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Circa System Review

If you haven't seen it yet, Doug over at DIYPlanner.com has posted Part 1 in what will evidently be a multi-part review of my favorite productivity tool, the Levenger Circa system.

Review: The Levenger Circa System, Part I

A great read which just confirms what many of us already know...

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New, and therefore late to this discussion, but...

I think I'm ready to finally move from a Franklin Planner (used for the last 10+ years) to Circa.

Once I got serious about NAs, I stopped doing daily to-do lists, and therefore haven't been using daily pages in my planner -- which is pretty much the backbone of the FP system.

My plan is to use the Circa to store various GTD lists kept in Google Docs, monthly calendars printed from MeetingMaker (ugh, but it's the work standard), personal reference (data, phone #s, restaurant/movie/book lists), and sections for broken out/broken down projects. I'm looking forward to not catching my fingers in the binder rings anymore.

I think I've convinced myself -- now to go spend gobs of $. On that nice, heavy Levenger paper...

 
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