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?
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).
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
I know. The picture of the calendar is entirely self-explanatory yet they wrote a thousand words explaining it.
February 31st is a Friday. It’s foolproof.
I like this very much, thanks for posting
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.
The “simpler” version takes up more space, as evident on that page already.
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.
I like this. It saves resources. And I think we should all start adapting to it.
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. 😂
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.
What is this mess?
This is the equivalent of all those stupid new door handles that EVs have these days. Different and overly complicated just for the sake of being different.
Not complicated to me. I keep a version in my wallet that I’m going to use every time I have to sign and date a document.
