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Moleskine Pocket Weekly Planner layout - How to make the best use of it?
alxwz | Apr 20 2007
Some weeks ago I decided to jump on the "back to paper" bandwagon, and bought one of the last Moleskine 2007 Pocket Weekly Planners I could find. The layout has the week on the left pages with one lined page for notes on the right hand side next to each week. I like the week-at-a-glance layout and never felt I needed a two-page spread for one week in my calendar, so this seemed perfect. I read some ideas for weekly Pocket Moleskines that I wanted to adopt, like I came up with a really convoluted setup to use the planner for GTD (with some Covey-type prioritization thrown in) which tried to optimize the use of that cramped space. The general idea was to put appontments, deadlines and recurring tasks into a two-column-layout in the calendar on the left pages while putting a next actions list (with markup for contexts) and a separate errands list, both running from the top to the bottom, in another two-column layout on the right hand pages. From the bottom up I intended to write footnotes for the calendar items and a separate "Waiting for" list. "Someday/Maybe" items should go on the separate notes pages in the back. However, when I tried to put in the first weeks and the action lists, I realized that it's probably way too small for what I wanted. It might work if you don't have many appointments and, more importantly, not too many action items. So I'm back to the drawing board. It looks like I'll need an additional tool like a hPDA, and the combination has been discussed in this thread: http://board.43folders.com/showthread.php?t=307 But I still don't know what to use the notes pages in the Moleskine itself (for each week and in the back) for. They'll probably still be too small for meeting notes and wasted if I only put some random phone number in there every once in a while. Does anyone here use such a planner (or something similar in layout and size) and have any recommendations? 7 Comments
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 It's easy to set up...Submitted by alxwz on April 20, 2007 - 5:30pm.
mdl;9065 wrote: It's easy to set up the calendar with a notes page opposite for each week. You could have 3 pages of notes per week. Whatever you want. That reminds me of something I read on some GTD/Moleskine site: Someone suggested to draw the first three days of the week (Mon-Wed) on a left hand page, leave the right hand page free for notes, also leave the back of that page free for notes, and then draw the rest of the week (Thu-Sun) on the right hand page. That way you have a less cramped layout, a lot of space for notes and can see the full week at a glance when you hold the empty page in the middle. Yes a self-made planner is more versatile. But I already transfered many dates into this calendar, so a self-made Moleskine planner might only be an option for next year. » POSTED IN:
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