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Planner Pad Weekly Layout

Does anyone here use a Planner Pad from http://plannerpads.com?

Update: I got some sample pages now that were faxed by the nice people at Planner Pads to someone near me. The original post is obsolete. But I'd still like to know your thoughts about the Planner Pad layout.

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While their weekly layout looks interesting, I cannot tell exactly from their website what is on right edge of the right hand page.
It looks like a column that has some (limited) space for notes/calls, and then something below that.

My impression is that it might be too little room for calls/notes and whatever else is there. Maybe they should have dedicated the complete right half of the right hand page for this, while combining Saturday and Sunday. Or is this layout sufficient? What are your experiences?

Any ideas/opinions about their layout?

TIA
Alex

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Planner Pads

I've been using Planner Pads for about a year and and half & I love them. It comes as close as anything I have found to being a truly "ubiquitous" capture tool. The task "funneling" method that the format is designed to facilitate works great for me. The section for tasks allows me to capture my tasks by context, I can then sort & prioritize by bringing tasks down into daily to-do slots. I find that a paper calendar/to-do list works better for me than an electronic version. Paper allows more meta-data than electronic & functions as a real time archive/record of what I have done and when I have done it.

Hope that helps.

 
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