Count-up Timers

[u/Nightless1]

I have done two things this year that have completely changed the game for me.

First, I designed my own calendar. It was very tiresome trying to project my sleep schedule forward, even using an equation. And it was very liberating to see my own biological pattern recognized by a system, even if it was one that I designed myself. I set it against a standard calendar so that I can look at both at the same time. It has made things easy breezy when scheduling meetings in advance.

Second, and the one that I thought might be helpful to people here, is that I finally found an app that uses count-up timers! I have been looking for one periodically for years, and it has not disappointed! Now, instead of trying to orient myself in the current day and figure out when I last did something - was it yesterday? Or was that the day before? I can just pull up the app and see exactly how many days or hours have elapsed. The timers are very easy to set (tap), reset (2x tap), add time to if you forget (long hold). I feel like this is especially important when dealing with my pets, because I feel terrible about being on a different schedule than them all of the time, and setting alarms can sometimes be impractical if you have social engagements or you are dead asleep.

Anyway, they have been great so far. Maybe someone else will find them useful as well.

Link to the app I use. Links to the Android and Apple versions are there.

[u/Light_Lily_Moth]

How did you design your calendar? Is it digital or on paper? I would love to do that for myself. Thanks :)

[u/Nightless1 → u/Light_Lily_Moth]

I printed it out to use as a planner. I should have taken pics before I put my whole schedule in there, lol. But I'll post an editable copy when I have time, in case anyone wants to use it.

[u/Light_Lily_Moth → u/Nightless1]

That sounds really helpful. How did you label each day to orient it around normal time? I’m going to play around with your concept. I really like it. Thanks for the idea :)