My mother has been diagnosed with dementia and had been suffering from some memory loss for some time. She's in a memory care facility now, so we're able to visit instead of supporting her living alone. It's made the time we spend with her more about spending time together and not supporting her in daily tasks, which is refreshing.
Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Sorry to hear about your mom. :( That kind of thing is hard.
I shopped around for planner systems. New, they've gone way up in price
as paper planning becomes a niche, but used there are a lot of nice binders - some models I remember from the 90s. I wonder if paper
planning might not be worth an experiment for 30 days, if anything for nostalgia's sake.
Thanks for that. It's hard, but she's given 110% to the family without question for all of our lives. Now it's our turn.
I was one of those binder-carrying cultists in corporate America in the 1990s - walking around with a Franklin planner, a 7-ring binder with a whole system of refills ranging from calendar pages, pages for tracking down your values and goals, long term projects, contacts and more. They were the internet we carried around before there was an internet.
Adept wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I shopped around for planner systems. New, they've gone way up in price
as paper planning becomes a niche, but used there are a lot of nice binders - some models I remember from the 90s. I wonder if paper
planning might not be worth an experiment for 30 days, if anything for nostalgia's sake.
From how you're describing it, it sounds like something you'd like to
do, or at least to have done.
As for me, with this... I have almost never done things on paper, other than the occasional scribbled list. I do, however, have a lot of random text files floating around. And a lot of scanned documents from when something did wind up on paper.
...and even some Livescribe notebooks, that were interesting for having class notes that sync with audio. I still have the pen, though it may
have failed by now -- I've never really figured out another time when
it'd be useful.
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I have a shelf full of leather journals I keep, but I rarely refer to them, and they're unstructured.
I wonder if it might make sense to revisit the notion of a paper daily planning system again - writing things down commits things to memory,
it's much easier to pull out paper and write things down, and you'd have an easy reference of what happened yesterday, the day before, and so on. And, what you had planned tomorrow.
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to All <=-
I shopped around for planner systems. New, they've gone way up in price
as paper planning becomes a niche, but used there are a lot of nice binders - some models I remember from the 90s. I wonder if paper
planning might not be worth an experiment for 30 days, if anything for nostalgia's sake.
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Adept <=-
Calendaring. It used to be that people kept schedules, now
appointments
move around much more - makes it difficult to keep a calendar updated.
(but I do wish I could remember the name of the other... daytimer maybe? I remember it had green...)
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-
Re: Re: Memory loss
By: Jimmy Anderson to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue May 06 2025 07:43 pm
(but I do wish I could remember the name of the other... daytimer maybe? I remember it had green...)
Daytimer and Filofax were the other "commercial" planner brands.
Jimmy Anderson wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Must have been Daytimer then. Had an assistant manager at a job that
SWORE by them, so I tried them and like it! But then the next company
I went to was the 'Franklin' one. I had also moved to outside Memphis,
and there was a mall there that had a Franklin store!
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-
Jimmy Anderson wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Must have been Daytimer then. Had an assistant manager at a job that
SWORE by them, so I tried them and like it! But then the next company
I went to was the 'Franklin' one. I had also moved to outside Memphis,
and there was a mall there that had a Franklin store!
They were handy - when you loaded it up with reference information you needed it was like carrying your own internet with you before
there was one.
Franklin tried to modify their plan to fit electronic planners - they
had a Franklin series of Palm apps, a standalone app for Windows, and finally a series of scripts that Franklin-ized Outlook. None of them
took hold.
jimmylogan wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I kinda remember that... Before those days the PC on my desk at
work had Lotus SmartSuite and it had "Organizer" on it. I didn't use
it much, but remember it looking like an analog calendar. :-)
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to jimmylogan <=-
jimmylogan wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I kinda remember that... Before those days the PC on my desk at
work had Lotus SmartSuite and it had "Organizer" on it. I didn't use
it much, but remember it looking like an analog calendar. :-)
The apex of skeuomorphic computer design - Lotus Organizer with a
simulated "binder" and "rings".
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