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Welcome to #CheckIn for SUNDAY 2025-10-19


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Let’s talk about to-do lists. Google offers scheduling software to help you to manage your time, and give them information about where your time is spent. I have a handy-dandy free and open source calendar program called Ical. It’s ancient, but still does the trick. It has also saved me on occasion, because I have records of my activities on my own computer from over twenty years ago. To be honest on a daily basis I run on recycled scraps of paper where I have written a list of activities and groceries that need doing.
So, how do you manage your time?

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Today’s topic is suggested by @Muse but there’s always an element of randomness. Grab your beverage preference (pixel or not), follow Wheaton’s Law and enjoy the space. (I would tell you my autumn joke but you probably wouldn't fall for it)

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Jay Bryant
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I set alarms in my phone. I don't associate text with them. I know what each one means. Google will just have to figure out that I turn on the TV at 3 to watch Jeopardy.
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Kenny Chaffin
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I make a daily list in my journal....almost identical each day but with variation....I use Google Calendar to remind me of annual events, appointments, deadlines, etc.
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I use google calendar with colour codes and write stuff on my wall calendar. I have a book for to-do but I'm trying to use a reminder app.
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For most appointments and planning, I use Google Calendar, for groceries I usually write them on paper.
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I once thought to set up syncing between my phone and my Macbook, but the default available software will only do that if you sync through the Apple cloud, so I gave up, because my scheduling needs aren't all that great. Anyway I have this eventual medium-term goal of moving my life over to Linux. Cloud-free scheduling may be my first sub-project of that particular plan. I have no desire to figure out how to sync to the Mac when I'm going to switch away anyway.
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Jodi
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I use iCal for appointments, meetings, birthdays, etc. Then paper lists for shopping.
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Carsten Raddatz
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Being in a new job and, in comparison, am under ticket pressure, I reverted to "notify me 3 minutes before the event" and even autoscheduling tasks (testing phase) with Morgen.so - so alarms go off kinda often now, but rarely by setting an alarm manually. =)

Exceptions: cooking. I'll set the oven to alert in 30 minutes, or whatever time it takes to bake the lasagna/pie/pizza. Or set the timer on my fitness smart thingy on the wrist to remember the pot of tea that is brewing.

Grocery: paper lists. Reasons, scrap paper until the end of days, gotta put these dead trees to good use.

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Carsten Raddatz
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Private calendar, Etar is the Android app of choice, works and syncs. Road to selfhosting this is slow and has been for a while.

In other news, Ralph the all purpose animal was at one point touchy-feely with a giant grandfather clock's inner workings. To help save the world, I gathered. That is quite something. Not having to endure nightmares because of deadlines and things.

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My Google Calendar is on my phone and connected to Alexa. I also use Alexa to set reminders and to keep my grocery list, which is connected to my phone app so it is always with me. This way simple voice commands keep me on track. This has worked well.
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Deb Zaccaro-Rojas
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I use the phone as an alarm, and to note things like birthdays, anniversaries, doctor appts. I keep a written Date Book as well...I used to keep a journal, lots of journals....I intend to shred those, over time. There is no one who will care, after I'm dead, of folks I knew in College and what I was feeling or thinking.
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I use my phone for BBQ timing and rare wakeup alarms. Otherwise, rely on Google Calendar for compulsory attendance items, medication notes, memos to self and the like. We don't pay too much attention to time and day of the week. We're running on garden time. Slow time. Evidently, summer is over. Next, four months of shitty gardening weather. I'm already counting how many days until spring but just in my head.as it's still fall.
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Downstairs in my office we have a stratum 1 NTP server (synced to several GPS satellites). (We also have a teensy, tiny Verizon cell phone tower in an upstairs closet - it's range is about 30 feet.)

Calendar - while I would prefer something cool, like a set of Stonehenges or bamboo pipes dripping into buckets resting on counterweighted trigger levers, I instead use the Apple calendar, shared across all of my devices via Apple iCloud.

Back when I was doing time-speed-distance rallies most people used radios tuned to WWV radio to synchronize clocks made from WW-II Hamilton wrist watches. I dispensed with the radio and used an audio cassette recording of WWV.

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Google Calendar to track stuff like Dr appointments and such, it also integrates with the Local City Calendar automatically so I am alerted to changes in trash pickup schedules, etc.

Day to day stuff, well I track my daily notes, as some folks know, in my Zibaldone summary that I put up once a week, which resides as a series of txt files on my laptop. Grocery lists usually end up on 3x5 cards to take with me, or get put in to a Wordperfect single page document when I need my wife to do the shopping instead of me (a very infrequent event).

Everything else is likely a sheet of paper on my little clipboard near the computer or scrawled in a 5x7 wired notebook.

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for most of my life I always carried a pen and notebook (paper kind) where I jotted ideas, stories, poems, appointments, everything
now I just follow established routine or freeform as I do
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Jodi
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Oh, I still carry a little notebook and pens (multiple, just in case). Helpful for writing things down, notes to self, and much better than trying to type on the phone. Not to mention the pens have a stylus on them (useful when wearing gloves or if the checkout machine at the store refused to register my finger).
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stefani banerian
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for scheduling, there is "at" and "cron", and now, systemd timers.
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stefani banerian
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no stratum 1 ntp servers in my house.
we do have an atomic clock that circles the globe every so many hours.
(or does it start anew in the east every morning?)
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Mark Wollschlager
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I use a combination of a calendar/journal book, a fridge calendar with a magnet moved to the current day, and google calendar.
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Lisa Stranger
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How do I manage my time? Very poorly 🫤

When I need reminders, I use whatever calendar is on my phone. Unfortunately for Apple, I experienced Android calendar first. It puts iCal to shame. But, iCal is the price of not telegraphing my every move to the folks who gave up on not being evil.

Of course there's a discussion to be had about whether 🍎 is on the same path...

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