Posts Tagged ‘planner’

Prefer Paper Planners? 3 Best Calendars You’ve Never Heard Of

Professional Organizers are often called upon to help our clients choose the calendar that is best for their needs. Many times, even though people are very digitally-oriented in their work, they still prefer having a paper calendar. Paper planners provide the benefit of immediate gratification—there is no waiting to boot up or fumble around with “toothpick typing.” You can just write something in and keep going… » Continue

May 2 2007 | By Lorie | Tagged: calendar, planner, planning, scheduling | 10 comments»

Add some sparks to Online Calendar App: Google Calendar

Just between you and me, except the online calendar sharing feature, Google Calendar is a very traditional calendar software. It’s just a prove to say Google can develop a calendar software in a web based platform.

Anne Zelenka at Web Worker Daily proves otherwise. She suggests 18 ways to make it rock:

Add holidays, moon phases, sporting events, and other public calendars.
Customize your view.
See where you are right now on your

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March 23 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: calendar, google, online, planner, software, tool | 2 comments»

Productivity & Organizing Myth #5 – the right planner (tool) is all you need

Myth: Having the right portfolio planner, calendar, mole skine and containers (tools) will make someone productive.
Reality: Having the right tools is the first part to being productive, managing your time well, and being successful. The second part, which is even more vital, is that one knows how to use the tools.

None of us would expect to be master gardeners just because we purchased a shovel and rototiller. Nor would… » Continue

February 21 2007 | By Susan | Tagged: calendar, planner, Productivity, tool | 5 comments»

Template: Emergent Task Planner 2007

David Seah has released an update on his Emergent Task Planner, which is a form to plan and track your time using time boxing technique. Break down your day into separate time periods, and deliver and perform the work by the deadline:

So what is Emergent Task Planning? It’s a more directed version of Emergent Task Tracking, which is the form that helps you figure out where your time… » Continue

January 5 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: planner, task, template | 2 comments»

Two Planning Tools Revisited

I’m not really using the Hipster PDA officially. I’ve got 15 or so 3×5 cards in a binder clip. I use the lined side for thoughts that pop up, and I use the white side to draw visual concepts and thinking, a la Dave Gray style. Is this working for me?

No.

What’s useful is that I always have paper handy for notes and ideas. But as an organization tool… » Continue

August 14 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: diyplanner, hiveminder, planner, planning, todo, webtools | 4 comments»

Creating a Custom Moleskine Planner

Moleskine is not as popular as before - but I am sure it still has its fans. Best of all it is elegant, it is free in style, you can customize it in any ways. Mike Rohde, a visual designer, shares his setup on creating a custom moleskine planner. He bought a new line-ruled Pocket Moleskine notebook and draw up his custom planner:

Planner Formatting
On the ruled Pocket… » Continue

July 12 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: moleskine, planner | 5 comments»

PigPog’s Moleskine PDA Updated

You know you want a real good reason to really use a Moleskine. Admit it: you own one that’s not getting a lot of ink (well, there’s just so beautiful- you can’t just… write on it!) Enter: the PogPog PDA.

Michael has a killer system here, complete with what I’ve come to realize is what was missing with my attempts at using a paper PDA: a way to deal with what’s… » Continue

July 10 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: gtd, moleskine, organization, pda, planner, planning, Productivity | 1 comment»

Bank Robbery!

There’s been a robbery, and you’re involved!

Scene of the Crime

For those two hours last night that you watched television, someone else stole that time and applied it to writing a little bit more on their new, completely obvious, “I had that idea already” book, and they’re going to sell it for $200,000 up front.

When you surfed RSS feeds an extra hour looking for the perfect productivity tip, someone snuck in… » Continue

July 3 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: gtd, hacks, Lifehack, planner, planning, Productivity, schedule, scheduling, time, timemanagement | 14 comments»

Zoho Planner

I just found out there is a pretty awesome online todo planner system called Zoho Planner. This is similar to Backpack from 37Signals which you can separate different type of information and todo into different pages, you can then share it to other users. What it is superior is the ability to export it to iCal and also the unlimited space to attach files to your planner… » Continue

February 17 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: planner, software | 3 comments»

DIY Planner 3.0

Just wanted to send across the news that D*I*Y Planner 3.0 has been released! It is currently a Classic (5.5″x8.5″) and A5 sized edition with new designs and some good features:

* Inspired by David Allen’s Getting Things Done, but flexible enough to be used for almost any productivity method, including almost any of your own devising. Reference charts are included for GTD, including one specially… » Continue

February 15 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: download, planner, template | no comments»

Chandler: An Interpersonal Information Manager

Chandler is an experimental software targeting users who use PIM (Personal Information Management). The current release of Chandler is quite promising, as it has a good calendaring system and features like recurring events, timezones, multi calendars etc. I like the homepage, even the vision page has some good tips hides in it:

… So much of incoming information can’t be dealt with now. Sometimes we just can’t… » Continue

January 16 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: planner, Productivity, schedule, software | 2 comments»

Trip Planner Service

Yahoo! has just released a service called Trip Planner. This is a pretty fantastic time-saving tool to plan your trip, online. Here is an example. Pick things to do, hotel to stay, restaurants to dine. Every location have a map reference. You can then print the information off and use it as a guide. You can also share this with friend and invite them to plan the trip… » Continue

October 27 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: planner, service, software, travel, trip, web | no comments»

Beginner’s Guide to Making a Planner

If you are not willing to shell out $50-60 to buy a ready to use planner, what are the alternatives? One of the popular methods are spending time and create a set for your self. Douglas Johnston over D*I*Y Planner has written an article on teaching you to create an planner system using his template and ordinary paper. Topics discussed are:

Choosing a Planner & Size
Choosing Basic Supplies
Getting

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September 13 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: guide, planner, template | no comments»

DIY Planner Calendar Package 2.5 (Classic/A5)

D*I*Y Planner has released another good template on Calendar which has two sizes: 5.5″x8.5″ and A5. This is a big package with 50 pages of the following templates:

* Day Keeper daily calendar
* Day Keeper, unmarked (write in your own hours)
* Weekly Planning, 1 page, 6 box (no hours, weekend shares a box)… » Continue

September 9 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: calendar, planner, template | no comments»