It’s simpler, more compact, and reusable from year-to-year in a way that no other calendar is. Here’s both how it works and how to use it.

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      This is one of the best examples of over engineering something that nobody asked for, to solve a problem that nobody has, in the most complicated useless way possible. It’s funny but irritating that it’s presented with a straight face.

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      It’s only simple if you have a bunch of calendar rules memorized. Personally instead of for example memorizing the Thanksgiving rule I would find it much easier to just look for the square titled Thanksgiving in Nov.

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    Most of us need to refer to a calendar quite frequently to know what calendar date (day, month, year) corresponds to which day of the week

    I do not do this frequently. It is maybe 2.5% of the reason I use a calendar. Am I an outlier?

    My use cases of a calendar:

    Daily: confirming activities for the day

    ~Bi-daily: setting an appointment with someone else.

    Weekly: confirming activities for the week, and slotting in other activities.

    Monthly: long range scheduling (includes the target use case, but needs other information to be worthwhile)

    Annually: Transfer persistent events to following year calendar and archival. (Target use case, but only for events that are not linked to a specific date. Also requires additional information).

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      I’d say I primarily use a calendar for seeing which day of the week is which calendar date. I typically don’t have too much scheduled in the next ~two weeks at any time to keep in my head, in the form of day of the week now that I think about it. I usually use a calendar to check if there’s anything further out than that and convert it to e.g. ‘next thursday’ to remember.

      It sounds like you use a calendar much more than I do, I check mine once every couple weeks at most tbh. I might be the outlier here though, who knows.

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    Is this a meme? I clicked on it and it took me to an article to seemed completely serious. Is this like the onion for white collar workers?

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      The article is a textbook example on how to overcomplicate things. It’s almost like it was in school when you were done with your answer after a few sentences but the teacher demanded at least one written page.

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        That’s almost word for word what I just posted!

        I was sort of getting it until I noticed the months are all jumbled up too, they’re not in any coherent order or anything. What a mess. It’s so over engineered it actually makes me just a tad bit angry.

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      I know. The picture of the calendar is entirely self-explanatory yet they wrote a thousand words explaining it.

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    Thanks, I hate it. It lacks safety features for tough days where mental processes are not your friend.

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      That ridiculous calendar. To much effort to figure out dates and what about holidays and how do you mark out events on that?

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        I kinda hate it but they’re talking specifically about a different purpose of a calendar.

        Most of us need to refer to a calendar quite frequently to know what calendar date (day, month, year) corresponds to which day of the week. But rather than having to change your calendar every month, this one-page calendar works for the entire year to give you all the information you need, practically immediately.

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    This is surprisingly useful to me. I frequently need to know the dates of upcoming Sundays when making agendas and having this printed next to my desk would save me from going back and forth with a traditional calendar.

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      That was ridiculously complicated. What I did is memorize the month columns in Dr. Siegel’s universal calendar. Now I can figure out any calendar day in my head. I plan to amaze my friends with this new skill.

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    Appointments were already mentioned, but what about holidays - the days most of us get off work? A simple solution wold be to write them next to the calendar, but it’s a bit less than an elegant solution.

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    This is the kind of thing some company prints on a piece of plastic the size of a credit card, someone sticks it in their wallet then they forget about it for a decade. 😂

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      I got it in my wallet. And I’m going to pull it out every time I am filling out a form and need to sign and date it.