# calendars revamp 2025 %% Put your actual draft between this comment and the '\%\%' symbols at the bottom %% About two months ago, I [posted asking](https://posts.cv/taurean/bmOIJCtLdTF7TsCOePzd) how other people organize their digital calendars[^thanks]. In 2023 life threw a few curve-balls that required me to become more diligent with keeping an organized calendar. At the time, I set out with the goal "have the least amount of sub-calendars while removing any ambiguity with where a new event should belong". Here's where I wound up at the time: ## **2023-2024 Calendars** ### Goals - everything event belongs to one specific calendar - reduce ambiguity as much as possible - events gave me time to do things, ≠ when they might be finished ### Professional This covered everything between outright work to things that were tangentially related such as meetups, mentoring, or networking one-on-one. ### Routines ADHD time-blindness is real. This calendar helped me block off time for things I do often and might forget that they still require dedicated time to do them. Eg. breaking down recycling and taking out the trash. ### Fitness In 2023 two herniated discs in my spine forced me to drastically change my relationship with my body and how I approached caring for it. This calendar was to make sure I was diligent about going to the gym, working out at home, and tracking fitness stuff my wife does too. This helped us keep track of who needed our shared car and when. ### Health I've had a lot of health stuff in the last 18mo, and at times it became hard to track it all. I needed a dedicated calendar that I could share with other people at times. Therapy also went here. ### Social This was anything not networking-related that was social. This is stuff like movies, museums, birthday parties, etc. ### Public Events This was anything going on where I lived or online. The distinction was stuff I wanted to be aware of but I wasn't necessarily committed to doing. ### Buffer I used this to buffer events that were emotionally or socially draining so that I could decompress and recharge. ### Travel This calendar was mainly to track flights, both for myself and other people. ### Interviews At one point both me and my wife were interviewing for jobs at the same time. Since we share an office, we used this to know when the room would be free for scheduling interviews. ### Personal This calendar functioned sort of like a miscellaneous. I *really* hated this calendar. It was the last one I added out of necessity when I need a place to put new events in the moment and it wasn't clear. It felt like clear proof that this system didn't work. --- ## 2025 Calendars The whole "every event belongs to a single unique calendar" thing turned out to be a major pain and honestly I couldn't even articulate why it was important? The thing that I *really* cared about was clarity. Instead of "every event belongs to a single unique calendar", I'm now changing that to "most things go to the same personal calendar with a few exceptions". ### Calendar This is now my catch-all personal calendar and where most things will live. Catching a movie, grabbing coffee, or going on a hike? Easy. ### Blocks Sometimes I have things where it doesn't really matter when they happen, I just dont want to forget that they need to happen. I also still sometimes need to just clear some space on my calendar to work or decompress, whatever. This calendar is where I throw stuff not because something necessarily *is* happening but because I need some space blocked off. ### Work I initially didn't want to use the label "Work" because there's a lot of professional-adjacent things that don't really have anything to do with my actual job. I decided to just get over it, Professional is a long word and that turned out to be more annoying. This is now a catch-all for work-tasks, meetings, events, conferences, interviews, whatever. ### Health This got merged with fitness. If I'm doing something specifically to do with my physical or mental health in any capacity, it goes here. Workouts, doctor appointments, therapy, etc. ### Events I still really like the idea of tracking stuff happening in my environment. This can be meetups that are *completely* unrelated to my industry, local events in town, farmers markets, whatever. ### Shared w/ Me This last calendar is for things that aren't really about me at all, but just things that are happening I don't want to forget about. This can be the day my wife does laundry or the specific time of a friends' flight. [^thanks]: Thanks to [Laura Gaetano](https://www.alicetragedy.org/index.html), [Carla](https://bsky.app/profile/itswarla.bsky.social), [Laura Sinisterra](https://bsky.app/profile/laurasinisterra.posts.cv), [Alex](https://bsky.app/profile/alexdee.party), [Ron](https://bsky.app/profile/ronbronson.com), [Kōhei](https://bsky.app/profile/nowaykohei.com), [Rome](https://bsky.app/profile/roe.fyi), [Alec](https://bsky.app/profile/aleconline.bsky.social), [Christine](https://christine-chow.webflow.io), and [Seungmee](https://bsky.app/profile/seungmee.bsky.social) for the feedback / sharing your own workflows! %% --- ## Private notes: Thread on calendar stuff: https://posts.cv/taurean/bmOIJCtLdTF7TsCOePzd **Old calendars**: - routines - professional - personal - fitness - health - social - public events - buffer - travel - health… again - interview - mela - …calendar? **New calendars**: - calendar - blocks - work - health - events