Bought the last one for my mom who makes use of paper notes and digital notes. She can wrap her head around using one of those things. Not both at once apparently. I don’t even know where the notebook is anymore.
@macphoenix@mediocrebot@rpstrong Dont’t want to dare challenge a @DrunkCat but maybe someday we can fix our calendar system. Dates from Roman times when they added 2 months during the hot time of Summer for Julius and Augustus. Now it’s 110 degrees there in Summer. Well, changing the names would help that but we wouldn’t have to blame emperors from 2000 years ago.
Maybe make the months the same length. Still stuck with rotation of the Earth thing not fitting our system of order.
Maybe Elon Musk can fix things by laying off few days, or see what calendars will be like on Mars.
Or jump fully into Star Trek world and just use Stardate, though I’m not sure what that is. I’m afraid of rabbit-hole if I try to research that now going back 60 years online now.
I gave one a whirl and was sadly disappointed. I was hoping for a planner that I could write a certain way, photograph, and then have a corresponding digital calendar update.
No dice. I wanted something I could write and have tangibility; with the power of digital preservation and reminding.
Sadly, no dice here. Neat for the re-usability; but not what I hoped.
i got one of these (smaller size) in a previous meh and love it. I don’t use the digital features, I just use it as a day planner. Having a few erasable pages vs a history of everything lets me relax about planning and actually do it.
I got a large one last year and was impressed by the quality. I was hoping I could organize a bunch of plans and thoughts in my life, and that didn’t happen, but I can’t blame the inanimate book. You will want to buy an extra pack of Frixion pens, since I temporarily lose them; also you can get blue and red colors in addition to black.
I use the Calendar on my Phone It is better, Scratch paper for Shopping list & to do list, when finish with the list It gets recycled! Yes back in the 70’s-80’s I use a paper planner then I got a Palm pilot, then moved to the iPhone.
@mycya4me strange that this item shows up today because just this (yesterday now) morning I was thinking of how organized I used to be for both work and personal life and contacts. This was 1980s. I had a big (this size) paper organizer. 3- or 5- ring system. I might still have it. Obviously no computerized or photo system. It had all my contacts I wrote in manually including my friends from college or their parent’s home phone #s. And some pages to insert business cards. So when I would fly around for work, which I did a lot back then, I would have all the contact info for the customer I would visit but also hopefully a way to reach my old friends and meet after work or on weekends.
Calendar pages came in blanks (add the dates yourself), or for a time you could just get the next yearly pre-printed calendar pages in both large (this) and small formats. On flights or in a hotel in the morning I would review all the cards or contact info for customers I would meet, check my travel info and if I had a car reserved or if someone from the local office would pick me up. I can’t believe I was that organized in my 20s; way worse now because my brain is in F&*#t all mode.
Also it had a flap and Velcro closure, I suppose the professional version of a Trapper Keeper (it was the 70s-80s). I miss it (the brain and the executive Trapper-keeper). Also legroom on airplanes, wider seats, ability to have under seat and overhead bags without costing 2x as much as the ticket. Pre TSA just simple metal detector. Peanuts still legal. Free water or soda and often free beer or wine if you were a frequent flyer. Back in the day… Get off my lawn! Etc…
@pmarin The best thing about using Electronic planners/Calendars is It is easier to delete events/ people you don’t contact any more! Otherwise you have places that are scratched out.
@mycya4me@pmarin reminds me of my first cell phone which held 99 contacts. eventually you would fill it up and then you would meet someone new and have to decide who would be purged to make room.
it was a good system. unlike now when Siri mishears me and suddenly i’m calling a guy who sold me a pillow on facebook marketplace in 2013.
@jouest@pmarin Yep, That was the “State of the Art” at that time! I know I have some contacts in my current phone I don’t know who they are. The same goes with Pics. You got a Pic with someone, You are scratching you head — who are they!
seem like a threat? I was just kidding about how much IRKs suck lately! And I heard sometimes the expired food is more nutritious, been a while since I had a powerbank burst into flames.
@pmarin I think the implication is that this device can finally convince anyone that all planning is futile. In the current world, that may be more relevant than at any time in the recent past.
@OnionSoup buying this to plan not to buy it will result in some kind of spacetime paradox that opens a wormhole and probably erases my high score in Contra. Please don’t do that!
@dahobbs9 I know that cheap knockoffs of them are in several wholesale imprintable-promotional-gift catalogs I have seen. Maybe these are a bit better than those in terms of features?
As hard I as I try to get the point, I can’t wrap my head around it. You write in a notebook, take a picture of it, wipe the notebook clean and do it again. So now I have a digital version of my sometimes-legible writing. Seems like a shitload of unnecessary steps. Why not just enter stuff into your phone directly? Besides, things come up all day that I need to remember, which I enter into my phone. If I’m not carrying this notebook around everywhere I go, I can’t write in it.
Seems like the whole point of this is to save paper, or save money on notebooks. Because I can just write stuff down on paper and take a picture of it without buying this.
@uscpsycho If nothing else, I can type several times faster than I can write and if I’m already at home I can enter things into my phone with a bluetooth keyboard.
The reusable dot grid almost seems useful, but I need one page for that, not 32.
@uscpsycho they actually have character recognition software in their app that converts it to text. I’ve been impressed with how well it converts my scrawl.
@uscpsycho And if your handwriting is entirely illegible, what good is a picture of it? Mine used to be reasonably decent, but the age-related tremor has made it indecipherable.
@uscpsycho@werehatrack
I can’t even blame age for the state of my handwriting, because it started going downhill decades ago. I suspect it’s some kind of neurological thing — I have to concentrate like hell to keep my hand from swinging all over the damn page. Which makes it very, very slow. And it still goes off the rails after a few letters.
@uscpsycho My brain likes it when I take pen to paper. My brain also likes it when I can tuck notes away to refer back to at a later date. Also, given the nature of my career (banking) and my workspace (work from home), having client notes saved somewhere that I can refer back to in 2 months, is super helpful. If it doesn’t work for you, so be it. It works for me.
I am Retired. The Last thing I want to do is Plan, well, ANYTHING!!! I do know that Wednesday is garbage day. I mow when I need to depending on the freaking South Texas Heat! After that, I Do What I Want!!! Right now, that’s going to bed. Night All!
@omally Unfired clay tablets and a stylus can save on milk and ink; all you need is water to restore the plasticity with a little kneading. They aren’t as easily rolled up to carry around, but everything has its cost.
I have tried every process, gimmick, app, and program for managing notes and lists for 10 years, including various hybrid paper/digital solutions like this. all roads have led back to my notebook and pen.
So anyway, buying this, obviously. It will be the one.
I have a smaller version of these at work for walking through construction projects. I like the idea, but I’m not fond of the Frixion pens - I feel like I have to put too much pressure to write on the sheet and I’m going to damage it. Maybe I just got a bum pen, I’ve only ever used the one that came with the pad.
Erasing has never been a problem, though - it wipes clear with a little spitwater
I’m a planner person but that would be useless to me. One I like to have my planner a certain size and two I keep all my old planners as sometimes I need to look back for things I wrote down. Erasing everything just defeats the whole purpose.
I like how they show people in the introduction wearing an orange version (royalty-free) of the Vault-Tec jumpsuits. Just to let you know it will work next year as well.
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Taking off like a racecar!!
These are actually pretty cool. I didn’t use it much so I gave it to a buddy at work and he likes it.
Bought the last one for my mom who makes use of paper notes and digital notes. She can wrap her head around using one of those things. Not both at once apparently. I don’t even know where the notebook is anymore.
After all that “AI” you wouldn’t even know how to use a planner.
@DrunkCat Sure they would. They are way easier to use. So easy it makes winning them back seem hard.
@DrunkCat
/showme planning-to-use-a-planner
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@mediocrebot @rpstrong a metric week
@macphoenix @mediocrebot @rpstrong Dont’t want to dare challenge a @DrunkCat but maybe someday we can fix our calendar system. Dates from Roman times when they added 2 months during the hot time of Summer for Julius and Augustus. Now it’s 110 degrees there in Summer. Well, changing the names would help that but we wouldn’t have to blame emperors from 2000 years ago.
Maybe make the months the same length. Still stuck with rotation of the Earth thing not fitting our system of order.
Maybe Elon Musk can fix things by laying off few days, or see what calendars will be like on Mars.
Or jump fully into Star Trek world and just use Stardate, though I’m not sure what that is. I’m afraid of rabbit-hole if I try to research that now going back 60 years online now.
@macphoenix I always do all my chores on Triday.
I gave one a whirl and was sadly disappointed. I was hoping for a planner that I could write a certain way, photograph, and then have a corresponding digital calendar update.
No dice. I wanted something I could write and have tangibility; with the power of digital preservation and reminding.
Sadly, no dice here. Neat for the re-usability; but not what I hoped.
i got one of these (smaller size) in a previous meh and love it. I don’t use the digital features, I just use it as a day planner. Having a few erasable pages vs a history of everything lets me relax about planning and actually do it.
I got a large one last year and was impressed by the quality. I was hoping I could organize a bunch of plans and thoughts in my life, and that didn’t happen, but I can’t blame the inanimate book. You will want to buy an extra pack of Frixion pens, since I temporarily lose them; also you can get blue and red colors in addition to black.
I use the Calendar on my Phone It is better, Scratch paper for Shopping list & to do list, when finish with the list It gets recycled! Yes back in the 70’s-80’s I use a paper planner then I got a Palm pilot, then moved to the iPhone.
@mycya4me strange that this item shows up today because just this (yesterday now) morning I was thinking of how organized I used to be for both work and personal life and contacts. This was 1980s. I had a big (this size) paper organizer. 3- or 5- ring system. I might still have it. Obviously no computerized or photo system. It had all my contacts I wrote in manually including my friends from college or their parent’s home phone #s. And some pages to insert business cards. So when I would fly around for work, which I did a lot back then, I would have all the contact info for the customer I would visit but also hopefully a way to reach my old friends and meet after work or on weekends.
Calendar pages came in blanks (add the dates yourself), or for a time you could just get the next yearly pre-printed calendar pages in both large (this) and small formats. On flights or in a hotel in the morning I would review all the cards or contact info for customers I would meet, check my travel info and if I had a car reserved or if someone from the local office would pick me up. I can’t believe I was that organized in my 20s; way worse now because my brain is in F&*#t all mode.
Also it had a flap and Velcro closure, I suppose the professional version of a Trapper Keeper (it was the 70s-80s). I miss it (the brain and the executive Trapper-keeper). Also legroom on airplanes, wider seats, ability to have under seat and overhead bags without costing 2x as much as the ticket. Pre TSA just simple metal detector. Peanuts still legal. Free water or soda and often free beer or wine if you were a frequent flyer.
Back in the day… Get off my lawn! Etc…
@mycya4me my dad retired his Palm Pilot like…a week ago. No idea how he kept it going. There was for sure a new battery soldered in there.
@pmarin The best thing about using Electronic planners/Calendars is It is easier to delete events/ people you don’t contact any more! Otherwise you have places that are scratched out.
@mycya4me @pmarin reminds me of my first cell phone which held 99 contacts. eventually you would fill it up and then you would meet someone new and have to decide who would be purged to make room.
it was a good system. unlike now when Siri mishears me and suddenly i’m calling a guy who sold me a pillow on facebook marketplace in 2013.
@jouest @pmarin Yep, That was the “State of the Art” at that time! I know I have some contacts in my current phone I don’t know who they are. The same goes with Pics. You got a Pic with someone, You are scratching you head — who are they!
Why does
seem like a threat? I was just kidding about how much IRKs suck lately! And I heard sometimes the expired food is more nutritious, been a while since I had a powerbank burst into flames.
@pmarin they’re going to take your hands
@pmarin I think the implication is that this device can finally convince anyone that all planning is futile. In the current world, that may be more relevant than at any time in the recent past.
I plan to never buy this. Should I buy this so I can make that a goal within the planner?
@OnionSoup buying this to plan not to buy it will result in some kind of spacetime paradox that opens a wormhole and probably erases my high score in Contra. Please don’t do that!
I am pretty sure these have been sold a number of times on Meh. Let me check my notes. Hmm, my notes are erased.
It wasn’t too long ago they couldn’t give these things away.
@dahobbs9 you shouldn’t describe the business model out in the open like that
@dahobbs9 I know that cheap knockoffs of them are in several wholesale imprintable-promotional-gift catalogs I have seen. Maybe these are a bit better than those in terms of features?
As hard I as I try to get the point, I can’t wrap my head around it. You write in a notebook, take a picture of it, wipe the notebook clean and do it again. So now I have a digital version of my sometimes-legible writing. Seems like a shitload of unnecessary steps. Why not just enter stuff into your phone directly? Besides, things come up all day that I need to remember, which I enter into my phone. If I’m not carrying this notebook around everywhere I go, I can’t write in it.
Seems like the whole point of this is to save paper, or save money on notebooks. Because I can just write stuff down on paper and take a picture of it without buying this.
Make it make sense…
@uscpsycho If nothing else, I can type several times faster than I can write and if I’m already at home I can enter things into my phone with a bluetooth keyboard.
The reusable dot grid almost seems useful, but I need one page for that, not 32.
@uscpsycho they actually have character recognition software in their app that converts it to text. I’ve been impressed with how well it converts my scrawl.
@karlajoy So write it down if I have the notebook on me, take a picture of it and hope the OCR works. Wipe clean, repeat.
Orrrrr I could just enter it directly into my phone which I always have with me.
This sounds like it’s really designed for people who hate to type on their phone and much prefer to write. Right?
@uscpsycho And if your handwriting is entirely illegible, what good is a picture of it? Mine used to be reasonably decent, but the age-related tremor has made it indecipherable.
@uscpsycho @werehatrack
I can’t even blame age for the state of my handwriting, because it started going downhill decades ago. I suspect it’s some kind of neurological thing — I have to concentrate like hell to keep my hand from swinging all over the damn page. Which makes it very, very slow. And it still goes off the rails after a few letters.
@uscpsycho My brain likes it when I take pen to paper. My brain also likes it when I can tuck notes away to refer back to at a later date. Also, given the nature of my career (banking) and my workspace (work from home), having client notes saved somewhere that I can refer back to in 2 months, is super helpful. If it doesn’t work for you, so be it. It works for me.
I am Retired. The Last thing I want to do is Plan, well, ANYTHING!!! I do know that Wednesday is garbage day. I mow when I need to depending on the freaking South Texas Heat! After that, I Do What I Want!!! Right now, that’s going to bed. Night All!
i simply use a lambskin palimpsest. when i need to write something new, i wash the ink off with a mixture of milk and oat bran.
@omally Unfired clay tablets and a stylus can save on milk and ink; all you need is water to restore the plasticity with a little kneading. They aren’t as easily rolled up to carry around, but everything has its cost.
But all of my plans have already been erased.
Bought one. Never used it.
I have tried every process, gimmick, app, and program for managing notes and lists for 10 years, including various hybrid paper/digital solutions like this. all roads have led back to my notebook and pen.
So anyway, buying this, obviously. It will be the one.
@jouest I am completely convinced that if I Buy One More Thing I will at last achieve happiness.
@blaineg 'Ware the dreadful IRK.
Just curious–is this a better deal than the previous sales?
@SylvreKat For Meh? Of course! For you? Well, do you really need this device and its capabilities? If so, then the answer is “Perhaps.”
I have a smaller version of these at work for walking through construction projects. I like the idea, but I’m not fond of the Frixion pens - I feel like I have to put too much pressure to write on the sheet and I’m going to damage it. Maybe I just got a bum pen, I’ve only ever used the one that came with the pad.
Erasing has never been a problem, though - it wipes clear with a little
spitwaterI started with the pocket sized notebook a few years ago, kind of fizzled out on it. Last year I bought these, and they remain unmarked.
I’m a planner person but that would be useless to me. One I like to have my planner a certain size and two I keep all my old planners as sometimes I need to look back for things I wrote down. Erasing everything just defeats the whole purpose.
I like how they show people in the introduction wearing an orange version (royalty-free) of the Vault-Tec jumpsuits. Just to let you know it will work next year as well.
@PocketBrain Assuming that the user survives the apocalypse.
@PocketBrain I tried to watch that video but it’s so damn long!
I love these. I’m buying a few more as backups.
The notebook showed up but it crammed in a mailer that was too small and it now has a permnant curve.