Aside from the initial outlay of money to purchase a binder, a Filofax can be a very economical way to plan.
Least expensive is drawing your own planning pages on paper you already have. Paul showed an example in his Filofax No. 12 post.
Also very inexpensive is printing pages you have created yourself, or free printables (such as those available here on Philofaxy). Depending on how much your printer ink costs, this can be cheaper than buying pre-printed inserts.
Pre-printed inserts can still be very economical, and often cost less than buying a bound-book planner (depending on which brands and where you purchase).
And if you get really hard up for cash, ring binders (especially leather or discontinued ones) retain value and can be sold on.
Do you use your organiser as an economical way to plan? Have you ever sold a ring binder?
And as always on Fridays, feel free to ask and/or discuss anything ring binder organiser related!
I have gravitated back to a milestone system for complex projects and tasks. Never found anything that supports this because the milestone diagram is different every time. There isn't any software that has the right functionality, older project planning systems had some features but we're never any good. It is best to draw the diagrams manually and besides the effort of doing this on a black piece of paper forces you to think properly. It is both more economical (black paper) and more effective.
ReplyDeleteAll the various project planning software I have used (over a 40-year engineering career, going back to 'proj'; a program a colleague wrote in Fortran) has supported milestones and the inter-dependencies between tasks and their associated milestones.
DeleteI have been surprised by 'planning gurus' discussing scheduling tasks/planning work without referencing task durations, only deadlines; I cannot see how this would work...
Kevin