happy to hear that others feel need for paper calendar
I am working my way back to paper for time and work planning, and for communicating wiht others, but will continue to use Palm as a kind of collection tool/ cue system for when I am on the move and making out my day's list of hard landscape features.
I also have on the wall above the desk top computer a huge calendar that shows the whole year on one sheet and major stuff is blocked out on this (vacations, semester changes, etc.). This is just a reference calendar. It is a huge space eater and hard to get to and hard to reach to to add tings to, but I like the total visual. I will get or make a smaller one for next year.
For carrying around to office, church, errands, etc. I use my Palm which I synch to desk top version. I LOVE the fact that it weighs so little, I can fill it will so many notes on place I am going such as directions and contact person, cost, materials etc., and I can put in the "maybe" events (e.g., events I might take in and readily see what conflicts that I am thinking about-I put these in without a time and write the time in parentheses, and I LOVE that I can make the repeaters and also change them easily, and carry bdays from year to year. I HATE the fact that I can't compare weeks or really scan a whole month and look at things I can swap with one another. This is where paper is really valuable.
On the refrigerator is another giant one but I hate the space it takes up and I can't photo copy it or carry it to the computer for easy update. I am using in coming year instead a page a month that I have torn the pages from and hung so three months at a time show. These sheets are the right size to photocopy if needed for a family member. The Palm prints out more detail than anyone but me needs.
I am always fearful that I have put a piece of essential info in one calendar but not the other. Items to share on both, I type into Palm in capitals if I am owrking in that medium. If I am working on the frig calendar I put a little c next to the item to indicate it is new and needs to go on the computer-based calendar and then a check through it when I have done so.
Covery distinguishes between calendar as a communication device (e.g. one on frig) and a time/work planning device. I also think another purpose is to organize info by time so it can be retrieved by time easily, and yet another is to record activities in log fashion. I wish Palm enabled you to readily put in a reminder (like 7 days until....). This is also easily done with paper and an arrow. It is also easy to log information using paper but not so easy to collect and crunch the numbers if you need to.
