It’s simpler, more compact, and reusable from year-to-year in a way that no other calendar is. Here’s both how it works and how to use it.
Simpler, my ass 🤣
It’s only simple if you have a bunch of calendar rules memorized. Personally instead of for example memorizing the Thanksgiving rule I would find it much easier to just look for the square titled Thanksgiving in Nov.
Most of us need to refer to a calendar quite frequently to know what calendar date (day, month, year) corresponds to which day of the week
I do not do this frequently. It is maybe 2.5% of the reason I use a calendar. Am I an outlier?
My use cases of a calendar:
Daily: confirming activities for the day
~Bi-daily: setting an appointment with someone else.
Weekly: confirming activities for the week, and slotting in other activities.
Monthly: long range scheduling (includes the target use case, but needs other information to be worthwhile)
Annually: Transfer persistent events to following year calendar and archival. (Target use case, but only for events that are not linked to a specific date. Also requires additional information).
I’d say I primarily use a calendar for seeing which day of the week is which calendar date. I typically don’t have too much scheduled in the next ~two weeks at any time to keep in my head, in the form of day of the week now that I think about it. I usually use a calendar to check if there’s anything further out than that and convert it to e.g. ‘next thursday’ to remember.
It sounds like you use a calendar much more than I do, I check mine once every couple weeks at most tbh. I might be the outlier here though, who knows.
Thanks, I hate it. It lacks safety features for tough days where mental processes are not your friend.
That ridiculous calendar. To much effort to figure out dates and what about holidays and how do you mark out events on that?
I kinda hate it but they’re talking specifically about a different purpose of a calendar.
Most of us need to refer to a calendar quite frequently to know what calendar date (day, month, year) corresponds to which day of the week. But rather than having to change your calendar every month, this one-page calendar works for the entire year to give you all the information you need, practically immediately.
Is this a meme? I clicked on it and it took me to an article to seemed completely serious. Is this like the onion for white collar workers?
The “simpler” version takes up more space, as evident on that page already.
If you rescale it to the same font size, it doesn’t.
This is surprisingly useful to me. I frequently need to know the dates of upcoming Sundays when making agendas and having this printed next to my desk would save me from going back and forth with a traditional calendar.
February 31st is a Friday. It’s foolproof.
Interesting, thanks
Even better, learn how to easily calculate the weekday yourself.
That was ridiculously complicated. What I did is memorize the month columns in Dr. Siegel’s universal calendar. Now I can figure out any calendar day in my head. I plan to amaze my friends with this new skill.
Huge article, but no mention of where we can download high-res pics
Direct link or you can make your own in your favorite spreadsheet program. It’s not that complicated.
I’m not learning a new calendar untill US implements the metric system
This is the kind of thing some company prints on a piece of plastic the size of a credit card, someone sticks it in their wallet then they forget about it for a decade. 😂
I got it in my wallet. And I’m going to pull it out every time I am filling out a form and need to sign and date it.
I like this. It saves resources. And I think we should all start adapting to it.
What is this mess?
This is the equivalent of all those stupid new door handles that EVs have these days. Different and overly complicated just for the sake of being different.
Not complicated to me. I keep a version in my wallet that I’m going to use every time I have to sign and date a document.
