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I just keep the electronic.

However, there are 2 'howevers.'

  • However 1, I use 2 different electronic planners, to keep my personal calendar separate from my work calendar. I do not want work people to be able to seem my personal appointments. Nor do I want my personal calender cluttered with a whole lot of work stuff, which makes it harder to see my personal stuff.
  • However 2, I have been tempted many times to restart my paper planner. Because many times, it is easier for me to write into a paper based planner than to type it into my phone which is painfully slow to do. Then I have to sync the phone to the computer, to get outlook on the computer synced with the phone. Then remember 'however 1' above. So which electronic planner to sync my phone to; work or personal? The paper planner would take care of the one that my phone is not synced to.
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I no longer have a paying work but currently have a project to build a house. For my brain paper works best for planning, drawings, notes. I carry a Field Notes with me at all times usually with a vintage bullet pencil. It fits in any pocket. A mini ballpoint would work too. I Bullet Journal and that system with the Index has been a project life saver.

 

For CYA I immediately photo/scan any important numbers, info, drawings with my smartphone camera. I use the free version of Evernote but other clouds with Apps can be used. I've read too many stories about a notebook left at home, office, subway, dropped in snow drift and all the info lost or not available when needed. (Same can happen with a smart device if not immediately backed to cloud.) The Cloud allows me to get to that info from nearly anywhere. I didn't have to recopy, the photo takes seconds. I toss old versions when I add more info to a page and retake photo. Evernote has the ability to read and index handwriting and the Premium version also allows you to download a 'notebook' of info so you can read, use when offline.

 

Evernote has a reminder function that I have not looked into. I put appts in my Bullet Journal but use phone calendar for far out appointments and alarm feature.

 

You may need to do more online calendar stuff if you work with a team but look for ways to do as simply and quickly as possible. If you calender online is there away to printout in a small version to quickly tape in your paper journal?

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One of the good things of electronic planners like smartphone calendar apps is that my days are filled with activities I prefer to forget as soon as possible. Leaving them there reduces their imprint on the real world. Having said that, the same applies to notes I make on paper: it's a great joy to be able to throw them away and make them disappear. That's the footprint I'm trying to reduce, in both the digital and the real world. I've done too much damage already.

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One of the good things of electronic planners like smartphone calendar apps is that my days are filled with activities I prefer to forget as soon as possible. Leaving them there reduces their imprint on the real world. Having said that, the same applies to notes I make on paper: it's a great joy to be able to throw them away and make them disappear. That's the footprint I'm trying to reduce, in both the digital and the real world. I've done too much damage already.

I always like to keep something to look back on, which I why I keep a paper journal. Paper appointment diaries are handy to keep to look back on events and I do have my past ones from before I started using my phone.

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I do use calendar apps on my smart phone and it holds the definitive list of important dates, appointments, birthdays, etc., but I make physical lists of things to get done every work day.

Calender/memo apps are convenient, but are also quite easy to overlook or put-off (swipe away the notification & forget about it!). Making a hand written list for the day forces me to look at my calender app, as well as objectively decide what I need to prioritize for the day and how to get it all done before the day is lost. Since the advent of smart phones, this method has always worked best for me. Electronics alone do not cut it.

I have toyed with the thought of getting a (non-work) paper planner--the process of writing things out, as oppose to typing, helps me to retain what I jot down.

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Through 10 years of syncs, software updates, crashed drives and 'helpful' techies who 'accidentally' deleted backups, my smarty phones have lost travel & business notes, and entire address books, calendars and planning apps.

Today's sync deleted the saved pdfs in a reading app. Surprise!

I went back to paper for calendar/planning last year. It's so much easier.

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