When I was a teenager my trying to introduce me to the use of the Daytimer calendar system. It was a paper-based calendar ordered through the mail. He usef his Daytimer at the ploce department to religiously keep notes on almost everything that happened around him and what he did. Those notes turnef into a wall of notebooks that he could refer back to when questions came up.
He bought me my first Daytimer and I thought it was ridiculous. A day for a piece of paper for each day of school? I Already haD a notebook system. There was folders and binders for each class and everything organized and there. Not very well, mind you, but that was my organization system that got me through high school with A’s and B’s. Not too shabby!
He didn’t give up on me though and bought me more Daytimer notebooks each year until I started buying them for myself. I used some of them in college but not very many. I did not like the option to lug around a little notebook for months. I actually at one point started using the wallet size notebook but that was too small. When I was in traffic management network the first time I had a friend using a notebook system that was a half-size notebook. I enjoyed that because of the different colors. But the thing that I enjoyed the most was I was when I made my own notebook pages. I didn’t have to spend money on pages from Daytimer. I actually made my own weekly pages and printed them out from the computer and then copied and wrote in the needs for each week. I had my own two page monthly layout that was very handy in my notebook. I scaled it up to 8.5 x 11 at one point and enjoyed the roominess but didn’t feel like my life had enough going on that I should continue using that big of a page. It was easier wide papers because I could just shove them in notebook and need. But that became a little unwieldy and I didn’t really have a need so I stoppes using it.
At some point in the early 2000s I started using a web based calendar. I tried to use Outlook, but because Microsoft was so hacked in Outlook (and still is) I started using other calendars. I tried Yahoo and it was just goofy.
But then Google came along and they came out with their calendar and I was hooked. I have used Google Calendar ever since. I still use the calendar. I have my children using Google Calendars ever since I started using them. My wife uses them. I use it for my work. And I have started publishing a couple of things on Google calendars publicly so that people can subscribe to them (positivewordchallenge.com). It’s pretty cool and it works really well.
Any online calendar at this point is better than paper. Although if you need paper that works and can be used really well. But the online calendar thing allows you to have your calendar anywhere you go as long as you have access to the Internet. Oftentimes you have an app that is a calendar and that can give you reminders and pop things up on your screen when you’re looking at it. And you get a lot done. And you can capture things live when you’re there to your calendar and have it available to you anywhere in the solar system almost instantly.
Because of the Google calendar the way it works I actually use a program to access the Google calendar and speak to me some of the things that are happening. And I haven’t several calendard for different kinds of events like my shifts of work, my wife’s assignments, birthdays and anniversaries, and that sort of thing. It’s worked really well for me and I think the they could work for almost anybody.
Here’s a link to the Google calendar: calendar.google.com
And here’s a link to the positive word challenge Google calendar that I used to publish the positive word challenge word for each day: positivewordchallenge.com
It’s a cool use of a public calendar. I think that most organizations if they have any kind of public following should use a public calendar of some sort that people can subscribe to and consume in their own calendar apps.
I hope you enjoy using a calendar! It is one of those skills that can make you unstoppable!