Schedule management – pen and paper still rules
japan.internet.com recently published the results of a survey conducted at the start of November by goo Research into the use of scheduling tools. 1,089 people from their monitor group, 43.2% male, successfully completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 21.2% of the survey group was in their twenties, 44.4% in their thirties, 24.4% in their forties, and 10.0% in their fifties.
We have groupware at work which has quite a nice reminder feature, but the rest of the time perhaps 10% of my private schedule is recorded in my mobile phone, with the other 90% delegated to my wife! She uses both a tabletop calendar (this year is a free Hello Kitty one we got as a present from a print shop when we ordered death in the family postcards; a rather incongruous gift, I thought) and her mobile phone for that.
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