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People who buy physical calendars: why?

m463 2y ago
I think there's a huge market for things in plain sight. That said, with new displays you can hang on a wall, there might be a replacement. Related, I wonder why we can't store more of our stuff in shallow drawers where everything is visible (think rolling tool chest drawers where you can open one and see all your wrenches at once)
LVB 2y ago
Not buy, but I print out a 2-month "calendar" (just the current + next month) every month. I love scribbling on it, drawing arrows, x-ing stuff out, colors, whatever. I do 2 months since near the end of the month, stuff will bleed into the upcoming month. On the 1st, I thoroughly enjoy printing out a clean version for the next 2 months and copying the rollover items. It is a satisfying ritual.
nluken 2y ago
A calendar with good art or photography can be worth it as a wall decoration alone. I find them especially nice for the kitchen because it isn't the end of the world if a $20 calendar gets wet or dirty.
toast0 2y ago
I haven't bought one, but they're handy to write future events on for reference, and they often have a pleasant picture to look at for every month. In my house, we ended up with a makeshift calendar on a whiteboard with the basic events. Trash + X day (greenwaste and recyling alternate), school days, practice days, vacations and visitors, volunteering. Everyone can glance at it and know what's going on. Computerized calendars are nice too, but don't live in a certain place to be looked at in passing.
baq 2y ago
I have 4 kids. Having a centrally visible (kitchen wall), huge (A3 or bigger) zero power consumption display of the family calendar is absolutely fucking essential to my and my spouse's scheduling needs, by which I actually mean our sanity.
- pavel_lishin 2y ago
  We just hung up a large dry-erase one in the hallway. My wife has wanted one for awhile, and it's an excellent way to make sure that our child can add things to the calendar that are important to her, that she or we will otherwise forget about. (For example, today's busy schedule includes climbing a tree with a neighbor friend at 11am, which is somewhat frivolous, but there have been things she's been upset about missing because she either didn't mention it to us, or we forgot to jot down in our calendars.)
  - baq 2y ago
    Got that too! Though we use it for actually whiteboarding math homework and tried a chore kanban-ish board (which even sort of worked for a couple weeks). The kitchen calendar is approved for writes by the kids, too.
quartesixte 2y ago
Sometimes they have nice designs or pretty pictures. Circling an important date takes very little effort. No opportunity for distractions. That whole "flip through the months to think through future schedules" is actually a pretty good UX.

m463 2y ago

I think there's a huge market for things in plain sight. That said, with new displays you can hang on a wall, there might be a replacement. Related, I wonder why we can't store more of our stuff in shallow drawers where everything is visible (think rolling tool chest drawers where you can open one and see all your wrenches at once)

LVB 2y ago

Not buy, but I print out a 2-month "calendar" (just the current + next month) every month. I love scribbling on it, drawing arrows, x-ing stuff out, colors, whatever. I do 2 months since near the end of the month, stuff will bleed into the upcoming month. On the 1st, I thoroughly enjoy printing out a clean version for the next 2 months and copying the rollover items. It is a satisfying ritual.

nluken 2y ago

A calendar with good art or photography can be worth it as a wall decoration alone. I find them especially nice for the kitchen because it isn't the end of the world if a $20 calendar gets wet or dirty.

toast0 2y ago

I haven't bought one, but they're handy to write future events on for reference, and they often have a pleasant picture to look at for every month. In my house, we ended up with a makeshift calendar on a whiteboard with the basic events. Trash + X day (greenwaste and recyling alternate), school days, practice days, vacations and visitors, volunteering. Everyone can glance at it and know what's going on. Computerized calendars are nice too, but don't live in a certain place to be looked at in passing.

baq 2y ago

I have 4 kids. Having a centrally visible (kitchen wall), huge (A3 or bigger) zero power consumption display of the family calendar is absolutely fucking essential to my and my spouse's scheduling needs, by which I actually mean our sanity.

pavel_lishin 2y ago
We just hung up a large dry-erase one in the hallway. My wife has wanted one for awhile, and it's an excellent way to make sure that our child can add things to the calendar that are important to her, that she or we will otherwise forget about. (For example, today's busy schedule includes climbing a tree with a neighbor friend at 11am, which is somewhat frivolous, but there have been things she's been upset about missing because she either didn't mention it to us, or we forgot to jot down in our calendars.)
- baq 2y ago
  Got that too! Though we use it for actually whiteboarding math homework and tried a chore kanban-ish board (which even sort of worked for a couple weeks). The kitchen calendar is approved for writes by the kids, too.

quartesixte 2y ago

Sometimes they have nice designs or pretty pictures. Circling an important date takes very little effort. No opportunity for distractions. That whole "flip through the months to think through future schedules" is actually a pretty good UX.