my new method
To confirm the night I visit the mikveh I now need only look out the window. If it is raining then I probably have a mikveh night. Ok, this is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I just find it highly amusing. I end up taking 3 preperation showers/baths: A bath at home, a shower on my walk to the mikveh, and another shower there. The good news is that it stops raining long enough for me to walk back home. :)
On a serious note, I am having some problems with my calendar. I liked the vertical format I had used in the past and created my current one by hand. It's nice and all, but I'm still looking for the perfect calendar which will integrate discretely with my daily one so that I don't forget my Hefsek Taharah or the bedikot, especially with daylight savings time. Does anyone know if Hebrew calendars exist (preprinted) for various ringed-binder systems? That might help me out. I'm thinking of something with stickers or fill-in-the-circule, but not sure what. Any advice is welcome.
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I use ICal on my computer - I can choose to show a specific data set or not - I use different colors for events either home, work or other - even a different color for birthdays and anniversaries... the really nice thing is that I can set "alarms" to remind myself of when to do my hefsek, bedikot, etc. It only works, though, if you use the computer regularly enough to see the alarms when appropriate - but since I am on the darn thing most of the day, it works for me.....(I also have a Jewish calendar setting on it where I have downloaded local times for sh'kia.)
Neat idea to use ical, since it's open anyway (i use a mac) and i can decide which sets are used and when. Colour is good. Alarms are even better. :) I don't know why I never thought to use it for more than just the mikveh date. D'oh! Thank you Rachel, I just tossed the paper calendar I've been using (and misplacing).
Hmm.. I'm not sure how that helps Talia.. she seems to be paper-based. iCal doesn't print so nicely.
I have no clue about anything preprinted for a binder system, but what works for me is a full page Jewish/secular date calendar - with sh'kia times! - that lives in the bedroom (no one else's business, and the "official" family calendar lives in the kitchen), and gets everything duly noted, then I made myself a notation system to transfer in quasi-shorthand anything that I need to remember on a given day - like the onos. So no one else needs to know why January 3 is circled, and the 4th has a square around the date, for example.
Or maybe you could find blank binder pages to run through a printer or hand draw (yuck, too much work).