poindexter FORTRAN wrote to All <=-

I shopped around for planner systems. New, they've gone way up in price
as paper planning becomes a niche, but used there are a lot of nice binders - some models I remember from the 90s. I wonder if paper
planning might not be worth an experiment for 30 days, if anything for nostalgia's sake.

I did Franklin when the company I worked for 'bought into' it. Before that
I was using another one that I don't even remember the name of!

I went all digital and never looked back... Until my wife got into "Happy Planner." TUL makes compatible stuff, so now I carry one with me. We have punches so I can punch the Sunday School book and have it with me whereever
I go. I have to do lists, and track my milage there until I 'catch up'
with the digital copy, etc.

I love it!

(but I do wish I could remember the name of the other... daytimer maybe?
I remember it had green...)


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poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Adept <=-

Calendaring. It used to be that people kept schedules, now
appointments
move around much more - makes it difficult to keep a calendar updated.

Yeah - my wife keeps her calendar in Happy Planner. She has one for teaching, one for doctor visits, etc. I do all that in (almost typed iCal there) Apple's Calendar. That way it's on my laptop, phone, tablet, etc.

Yes, I know Google Calendar can do it too, but I like this one. :-)




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Re: Re: Memory loss
By: Jimmy Anderson to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue May 06 2025 07:43 pm

(but I do wish I could remember the name of the other... daytimer maybe? I remember it had green...)

Daytimer and Filofax were the other "commercial" planner brands.
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poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

Re: Re: Memory loss
By: Jimmy Anderson to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue May 06 2025 07:43 pm

(but I do wish I could remember the name of the other... daytimer maybe? I remember it had green...)

Daytimer and Filofax were the other "commercial" planner brands.

Must have been Daytimer then. Had an assistant manager at a job that
SWORE by them, so I tried them and like it! But then the next company
I went to was the 'Franklin' one. I had also moved to outside Memphis,
and there was a mall there that had a Franklin store!



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Jimmy Anderson wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Must have been Daytimer then. Had an assistant manager at a job that
SWORE by them, so I tried them and like it! But then the next company
I went to was the 'Franklin' one. I had also moved to outside Memphis,
and there was a mall there that had a Franklin store!

They were handy - when you loaded it up with reference information you
needed it was like carrying your own internet with you before
there was one.

Franklin tried to modify their plan to fit electronic planners - they
had a Franklin series of Palm apps, a standalone app for Windows, and
finally a series of scripts that Franklin-ized Outlook. None of them
took hold.



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poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

Jimmy Anderson wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Must have been Daytimer then. Had an assistant manager at a job that
SWORE by them, so I tried them and like it! But then the next company
I went to was the 'Franklin' one. I had also moved to outside Memphis,
and there was a mall there that had a Franklin store!

They were handy - when you loaded it up with reference information you needed it was like carrying your own internet with you before
there was one.

Franklin tried to modify their plan to fit electronic planners - they
had a Franklin series of Palm apps, a standalone app for Windows, and finally a series of scripts that Franklin-ized Outlook. None of them
took hold.

I kinda remember that... Before those days the PC on my desk at
work had Lotus SmartSuite and it had "Organizer" on it. I didn't use
it much, but remember it looking like an analog calendar. :-)


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jimmylogan wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I kinda remember that... Before those days the PC on my desk at
work had Lotus SmartSuite and it had "Organizer" on it. I didn't use
it much, but remember it looking like an analog calendar. :-)

The apex of skeuomorphic computer design - Lotus Organizer with a
simulated "binder" and "rings".



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poindexter FORTRAN wrote to jimmylogan <=-

jimmylogan wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I kinda remember that... Before those days the PC on my desk at
work had Lotus SmartSuite and it had "Organizer" on it. I didn't use
it much, but remember it looking like an analog calendar. :-)

The apex of skeuomorphic computer design - Lotus Organizer with a
simulated "binder" and "rings".

Exactly! Even tabs too, IIRC, for different letters in the contact
list. :-)


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