DIY Planner - It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year !!! - Comments

Found at Walgreens also. I

Tee — Sat, 5 Sep 2009 15:05:15 -0400

Found at Walgreens also. I could not get any additional information regarding them from Walgreen managers regarding whether or not they would be getting more.

Tee
Too much of everything [I love] is just enough. Calvin and Hobbes

Where did you find yours ?

ygor — Sat, 5 Sep 2009 14:58:20 -0400

The original post about it said it was found at Walgreen's
None of the Walgreen's in my area have it.
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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)

stone paper notebooks...

Tee — Sat, 5 Sep 2009 14:54:22 -0400

Yep, oh so wonderful time of the year! Found the best so far-Oxford Earth Care Notebooks, made with stone paper. Anyone else discovered these?
Tee
Too much of everything [I love] is just enough.
~Calvin & Hobbes

i saw these too :) so

Sara — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:17:54 -0400

i saw these too :) so tempting! i have a 3 by 5 inch by the same company - greenroom ECO - I like the paper a lot.

There is a lot of bleed through with my fountain pens but my Uniball Signos and Sharpie pens work just fine :)

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ECO Notebooks at Target

btrgrnmal — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:48:21 -0400

Our local Target has the best selection of notebooks I've ever seen at back-to-school time. Most are just stunning covers with the same old crappy paper inside. BUT -- at the end of the notebooks section they have an eco notebooks section (didn't see a brand name, but they're 70% recycled, nontoxic soy ink, made in Taiwan). They come bundled in sets of four composition book-type notebooks. The paper feels nice and the lines are pale brown, barely discernable from the cream-colored paper. (Paper is also heavier weight than that usually found in spiral notebooks and composition books.) Two sizes were available: something just smaller than a standard composition book, and another that looked to be classic planner sized. I don't like any of the pre-printed planner pages I've seen for 2010 and I'm thinking of using the classic-size set to draw a totally free-form planner for 2010.

Digital post its

roketgrrl — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:57:33 -0400

I've been considering that software but haven't had time to play with it. Maybe after you've used it for a couple of weeks you could give us a review? A screenshot p0rn picture or two... ?? :-)

Indeed there is. Click on

SusanBeth — Tue, 7 Jul 2009 23:30:18 -0400

Indeed there is. Click on "Forums" and head to "The Bazaar."

Staples

bjg — Tue, 7 Jul 2009 21:15:02 -0400

Yes, I was there for the third time this week (it's only Tuesday) and I didn't go over the weekend. I was getting my 'organizing fix' in and low and behold, they re-designed the store. I can't find anything. So, of course I had to go up and down the aisles looking at everything available for sale (as if I didn't know what they had before the re-design). I picked up this, and that and then stopped in front of the beautiful 'Post it Note' section, my heart be still. I love Post it notes and kept trying to incorporate GTD with Post it notes. I hate re-writing anything so the constant GTD lists drove me crazy. I write on Post it notes, (one note to a project - the 4x6 size is the best as you can add more info) and move the post it note to the appropriate category in my book - delegating, waiting for, etc. No re-writing. When I'm finished with the project, it goes into a 4x6 index card box. (I do not work for Post it Notes, I work for a University).
Today I found the best thing after I went to the Post it Notes website: Digital Post it Notes! I downloaded the free 30 day trial, and set up my folders for Jan - Dec, and Mon - Sunday on a 'Memo board' (it looks like a big cork bulletin board). I also set up my 'waiting for', delegated to, etc folders. I file my projects alphabetically, so I created 13 tabs (A/B, C/D, etc) to save room on the memo board.
I write a post it note and move it to the location I want. I can change the color of the note, change the size and move it from tab to tab. I created a "Done" tab and move the completed tasks to this tab. I can print the tab I want or the entire cork board. I can export the file to another computer, but it seems you have to buy a copy of the software for each computer (approx $19). Heck, I spent that amount today on new post it notes!

I really like this system and wondered if anyone else has seen this product or is using something like this. I have 29 days left of my trial.

I'm hoping it might take the place of the three huge storage bins containing the remnants of my previous 'organizing obsessions'. I have the carcasses of: Daytimers (8x11, 5x8, 3x5) and all the assorted accessories, Harvard Planners, Planner Pads, a huge assortment of Scan Plan products, (I wrote a comment about these before), Franklin Covey, QuoVadis, tons of my own organizing forms, lots of the forms from this website (when I discovered this site I thought I'd died and gone to heaven), a Palm IIIc, Palm T5, Palm Centro, index cards in all sizes, photo sleeves, blank business cards (in an attempt to write my projects on this and keep things small - didn't work, I felt like I was shuffling cards all day long), dividers (all sizes), etc. It's July 2009, so of course I'm on my fifth 2009 calendar as I can't seem to find the perfect one.

Is there a forum for those of us who want to sell all our organizers? They're in near perfect condition as I was terrifed to use them as I had paid so much for them, and I didn't want to ruin them, but eventually would someday....

But I digress. Any feedback on the digital Post It Notes? Has anyone used it?

Exacatacaly !!

ygor — Mon, 6 Jul 2009 14:59:52 -0400

Anything special !!
New would also be nice, but special is a MUST !
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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)

School Supply Santa...

roketgrrl — Mon, 6 Jul 2009 02:46:31 -0400

Just wondering - does anyone have anything special they are hoping to find this year courtesy of School Supply Santa?!

get ready, get set, go

LisaPT — Mon, 6 Jul 2009 00:55:40 -0400

Ok, so I need to clear out the shelves in my office to store all the new loot. Everyone keep us posted on the new/exciting/useful stuff they find. We are now on a mission.

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year !!!

ygor — Mon, 6 Jul 2009 00:20:21 -0400

Reference: an old Staples commercial showing a dad frolicking through the store buying school supplies for two dismal, gloomy children.

I mentioned to one store employee that it was amusing to see the school supplies going up barely after the smoke has cleared from the Fourth of July fireworks.

Well, a lot of us will not be going back to school, but there will be lots of new paper pr0n to obsess over.

Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaa !

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