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Use the tools live during remote meetings without turning the meeting into another tool setup exercise.
doingthegood.work is built for fast, in-the-room use across 38 focused tools covering rituals, decisions, meetings, coaching, coordination, planning, and delivery work. The main use case is simple: a team is already on Zoom, Meet, or Teams, and someone needs structure right now.
What these tools are for
These tools are meant to support a live conversation, not replace it. Open the tool when the team needs a shared structure: who speaks next, what needs a decision, what is blocked, what is ready to ship, or what should happen after the call. The right pattern is usually one person facilitating while everyone else stays in the meeting and follows the shared screen.
Best setup for online calls
Before the call starts, choose the tool you expect to need and open it in a separate browser tab. When the meeting begins, share that browser window on Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, or whatever platform the team uses. Keep the meeting window visible beside it if you can, so the facilitator can watch the room while updating the tool.
If the team is moving fast, it is usually better to have one person drive the tool and one person pay attention to the conversation than to ask everybody to click around independently. This keeps the meeting tight and avoids losing momentum to coordination overhead.
A practical flow for remote standups
Start the call, share the relevant tool, and explain the rule of the room in one sentence. For example: use the standup tool to set speaking order, capture blockers as they come up, and note follow-ups that should move offline after the call. Keep the call focused on status, coordination, and unblock decisions rather than deep problem-solving.
A useful remote pattern is:
1. Open the tool before screen sharing.
2. Set the order, prompt, timer, or workflow the team needs.
3. Let each person speak while one facilitator updates the tool.
4. Mark blockers, dependencies, or decisions as they appear.
5. End with a short recap of actions that came out of the meeting.
How to keep the call moving
Use the tool to hold the structure, not every detail. If a topic turns into debugging, design review, or back-and-forth planning, capture the next step in the tool and move that discussion into a separate thread or follow-up call. The meeting stays useful when the shared artifact shows the current state of the room without becoming a second meeting inside the first one.
Good habits for facilitators
Narrate what you are doing as you update the tool so remote attendees do not have to guess what changed on the shared screen. Repeat decisions out loud. Confirm owners and next steps before moving on. If someone joins late, the tool should let them understand the current state in a few seconds.
Because most state stays in the browser, it also helps to avoid closing the tab mid-meeting, refreshing unnecessarily, or switching devices halfway through a session unless you know the workflow supports it.
When to use AI features
Some tools offer optional AI help for summarizing, clustering, or suggesting next steps. Use that after the team has already created the raw input together. In a live call, the core value still comes from the shared structure and the conversation itself. AI is most useful once the group wants help compressing what just happened into something more actionable.
Where to start
If you are new to the site, start with All tools, pick the one that matches the exact job in front of the team, and try it in the next live standup, planning session, review, or coordination call. The tools work best when they stay small, visible, and directly tied to the moment the team is already in.