I organize

Your crew. Their Saturday. One link.

Shatuga makes the small free tools that get a group from "who's in?" to "see you at eight" without a reply-all thread. Pick a date, divvy up the jobs, warm up the room, say thanks. No logins for your people, no ads, nothing to install.

Neeri the river otter, in her green vest, fist in the air

Three things you could make this week

Settle the date

A date chooser. Everyone taps the Saturdays they can do; you see the winner. Nobody asks "wait, which weekend?"

Pick the Saturday

Divvy up the jobs

A task chooser with a cap on each job: two on the kayaks, one driving the truck, as many as want to on the bank. First come, first claimed.

Set up the jobs

Warm up the room

A word cloud on the big screen. "What brought you here?" Thirty strangers, their phones, one grin.

Open Engage

One crew's week

This one is a river cleanup. Yours might be a food bank, a choir, a congregation, a trail crew. Same week, different mud.

  1. Monday

    Which Saturday?

    Jo drops one link in the group chat. By Tuesday night nineteen people have tapped the Saturdays they can do, and the fourteenth wins by a mile. Nobody replied-all. Nobody had to be chased.

    Made with Chooser, a date chooser.

  2. Wednesday

    Who's doing what

    The task chooser goes out: two on the kayaks, one driving the truck, one on first aid, everybody else on the bank with grabbers. Each job has a cap, so the kayak seats fill in an hour and the rest sort themselves out. The flyer in the coffee-shop window gets a QR code that opens the same link.

    Made with Chooser, a task chooser, and the QR code generator in Tools.

  3. Saturday, 8:10 am

    Strangers to crew

    Coffee, mist on the water, thirty people who mostly don't know each other. Jo puts a word cloud up on the laptop on the tailgate: "What brought you here?" RIVER. MY KID. BOREDOM. PENANCE. By the time the words stop moving, the kayakers have named their boats.

    Made with Engage, a word cloud.

  4. Saturday, noon

    Lunch on the bank

    Fourteen bags, one shopping cart, a boot nobody will claim, and sandwiches on the rocks with people who were strangers at eight. This is the part no tool makes. It is the part the tools are for.

  5. Sunday

    Who's in for next month?

    One more link, a quick poll: "Same time in four weeks?" Twenty-two yeses and two "only if there's coffee again." (The longer "how did it go?" is what Shatuga Feedback is for. It is in closed beta; it's next.)

    Made with Engage, a poll.

Got this page from a card? Then you've met the person behind it. Here's Mars, in case you want to put a face to the otter.

Make your first one.

Start with the date. It takes about as long as reading this page did.

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