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Blog planner: I started the year using a horizontal layout ( see picture of old horizontal layout above alongside personal planner)-I know, what was I thinking?!-which hasn’t worked quite right so I designed my own week-on-2-page, vertical layout that I’m currently ‘test driving’-if it works out, I’ll share it in a future blogpost!.( see picture above alongside blog planner)
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water intake, exercise, weather), and one extra full vertical column for weekly tasks.
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Personal planner: my day is mostly task driven with a few appointments so I use a vertical, week-on-2-page layout with equal size columns for the weekends, each with 2–to-3 boxed off areas in each column to track special items (e.g.Work planner: my work schedule is appointment driven, tracking tasks for various ongoing projects so I use a vertical, week-on-2-page layout with condensed weekends (since I don’t need the weekends, I use these boxes to log weekly project updates), a timed section spanning from 8am to 5pm on the Monday to Friday columns,with extra space at the bottom for tasks and notes, and an extra full vertical column for weekly tasks-any extra writing space, I consider a bonus!.I went on to describe how I use 3 different vertical layouts for each of my life areas: Without hesitation, I mentioned that a week-on-2-page, vertical layout was ideal and extremely versatile for many uses. T-B: Horizontal layout (blog planner) versus Vertical layout (personal planner)Īs I was sitting there on my Skype call, the question came up about our ‘ideal’ page layout. I’ve been using planners for a long time (read more about it here) but it wasn’t until a few years ago when I used an Erin Condren planner for the first time that I realized how much better a vertical column layout worked for me than a horizontal layout AND that a weekly layout provided better oversight than a daily page AND that a Monday start was brilliant! As a result, I enjoyed ‘planner peace’ with the Erin Condren planner for a few years (that is until I got frustrated with the spiral binding because I couldn’t add or remove anything and decided to go back to a ring binder-also using a week-on-2-page, vertical layout). This weekend while on a Skype call with some planner friends, we started talking about planner page layouts. For those times when it’s a miss, I end up wondering, “ What am I doing wrong?“. This approach has worked moderately well for years-sometimes it’s a hit, sometimes it’s a miss. Finally, I try to choose a planner product that I think will work best for each dedicated planner. Next, I determine if each life area requires its own dedicated planner, for example: appointments and tasks for my regular day job do not carry over to my personal time so I can dedicate a separate planner for work which stays in my office. First, I identify key life areas, currently they are: work, blog, and personal (which also includes family, home, and fitness). When it comes to planning, I have a thought process I like to go thru to figure out my planner setups. As I’m going thru this process, it occurred to me that it’s not as simple as choosing a planner product but rather there’s one critical step you must take BEFORE choosing any planner otherwise it will not work. Going into the second quarter of the year, I-like many plannernerds-am doing a self-check to determine what’s working and what’s not working so I can adjust as needed. In the beginning of 2016, I shared my setups for work, blog, personal, and on-the-go planners in a 4-part blog post series.