If you only use one, the simple answer is that you have everything in one place, no worries about duplication or forgetting to copy information from one to the other.
In the past, I tried to use more than one organiser a smaller one to carry with me and an A5 at home. The mistake I made was to have diary inserts in both of them. Keeping both up to date became quite a chore.
If you also keep a digital calendar up to date as well for work or family reasons then keeping everything in sync becomes a bit of a headache, especially if there is a difference in the information recorded... which one is correct!!
A variation on using more than one organiser is where you have something like a slimline for your diary insert and a few notes/information pages and a larger personal size which contains the rest of your pages that you might not need access to immediately.
This works and you can duplicate the information pages. It is the duplication of pages you are entering information on to that needs to be avoided (diary, to-do lists, etc).
If your additional organiser(s) contain completely different information, but it's just an easy way of storing the pages then that's fine. You might have an organiser dedicated to health or a hobby. I have known some people split work and personal but you can get back in to trying to maintain two diaries with that set up.
What is your experience of using more than one organiser on a regular basis?
For me I need a separate work planner, that way at the end of the work day I can close that planner and turn off the stress of work.
ReplyDeleteI tried a bullet journal this summer, what I’ve found out is that I can’t bear everything to be mixed together, just cannot cope with it at all. It was a surprise to me that I felt so strongly about it.
ReplyDeleteI’ve always liked a ‘one version of the truth’ paper diary…annual planner and a week on a page diary in one planner so I’m keeping that going.
I have a time management style journal using a day on a page to detail the order of the day and things to get done, which is the first time I’ve done this on paper and I’m enjoying it.
Then I have a written daily journal. Finally I have a reference journal for the info I want to keep, it starts with a proper catalogue of all my planners, then planner sizes, paper sizes, health trackers, reading lists, play lists, reviews etc.
After about three months of trial and error I’ve settled into 4 planners to manage my life (plus 2 for job related notes). At some point I’m going to be poorly, or feel very tired, and it will all go bang and be out of control but I’m currently feeling much more calm, less stressed about forgetting things.