Do you record birthdays or reminders of them electronically or on paper. For me I have them in my organiser in the diary insert it self. There are one or two that still require cards to be sent so there is a reminder of these about a week before as well.
I have used a single page with all the dates on as a list (Birthdays and Anniversary - .docx .pdf ), but I often found I wasn't looking at that page of my organiser, I much prefer dates and reminders to be in the diary rather than else where.
How about you?
No electronic reminders for me (I don't even have a smart phone).
ReplyDeleteOn paper I use a single page in my information section, that I use as a reference to fill out new months in my diary section.
I have a holiday/birthday/gift planner that is separate from my everyday planner. I keep a list of birthdays and holidays that required gift giving in there as well as some other stuff. In my everyday planner, I do write the birthdays on the monthly layout and again on the day in the weekly.
ReplyDeleteBirthdays get entered on my monthly calendars (usually with just a mark-it dot on the date and a list at the side) at the beginning of the year. I keep a list in my reference binder that is tweaked as new births and passings occur during the year (frequency of both seem to be increasing as time rolls along).
ReplyDeleteI admit I am a blasphemer... I haven't used a Filofax as a diary for quite some years now, so I get an email reminder for birthdays from Google calendar.
ReplyDeleteHi, my name is Julia. I have been reading Philofaxy and other planner blogs for a while but never commented. I keep birthdays in my weekly and monthly spread. I print my own inserts and all the birthdays and other information is pulled onto the inserts automatically from a database. That way I don't have to rewrite the same information every year. It works well for me.
ReplyDeleteHi Julia, I'd be interested to know how you do this as I do my own inserts too using the source files from this site.
DeleteHi Julia, I'd be interested to know how you do this as I do my own inserts too using the source files from this site.
DeleteHi Sam, I have all information organised in an Excel spreadsheet on different worksheets. That same file contains insert templates and various macros that populate the inserts upon button click. I select which month or which week and it is ready to print in a second. What do you use to create and print your inserts?
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