For calorie burning short intensive work outs are better. For example, deadlifts or playing squash for 30minutes is comparable to multiple hours of jogging.
The problem, I experience, is not that action items are missing. The point is that you must write the name of the responsible person next to each action item. Maybe even her email, so people can nag her. If possible, set deadlines.
However, the problem seems to be an inherently social one. I cannot imagine any etherpad plugin or something to help with this.
The best online meeting tool in my opinion is etherpad.
The meeting starts with a document containing the agenda.
Now everybody chats and rewrites the agenda into a protocol of the decisions made.
Meeting ends.
Pros: The discussion is usually clearer, because you talk about text. No need to talk about old protocols, which are written afterwards.
Cons: Does not solve the problem that usually nobody feels responsible afterwards.
I think you should market your manual process more aggressively. Generating from templates is easy and cheap, but that a professional graphic artist is doing it, makes quite a difference.
Would you be impressed by more subtle qualities? Let's say a design with special effects, but printed with a professional printer on thicker paper. Maybe subtle effects like watermarks or micro embossing.
I have to correct myself. You do not want a 50% chance, because the answer does not provide 1Bit of information. If we get it right, we also know the position(s) of the letter.
More precisely: Given a dictionary of all possible words and a letter to guess, we can split the dictionary into k parts. One sub-dictionary contains all words for which the answer is negative. Additionally, we have k-1 sub-dictionaries for each equivalence class of letter positions.
For each letter, we can compute the partition. Now we need to choose the strategically best partition. I believe it should be the one with "the lowest average sub-dictionary size".
Assuming there is always a letter with a 50% chance and we choose wrong 11 times in a row. One more and game over. At this point we have 11 Bits of information, which is enough to distuingish between 2048 words.
Actually, we should be correct 50% of the time. Which means 22 Bits of information or 4194304 words.
Additionally, we know the length of the word.
The english dictionaries seem to have between 400k and 1000k words [0] of all word sizes. With 22 Bits we get 4000k words. We do not have to worry about getting hanged using the information-reduction algorithm. ;)
If you want to minimize the number of errors, you should try the letter with the most information. In other words, minimize the search space. That is what hythloday suggested.
The mission of TeXLive is to include everything and the kitchen sink. However, why should their TeXpad support everything? They could go the XeTeX+biber+TikZ route and educate their users how to switch from pdflatex,bibtex,pstricks,etc.
Why do people prefer to run for hours instead of a more intensive workout in a minutes?
Looking at the typical runners [0], why would you desire a physique like that?
[0] http://diaryofakalechic.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/marathon...