The Desk-It Weekly Calendar looks rather pointless, whether you prefer paper diaries over electronic or not. Scrawling your dates and appointments onto sheafs of dead trees is fine: The Lady prefers it that way because it is light, easy to read and more portable even than her never-used iPad.
But the Desk-It is always tied to your computer. Once you stick the sheet to the chin of your monitor, it's going nowhere, so you may as well use the calendaring app on the computer itself. Sure, you could rip the giant Post-It-style sticker off to take it with you, but that's about as practical as trying to carry a sheet of fly paper.
And if you're not using an iMac, it seems even more pointless: Without that slab of aluminum behind it, you'll have nothing to press against with your pen. And if you are using an iMac, you surely just cried out "What?! You expect me to use iCal? That piece of crap?"
My answer is to upgrade to OS X Lion. Despite the annoying leather-look, the 10.7 iCal is around one thousand times better than the old version. Try it out.
Back to the Desk-It. You could try sticking it on the edge of your desk, in front of your keyboard, making it always available, even if your iMac kernel panics or your girlfriend decides to use the hairdryer, and the bathroom heater, and the toaster all at the same time, tripping out the power and killing your computer stone dead.
If you want one, a pad of sixty will cost you $10, or roughly $60 for a year's worth. enough for a year with a few spares. Sorry about my appalling math. Available now.
Desk-It Weekly Calendar [Poketo via Werd]
Photo credit: Desk-It
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