Highly customizable planners: Agendio

For couple of days shared people in Facebook planner groups the Agendio website. I checked it immediately, and was amazed. From 28 November will be available as planner refill.

You can 

- choose from different layouts (monthly, weekly vertical, weekly horizontal)

- give your labels for sections

- customize the sections: checkboxes, lines, etc

- divide your sections into more

- in the vertical weekly layout you can choose if you want a schedule, and if, what time span, add section(s) for tasks

- week start

- choose from different looks of the dates, fonts, colors

This is not bad, but what bought me:

I can add tasks and events, what happens always on a day of the week, or a day of a month, etc. It would spare me a lot of time to writing them in my planner again and again. 

(See here all of the features.)

I already started to working on my version. I need a vertical weekly, I'm living without it for a long time, but I'm missing it! (I just placed couple of original Filofax inserts today to my planner...)

I will go with something like this:

Let's go and try the builder! If you would like also a planner, don't forget to check the promotions here. If you don't find what you want, you can also write to the team!

All images copyright Agendio. 

How to organize a Christmas Trip?

Yes, yes, a trip. We are living far away from our birth country. This year Christmas days are in the middle of the school holiday and we decided to travel home at the beginning of the holiday and spending Christmas with the bigger family.

1. Create a project page

As so often I was lazy to print out a "real" project planner insert, I just took a notepaper. To write things done.

2. Brainstorming, and decision making

The first step was before the decision, here you can see our brainstorming. We have family meetings every weekend, when we can discuss all family related stuff. We listed here every ideas, what we can do (like: we don't travel home, we celebrate Christmas here, then we travel, etc.), what is the positiv and negativ side of this, then we voted.

3. What we have to organize here?

- Who we want to meet?
- What we want to make?

- When where with/by whom?

- Christmas gifts

4. Than come the tasks

- Create a list about who you want to buy a gift

- Ideas about gifts

- Buy the gifts

- Create a list, what things we have to take with us to others? 

I started this already in summer, I have a notepaper by all month where I can make misc notes. When I was by my friend I promised here that I will give all of my homeopathic meds, because I don't use them, I wrote that to December.

- Find someone who cares about our rats. (done)

- Write everyone, when we come, and when they have time for us.

- Ask appointment to dentist.

- Create a timeline - when-where. For this I just drawn out the whole school holiday time. I don't think it would be worth to plan this in the "normal" monthly calendar. I will copy the outcome to there. Important note: leave time to pack in and out (and recover :D)! Driving a whole day and going to work next day is not a good choice. 

- Book hotel 

- Packing list - ok it is not so urgent, I can do this on the last week.

As you can see, I didn't written so much tasks here, I just know most of it. And I have the task in my planner: review "Christmas Project", when it is coming, I go to the project page, and find out what else I have to do, and write to the weekly page. 

Most of the gifts are bought, other has to, they are listed to my weekly todo list, and some are not found yet, they will be under thinking at the next review :D

This is, how I organize our trip in December. If you have any question or tip, what else I could do, write me a comment (or you know: write me a comment, only because I want to know, someone is reading! :D)

How to build your perfect planner system? Week 22: Good luck!

I think, I told everything I planned to tell in this series. This last post is about say goodbye :)
It is hard to close a so big and long lasting work, what should I say? The main part I already summarised.

Some miscellaneous thoughts:

- Don't be afraid to start planning, just do it.
- You don't have to have from the first day a perfect system, it will evolve. A wrong system is better than having any.
- You will never have a perfect system, maybe something near. Your needs change, your system has to be adapt.
- I give you advices but my system isn't "ready" yet. I'm working on (OK, I'm an extreme example :)) that constantly.
- Have a calendar and place to take notes. Have a todo list. These are the most important things in your planner.
- Have your planner always with you.
- Write down everything.
- Ask if you need inspiration, how to organize anything. From Chaos to Order Facebook group.

From now on I can go back to most personal things - I wanted also besides this series, but I have energy only for one blogpost in a week. I'm happy if I can write about things also other people are interested, so please write me in comment if you would like to read about something.
I say goodbye from this series with a picture about my actual planners.

How to build your perfect planner system? Week 21: Make your life simpler: routines and checklists

There are in our life so much things what is always the same. Happens on the same time of the week/month/year. Has to do the same thing. If you write them down, you don't have to think about so much. This makes things automatic.

Daily routines

I have a daily routine list since I tried out the FlyLady system. I don't do it any more, but having routines is a great idea!
- You can have a list for all routines somewhere in your planner (I have it by the R divider.) If you can be think on that, you can go every day there, and check, what you have to do. You might need to write to your plan: daily routine.
- Or keep a little card with the tasks by the dailies.
- Or have a sticky note to your day marker, and stick that to your daily, and move it to the next day, if you finished.

- You can have also a weekly chart for the whole week on your weekly spread
- or on your day marker.

Some of mine:

http://srplanner.blogspot.ch/2015/05/page-marker-with-daily-routine.html

I made a new today marker with daily routines, and... ( see next pic) #planner #diy #filofax #routine

Zsuzsa Kiss (@muzsika19) által közzétett fénykép, 2015. Febr 18., 06:13 PST

- or on a separate insert:

http://choretell.com/kids-5-12/patterned-weekly-to-do-chore-checklists/

So much options!

Weekly routines / repeatedly appointments

- You can have a list by your routines list again. You can go to check it there if you not forget it.
- You can write a reminder to your weekly review checklist: write weekly routine tasks/appointments to the days. (This is, what I do - more writing, but I can't check things on different places :))
- You can write a list with this things on your day marker.
- You can write the repeatedly things on replaceable flags. Move this every week to the next week's pages.

Monthly routines /repeatedly appointments

Same options as by weeklies.

Seasonal/Yearly things

- List again.
- Copy from the list to the place.
- Have an insert/post it for every month: write on this every birthdays/appointments, to do-s you have for this month (like making book keeping, changing clothes for seasons etc.). You can stick the post it to the months, or you can use your insert as a divider.

http://srplanner.blogspot.ch/2015/01/the-17-divider.html

Checklists

They are genial helper! If a bigger task need always the same steps, and you need to do that task more times, you can make a checklist for it.
- The most simplest way: Have in your planner (or in a notebook) a place for checklists, and list all the subtasks what you need to the bigger task. When you have to do it again, go there, and make it.
- Make laminated checklists. Then you can mark the finished subtasks with white board marker, and use the checklist next time again. Disadvantage for this: laminated pages make your planner bulky. But why should you keep all of them in your planner? You can find a place for your checklists outside of it. Place only the actual to your day (week).

Zsuzsa Kiss (@muzsika19) által közzétett fénykép, 2015. Febr 20., 06:13 PST