Calendars - traditional or modern. Which is it for you?

[mistyoptic]

Both. The paper one is of my own photos

 

[Sea of vapours]

I've been using online, globally accessible calendars and meeting scheduling since September 1985, so that's my tradition and I think I'll stick with it !

 

[ColinJ]

A2 size, wow you must have huge pockets

Oops - A5!!

My pockets are not big enough for A5 either, but that doesn't matter because the diary stays next to me on the sofa at home. The software calendar is on my phone in my pocket/bag when I go out.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Because I'm working, everything goes into works Outlook TBH, but my life isn't that exciting so if I pop 'leave; in there I know what it is. I don't have many 'social' appointments...boo hoo !

My life is not exciting either, but: dentist, hairdresser, annual leave booked, tradesman coming, annual boiler service, vet appointments, if friend I usually meet is away or home, overtime I promised to work (better show for the shift!) ... deadline to pay off the interest free credit card
Google calendar on my phone only for me.
However, sometimes I use a What's App conversation for reminders, like for when a tradesperson is coming (because they messaged me) and for how much the job will costs.
For some stuff due to happen short term, I just let the automatic text/emails remind me, without putting them on the calendar.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Bit of both but wall calendar is just significant stuff.

 

[Jenkins]

Paper calendar in the kitchen for everything. However I also run a separate spreadsheet of dates, venues, hotels, etc for all the gigs & motorsport events I go to which is copied to Dropbox for quick reference.

 

[wbm5]

My Sister-in-law also takes a photo of the wall calendar

 

[Drago]

Paper calendar in the kitchen for everything. However I also run a separate spreadsheet of dates, venues, hotels, etc for all the gigs & motorsport events I go to which is copied to Dropbox for quick reference.

I run a spreadsheet to keep tabs on my various spreadsheets.

 

[Electric_Andy]

I made an appointment with a friend recently.

We were at my house and I opened my Google Calendar on my phone and he proceeded to do what I thought was the same.

But no, he actually had photos of the current and next months pages of a wall hanging calendar on his phone!

We agreed a date which he would then transcribe onto his wall hanging calendar at home at a later time.

I was surprised at the strange-ness of this method and tbh, I thought that the wall hanging calendar was well and truly a thing of the past.

What do you use and why?

Google Calendar here. Simple functionality, portable, reminder functions and synced with Mrs SD's to avoid double booking dates, etc.

That's a particularly strange but clever way of doing it! I voted both because we have one on the fridge that we use for stuff that might affect us both e.g giving lifts to the kids etc, but I mostly use my phone

 

[annedonnelly]

Mainly just keep everything in my head. But I do put most things in Google Calendar, and have multiple different calendars, so for example the bun collection dates are a different colour to the days we do the lunch club.

There are a couple of paper calendars hanging in the house but only because well-meaning people gave them as presents and I don't want to hurt their feelings. The pictures are nice enough.

 

[PeteXXX]

Both

 

[Drago]

The poll shpuld also be asking which calendar we use. For example, our Accy prefers the Julian Calendar. As a result hes 13 days late for all his appointments.

 

[chriswoody]

Definitely a wall hanging calendar in this family. We've tried a few times to do it electronically and it just doesn't work for us.

 

[tyred]

I mostly just keep things in my head.

I have loads of paper calendars anyway. Several local businesses give them out and some born again Christian group that put things through my letterbox left me several religious ones before Christmas.

 

[tyred]

That's a particularly strange but clever way of doing it! I voted both because we have one on the fridge that we use for stuff that might affect us both e.g giving lifts to the kids etc, but I mostly use my phone

During Covid, I used to do the grocery shopping for my parents, and my mum used to write out the shopping list on paper, then photograph it and send it to me using Whatsapp