Paper planners - the “good the bad and the not so ugly”
Before I went back to work (June of 2000), I kept my bits n pieces of stuff in the computer. Worked okay if not being an ideal solution: always had to print stuff out (lists, etc.) if I needed something “portable”. Then when I was working full-time again, the “in the computer” non-solution was just not workable: I never knew what list I would need in town (worked an 80 mile round trip from home) and my non-techie husband could NOT be asked to “look it up real quick” (this is the man who can’t reset a digital watch, or the satellite-dish tv, or find the “on” button on the computer….)
So I discovered paper planners, Franklin Covey in particular. A lot of what’s going on in the F-C stuff is just silly and useless, but the framework was ideal - for the way I was living until October of 2004 (I retired again the end of that month). Then it was back to trying to keep pieces parts of information in the computer ( I HATE things like Palms - talk about a silly techie non-solution! Sheesh….) It’s still not really a workable mode of operation.
Then I discovered (totally by accident, from a link from a link from a blog from a post on wordpress.org/support no less!) Doug Johnston’s D*I*Y Paper Planner . This is perfect. It’s so customizable it’s incredible. AND IT’S FREE - released under the CCL….
Go get your own. Perfectomundo…. Thanks, Doug!
