What kind of calendar or planner do you use?

I have a wall calendar to be able to see month to month and a dry erase calendar for the family events. Otherwise my phone is my calendar.

 

Just Google Calendar and lists on my phone at the moment but ideally I work best with a super visual calendar or planner or both depending on the situation - I have often had both at once, one to keep with me and the other at home to see stuff quickly at a glance.

 

I use a combination of Apple Calendar and Google Calendar. I switched to digital in 2018 and much prefer it. Occasionally I miss colorful ink pens, but that's all.

 

Google calendar for me

 

Since it is just me, I don't have to track a whole lot. Some appointments I will put on my google calendar but I don't look at it very often.

I found a calendar at Wal-Mart a couple years ago that I really liked. It is a monthly calendar that goes across 2 pages and is for 2 years. It is soft bound and is punched to fit in a 3-ring binder. I'm on my 2nd one and it ends this December. Need to start stalking the calendar aisle at Wal-Mart. It is part of the See It Bigger line of calendars from the PlanAhead company. I have it in a 3-ring binder and it sits on my desk by the computer.

 

All appointments and stuff that other family members are involved in or need to know goes in Google Calendar. Even my 12 year old has access to that, so he can see his stuff too. It keeps us from double booking anything or ending up with too many crazy running around days.

For me, I also have a printed planner I created myself. I keep the main to-do's for the week, dinner plans (although that comes from Plan to Eat into Google Calendar too, so that's redundant), and I write down appointments so I can see what's going on without always looking at my google calendar. I also use it to track water, shopping lists, errands, and my project for the week. It's the little details and goal pieces, while google calendar is more the "when I leave the house I go___" things.

 

At the office I have a 8.5x11 paper calendar that shows a full month across two pages. Each day has a lined box for appointments/notes. I’ve been using this style for decades.

My sister makes a family wall calendar (Shutterfly) and that’s what I use at home. I do put some things into my phone’s calendar, but I prefer paper calendars.

 

I use a calendar app called Cozi, which covers the whole family. I pay $20 a year for it, but it is amazing!! It lets me set who is going to what appointments and when and send reminders, lol... It also lets me make grocery lists, and whatever lists I want. And, it keeps track of all the birthdays. SO, basically, if it's not in the cozi calendar, it's not happening!!

But, I also have a wall calendar up for the kids to see when big things are happening. And, I have a white board for the daily schedule which I used to update every day but have been neglecting lately because all the kids are in pretty set daily routines. When I have new foster lovebugs, I always update the daily schedule so they can check what to expect every day any time they want to!

Huggles!!
~Sarah~

 

I just look on my phone. I do a photo calendar for my brother every year with a few photos from the prior year and then the full calendar below.

 

I use the calendar on my phone ...

 

I am terrible with digital calendars and such. I need to write things down lol. I have Happy Planners - classic size at home and teacher planner at school. My school uses Google Calendar and I am so bad about checking it. I need something that's laying right in front of me at all times! I go through their calendar every little bit and write all the stuff down in mine.

 

My phone calendar. Though I think I'm going to use Google Calendar for family stuff... or just switch from Apple to Google.... I've only really started using my calendar on my phone his year. Previous to now, I was making lists. I still occasionally make lists, but I'm growing out of that habit.

 

I also went heavily into bullet journaling for a while... and I still love the concept of it, and the flexibility it offers! I just kept finding that I didn't have time to set the pages up how I wanted for the upcoming week. So I now have a hybrid system.
1. I put all my preplanning / scheduling / events etc in my google calendar. There are five of us in the family, so I can keep events by person, as well as a calendar for work, one for birthdays, etc. So that's my first step.
2. I have a disc-bound planner. I am definitely a paper planner girl. I'm using a HP classic right now, but I'm currently using 'after-market' planner inserts I've toyed around with designing my own, but again, it's all about having time.
3. I still use a bullet journal but more for projects, brain dumps, journaling, daily notes, etc. I don't want my disc-bound planner to be so crammed full of stuff it bursts, so this seemed like a good solution. It lets me keep my love of bullet journaling in action without requiring me to set up the weekly pages and such.

 

I've contemplated using separate planners for work and home, but I just can't seem to get it right. I feel like if all of my appointments and responsibilities aren't in one place, I'm destined to overlook SOMETHING! I'm glad you've found something that works for you, though! It's such a great feeling to find planner peace.

I expect someday I may return back to bullet journaling. I'm so drawn to it. I just don't see it as feasible right now.

 

@AliSarah - I use COZI too! It's great for the whole family, to-do lists, and grocery lists. I love that my hubby can add things to the grocery list when he spots something out or he wants something & on the rare occasion that he goes to the store he has the list available to him.

I also have a wall calendar for the kids to look at and then I have my own planner where I organize all the things (meals, schedules, work-out plans, homeschool stuff, to-do lists, etc...).