I use my iphone, but I still buy a cool calendar just to add a little more design in my office space. My favorite has always been the Pentagram Calendar! Typography at its best.

Google calendar synched to my Iphone. I use an errands program separately for things that I needto do with due dates instead of just appointments. Have a pretty desk calendar as art too :)

I have everything on my iPhone. If I forget to look at the calendar at home, I'm out of luck if I have somewhere to be that day. My phone goes where I go, so I get alerts.

I have a desk calendar at work, but I don't use it. It's just decoration.

I'm going the DIY route to use up a collection of papers and blank journals. A wall calendar just to keep up with the basic (date, appointments); a day planner for more detail as needed and journal; my BB phone for reminders. My life is very simple so I don't have to schedule everything.

I still use a filofax for personal use and am lost without it! For work I rely on a day book.

I have electronic calendars and have to use them for work, but I would be much happier if I could have a large yearly organiser on the wall to write on instead!

Day planner carried with you and refilled - why ruin a good thing? ..plus they are fun to look through at the end of the year. :) Although it's been harder and harder to find a good brand that puts out refills each year because of the switch to paperless organization.

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@lishlash - last year my father in law asked for a new filofax for Christmas, and we had to google it! Our generic term was always "day planner" regardless of the brand or type.

For scheduling, I use MS Outlook (business) and GCal (personal) but I sync the two to my iPod Touch so I can see everything at once.

I also have an artwork calendar in my kitchen and one published by my company in my office. I also have a very large fifteen-months-at-a-glance calendar in my office, which is handy since I am an accountant and must constantly refer to dates in other months.

I have a chalkboard which I use to create multicolored notes to myself of important dates (auditions, flights, etc.) But I use my iPhone to keep track of everything else. I can see at a glance how many days I booked work that month and what I have coming up. It's a great visual cue for me. I also carry around a mini notebook to keep track of the more detailed info (i.e. where we're filming, what time, what I'm wearing, etc.) So I guess I have three calendars!

- Multiple Google Calendars synced to iPhone, using gCal SMS reminders to keep me on time.
- Calvetica app on iPhone, cause it's purty.
- Remember the Milk on desktop and iPhone for all tasks, great and small.
- Moleskine, because sometimes you just want to write it down.

Next year, I'm switching back to the Slingshot day planner -- DIY created with lots of useful information, independent bookstore lists, book suggestions, etc.

I use a printable calendar from the web for decoration and marking off of the days. Then i keep a digital version handy such as Google Calendar to keep appointments etc.

Since I am Right brain too, I need visuals and I need tactile, something I can actually hold, touch and interact with. 11 years ago, I thought my daytimer dilemmas (i.e. finding that 'perfect one') were over-I bought a Palm Zire, and although I loved it and hw it made me feel tech savy, hip and oranized, the bottm line is....I just Love Stationary; fresh notebooks, new patterns and designs to suit my mood, I love the idea of being able to 'start over', and even though I rarely, read notebooks, journals and daytimers from the past, I do like to collect them for nostalgia.

I've tried Cozi, I've tried Moleskine, I've tried my iPod....none of them work for me like a dayplanner from Wal-Mart & a gel pen.

I've never had much luck with regular planners or electronic calendars (forget to write things in, forget to look at them), so I customized a system.

I use 5x8 cards that fit in a stand on my desk so they're always in sight. One has a weekly calendar for appointments/reminders, and the other is a prioritized task list.

In addition to this, I a small clipboard "docket" on my desk pre-printed with areas for logging contacts, shopping list, bill tracking, passwords, etc. At the end of a week, those items get noted/filed where they belong. The finished cards are filed by month and give me a great record of what I've been doing.

I use an electronic calendar at work but everything is backed up in the Franklin Covey organizer I've been refilling since 2002. The binder that I thought was outrageously expensive back then is still going strong even with heavy daily use!

I also get two huge calendars every year from cdjapan.com, one for my cubicle, one for home, just because I love them.

Like the author I use a beautiful art calendar, a smart phone calendar, a tear-off desk calendar for long-term planning for my ecommerce business, and a day planner for planning and daily notes. I also use the calender provided by my email server. Its all beginning to feel like too much. And I have fallen back on the use of a steno pad to keep a master list of to-dos! I want to downsize to about three of these.

I was a long time fan of the handwritten day planners. The ones I loved were by Graphic Image, and they had month at a glance and then week at a glance. They are bound in a colorful and sturdy faux leather.

Unfortunately, and pardon the fact that I am apples target audience, the Calander on iPhone is incredible. Especially since I can sync it with the calendar on my computer.

I have a pretty simple little calendar on my desk to keep track of the date and add a little whimsy. However, I keep track of my life through iCal on my computer and iPhone. Everything from work tasks to simple home projects I need to remember go on my calendar.

I use my iPhone synced to my computer for my everything, do-all, end-all calendar, but I also have on my desk a deskplanner where I sketch in work-related events. Each week, on MOnday morning, I go through the iPhone and the paper calendar, make sure they are synced, and put necessary events on the weekly to-do list which comes in my essential notebook (which is a repurposed half-size three ring telephone address book). In there, I have emergency contacts (like snow closings), a half-size file folder for each project with an "urgents" or active sheet, a notepad, and the afore-mentioned calendar. Using this system, I haven't forgotten any major appointments or been to a meeting without at least the essentials for a while. It helps my ADD.

I sadly just scribble the date and time for major things on a white board in our kitchen...I don't like messing up the calendars I buy by writing on them. Plus the box is too small.

I just have a standard calendar on the wall. I really like how pretty calendars have gotten lately like the one in the posted image, but those aren't really all that practical.

I need the ones with the boxes so there is room to circle and take notes. somehow I can't get my S.O to use it the same way despite it being a few feet away from his head most of the time.

I use the Moleskine planner-notebook. It's PERFECT for me because there is a week-planning page and the facing page is a notebook for you to scribble whatever. I use it to plan my budget, note any to-dos and whatever. There is also an extra pocket at the back for odds and ends. I also occasionally use gmail calendar when I'm extra swamped and I actually have to do time blocks to make sure everything I need to do gets DONE. At work, I use google calendar.

What are good apps to sync your gmail calendar to your iphone? I tried one (can't remember the name) but it wasn't that great.

I use my Outlook calendar at work. If a meeting isn't on there, I'm going to miss it.

For personal use, I buy a new calendar every year. One small enough to fit in my purse is best. I usually get a pretty one from Barnes and Noble, but this year my husband gave me a Moleskine one. It really is perfect.

I tried to just use my iPod Touch calendar when I got it earlier this year, but I like to be able to see all of my appointments without having to click open each day.

I am a month-at-a-glance day-planner book type of girl. If it isnt written in that calendar, it isnt happening. Also, everything is written in pencil.

Honestly, I love looking at images and artwork, but all the pretty-looking calendars are un-usable unless you're just looking at the date.

I find that if I depended on electronic calendars, i wouldn't use them. I dont always keep my cell-phone/laptop/computer charged or close by or on, but my monthly calendar I carry in my bag.

iCal. I work at home a lot, so the alarm feature is handy. I'm hoping to get an iPhone and will use it the same way.

So funny that this post came up today, when I headed to the midtown stationery store where for years I've bought my annual Filofax refill (week on two pages; lined) and found the store...gone. I guess paper really is passe!

I use Google Calendar synced with my ipod. Haven't upgraded to an iphone yet because I don't have cell service where I live, making a data package useless. But...that means when I go into town, I have to carry two devices, my cell phone and my ipod. But at least I have my calendar with me. Really, the only problem that has caused is I have not found a good way to synchronize phone numbers between my ipod and phone.

Stan Horst
Publisher: BetterBenches.com

multiple color-coded google calendars.

Google Calendar syncs with my droid and has saved me countless times. I also keep a big desk calendar at work that I have fun filling out at the start of each month with colored pencil doodles. I should probably just get a sketch pad instead.

Add another vote for google calendar synced to phone.