688-4e72-4398-943f-e10ce5f94dd1n%40googlegroups.com.
