I have been a Monday start of the week person for many years, I tried a Sunday start once, very confusing!
When is your start of the week? Friday, Saturday, Sunday or Monday?
As it is Friday, please feel free to discuss anything else planner related.
I am a Monday starter. But there are also other aspects in life to consider.
ReplyDeleteFor example, TV Guide Magazines "here" start Saturday. And for added confusion, the TV day starts at 6AM, and ends 5:59AM. So if you start watching TV Friday evening, the broadcasts past midnight are still on the "Friday" pages, while some sources list the calendar day. So if you read that some broadcast will be Friday 2AM, you might have missed it, because it was a Thursday past midnight programme.
Another aspect with weekdays is the distribution of weekdays in two-page layouts. Work layout is three sections Mon-Wed left, Thu-Sun right, with tiny Sat-Sun in one section.
Leisure layout is four sections Mon-Thu left, Fri-Sun right, with same as left Fri, and larger Sat-Sun sections.
For some time I was visiting a lot of weekend events, so I created a very special format starting Wednesday and ending Tuesday so I had arrival and departure days adjacent.
Further to your TV Guide comment appointment times in planners and diaries are a right mix across sources. It seems most start at 7 or 8am and end maybe as late as 9pm. What is your planner dairy Appointments time spread?
DeleteMy now unused A5 setup has 08:00 to 22:00 inclusive, however there is a gap at the top for me to enter manually my 07:00 start to the working day. That has half hour lines too.
Planner setup has so many factors to think about. Starting day and appointment time spread are just one of the many things to look for.
Thankfully, I never had to plan timed details per day, so I had just a blank box for each day. And the one horizontal weekly top-flip calendar I once designed just had lines without hours.
DeleteFor a planning on hours, the time range is important to use the space efficiently. And I think that is highly individual.
For different businesses, there are dedicated planners available, like dentists or hair salons, etc.
The best solution is to design an own layout, but this is time consuming, and you need the means to do it. Software, printer, paper, paper cutter, hole punch/drill, corner rounder. I did this for two or three years, but lost the enthusiasm.
And if you'd do this as a service, nobody would be willing to pay enough to cover the time effort.
I just buy the various stock Filofax ones with appointments but no have to live with the hours given.
DeleteMy planning is just a few meetings a day not full day of hour by hour planning. Som days a plain box is good enough but I like the visual and space an appointment when allows.
I'd say Australians would have Monday as the start of the week. Bit a odd it differs from New Zealand on the map, I would say we most share conventions. Here's a post about it on the Australia reddit page https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/u6d39g/since_when_did_monday_become_australias_first_day/
ReplyDeleteFunny this one, I recently did a survey of my email distribution of family & friends (+50 persons) and a good 75% replied, majority UK based & they agree with Steve ~ Monday. Don't know why, but I'm in the school of a Sunday start. Despite it being known as a 'weekend'. Agree television programme magazines are a Saturday start, as I write this I am looking at a traditional wall calendar ~ with a Sunday start & my Google online weekly calendar start is a Sunday (but I think I may have set the setting as my default?). Is this a 'Marmite' debate! HaHaHa . Anyway have a good Weekend! M
ReplyDeleteI was going to point out the 'weekend' bit, and that Sunday is therefore the end of the week...
DeleteIt's a shame Genesis isn't a bit more explicit about naming days of the week God chose to create on; then we'd be a lot clearer about which seventh day should be the day of rest. At least within societies based on the Abrahamic tradition...
Kevin
Both. My Filofax diary of choice is week on two pages with a Monday start. But I grew up in the US with monthly calendars that started on Sunday, and I cannot/ will not make the change to a Monday start for the month. The whole point of a monthly calendar (IMO) is that you can *glance* at it and see what day of the week a specific date is going to fall on, and my old tired brain cannot possibly switch at this stage in my life. Sorrynotsorry.
ReplyDeleteThis means that it took me the better part of a day to tweak Philofaxy's week on two pages calendar but fortunately, once I did, I've never had to do it again, and they print up just fine with both the week starting on Monday, and the current and next month starting on Sunday. Thank goodness.
I have always been a Sunday starter because every wall calendar I have ever used, all my life, has been a Sunday weekly start, so that is really how my brain is hardwired. Visually I thinking of Sunday as being the first day in the left side of the page. We accidentally got a Monday start wall calendar at home last year and I had to highlight the Sundays just to keep me straight! Monday start, though, is very common in the planner world; my pocket Filofax pages are Monday start, and the weekly Leuchtturm I use for work is a Monday start, so I have to adapt. However, I work in retail, and I don’t know if it is like this for all retail in Canada, but our fiscal year is divided in to 13 four week period, Sunday to Saturday, and our payroll is two week periods Sunday to Saturday. And my personal work week is Sunday to Thursday. I just had to get into the habit of checking every time I look at an unfamiliar calendar.
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