Comments on: 10 reasons to throw out your paper diary

By: Steven Kryger

Steven Kryger — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:36:19 +0000

You’re very welcome to stick with your paper calendar Kim I’m sold on the benefits of electronic though! (but I do keep my Moleskin for journaling – is that one ‘l’ or two?!)

By: KIM

KIM — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:04:53 +0000

Well, I suppose if “efficiency” is the number one priority, there is a bit of an argument toward electronic calendars. (As a side note, “diaries” in American English are only the cute little diaries cute little girls write their cute little secrets in; I think we’d call what you’re referring to “planners.” Threw me off at first; there does seem to be something innately more personal about writing cute little secrets with a cute little pen.) However, I think there are other factors to be considered besides efficiency.

First, they might actually be less efficient for some people — case in point, my mother. She’d go utterly berserk, which really wouldn’t help the efficiency any.

Second, like Anne-Marie points out, there’s just something about writing things down and, might I add, being able to physically cross them off when they’re finished!

Third, who says you can’t use both? Never hurts to have a back-up — what if your electronic system gets damaged and loses all your plans? Of course this can happen to paper copies as well, but it’s no reason not to keep them.

Finally, I think there are some people paper planners are just naturally more suited to. Electronic ones certainly have their place with their sorts of people, but I think there’s something to be said for letting individuals make their choices about which one best fits their lifestyle.

So, I do see and take your points — I just think I’d rather stick with my paper calendar. Besides, it was a gift! (My brother gets me one as a Christmas present every year.)

By: Steven Kryger

Steven Kryger — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:05:31 +0000

I agree with you Anne-Marie that people like to use paper diaries, I’m just not sure they’re that efficient. I don’t think electronic calendars are particularly expensive either – not when most phones come with (increasingly) useful calendar functions. But, each to their own!

By: Anne-Marie Cook

Anne-Marie Cook — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:56:51 +0000

I think that there are still an awful lot of people that like to use a paper diary. I agree with Calum that they are a lot cheaper. There is also something very satisfying about seeing things written down. We have a great range of paper diaries available in our shop, http://www.giltedged.co.uk/shop and millions of people still love our diaries !

By: Alistair Bain

Alistair Bain — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:10:18 +0000

I’m late to the party here. Great article. But can you please tell me what I should use to sync my Google Calender to my 2 year old Nokia Phone? There are a number of free programs but I’m not sure. Oggsync is one.

I’ll follow Ben and get an iphone down the track seeing as I’ve just switched over to a MacBook. But for now I’ll wait.

Thanks

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By: Calum Henderson

Calum Henderson — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:59:10 +0000

To join in, I do enjoy using iCal on my mac, as well as the calender on my iPhone, I’ve never had any use of Google Calender, but do enjoy exporting events from Facebook straight into my calender.

However, paper diaries are still significantly cheaper for those who don’t already have a high tech mobile device.

By: Steven Kryger

Steven Kryger — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:40:03 +0000

Many (most?) phones have in-built calendars – my old Nokia did and I was able to add events to it manually, or sync it up with the calendar on my computer…

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:49:31 +0000

Sounds great, but what about when I don’t have my laptop with me? Sometimes the size and weight of my paper diary is ideal. If I had an iPhone or something that might do the trick, but I don’t.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:57:42 +0000

Thanks, Steve.

And now with iPhone 3.0 you can access all those Google calendars on the go, synced with your desktop and your phone.