The Deconstructed Diary (Month)
STEP 2: Month
I had a real need for something to track one-off events. When did public holidays happen? When were people's birthdays? When were doctor's appointments?聽The second essential step to my deconstructed diary was the month.
I put all the dates for the year into a table for myself and printed off a couple of A4 sheets of paper. I do know that this was largely unnecessary, and I could have bought a planner that already listed all the days for 2020. As I've said, I just have a preference for constructing my own systems from scratch:
Month sheets stapled together.
Doing it myself allowed me to slot in dates that were important to me. I don't really care about the lunar cycle or celebrities birthdays. They aren't a big deal in my life. What I do care about it is university times. I was able to type all of that into the plan.
I've been surprised by just how many times I've pulled the month sheet out. People keep asking things like:
- Are you free on the 26th?
- What university week is the 15th?
- When's census date?
In response, I can simply pull out my monthly plan and tell them. Who knew?