Day planner thingies?

[Perd Hapley]

I need some way to keep track of what I'm up to. What works for you people?

Android app? At-a-Glance planner? Strings tied around your fingers?

[Ben]

I pretty much default to Google calendar for everything. Appointments, reminders to myself, etc. Since notifications pop up on whatever device I'm using or have with me, it has become the best way for me not to forget stuff. Especially because on my phone, the notification will continue to pop up until I dismiss it, and even then whatever stuff I have for the day still show up on that "swipe down" menu on the phone so that I can see a list of everything I still need to do.

When I make paper notes,  I always wander off doing other stuff and then don't read them until I get back to wherever I placed them. All too often way too late for them to do me any good.

[HeroHog]

My iPhone and my Outlook 2007 is linked to my calendar, task list and phone directory.

[K Frame]

Google calendar on my phone. Ties in with my Google e-mail account.

[RoadKingLarry]

https://www.amazon.com/Green-Military-Memorandum-Bound-7530-00-243-9366/dp/B0088OMX5U

[dogmush]

Google calendar on my phone. Ties in with my Google e-mail account.

That.  +1

[MechAg94]

If it is just keeping up with your schedule, I would say use the google calendar.  If you want to also keep up with notes, to do lists, etc, a planner with paper would be better IMO. 

[dogmush]

If it is just keeping up with your schedule, I would say use the google calendar.  If you want to also keep up with notes, to do lists, etc, a planner with paper would be better IMO. 

Do you even smartphone Bro?

[MechAg94]

Do you even smartphone Bro?

I don't like doing notes on the phone.  I prefer written.  IMO, it is easier to review later and keep up with.  Each to his own I guess.

[KD5NRH]

Dry erase marker and the driver side window.

On the inside unless you want your schedule to be remarkably open on rainy days.

When I was living south of Dallas and going to DeVry, I had a 40-60 minute commute each way, and would work out most of my homework on the windows while stuck in traffic.

[K Frame]

Go into the play store and search on day planner or organizer. Lots of possibilities.

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[dogmush]

I don't like doing notes on the phone.  I prefer written.  IMO, it is easier to review later and keep up with.  Each to his own I guess.

Certainly to each their own, but those are the exact reasons I take notes on the phone.  I can dictate (or swype) a quick note or list, save it.  Tie it to a calendar event, with a reminder in advance if I want. I can include hyperlinks on the note that work, send them to other folks in the event, receive updated shopping lists while I'm at the store, and the wife finds one more thing she needs.

Honestly the tying to meetings in my calendar is the best.  Jot a note, take a picture (That I can write notes on i.e. THIS is what the meeting is about) tie it to an event, and it'll go out with the invites so everyone at the meeting is tracking.  Then tell it to remind me 24hrs (or whatever) out so that I can review it.

The wife has worked on geotagged notes, so she can send me shopping lists in the morning, and the phone will ding as I'm passing the grocery store that evening on the way home, and I can grab what we need.

Written notes in my life are always exactly not where I need them to be, and usually in the pile of stickys stuck to my monitor.

[MechAg94]

Don't get me wrong, I do use Google Calendar.  That and google mail are what is used at work and they are both tied into our phones also.  But when it comes to notes and others stuff, I prefer to write it down.  Everything is online.  I like to just stay on paper for some things.  

[Hawkmoon]

I just use the calendar that's built into my Samsung Galaxy S3 cell phone operating system.

[Brad Johnson]

Brad

[K Frame]

Don't get me wrong, I do use Google Calendar.  That and google mail are what is used at work and they are both tied into our phones also.  But when it comes to notes and others stuff, I prefer to write it down.  Everything is online.  I like to just say on paper for some things.  

Paper?

Not durable enough.

[dogmush]

Entertainingly, my phone is more durable than paper.  It doesn't crumple or tear, and is waterproof.

[K Frame]

Entertainingly, my phone is more durable than paper.  It doesn't crumple or tear, and is waterproof.

And my tablet, shown in my previous post, doesn't require batteries.

Nyah!

[dogmush]

And my tablet, shown in my previous post, doesn't require batteries.

Nyah!

harder to add capacity though.

[MechAg94]

harder to add capacity though.

Did you notice all the spare tablets in the picture?  They are easy to archive as well. 

[Monkeyleg]

Dry erase marker and the driver side window.

On the inside unless you want your schedule to be remarkably open on rainy days.

When I was living south of Dallas and going to DeVry, I had a 40-60 minute commute each way, and would work out most of my homework on the windows while stuck in traffic.

:D :D :D

I use my phone. It's with me all the time.

[markdido]

https://www.amazon.com/Green-Military-Memorandum-Bound-7530-00-243-9366/dp/B0088OMX5U

Ah, the infamous "wheel book"

Don't know how many of those I burned through in 23 years in the Navy.

[Ben]

Ah, the infamous "wheel book"

Don't know how many of those I burned through in 23 years in the Navy.

I was cracking up because that link had in "related items" the fugly green memo books that I used to use, and they're asking eight ducats a pop for them. I'm pretty sure the GSA (or whatever gov office we ordered them from) price was $1 (probably made by prisoners), if that. Nice profit for somebody. 

https://www.amazon.com/Military-Book-Memorandum-LogBook-7530-00-222-3521/dp/B0064M7X30/ref=pd_sim_229_6?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B0064M7X30&pd_rd_r=NJ9F17P8R3D3EY1E1WBX&pd_rd_w=U6yR1&pd_rd_wg=ot3om&psc=1&refRID=NJ9F17P8R3D3EY1E1WBX

[Unisaw]

Outlook, iPhone, iPad.  Constantly backed up, readily available and a strong password.

[Perd Hapley]

Thanks for the recommendations. I got a dead tree planner.

I was surprised that the day-planners I found started at nearly $20. At that price level, nearly all of them were styled for women. I wonder if that means that women are more busy, or if they need more help keeping track of stuff, or if men just tend to use Outlook/Google Calendar, like all you folks. My wife suggested that women were more inclined to worry about the details.

Then again, maybe most men use the windshield and marker method.