Every time you ask a question to your team, collating their answers is a big problem. The usual way to collect the suggestion from a team is to share the excel sheet on LAN and ask them to enter their choice. But this will not work when the team is across the internet. Or if your teams are separated by firewall. Now we have an online application to do the boring collating work for you. Its called CircleUP

What is CircleUp?
It’s a simple, FREE and easy way to ask questions of any community you belong to and get back a single organized result to use and share instead of a blizzard of emails and instant messages.
With CircleUp you can avoid:

• Searching through your inbox to find replies from everyone who responded
• Tracking who replied and who didn’t
• Getting replies to your question sent in different formats
• Having to cut and paste answers into a Word document or Excel spreadsheet to aggregate them
• Getting replies that don’t actually answer your question
• Annoying “reply to all” messages that disrupt the group and clutter your inbox
• Fumbling through your mailbox archives to find old information
• Not being able to share answers with the group or save them for the future

Circleup works with your outlook client or IM or any email provider. None other than you (who is asking the question) needs an account registered at CircleUP. And the answers can be seen only by you.

ReminderFox is an extension for Firefox and Thunderbird that displays and manages lists of date-based reminders and ToDo’s. ReminderFox does not seek to be a full-fledged calendar system. In fact, the target audience is anybody that simply wants to remember important dates (birthdays, anniversaries, etc) without having to run a fat calendar application.

Download it at http://reminderfox.mozdev.org/

Right-clicking on the ribbon will bring up a list of available context menu options. From here you can go to the ReminderFox options as well as a number of other operations.

Images: Reminder Fox

Get the things done (aka GTD) is a good productivity practice. Outlook users cannot use anything more than tasks and calendar. But GTD is more than just these two. Now we have a simple small add-on to outlook called Jello.dashboard . Its just a 25kb download with an installer. basically it gives you all the functionality to arrange all your outlook items into contexts, projects etc.

The Jello.DashBoard is free and its a single man effort. Consider donating if you like his work.

Image credit : Jello.Dashboard.
Download the Jello.Dashboard

Below is the complete list of features

Create and manage contexts and projects
Assign any type of Outlook item to contexts and projects
View your appointments and tasks with due dates
View your favorite Outlook folders from inside the dashboard
Define @Review, @Reference and Context folders for email organization
Search for any type of Outlook item
View helpful lists of Outlook flagged and unread items
View all your items in a comprehensible Master list which you can email and print
Control dashboard’s behavior through user settings
Inbox management including assignment of related folders to context and projects
Localization enabled through separate script file
Documentation is included in tiddlywiki format
HTA standalone version is included
The whole html file can be opened by an IE browser (or firefox with IETab)