It’s designed to work with the rest of Google’s services, which are becoming increasingly integrated in an era where the company is focusing on saving users time with artificial intelligence, like its chatbot Bard. There are colorful cards for each month, and events like flights from your Gmail automatically show up in your calendar as well as video calling entries from the company’s own platform, Meet. Events can also be organized by sorting them into separate calendars or color-coded by their category. Tim teaches us that we can either live our life by enjoying the present, (hoping not to succumb to instant gratification monkey) or work at the expense of our present selves to improve our future selves. In other words, you have this small spoonful of diamonds and you really want to create a life in which they’re making you happy. And if a diamond is not making you happy, it should only be because you’re using it to make other diamonds go down better—either your own in the future or those of others. In the ideal situation, you’re well balanced between #1 and #2 and you’re often able to accomplish both simultaneously (like those times when you love your job). In thinking about my own weeks and how I tend to use them, I decided that there are two good ways to use a diamond: Besides the purpose of encouraging regular reflection, we hope the calendar can help you feel more oriented in your life, help you set goals and hold yourself to them, and remind you to be proud of yourself for what you’ve accomplished and grateful for the diamonds in your spoon.

I reflect on how each week anywhere from 30–60 minutes each week, but the gain I get from doing this over reflecting for 5 minutes might only be 50%, whereas the gain one could perceive from reflecting 0 minutes each week to just 5 or 10 is likely to be more like 150%. If you’re a new parent, it might be fun to make one for your child so they can look at it later and have some info on what happened in the first few years of their life. Each row of weeks makes up one year. That’s how many weeks it takes to turn a newborn into a 90-year-old.

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Given that fact, the only appropriate word to describe your weeks is precious. There are trillions upon trillions of weeks in eternity, and those are your tiny handful. Going with the “precious” theme, let’s imagine that each of your weeks is a small gem, like a 2mm, .05 carat diamond. Here’s one: Events can be structured so you see them by week or in a list with an agenda view. There's also a view that shows a map of all your events that have a location attached to them. The biggest downside to Lightning Calendar is that it features an older, dated user interface which lags far behind some of the more minimalist approaches employed by most of Lightning’s competitor apps. This could be perfect for those that like to keep things simple or for those with older machines that can’t be bogged down running multiple modern applications.

The 30 Boxes calendar has a simple design that lets anyone create and use an online calendar easily. The biggest strength of Google Calendar is that it’s a cloud-based app that syncs across all of your devices. This means that whether you’re at your computer or on your smartphone, as long as you’re signed into your Google account, you’ll have access to your calendar with notifications as well. Like many of its rivals from leading tech companies, it has some unique limitations that require you to have a Google account to get the most out of it, so while you can certainly sync a Google Calendar with most other clients and apps, it’ll be at its best on its own.I was curious as to where this idea came from. On 5th December 2012 Craig Weller wrote about a very basic life calendar that he was using where he was filling in the ‘week’ boxes in what is a simple printed 52×80 grid. He calls it a ‘Memento Mori’ chart – it means ‘remember you will die’. It kind of feels like our lives are made up of a countless number of weeks. But there they are—fully countable—staring you in the face. Note: If you want to print this post or read it offline, the PDF is probably the way to go. You can buy it here.

Looking at this spoon of diamonds, there’s one very clear question to ask: “Are you making the most of your weeks?” Just imagine the perspective you´d get in 5 years if you keep on taking your weekly notes. All the memories and feelings you would be able to cherish again. We’ve all had Neither Weeks and they don’t feel good. And when a long string of Neither Weeks happens, you become depressed, frustrated, hopeless, and a bunch of other upsetting adjectives. It’s inevitable to have Neither Weeks, and sometimes they’re important—it’s often a really bad Neither Week that leads you to a life-changing epiphany—but trying to minimize your Neither Weeks is a worthy goal. Apple Calendar lets you view your schedule in day, week, month, and year view, and color coding makes it easy to keep your calendars and events organized. That said, there are few customization options available which is typical of Apple’s other software.

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But the worst possible way to use a diamond is by accomplishing neither #1 nor #2 above. Sometimes “neither” happens when you’re in either the wrong career or the wrong relationship, and it’s often a symptom of either a shortage of courage, self-discipline, or creativity. Sometimes “neither” happens because of a debilitating problem. The boxes can also be a reminder that life is forgiving. No matter what happens each week, you get a new fresh box to work with the next week. It makes me want to skip the New Year’s Resolutions—they never work anyway—and focus on making New Week’s Resolutions every Sunday night. Each blank box is an opportunity to crush the week—a good thing to remember. Outlook Calendar may seem a bit limited in terms of features but the app supports all of the standard view modes including day, week, month, and schedule. It’s great for people with busy calendars because it allows you to view multiple accounts at once. It’s also a neat tool for organization freaks, with plenty of folders and sharing options. Fantastical is well known for its beautiful design and interface. Everything inside the app is laid out logically and there are also plenty of customization options to make your calendars your own. Fantastical also provides three themes to choose from so you can have the standard Fantastical theme, a light one, or a dark one that provides you with a consistent view of your calendar across both desktop and mobile.