tired!

[kismet09]

Counting back the weekends, I have done the following: Went to NYC; went to Ocean City; went to NYC and helped someone move; babysat for a large, slobbery dog; had a choir concert. No wonder I'm a little worn out. I haven't had a weekend of just being lazy at home for 6 weeks! Not that I did a whole lot this weekend or last in terms of productivity or anything, but it was still 4 hours each way in the car, and lots of walking around and just doing stuff. I need some sitting still time, so that's what I'm taking this weekend before my sister arrives next Tuesday. Spinning and sitting and studying some Scrabble for a September tourney. I was going to go to Philly's one-day tourney this weekend, but really, I'm just *tired* (especially of being in the car). I'm also falling woefully behind on my work. Argh.

Also, is anyone else ridiculously picky about the formatting of their day planner (those of you who use one)? I've been getting Franklin Covey pages free through work for three years, and I'm using the two pages per day format, but I'm not very satisfied with them. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the perfect planning system -- what the pages of your planner would look like in a perfect world. I have, in the past, created my own pages on the computer and printed them out to use. I'll write more about that later.

Comments

[writtenoutloud.livejournal.com]

i'm way anal on day planners.

i hope you get some time for yourself. you've been going and doing a lot. where exactly do you live?

[kismet09.livejournal.com]

Maryland - a bit outside of DC

[twistjusty.livejournal.com]

Funny you should ask...

I asked one of my UK friends to please buy me some Filofax multilingual 95mm x 170 mm sheets. My first day planner fifteen years ago was a gift from Great Britain, and since then I just cannot see myself enjoyably recording my to-do lists and appointments on pages typeset in mere English. I find more fun listing appointments for the third Donnerstag in Gennaio.

I think I'd like the grid for the to-do lists to have a column for priority. Not everyone perfectly records in descending order of importance task lists.

[kismet09.livejournal.com]

ooh... multiple languages would be so fun! I will incorporate that into my ideal planner design.

Another ideal design feature

[twistjusty.livejournal.com]

This will be impractical for smaller sizes, but I do like the free-form monthly calendar grids: a 7 x 5 array without dates where one fills in at the top the month, the year, and then marks in the corner of each box within the array the date. I have the semiweekly fill-in-your-own-date page grids.

In fact, maybe just adapting much of Stephanie Culp's 12-Month Organizer and Project Planner (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1558703608/103-1907442-1302251?v=glance) to a day planner format would make me giddy and ultra-satisfied.

[thecutepolice.livejournal.com]

My planner is my one and only anal/picky/neat freak area in life. I'm currently using a combination of daytimer monthly and 1 page per day calendars.... and it's still not what I want.

What I want:

Big space for detailed appointments (like if I need to bring stuff to it or want to note why someone's coming to see me)

Separate to-do lists for work and home without having to add note pages. (I love the priority column idea too... I need that)

Monthly calendars with big enough squares to write more than one thing in (actually, the monthly calendar pages I have are pretty good... I can write small enough for them.)

[raencloud.livejournal.com]

I'm extraordinarily picky about my planner. I use a Franklin Covey, but the weekly less-structured pages that I can't remember the name of now. I like to set it up my own way, though, and I'm fussy about it.

[kismet09.livejournal.com]

simplicity?

[raencloud.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think that's the one. I couldn't find it on the website when I commented yesterday, so with my luck they've discontinued it.

simplicity

[kismet09.livejournal.com]

Heh. I hope it's still around - those pages are pretty!

[snidegrrl.livejournal.com]

I gave up on any planners. I hated every single one I bought. Now I use a crap week-at-a-glance thing I got at the CVS because it seemed like the more money I spent on planners, the more disappointed I was. I had the franklin covey for a while but it was just too cumbersome and awful. :( A sad planner story!

[kismet09.livejournal.com]

That is sad! That's why I spent a few years making my own.