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I feel this hasn’t much to do with calenders themselves, but I’m really curious why you wouldn’t stick to schedules you set electronically. Is it about the abi

I feel this hasn’t much to do with calenders themselves, but I’m really curious why you wouldn’t stick to schedules you set electronically. Is it about the ability to edit it afterward ? Or because it’s not in your hand writing ?

psychphysic 4y ago
I think the biggest and most obvious when it goes wrong factor is. That electronic calenders are less intentional people chuck over potential times and I don't necessarily consider if they are practical slots. Often I have multiple, up to five, conflicts with various meetings automatically appear in my calender. If I personally write it into my calender I have a stronger connection with the decision to attend or act at that time. And I just have a better sense in my mind of what that means in terms of that's in a fortnight, that's the day before Christmas etc. But what's come up in these replies is I'm also at a different team structure that my previous experience with Google calendars. Maybe I'm just not good in a large workforce Vs in a small 5 person team in a 20 office.
- makeitdouble 4y ago
  Thanks! I think having a personal, isolated and well goomed version of what will be your day's schedule is an understandable proposition. You're probably right that it comes down to the organization's attitude towards time. I currently have meetings that magically appear a few hours before they start, and some disappear or move around. We get Slack messages to discuss and/or negociate these changes, but we see calendering as something fundamentally flexible. Using pen and paper for that would just make us waste paper without affecting how it works in practice (thinking about it, I was in a startup where the day+week's main schedule was on the corner of a whiteboard, and it would get rewritten quite a bit)

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I feel this hasn’t much to do with calenders themselves, but I’m really curious why you wouldn’t stick to schedules you set electronically. Is it about the abi

by makeitdouble 4y ago

psychphysic 4y ago
I think the biggest and most obvious when it goes wrong factor is. That electronic calenders are less intentional people chuck over potential times and I don't necessarily consider if they are practical slots. Often I have multiple, up to five, conflicts with various meetings automatically appear in my calender. If I personally write it into my calender I have a stronger connection with the decision to attend or act at that time. And I just have a better sense in my mind of what that means in terms of that's in a fortnight, that's the day before Christmas etc. But what's come up in these replies is I'm also at a different team structure that my previous experience with Google calendars. Maybe I'm just not good in a large workforce Vs in a small 5 person team in a 20 office.
- makeitdouble 4y ago
  Thanks! I think having a personal, isolated and well goomed version of what will be your day's schedule is an understandable proposition. You're probably right that it comes down to the organization's attitude towards time. I currently have meetings that magically appear a few hours before they start, and some disappear or move around. We get Slack messages to discuss and/or negociate these changes, but we see calendering as something fundamentally flexible. Using pen and paper for that would just make us waste paper without affecting how it works in practice (thinking about it, I was in a startup where the day+week's main schedule was on the corner of a whiteboard, and it would get rewritten quite a bit)