• ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      We’re a family of six, and the kids don’t have phones. It’s tough to coordinate schedules already and it’s only going to get worse.

      I recognize that I’m an edge case.

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        11 hours ago

        You’re not an edge case. My family isn’t that large but we still have challenges with this exact thing.

        There’s a screen device that my wife gets incessantly advertised to her that is probably a better option than it being built into a fridge that has been engineered to last 3 weeks longer than the warranty.

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          2 hours ago

          We’ve tried paper. And dry-erase. The problem is that we keep our calendars and todos and schedules on our phones, which don’t automatically update the paper; and by the second week, we tend to just stop manually updating it. There’s a paper calendar in my office that I just flipped to October last week (from August).

          The only way that really seems to work, where we don’t forget an event, is having a single digital shared calendar.