PPlacuitit was agreed

Placuit is Latin for “it was agreed” — the phrase that closed a Roman decree, written at the end, once the arguing was over.

Decide together, in one place

Propose a few options — dates, choices, or things to bring — share one link, and watch the answer come into view. No accounts, no email required.

Event details

Only the title is required.

Leave the time empty for the end of that day.

Times you enter are read in this zone. Everyone else sees them in their own.

Counted from the last answer, not from today, so a poll people are still using never disappears underneath them. You can change this later.

Options

What is this poll asking? Choose one.

One poll asks one of these three. Organizing something that needs two — a date for the picnic and a list of what to bring — is two polls: settle the date first, then make the list and share both links.

Not sure which one to use? See some examples

What this is for

Six of us want dinner one evening this month, and I need to find which evening works.
Offer four or five evenings. Everyone marks each one yes, if need be, or no, and the one with the most support rises to the top. This is the ordinary case and needs none of the settings below.
I run two shifts at the shelter every Saturday and need four volunteers on each.
Offer the shifts as dates, then open Limit how many people can take each option and set four places. Each shift closes as it fills. Turn the waiting list on and somebody who arrives late goes on the waiting list instead of being turned away.
I am organizing a picnic and need both a date and a list of what people will bring.
That is two polls, not one. Settle the date here first, then create a things to bring list and share both links — the second one can name the agreed date in its title, so nobody has to hold two things in their head.
Ten-minute parent-teacher conference slots, one parent each, and nobody should book two.
Offer the slots, set one place on each, and set each person may take to one. That makes it a booking sheet: taking a slot means taking that one and no other.

The settings

Yes / if need be / no
The default, and the one to use when you are asking whether people can make it. The middle answer counts as half a yes, which is usually what breaks a tie.
Yes / no
For a short list where a hedge is not useful — a deadline, a single proposed date.
Pick one
For handing out slots rather than finding a time. Each person chooses exactly one; use it with places, or on its own when you want a single answer from everybody.
Places, and the waiting list
Places cap an option; each person may take caps a person. Leave both blank for an ordinary poll, where any number of people can pick any option and nothing closes.
How should people answer?
Limit how many people can take each option (optional)

Leave this alone for an ordinary poll, where any number of people can pick any option. Setting it turns the poll into a sheet of places — shifts, seats, appointment slots — and each option closes once it is full. You can vary the number per option afterwards.

How many people can take that option before it closes.

Leave blank for a shift sheet, where somebody can sign up for as many as they like. Set it to 1 for a booking sheet, where taking a slot means taking that one and no other.

Type a time, or click the box to pick one. Leave it empty for an all-day option.

Settings

How privacy works here. Anyone with the participant link can answer, but only your organizer link can change settings or see full names and email addresses. Participants are shown to each other as “First L.” — never a full last name, never an address.