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.
Simpler, my ass 🤣
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.
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.
How do you write appointments on it?
Just stop leaving your home, easy
OK I’m interested
I think it would work well as an app/website calendar but it wouldn’t work as a paper calendar without extra sheets which would defeat the purpose of it.
Also how do you count how many days away a deadline is? It’s a jumbled up mess.
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).
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.
Imagine having to write that many words about this.
Well, the site is called “big think” so it’s safe to assume they overthought all of this
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.
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.
I know. The picture of the calendar is entirely self-explanatory yet they wrote a thousand words explaining it.
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?
Thanks, I hate it. It lacks safety features for tough days where mental processes are not your friend.
That ridiculous calendar. To much effort to figure out dates and what about holidays and how do you mark out events on that?
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.
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.
February 31st is a Friday. It’s foolproof.
The “simpler” version takes up more space, as evident on that page already.
If you rescale it to the same font size, it doesn’t.
I like this very much, thanks for posting
Interesting, thanks
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.
Even better, learn how to easily calculate the weekday yourself.
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.
Huge article, but no mention of where we can download high-res pics
Direct link or you can make your own in your favorite spreadsheet program. It’s not that complicated.
I’m not learning a new calendar untill US implements the metric system
