All the grand designs I had about keeping notes in the thing all went to pot. It was almost an affectation more than it was a planner. I never used it very well, and certainly not for any note keeping. When I had one of the Franklin Covey planners, it was such wonderful paper that aside from writing appointments in it I was afraid to mark it up. I don't know why it is different than, say, a 3-ring binder, or my old paper planner, but it just is. However, the non-linearity of this one led me to change the way I looked at things. Which itself was just a friggin' notebook. The funny thing about all this is that it showed me how ineffectively I was using my current notebook. Let me go no further before I say this: yep, I get it, it's just a friggin' notebook. The Advantage over spiral-bound and three-ring No hours on the internet searching, no finding the perfect, no spending another $15 at the Levenger store for no reason. This was probably $0.50 that will last for a very long time, if I keep with this notebook system. Works like a charm as a divider now, and it was cheap. Unfortunately, due to operator error, I was often turning to a tab and then writing on the page for the next one, so in the principle of KISS, I slapped a label from my label maker on the front of each page. I then printed a second copy, to have one for each side, in case the notebook happened to be upside down. To get these tabs fo rmatted, I set my label maker to the smallest sized font, and printed them out in a single tape with three spaces between each word. WR Ch - my handwritten weekly review checklist (frankly, easier to use than my Splashshopper Checklist).separate tasks for an organization I am involved with. Projects - mind mapping and thinking on paper.File Notes - for notes on my "defined work" from meetings, etc.Tasks - for capture from meetings, or random thoughts where the notebook is handy.Calls - for voicemails to be returned or put into my system when I'm on the road.Very simply, I used 3M Post-It Rigid Index Tabs, and added the following "sections": So then, the next morning, I set out to tab the pages as I had outlined in my initial post. I enjoyed the feeling of writing in it, and really enjoyed the quality of the paper. I stayed up very late the first night I had this notebook, essentially reading a novel and doing a brain dump. SWMBO, now she's crafty - and I will leave that to you as to how you want to interpret that. I did mention that I was going to do some hacking on these notebooks, and after a productive 10 minutes with my labeller, I'm happy to say that I've had terrific results for someone as un-crafty as I am. I gave a favourable initial impression of these notebooks, and to date that hasn't changed. I was very happy to have found these, as I was wistful of the shipping cost, and now exchange rate, for the Levenger Circa notebooks. Just my $0.02, but I'm very tired of it happening all the time.Ībout two weeks ago, I posted about how I found a Myndology Junior Notebook and Myndology Index Notebook in my remote part of the earth. If that wasn't enough, I am noticing that this is becoming a pretty major pre-occupation for most business interactions. However, I'm trying to actually accomplish something, not just dump, and it seems that more and more people are trying to push things off of their own plates and onto the plates of other. Perhaps I'm tainted right now by reading Scott Adam's funny " The Dilbert Principle", which discusses this sort of "weasel" behaviour and how you can use it to your advantage. But really, many a re just calling or e-mailing to then foist something back at you. They are people who may themselves be working from lists, but all they are doing (in GTD context) is calling to leave a voicemail or an e-mail, and then move it to their for lists.Īnd it isn't all of them, some of them have good intentions. I am fairly certain that many of the people that I deal with on a day to day basis from outside my company are "dumpers".
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