I blame the internet and Facebook. Seriously though I was contemplating purchasing inserts for my day planner as I was much more organized with it.

I don't work from home, so anything that isn't mobile is pretty useless. When I'm at work, I use a legal pad for notes and other things but I set up tasks in Outlook so I get alerts when something is due. Otherwise, I use my iPhone because I can set up alerts for specific days. All of my bills come around the same time each month - I could write "pay power bill" every month or I could just set up a recurring task that alerts me every month.

I actually think its pretty wasteful to purchase a physical calendar when calendars come standard with the iPhone, Blackberry and all computer programs.

I am going back to a write in month-at-glance day planner after 3 years of phone alerts. It doesn't work for me. I become habituated to the constant phone beeps, don't hear them, or hear them but am absorbed in other things, etc...I want a tangible record of what I did and where I have been. Plus, I am just tired of the phone being a third appendage. So I like the wall mount calendar. Especially as a way for a family to keep track of multiple appointments.

This calendar does look a little different in how it displays the days/weeks. Is there anything in particular about it (other than its impossible to ignore size) that makes you feel it is more productive than any other calendar? Just curious.

I recently put up a huge (2' x 3') post it board (that was in my outbox) to write down all the stuff I was realizing I needed to do around the house, as I was doing the different Cure assignments. It is completely full which is depressing to look at on such a large scale. I don't think the huge board will be something I keep up forever. I hope that someday the list stops growing, and that the list starts shrinking!

I moved my Cure to do list from paper to Excel, but it is not working out that well. I'm not in the habit of looking at it everyday, so it is not staying updated and I am not reminded of what I can fit in that evening. I got a little carried away with the info I'm tracking, so it is not easy to see it all on one screen.... so it is still a work in progress.

I too love paper. I think it is the physicalness of it. I can actually hold it and show it to someone at will. I am very much behind the trend of gadgets these days though. Although many are super cool, I am not 100% convinced of their necessity for me. I am about to start my 2 year trial though with a smartphone.

I maintain a desk calendar with all of my work meetings outlined; it stays open on my desk. Off site activities are also put into my phone so I know where I need to be an when. I have a 5 days a week mousepad with a to do list for each day; on Monday I write down all the major tasks for the week and any major appointments. Minor tasks are added to each day in the morning when I arrive at work, and are crossed off accordingly. On Fridays, the sheet is removed and filed for future reference (activity reports). It works for me about 98% of the time - I forget at least one meeting a semester.

I'm pleased to see a large calendar that isn't a stendig, but this one makes you use a list-style organization. Lists just look jumbled to me and I don't keep track of what's in them very well. I need a large calendar that has separated squares - but with white space to write in rather than huge numbers like the stendig. Anyone seen that?

For those who want to write down everything but feel bad about all the waste, you can get huge reusable (use whiteboard markers) year-long calendars for offices/conference rooms. They are massive, there's not always a lot of space on each individual day, but there's usually note areas along the bottom where you can put in a date and more details. Color coding would probably be necessary.

the OP's example is a 12-hr school day. i don't know who punished their kids (and teachers!!) with a 12-hr day. more like 6. and i think, even in our facebook-laden world, getting 6 productive hours out of the day is still possible. especially when you consider that in high school, a good chunk of those 6 hours is spent watching and listening to a teacher, not actually DOING the work yourself. it's also a lot of varied small tasks, which are more stimulating and less tiring than doing the same thing, over and over, for 6 hours.

anyway, i know that's just a silly premise to talk about a wall calendar, but yeah. high school wasn't a magical time of hyperproductivity. the internet and facebook really are to blame for inefficiency, though. people (i.e. me) reward themselves with internet breaks. 30 minutes of work? i'll check my email. 30 more minutes of work? i'll go on AT. 30 more minutes? facebook! unless your work computer needs to be online in order for your work to happen, disconnect for at least 4 hours while you work. nothing bad will happen, you won't miss the end of the world in those 4 hours, and you'll be shocked at how much more you get done.

I tried to use the calendar and note functions on my phone and they just didn't work for me. I like to write things down. I have two paper calendars with squares for each day so I can jot down appointments, social events, etc. I keep one at work and the other at home. Denisegk, I bought my calendars at Barnes & Noble.

I use Outlook for meetings at work. As for work assignments and deadlines, I just make a to-do list on a note pad. I keep a small notebook (nothing fancy) with me for jotting down items to buy at the supermarket and any thing else I need to keep track of that isn't time-related.

Yes!! I have a giant no nonsense calendar to write every dang thing on. It's a bare bones at-a-glance calendar that has really big boxes and is made of normal paper, instead of that pretty, shiny paper that makes felt tip writing get blurry. I'm so not OCD at all, so I make my paper calendar OCD for me.
Green is for anything that earns me money, so I put my work schedule in that color. I'm a nurse, so there is NO pattern at all. If I have a show to put my art in, that goes in green too
Red is for fun, because it stands out amid the other colors, so I put dates with friends or dates with myself . Museum show openings, concerts, movies etc go in this category
Blue is for Jew(ish), so I put the choir rehearsals, adult learning in the synagogue, committee meetings, special holiday events...
Black is for mundane appts like Drs, dentists, vets, physical trainer (if only I had one), massages (which could go in red too, I think) and anything that isn't for money, fun, or Jewish life.
Those dots on my iPhone calendar that are all the same color, or worse, the wrong color because I didnt' choose the right calendar when I entered it, tell me nothing. I'm not always near a computer for the google calendar.
I post this giant paper calendar where I'll pass it often when I'm home...kitchen or bathroom works best for me.

Denisegk- Office Max has these At-A-Glance calendars and it's still January, so they should still have a few.

btw, these squares are big enough to also use as a tracking device for things like when you watered the plants last, or did some kind of exercise, or called your mom....

I have a calendar widget (simple calendar) on my android phone that displays all of my upcoming tasks on my desktop so I have no excuse not to see to-dos.

Sistervashti, that is very helpful!

I like a paper calendar, too, as I've returned to school and I have lots of due dates. They aren't as pretty as the one here, but I've been printing free monthly calendars, writing my assignments and other stuff on them, then taking them with me in my school bag. Link is here: http://www.printfree.com/Calendars.htm.

thank you! i haven't been to an office store in forever so it'll be like a field trip. thanks very much.

I tend to use my own calendar - stuck up at work http://www.etsy.com/listing/120894699/bahamas-photo-calendar?
and my iphone for appointments and reminders.