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c/book-club-debatesallen.coleallen.cole23d agoProlific Poster

Appreciation post: The 2018 version of my book club spreadsheet vs what I use now

I used to track everything for our book club in a basic notebook. Names, dates, who picked what. Then I tried a shared Google Sheet my buddy recommended. Night and day difference. The old way had me flipping pages to remember who wanted to read what. Now I can sort by genre, vote on next picks, and see who's been skipping meetings. Last month we had 14 people vote on our next 3 books in 2 days. That never would have happened with paper. The automation saved us from spending 20 minutes every meeting just deciding what to read next. Has anyone else found a system that transformed how your group picks books?
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the_julia
the_julia23d ago
Oh man, that Google Sheet upgrade is exactly what my group needed too! We were doing the whole paper vote thing and meetings would drag forever just trying to settle on a book. Now we have a simple form where everyone submits their picks and it auto-tallies, cuts our decision time down to like 5 minutes tops.
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the_ben
the_ben23d ago
My group switched to Discord polls last year. Worked way better than we expected lol
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