I used to swear by my little paper planner. For what seems like eons, I haven’t been using it. My notepad has kept my todo list and I’ve lived with emails or memory for appointments. Strangely, I’ve continued to cart my planner between work and home every day.
This week I had more than one or two time-sensitive events to remember–beyond my brain’s threshold. Today at lunch, I brought my planner with the intention of transferring appointments from my notebook.
Glancing back to the last item on my todo list from early May, I saw this item, scrawled unusually in pen:
buy pencil lead
This has fueled my desire to finally switch to a computer-based calendar. There is no reason why I should stop “plannering” only for lack of pencil lead (which I greatly prefer to pen for the li’l planner that isn’t too forgiving of mistakes or changes).
Since my laptop is a Mac, I figure I’ll use iCal. I’d love to find out about online services that might either replace iCal or sync with it. In the meantime, it will be a remarkable accomplishment just to move away from paper.
What do you use to keep track of life?
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