New diary ?

My dh is very smug about keeping his diary/calendar on his mobile phone. I have a write-on calendar instead. He thinks I am a Luddite.

But I am the one who knows what is scheduled to happen every time[at least 3 or 4 times a week] dh loses his phone...

Appointments/reminders go in app on mobile phone.
Info to go in new 5 year diary just ordered on Amazon.

Appointments/reminders go in app on phone.
Info goes in 5-yr.diary.

Diary from RSPB, starts in Dec so replaces old one in my Handbag, need it frequently when I'm out.

Calender - slim-line from RSPB hangs in Lounge near phone, note all appointments, Lunch dates, Monthly Afternoon Tea dates, local Horse Racing (need to avoid certain roads), Car Boot Sales, Antique Fairs, Birthdays. I couldn't survive without either.

I bought a Royal Horticultural Society diary for this year and it's so pretty that I hope I can find another one when next year's diaries are available. I've never seen them in NZ shops before.

We have quite a few visitors to our home and so it's a pleasure to record dates in it. I also use it to record appointments, birthdays etc.

I admire people who write a daily diary but somehow I always feel self-conscious when I try to do that. I gave up that idea a long time ago.

Gagagran, thanks for the information about the Bishopsgate Institute. I have all my mother's diaries written every day from 1970 until her death last March & was wondering what to do with them. The handwriting is small & I don't find them that interesting - all very mundane & factual about who phoned when etc., little about thoughts & feelings about people or wvents. But I can't bring myself to throw them out as they could be of interest to someone. I think ahe started when my Dad used to deny what he'd said or if anyone said they'd phoned & they hadn't. You could never get away with a white lie with Mum.

Don't keep a personal diary ( if I did, it would be full of interesting anecdotes on the lines of 'had beans on toast for lunch') but we keep a desk diary in the study and a desk diary in the hall. The one in the study is for appointments to keep, and the hall one for meeting friends, reminders to send birthday cards, and other stuff such as 'collect DGS from school and give him a meal' type thing.We would be lost without either diary.

Didn't know you could still get those grannypiper. I always had one when I had a milkman. I'd love to use a milkman again but he came at 4 am and left his engine running right under our bedroom window.

I don't keep a diary but I have kept my diaries going back to when the children were young and love looking at them.

The Dairy Diary from the milkman is fantastic, my Great Grandma in law always bought me this as a christmas gift, they never fall to bits,really great value at £7.99. I love looking back at all the ones from the past.

I have an A6 spiral bound diary (so it will open flat and stay open) for my handbag in which I note menus for the week and the shopping list so they are both together for reference at the supermarket. Also I write in appointments but these also go on the computer calendar so they show up when I look at emails. Every few years I buy an A4 page a day narrow-ruled diary, the current one was bought in 2013, each page will usually be enough for 3 or 4 years' entries. Each evening when I write it up I can see what I was doing at the same time in 2013/14/15. I'll need another in 2018. Some entries are quite long, sometimes I even record dreams I've had. Some pages have newspaper items tucked into them that I have found interesting. No idea what the family will make of my years and years of diaries when I pop my clogs.

Am about to start a bullet journal for the first time. Bullet points not bullet weapons, tho i will find a better name. Mumsnet has several threads full of fans on why they work. I hope it will replace my many bits of paper with lists etc on, keep them all in one place, the key point is you have an index, and any list can go in any order as long as a note is made in the index. Here's hoping...
I can have a page for gym results, as I'm going back there Any Day Now.

I have kept a diary since I was 16, am now nearly 70. I keep them in bags for each decade and they are only the small type. They come in really handy when you can't remember when you did something or saw someone. Also since my daughter had her baby its great to see what I did as a mother at the same stage! They at not very detailed just the plain facts of what you did that day. We keep a His and Hers calendar on the wall for appointments, dates and birthdays. Couldn't live without it.

Dear DaphneBroon,

I love my diary and always have. I know there are e-types for all sorts of things, but I like the fact I've written things down that tend to stay in my mind longer and I can add to them more quickly I find. I used to use my iphone, but came back again to a diary. It's also useful to see what date you last did something. I have two lovely diaries to give away too and will give my first one out tonight to a friend. I've already filled in important appointments in my own diary, which is a page per day from W H Smith. I always get this diary.

For some years I kept a big page a day diary and recorded events, thoughts, impressions, ideas etc. I read them sometimes and I'm back in those events vividly. Last year had some traumatic moments - it was a difficult year - and I stopped keeping the diary. Some things were too painful to write - I was displaced and uprooted.
However I'm through the other side I hope. I've moved and am happy in my new home, and have new interests, so I'll go back to writing the detailed diary, as well as keeping my handbag diary for appointments. One of the good things that has come out of moving on has been a vast improvement in my tachycardia. Fingers crossed, I hardly notice it now.

I have been bullet journaling for a year now and have found it a really helpful and creative tool. I do cheat on my task list etc though as I don't want a list of failures in front of me. I, of course meet all my targets ,am never late for important meetings and my diet always runs to plan !!!

We have a calendar in the kitchen which we fill in month by month so we know what each other is doing. Then husband has an electronic one and I have two paper ones. One to put appointments in which goes in my hand bag and one to write up special days as a record.

I'm about to start the last year in my A Five-Year Memory Book [posh name for a diary!]. It's fascinating to read what I was doing on the same date from 2013. I've kept a diary on and off for years. My parents always encouraged it - and respected it too which must have been difficult at times when I got interested in boys!!! I wouldn't keep one on line because technology is changing so rapidly I'd be worried about losing it. Can't beat paper and pen!!!

We always have the Royal Horticultural Society diary- beautiful colourful sketches on each page, and all our social arrangements get entered into the daily slots; we wouldn't manage to show up for anything without the diary, which is always to hand, and most birthdays would be overlooked until it was too late. I would be lost without it - it goes on holiday with us too.

I have a diary for appointments and note, one to write a very small amount of what I've done or what has caught my eye each day and also have a calendar on the wall which we are both supposed to fill in, especially if it involves using the car as we share one. Sounds mad but every few weeks we have a diary session and put in our own diaries what the other one is doing so we don't double book, oh and I use my online calendar too, partly as I can share it with my kids so they know when we are free too! That sounds obsessive but I'm really not, we try to be flexible and are both involved in a lot so need to be organised, rarely set the alarm though!

I buy a new diary for my handbag every year so I have a record of postcodes which I can never remember if I need to write a birthday card and post it without going home first.

I also record the dog's weights when they go for their annual boosters.

Apart from that there's nothing in it

I always keep a diary of events. I use a W.I. diary but there is a problem at meetings because we all use the same diary and we are likely to pick someone else's up by mistake.
This year's colour is red and to my horror, I found that it runs when wet/damp.
My more sensible husband has an allotment and he keeps a diary of when he plants out, when he produces each crop and the quality. He then spends time reviewing his past diaries before making choices for the new season.
Are we boring - or what?

This time last year it was suggested on Gransnet that keeping a one minute daily diary of what you do will become a real treasure as memory might get a little less efficient. I have just finished doing that for this past year - really easy to do and already a great joy to look back at things I would otherwise definitely forget I had done. Happy New Year!

Rejoice, the lost is found. At Christmas, when DS2, DIL and toddler grandson came to stay, I tidied everything up, in GS's bedroom, out of his reach. So, last night, I had a root around, and lo and behold, my lost Diary came to light. Tomorrow I will begin filling in all the C/Fwd dates etc, as today we are off for a New Years Day get together.
Happy New Year everybody.

WE both keep on line diaries but I still like an attractive book type one - helps for golf bookings even though we actually book games on line - I know that all sounds weird. I splashed out on a beautiful shiny blue Paperblanks this year decorated with stylised cats - I'm not a cat person but this caught my eye.

DH and I have a joint online diary so that we can keep track of each other. I am quite happy not to have to write everything out again at the start of a new year. A friend does buy us a calendar that we hang in the kitchen but hardly anything gets written on it.