Daily Planner | Imamother

EishesYo

Sat, Jun 29 2019, 4:45 pm

Rubber Ducky wrote:

In addition to weekly pages and Year-at-a Glance, the Balabusta's Daily Organizer has monthly spreads. Here's an example:

any specific reason why zmanim like shkia
hadlakas neiros
and tzeis shabbos are not included?

Metukah

Sat, Jun 29 2019, 7:53 pm

EishesYo wrote:

any specific reason why zmanim like shkia
hadlakas neiros
and tzeis shabbos are not included?

You do realise that there are a few hundred cities in the word with frum occupancy? (Do you live in New York?)

amother

Sapphire

Sat, Jun 29 2019, 8:08 pm

Those in England who don't know about it, the Reading Luach Fax is a fabulous calendar which is pages for a 6 hole (A5 sort of size) Filofax. It has Hebrew and English dates as well as shabbos and Yom tov days and start and finishing times. Best thing! Get to use my filo fax and not have to cross reference to a Jewish calendar.

https://readingsynagogue.uk/luachfax.htm

Rubber Ducky

Sat, Jun 29 2019, 10:02 pm

EishesYo wrote:

any specific reason why zmanim like shkia
hadlakas neiros
and tzeis shabbos are not included?

The Balabusta's Daily Organizer includes candlelighting times for 29 cities
— 8 pages of candlelighting times from September 2019 through December 2020. As already mentioned, it would not be practical to include these in the regular weekly or monthly pages. Here's a screenshot:

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EishesYo

Sat, Jun 29 2019, 10:36 pm

Rubber Ducky wrote:

That’s amazing!
Thanks for the screenshot

EishesYo

Sat, Jun 29 2019, 10:37 pm

Metukah wrote:

You do realise that there are a few hundred cities in the word with frum occupancy? (Do you live in New York?)

Good point!

I’m considering the time stamp in my post I should hope not!!

amother

Navy

Sat, Jun 29 2019, 11:27 pm

I work for a mosad and I wanted to have a daily planner printed as a gift to donors. I was going to include zmanim for NYC and Lakewood (which is a lot of our people).

However I was told so many people use their phones for everything that paper planners are not so appreciated. It's nice to hear there are people out there who can organize their lives without a smart phone!

Rubber Ducky, I supposed it's too late for this year, but how about zman tefilah and shkiah on a weekly chart like you did for licht benching?

Rubber Ducky

Sun, Jun 30 2019, 12:14 am

Many, many people use a paper planner and also have a smartphone. The act of writing things down helps us remember them better. Our sales have increased every year even though smartphones were uncommon when the Balabusta first came out in 2008.

Shkia for Shabbos can be easily calculated from the candlelighting time. Weekly (or did you mean daily) zman tefila and shkia times could add 8 or 16 or scores of pages to the planner, increase bulk and weight, and raise production costs.

We do get occasional large orders from schools and organizations. If that is of interest to you, please send me a pm.

songbird

Sun, Jun 30 2019, 12:52 am

Plum Planners are fantastic - you can really personalize them. Call me superficial, but I won't buy any of the "frum" planners because of the way they look. The covers aren't my taste and they're super clunky... I've tried them! I'd rather pencil in dates manually.

miri36

Sun, Jun 30 2019, 3:14 am

I bought the Shaatra one this year. I liked it, but I don't think it was worth the $40. It didn't have adequate yom tov space except for tishrei. I've been searching this past week for a planner. I think I'm going to go with the bloom planner as it seems to have nice additions and space and it's half the price.

ruchelbuckle

Sun, Jun 30 2019, 6:57 am

amother [ Navy ] wrote:

I work for a mosda and I wanted to have a daily planner printed as a gift to donors. I was going to include zmanim for NYC and Lakewood (which is a lot of our people).

However I was told so many people use their phones for everything that paper planners are not so appreciated. It's nice to hear there are people out there who can organize their lives without a smart phone!

Rubber Ducky, I supposed it's too late for this year, but how about zman tefilah and shkiah on a weekly chart like you did for licht benching?

I think it’s a great idea. Depending on the crowd, there are still plenty of people who are happy to use a flip phone or texting phone. In addition, for real planner junkies, calendar and planning apps have serious limitations and will never replace a paper and pen. I have an iPhone but hate the calendar function and have tried many 3rd party calendar apps. At the end of the day, I’m back to a paper and pen- I felt there was too much room for error on my phone.

watergirl

Sun, Jun 30 2019, 7:30 am

Rubber Ducky wrote:

Agree - there is just something about writing by hand... I use the calendar app on my iphone AND my planner. I was recently at a meeting at my son’s school and they gave me a recommendation for a specialist. When I pulled out my planner to write the name down, a comment was made by the admin that they love to see parents as organized as me and love to partner with families like us. I cant imagine the same comment would have been made if I keyed it in my phone. ALSO, when I look back for the info, I find the date of the meeting on my iphone, but the notes from the meeting on that date in my planner.

Frumwithallergies

Sun, Jun 30 2019, 9:19 am

I use a paper agenda plus medium-sized desktop calendar Plus my kid's school calendars. Oh, and my phone. Ugh. I'm going to check out some of the options named above to see if I can consolidate!

sotired3

Sun, Jun 30 2019, 10:15 am

I love the happy planner, I get it at Michaels and there are a few layouts to choose from. It has binder rings so you can add or pull out pages, so if I have a lot going on one day I can pop in a blank page for that. You can buy extra pages, and matching sticky notes and stickers, which are a lot of fun. With coupons, the planner is very affordable.

OutATowner

Sun, Jun 30 2019, 10:32 am

RubberDucky, I see you changed the cover to a more floral look. I remember that thread from last year. Looks great! I love writing things down, but I can never seem to keep track of my planners. Il

Rubber Ducky

Sun, Jun 30 2019, 10:55 am

Thank you! I changed the Balabusta logo last year in response to comments on that thread. We have had a floral cover for years, but the old logo detracted from the overall look. Here is the cover for the upcoming planner: