Diaries

[debih]

I love my diary. I have a cheap one from one of the discount shops but it is really good. It has a pink cover to it and has a week to page diary and then lots of pages for notes. It has a pen holder on the cover. It is similar to a filofax but smaller and much cheaper.

I have been debating about not getting a diary next year and just using my phone but I really can't decide. It makes sense as I always have my phone with me. But I do like to be able to look at the week ahead in my diary. Decisions, decisions.

I love my calendar too. I always have a family calendar and I use it religiously and can often be found on a Sunday evening copying things from my diary onto the calendar and vice versa.

Do you have a diary or use your phone?

[Kaz]

I have a diary but never use it I have a calendar I write on when I remember and sometimes save things to the diary in my phone - it's kind of 'poke and hope' as I am not a very organised person at all

[JoM]

I have a Filofax. My sister bought it for me for Christmas, ooooh around 5 or 6 years ago now. I remember opening it and wondering what on earth I needed a Filofax for but now I couldn't do without it. Everything is in there that I need. I buy a new diary insert every year, addresses are in there, various notes, lists including Christmas lists going back to the first year I used it, internet passwords are listed in there, everything is in there for when I check the bank account online ie all receipts and a list of all direct debits and when they go out. It's my household bible. I even take it on holiday with me because if the house was broken into while we were away and it was taken, I'd be lost!!

[Ally]

I've kept a diary since we moved to Spain.
Looking back at some of the things that have happened and my sarky comments make funny reading.
I always keep that in my handbag and write in it daily...just what I've done that day and the weather.

I have an Elvis calendar every single Christmas and we all use that for day to day stuff.

I couldn't be without my diary..it's only a cheapo 2 euro thing that I get every new year.

[meriad]

I also have a filofax and wouldn't be without. I used to put things into my phone, computer and diary and got myself is some real muddles. Now I stick to the filofax only

[Workingman]

I always get calendars and diaries and then forget to use them.

I have this thing called a head, so I keep everything in there, or try to. Trouble is, as Homer said, every time I learn something new some old stuff gets pushed out...... and it's that stuff which I usually need.

[Osc]

I have a diary - I put things on my phone calendar - I have a calendar on the kitchen notice board - I put notes on the back of the front door - and I still forget stuff I recently made an appointment with my physio and they gave me a card with the day and time written on it - I carefully put it on my diary, calendar and phone.......except 30 minutes later than it should have been

Trouble is, as Homer said, every time I learn something new some old stuff gets pushed out...... and it's that stuff which I usually need.

Very very true - at least that's what I keep telling myself, or that this old hard drive is overloaded

[Rodo]

I have a small filofax which I find essential. I put all dates and appointments in that. I don't know how I would manage without it. Besides that I keep a diary on line in my documents putting in all events and happenings. I use this to send out a newsletter to friends when I send their Chr.......s card.

[lissie]

All appointments etc I put on "sticky notes" on my laptop so I see
them as soon as I logon


lissie

[TheOstrich]

Contrary to most (!), I haven't used a diary or a Filofax, pretty much ever.

At home, we have a "week to a view" calendar thingy on the kitchen table for the household, which Mrs O really maintains. Annual gas appliance service, sisters visiting, coloured dots indicating recycling weeks, that sort of thing. Mrs O gets very cross if Saturday and Sunday are not at the bottom of each page and when I got one that finished on a Saturday in 2011, I had a right ear-bashing ....

At work, I have always used a communal office diary for appointments etc. (I've only tended to work in firms with small staff numbers). At my last job, I was issued with a personal diary which I threw out the following year, unused. Extra diaries I was given by clients as Christmas freebies - well, I currently have one dated 2005 which I'm taking to non-league soccer matches to record the teams and the goals!

My last job - the boss lady suddenly decided to use an on-line diary which she could consult "on the hoof" rather than update the manual one kept in the office. Trouble was, she used to make appointments in the on-line one, and the manual one never got updated; clients would then phone the office to make appointments, we minions were never told how to access the online diary so we'd use the out-of-date manual one and ..... and you can guess the rest !!