Here’s an easy way to create and share lists with others. This is a new tool to me and I wish I had known about it last week! I was in charge of coordinating the Veggie BBQ station at a first time event called Power Palooza, a sustainability, education, have fun, and socialize event on Saturday in Nevada City, CA.

Faced with the logistical issue of sending around a list of needed items to the crew, and then coordinating who said they’d bring what, check out this online list tool called Ta-da Lists by the makers of Backpack both of which can be used for no $.

[Backpack, by the way includes a more sophisticated Ta-da list feature plus other, very cool list and idea tracking features. I'm just introducing Ta-da Lists right now in the context of sharing "editable" lists. In Backpack, for others to edit a list you send out, they need to have their own account--not a big deal but an extra step. The basic Backpack account is free; more capabilities and pages are available for nominal cost. ]

Roll back the clock a week to see the list I created for the crew (note the items at the bottom of the screen shot that are in small font preceeded by a check mark. These are “claimed” or, if using this list as a ToDo list, they’d be indicated “done”:

Then I click on “Sharing” and enter the email addresses of each crew member. Write a quick note and click the button called: Share with these people. Easy! Another screen shot:

Obviously, you don’t have to share lists. You can keep your own on whatever subject you desire.