I bought more paper agendas in my life than is reasonable. They would all be forgotten within two weeks and take up space in my bag.
Using Calendar and Omnifocus actually works? So.
eta: The big thing that paper never gave me that the e-calendars spread across my i-devices does? Alerts.
Paper agendas are useless to me because I have to remember to write in them (when there's no guarantee they're always with me down to things like "I ran into someone in the grocery store" (because ones small enough to live in my purse are useless because they can't contain enough information), which makes for Steps on Steps which just . . . doesn't happen.
And then, assuming I remember to write in them, I have to remember to look at them later. Which I probably won't.
You have no idea how hard I tried, over and over, to use a paper agenda. And always, always failed.
Whereas my phone is always, always with me, and when I put something into Calendar I can put an alert on it, depending on how I need to remember it. And then when we hit that alert, my phone - which, as noted, is always in me - makes noises and buzzes at me!
I will then ALSO use postits/my chalkboard wall-stickie/etc around my house or whatever, but everything revolves around what's in my phone. (And, by virtue of being in my phone, also on my computer and my iPad, without me having to do anything, which is an important part of the magic.)
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Date: 2016-01-08 02:48 pm (UTC)Using Calendar and Omnifocus actually works? So.
eta: The big thing that paper never gave me that the e-calendars spread across my i-devices does? Alerts.
Paper agendas are useless to me because I have to remember to write in them (when there's no guarantee they're always with me down to things like "I ran into someone in the grocery store" (because ones small enough to live in my purse are useless because they can't contain enough information), which makes for Steps on Steps which just . . . doesn't happen.
And then, assuming I remember to write in them, I have to remember to look at them later. Which I probably won't.
You have no idea how hard I tried, over and over, to use a paper agenda. And always, always failed.
Whereas my phone is always, always with me, and when I put something into Calendar I can put an alert on it, depending on how I need to remember it. And then when we hit that alert, my phone - which, as noted, is always in me - makes noises and buzzes at me!
I will then ALSO use postits/my chalkboard wall-stickie/etc around my house or whatever, but everything revolves around what's in my phone. (And, by virtue of being in my phone, also on my computer and my iPad, without me having to do anything, which is an important part of the magic.)