Hot take: My old paper planner beat any app I've tried for daily scheduling

I spent last year bouncing between three different digital calendars and to-do apps for work and home. Nothing stuck because I kept forgetting to check them or the notifications annoyed me. Then my wife found my old Franklin Planner from 2019 in a box and I started using it again two months ago. It sounds backwards, but writing things down by hand forces me to actually commit to my schedule instead of treating it like a suggestion. The simple act of crossing off completed tasks gives me a small sense of progress that no app has matched. Anyone else find that old-school methods work better for the daily grind than all this fancy software?

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the_stella1mo agoMost Upvoted

Did your wife ever get annoyed with how much space a paper planner takes up on the kitchen counter? My buddy Mark went back to a whiteboard calendar last fall and his wife nearly lost it because the ink kept smudging on the wall. He finally just taped a big sheet of butcher paper to the fridge and uses colored markers for work stuff versus home stuff. The funniest part is he started writing his grocery list on there too and now his kids cross off items when they grab them from the pantry. It's a whole family system now and honestly it sounds way less annoying than getting pinged by an app every time someone adds a box of cereal.

the_emery1mo ago

Huh never thought about the counter space angle @the_stella but the butcher paper idea is genius.