It’s a durable planner that looks great, feels just right, and will hold up to years’ worth of your busy life without batteries, brand-sponsored Wi-Fi, or a monthly service charge loaded up with hidden fees.
The folks at Field Notes finally jump into the planner game. Looks great!
Nantucket Note Card Box with Calendar Cards, 2016 – Levenger
A solid bamboo box with our 3 x 5 Calendar Cards for 2016Something pretty big has happened to one of the smallest, most powerful tools at Levenger. Small in size for sheer convenience, our 3 x 5 Calendar Cards for 2016 make planning in a mini way a huge success, especially when displayed on a sturdy bamboo box. Choose between our Weekly and Monthly Calendar Cards or our Daily Calendar Cards.
Since it is that time of year when people are buying planners for the upcoming year, if you are a fan of the humble 3×5 card you owe it to yourself to give Levenger’s latest offering a look.
The index card has three words scrawled on it. They are three high priorities. When the highest is not being worked on, then one of the others will take its place.
I, too, have long used a 3×5 card to drive my days in a similar way. Every day, I put my most important three tasks on one and then draw a line and use the portion beneath to capture incoming tasks and for scratch notes. I use one side of a card per day (so a single card can be used for two days). Been doing it for at least 10 years. I love them.
22 Planner Alternatives to a Filofax — The Well Appointed Desk
I went through some of the systems I’ve used in the past as well as some planner options that might be new to all of us. In the end, what might work for you this year, might not be what will work for you next year. Lives change, jobs change and our priorities shift. And that’s okay.
It’s the time of year when a lot of people are researching and buying planners for next year. Ana has you covered for a brief overview of many of the options available.
Use a Daily Planner as a Notebook | Kicking Ass and Taking Notes
For the past few years I’ve been using Moleskine’s page-per-day planner, large (13 x 21 cm) size, as my main catch-everything notebook (not as a planner as intended).
It goes on to list several reasons why such a method might work for some. Interesting at the least.
Michael Palin: ‘Pleasure, pain – it’s all there in my diary’
Very little happened on that first day of the new diary, or so it seemed at the time. Yet when I re-read my entry for Thursday 17 April 1969, my diary reminds me that I played squash, had David Jason round to lunch, walked over Hampstead Heath to Kenwood House, and took a phone call from David Frost about a rumour he’d heard that I was planning a new show with John Cleese. If I had not kept a diary I would never remember all this. And how unremarkable it seemed at the time. David Jason was a friend, not a television megastar, and Monty Python’s Flying Circus, the new show John had talked about, was still a glint in its mother’s eye.
This, right here, is why it is important to keep a journal/diary/log of some sort. What seems mundane now might be one of the most important things in your life and there is no way to know unless you write it all down.
(Hat tip to Matt Kaspar once again)
If you wanted to ensure it lasted for 150 years – you’d choose paper.
— Garrick van Buren (@garrickvanburen) September 14, 2015
What we believe in.
Original source of the list is here.
When something really resonates with me, I capture it in my Core Commonplace book.
‘I’m awful, I’m awful’: writers spill the secrets of their diaries
What is it like to read your diary later in life? Sheila Hancock, Tracey Thorn and Rae Earl share their stories.
I love stuff like this. Thanks to Matt Kaspar for sharing it with me.
Hobonichi Planner A6 Book (January Start) – HOBONICHI TECHO 2016
The 2016 version of the planner I have used as a Daily Log for two years now (and foresee myself using as long as I live if possible) is now available for sale. They first went live last night but the rush was so great that it crashed their servers pretty hard. Yes, it is that popular and for good reason. I just checked and things seem a bit more stable now so, if you are in the market for a good paper planner filled with wonderful details and fountain pen friendly paper now is your chance.
If you want to get a sense of how I use mine, I wrote a bit about it on my personal site.