Diary hack :)

Hi!

This might be useful to you if you have unused diaries from the past which you want to use, rather than waste.

Not many people know this, but there is a pattern to the cycle of dates. What this means, is that on a pattern of 6 and 11 years, the dates of a specific year repeat (except for leap years). So, for example, all the dates from 2001 match the dates of 2007 and 2018 too!

See the table below for illustration of this. I've done from 2000 to 2020. (I've left out 2000, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016 and 2020 because either they have no repeat in the 20 years I have done, or no repeat at all).

2001	2002	2003	2005	2006	2007	2009	2011
2007	2013	2014	2011	2017	2001	2015	2005
2018	2019				2018

2013	2014	2015	2017	2018	2019
2002	2003	2009	2006	2001	2002
2019				2007	2013

So, if you have an old diary, you may be able to use it again! for example, a diary from 2001 or 2007 you haven't used, you can use it again in 2018!

I'm doing this with a filofax mini 2009 diary refill I got in a filofax I bought used from ebay, I will use it in 2015! All I did was tipex out the year!

Unfortunately this doesn't work for 2012 because it is a leap year, but in 2013 you could use a diary from 2002!

Hope this helps!