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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[fragilespark]

I couldn't quite fit my answer into the poll results, so here it is:

Work: Outlook calendar and recurring Tasks. However, I don't use it on my iPhone, only my laptop.

Home: my main day to day tool is a Monday to Sunday wipeboard that is stuck on my fridge. I note down any thing and everything I need to remember, from when I want to take the bins out to meeting a friend as the week rolls around. As soon as I have done something, or the day has passed, I wipe it off and write the next day number. I draw a line to separate the week. So today* it looks like this:

11 Monday
12 Tuesday
13 Wednesday
14 Thursday
15 Friday
*9 Saturday
10 Sunday

It's amazing how this one thing makes me feel like I know where I am and what's coming in the next 7 days, and if I don't get some of the stuff done, I can just move it to another day or wipe it off.

I then have a small monthly calendar (which is also a list of days going down, as opposed to a grid) hanging in my living room to help with more long term/fixed plans - this I use to get an idea of upcoming events.