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Honestly, this is where design really falls flat. It looks nice, the idea is appealing, but the result is awful. This thing is totally unusable. You need to re

by d--b 4y ago

Honestly, this is where design really falls flat. It looks nice, the idea is appealing, but the result is awful. This thing is totally unusable. You need to remember to slide the frame every month. It doesn't even tell you that you did or not. Sliding the frame requires checking the number of days there are in the month. When you're in the last week, having the 31 always there is a pain in the ass. Knowing the next month is kind of useful.

baisq 4y ago
It would work so much better if the frame had weekdays. >You need to remember to slide the frame every month And if you have a wall calendar you have to remember to tear down the page of the previous month every month...
- Anderkent 4y ago
  Except the wall calendar has the current month on it in big letters, so all you need to know is what month it is. This thing does not tell you if it's showing you the days for Jun or Jul also the entire point of a wall calendar is that you can make notes on specific days, isn't it?
  - april_22 4y ago
    maybe this is just a design thing to keep as an accessory with no real value
  - yellowapple 4y ago
    > also the entire point of a wall calendar is that you can make notes on specific days, isn't it? Which is still doable for this design, provided the backing is a whiteboard.
- Ensorceled 4y ago
  Yes, I forgot to tear off the month 29 days ago so every time I look at the calendar I keep thinking it's still May.
parkingrift 4y ago
It’s not nearly that complicated unless you just outright have no idea how many days are in a given month. Not sure how many adults don’t know that answer, but if you struggle to remember whether June has 30 or 31 days perhaps this calendar isn’t for you. It’s not for me either as I see no value in a physical calendar, but I’d imagine the people who do see that value are the same type of people who are aware that June has … let me just pull out my phone real quick… 30 days.
- baisq 4y ago
  There is an old trick that you can do with your knuckles: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Month_-_Knuckles_(en).svg/1200px-Month_-_Knuckles_(en).svg.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Mo...
- Aachen 4y ago
  > It’s not nearly that complicated unless you just outright have no idea how many days are in a given month. Not sure how many adults don’t know that answer Please straight up ask ten people, even if your circles are on average highly educated, and see how many know an arbitrary month (not significant ones like February, or December where the 31st is new year's) without having to think about it or count knuckles. Asking about the current or an adjacent month might also be something they remember from recently seeing calendars that tell you this information. I think it's very uncommon to have this memorized to the point where using a calendar that doesn't tell you is as easy as using one that does.
  - jackthezipper 4y ago
    >I think it's very uncommon to have this memorized I think this might be a cultural thing. A friend of mine from Taiwan was perplexed I didn't have this memorized, my reaction was the same as yours.
  - parkingrift 4y ago
    I don't think there is any correlation with level of education. I truly don't understand how people don't know this. There are a total of 12 months and the days per month absolutely never change outside of the occasional leap year in February. What's wrong with counting on knuckles? You adjust your calendar with this contraption once per month.
hnbad 4y ago
Wall calendars often have a horizontal stripe with a small window highlighting the current date. That would help solve the problem of forgetting to update it. You'd still need to remember how many days there are in the current month and you need to know the current date and day of the week to set it up but at least it seems workable.
sumtechguy 4y ago
My grandmother had a small desk paper weight sliding calendar from the 60s that she got as a promotional item from a bank. One side had the calendar and the slider and of course the bank name. The other side had a cheat sheet for year/month and what to set things to if you got lost. Think there were some plastic bits to clip over the days that were not in the month but those were lost to time. Think Matt Parker had a vid a few years ago on reusing calendars from previous years. 14 combinations I think was the total number of calendars you had to keep. But I could be remembering wrong.
- jxf 4y ago
  Yes, it's 14: the year can begin on one of 7 days (7 possibilities), and then it contains either 365 or 366 days (2 possibilities), for a total of 14.
skeyo 4y ago
Exactly, you need another calendar in order for this calendar to work.

by d--b 4y ago

baisq 4y ago

It would work so much better if the frame had weekdays. >You need to remember to slide the frame every month And if you have a wall calendar you have to remember to tear down the page of the previous month every month...

Anderkent 4y ago
Except the wall calendar has the current month on it in big letters, so all you need to know is what month it is. This thing does not tell you if it's showing you the days for Jun or Jul also the entire point of a wall calendar is that you can make notes on specific days, isn't it?
- april_22 4y ago
  maybe this is just a design thing to keep as an accessory with no real value
- yellowapple 4y ago
  > also the entire point of a wall calendar is that you can make notes on specific days, isn't it? Which is still doable for this design, provided the backing is a whiteboard.
Ensorceled 4y ago
Yes, I forgot to tear off the month 29 days ago so every time I look at the calendar I keep thinking it's still May.

parkingrift 4y ago

It’s not nearly that complicated unless you just outright have no idea how many days are in a given month. Not sure how many adults don’t know that answer, but if you struggle to remember whether June has 30 or 31 days perhaps this calendar isn’t for you. It’s not for me either as I see no value in a physical calendar, but I’d imagine the people who do see that value are the same type of people who are aware that June has … let me just pull out my phone real quick… 30 days.

baisq 4y ago
There is an old trick that you can do with your knuckles: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Month_-_Knuckles_(en).svg/1200px-Month_-_Knuckles_(en).svg.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Mo...
Aachen 4y ago
> It’s not nearly that complicated unless you just outright have no idea how many days are in a given month. Not sure how many adults don’t know that answer Please straight up ask ten people, even if your circles are on average highly educated, and see how many know an arbitrary month (not significant ones like February, or December where the 31st is new year's) without having to think about it or count knuckles. Asking about the current or an adjacent month might also be something they remember from recently seeing calendars that tell you this information. I think it's very uncommon to have this memorized to the point where using a calendar that doesn't tell you is as easy as using one that does.
- jackthezipper 4y ago
  >I think it's very uncommon to have this memorized I think this might be a cultural thing. A friend of mine from Taiwan was perplexed I didn't have this memorized, my reaction was the same as yours.
- parkingrift 4y ago
  I don't think there is any correlation with level of education. I truly don't understand how people don't know this. There are a total of 12 months and the days per month absolutely never change outside of the occasional leap year in February. What's wrong with counting on knuckles? You adjust your calendar with this contraption once per month.

hnbad 4y ago

Wall calendars often have a horizontal stripe with a small window highlighting the current date. That would help solve the problem of forgetting to update it. You'd still need to remember how many days there are in the current month and you need to know the current date and day of the week to set it up but at least it seems workable.

sumtechguy 4y ago

My grandmother had a small desk paper weight sliding calendar from the 60s that she got as a promotional item from a bank. One side had the calendar and the slider and of course the bank name. The other side had a cheat sheet for year/month and what to set things to if you got lost. Think there were some plastic bits to clip over the days that were not in the month but those were lost to time. Think Matt Parker had a vid a few years ago on reusing calendars from previous years. 14 combinations I think was the total number of calendars you had to keep. But I could be remembering wrong.

jxf 4y ago
Yes, it's 14: the year can begin on one of 7 days (7 possibilities), and then it contains either 365 or 366 days (2 possibilities), for a total of 14.

skeyo 4y ago

Exactly, you need another calendar in order for this calendar to work.