Friday's Unscientific Poll: Paper planners

[nanila]

I know I'm a slow-moving mammal when it comes to the Internet. I mean hey, I'm still actively using LiveJournal and am suspicious of these new-fangled innovations like Tumblr and Instagram. But it sometimes surprises people to see that I keep a paper diary. I do use an electronic calendar (for work; Microsoft Outlook) but it's not my primary source for my list of daily tasks and meeting reminders. If I don't physically write things down, I don't remember to do them nearly as well as if I've put pen to paper in the process of committing them to memory. So I'm curious if there's anyone else out there who is still stubbornly clinging to their paper calendar or planner, or if I'm finally approaching an age when I can start becoming properly Luddite.

Poll #17246 Paper planners

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 55

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For scheduling, I primarily rely upon

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An electronic calendar (e.g. Outlook, Google)
28 (50.9%)

A paper calendar or planner
24 (43.6%)

Post-it notes stuck to mymonitor/my mirror/my forehead/various household appliances
1 (1.8%)

My brain
2 (3.6%)

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[rmc28]

Scheduling is an electronic calendar service run by Fastmail, who also provide our family email accounts. It's a shared calendar with Tony on which all child appointments and family-affecting appointments for me and Tony go. I have a separate private calendar (which I can see alongside the family calendar on web or phone) which I primarily use for scheduling my OU study and phone calls to family.

To-do list is mostly my personal email inbox. I am experimenting with the app Regularly for recurring tasks, since kaberett recommended it, and it is going well so far. At work (when I get back there) I tend to use a mixture of writing-in-notebook and asking people to email me with the details of what they want.

Shopping lists I tend to do on paper, but I'm looking into shared list apps because Tony and I both spot things-needed at different times and in different ways.