DIY Planner - Help Needed with Daily Pages Templates - Comments

We have arrived !!

ygor — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:40:07 -0500

That which started here with Doug's vision, successfully concludes HERE

Enjoy !
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"I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." (Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Waterson)

your newest Daily Planner template

Peter D — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:50:04 -0400

Doug,

Looks great, I just found the DIY page last night and have been navigating it for hours since. I am sorry to hear that your current template is not available yet. It is what I'd like to download. I am surprised MS doesn't have something like this available off shelf.

I use the Covey Daily Planner and write through the appts with my tasks. I find the computer and it's auto alarms a life saver for keeping me on time to meetings. So I'd minimize the appts to a smaller window, for times my computer isn't available.

Thanks for the effort but looks like I'll be back at the Covey Store (sucks because of the $$$).

Very nice work Doug. * The

Rebecca — Thu, 17 May 2007 07:45:40 -0400

Very nice work Doug.
* The date area. Clear and well layed out.
* The daily tasks. I'd be tempted to add another column to this table. Just an extra line on the far right to allow for additional marks. It's not necessary, just an idea.
* The expenses section. This needs more room.
* The appointments section. Pre and post needs a bit more room, but I like the layout too much to ask you to change it.
* The daily journal area. A nice alternate page.

You've really got an eye for this stuff.

Love it

Marian1981 — Thu, 17 May 2007 00:44:19 -0400

Hello,
I love this design, even though I am not familiar with the DIY Planner creation process, I would love to see this one finished.

Thank you,
Heidi

Beautiful Plumage

ygor — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:11:02 -0500

them Norwegian Blues :)

"...and when I purchased it not 'alf an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk."

"'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!!"

He's Not Dead, He's Resting ...

Sardonios — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:59:23 -0500

Panic not fellow D*I*Y's I have in my hand an e-mail... Doug is still very much alive and ploughing though his fan mail as I type. Hurrah!

Hello ? Doug ?

ygor — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:48:42 -0500

I have e-mailed you several samples of my PNG and PDF efforts, but have received no response.

Are you out there ?

making other size planner pages

kbman — Mon, 4 Dec 2006 08:07:22 -0500

Doug,

While I am not new to your site this is the first time I have elected to participate in your site so now I've joined up, as you might could say. Thanks for all the effort you have put into helping others through this site and the planners you have put so much work into.

When you go to port these planner pages down to other sizes I just wanted to let you know about an excellent program that will help simplify that process for you. You may already know about the program but just to make sure I thought that I would tell you about it. It is Clickbook by Blue Squirrel Software (http://www.bluesquirrel.com/products/clickbook/). The program will automatically resize and print any page to any other size page you want and it prints to PDF as well. There are also inexpensive programs that will convert PDF files to WORD, even some that are free on the internet (if you or anyone else needs such a feature.

As I have time to work on them for myself I plan on contributing some new pages to your site.

Thanks again for your site.

Beautiful Template

ultravox — Sun, 3 Dec 2006 20:55:27 -0500

I love that template design! I think I'll stop using the one I designed and switch to this one when you get it ready with the dates on it.

I do have one question: Would it be possible to swap the pages left and write for us southpaws? I hate to have to write journal entries with my hand on the binding rings.

Just a thought. Keep up the good work!
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Tim Foreman - http://timf.anansi-web.com/

Some sample

iboldizsar — Sun, 3 Dec 2006 00:21:43 -0500

Hi Doug,

I did a search for such a macro, and google pointed out this: http://www.ooomacros.org/user.php#103127 .
It is not exactly what's needed, but one that understands OOo macro scripting can easily modify the script for outputing something closer to what you need. Hope it helps.
By the way, I just want to give you a big Thanks for your work, this project helped me change in a way I would of never imagine.

Best regards,

//ionut

Back to back

Lima — Sat, 2 Dec 2006 01:57:36 -0500

The template Doug posted here is actually intended to be split into two parts, one on the front side and the other on the back side of the page. When I upload my version (which I will do very soon unless someone else outscoops me on the "compact" size) it will have a right-handed journal page and a left-handed schedule/tasks page very similar to what you see in the example above. (Though, truth be told, it will not have the same arrangement of hours: there will probably be more hours in the day, with only two lines per hour. Much like the FC compact pages use.)

This is really easy in OOo Calc

Lima — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:23:01 -0500

I don't see that anything here would be difficult at all. I don't know macros, PHP, or databases well enough to do much in any of those, but I've done similar designs entirely in a Calc spreadsheet. Calc features full support for OOo Draw graphics (literally cut and paste, and the pieces can be anchored to a page or a cell) and it will do all the formulas with nothing more than a bit of formula knowhow.

XSL Is the proper way to do this.

gotan — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 06:32:47 -0500

If you could create these template in an XML type format such as SVG, then you can apply an XSL template to them to put whatever content you want into it before you render it as a PDF. I have been playing with such things myself. I have been using InkScape to create my templates, as it can save and read SVG's. I know the OO format is XML based too, but have not looked at it.

The point of XSL is its cross platform, and a fairly well supported method of transforming XML documents.

Generating a PDF file from any program . . .

renewbee — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:53:58 -0500

Maybe if you use a PDF printing program, such as PDF995 (I have used this for several years, and like it a lot, along with many of its sister and brother programs. You can try it free, but it is worth paying for, and then you don't get the registration screens.), you could print the multiple pages to PDF, and bypass the PDF command in your DB program. (I mention useful programs in this e-mail, but have no business relationship with the publishers, except that I have purchased, and successfully used, their programs.)

We send a lot of documents to other agent and to clients in our real estate business, and have found PDF995 and scan2email invaluable in either printing to PDF, or scanning to PDF. We very seldom fax, anymore, and our documents are far more legible. Not to mention the virtues of electronic filing. Hope this helps! Vicki

I'll ask my resources

innowen — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:52:21 -0500

Doug,

My husband is a PHP programmer. I'll run this thread by him and see if he's got any ideas for this. We both use macs so I'm sure we can find a mac-friendly way to do this if there is a good solution that he knows about.

Thanks,
/innowen

Help Needed with Daily Pages Templates

dougj — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 05:18:14 -0500

With the new year fast approaching, I'd like to kick a project here into overdrive. It's always been my plan to have some way of producing daily pages that actually possess full date information (day, month, year, day of week, mini-calendars and holidays), as well as a high degree of usability. Unfortunately, since I manually produce all templates, the monthly versions take long enough to prepare, yet alone a full year's set of daily forms with both Sun-Sat and Mon-Sun variations.

Therefore, I'm calling on the help of the DIYPlanner community. Please keep reading for what I'd like to see, along with some samples of a new Daily Pages form in process.

First of all, I'd like feedback on the new design below. (Click to see a larger version, or here to download a PDF.)

There's nothing earth-shattering there, since it follows the same tried-and-true style of layout and content found in most commercial planners, but here it's keeping with the D*I*Y Planner 3 look and feel. A tighter line spacing was needed, but I've tested it, and it doesn't seem to be an issue for a big hand-writer like myself.

The form consists of five principle areas:

The date area contains the day, day of week, month, year, holiday, annotation area, the current monthly calendar, and two mini-calendars for the previous and next month;
The daily tasks area contains an area for symbol (e.g., check mark, forward arrow, dot, etc.), a column that can be used for priority/ delegate/ etc., and the task text;
The expenses section for costs/items;
The appointments section for the hours of the day, with optional times "pre-day" and "post-day"; and
The daily journal area for notes, time-tracking, and other miscellaneous jottings.

The Daily Journal page is actually optional, and I'm hoping that the main daily page will be available in both left- and right-page formats. I'm also hoping that the calendars will have both Sun-Sat and Mon-Sun months, so our friends overseas can use it.

But that brings me to the next point. I'm going to need some help to produce this one.

I've been speaking with a few potential volunteers who have offered to create OOo macros to produce the dated and calendar bits, but I haven't seen anything yet, and the new year dost approach too soon.

Can anybody here take on this task, either individually as or as a team? I can provide the rest of the template in a number of forms, with our ultimate goal to produce a PDF file for an entire year, dated, with both types of weeks.

My fingers are crossed that someone can step up to the plate. This is a project I cannot tackle alone.

D*I*Y Planner - Help Needed with Daily Pages Templates - Comments

We have arrived !!

your newest Daily Planner template

Very nice work Doug. * The

Love it

Beautiful Plumage

He's Not Dead, He's Resting ...

Hello ? Doug ?

making other size planner pages

Beautiful Template

Some sample

Back to back

This is really easy in OOo Calc

XSL Is the proper way to do this.

Generating a PDF file from any program . . .

I'll ask my resources

Help Needed with Daily Pages Templates

DIY Planner - Help Needed with Daily Pages Templates - Comments