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Paper-based calendar
mcnicks | May 18 2006
Are any of you using paper-based calendars to manage your hard landscape? By paper-based, I mean the DIY Planner type calendars rather than having a day- or week-per-page diary. I currently have two electronic calendars: I use 30boxes for my personal stuff and I am forced to use our Exchange calendar at work. Normally I 'sync' my hard landscape for the next few weeks into the back of my moleskine notebook but obviously that does not give me any idea about my availability after that time. I have a vague plan to print out the DIY planner yearly calendar and simply mark the dates when I am not available, so that if somebody suggests meeting on September 12th I can look and say, "I might not be available then, I will have to check and get back to you." I suppose I could also go the whole way and print out twelve monthly cards so that I can be more specific, but I do not want to have to cart around loads of 3x5s if I can avoid it. After all, these are really just for reference since my 'real' calendar is on a computer somewhere. 3 Comments
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 Before I had even found...Submitted by alia on May 18, 2006 - 12:36pm.
Before I had even found out about GTD, gcal, etc, I made 3x5 index card calendars. I made them on the index card dividers, and used scrapbook supplies (ok, that was the real reason to make the calendar) for the names of the months. I keep them in a little index card box I found at target right before school started. I also have other dividers in the box for receipts, and cards/coupons I want to keep in my purse. Now that I put that all into gcal, I haven't glanced into the box very often, but then....I'm not a very busy girl anyway. ETA: oh, and I have to say that discovering the g2 pens here has been wonderful because I can actually write small and have it still be readable. Also, I have the next 4 months printed on 8.5x11 paper hanging in a row down my wall. I'm keeping track of things until August, and thought by putting up the calendar in this way I might be able to "slow down time" by seeing how little was left. hopefully that makes sense. » POSTED IN:
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