I saw Steve’s inquiry for a post for the Philofaxy site for the ‘what is in my planner’ column. I have always enjoyed reading about other people’s planner and find mine a little bit boring. Sounds familiar?
Well here it goes, a boring planner 😉
(Disclaimer: for privacy reasons I have only blank pages photographed).
I have GILLIO personal size grey mat, which I bought because I got a promotion at work. I was eying this planner for a long time and made a promise to buy it when I got the promotion. And I do not regret it.
My planning is a combination of GTD and bullet journal. And a lot of common sense and flexibility and usefulness to my daily life. My planner has 5 sections:
- Note’s
- Calendar
- Projects/ To Do’s
- Lists
- Misc.
In the first section is my ‘In box’. I put there all my incoming notes, request, things I need to figure out. Everything goes there. I then go through it and put in the relevant sections.
The calendar section consist of four sections:
Yearly overview: I have the Filofax the four-year planner overview, where I put in school holidays’ and other school-related stuff for my kids.
Monthly overview: it is the month on one page and in between, I have a month overview where I put in all the important dates, to do’s for the month and goals.
Weekly: I have a week per page with notes. I put here all my appointments for the week, together with the to do’s for that week and some reminders/notes for the week. I also screen my month pages to see if there are things that I need to tackle in the week.
Daily’s: I bought these on a discount (90%!) somewhere in January this year. Even if I do not use it, it is cheaper than printing daily pages 😉. I put here all my appointments, to do’s, etc. for the day. At the end of the day, I screen the page and see if all has been done and/or need to be transfer / reschedule to another day. I kinda use them in a bullet journal style.
After the calendar section, I have my project / to do’s. I have here a master to-do list for the month. All the to do’s during the month are being placed here. From here I put the 'to do’s' on a relevant day that they need to be finished.
I also have my projects here, divided into a small task with there due date. I use just plan graphic paper for this. Nothing fancy.
Next, I have all my list. And this why I love the ring planner. I can take my list every year with me, without rewriting everything. My lists are:
- Running schedule: I am training for the 10 Miles in June this year.
- Addresses
- General information
- Website information
- Work instructions: hmmm need to rethink about this section…
- Finance
The last section is a (Daytimer) pocket that I trimmed to fit in the planner. I have this many, many, many years now. I put their stuff: stamps, nice mandala, writing board. Just stuff, that actually needs to go somewhere else……
As you can see, I find my planner cute, but functional. And while writing this piece I am already thinking that some sections need to find another place.
And now it is your turn: show me your planner 😊.
Thank you Maria for this excellent peep in to your organiser. As she says.... let us see yours... please contact steve at philofaxy dot com
So what questions or discussion points have you got for us today?
