The good folks over at The Quo Vais Blog sent this planner out late last year and I bet they thought that I forgot about it. No way. However...here's a preface to this post. I am not a daily planner guy in the traditional "write it all down" sense...because of my work, I have to be tied to an electronic calendar. There aren't enough Getting Things Done seminars in the world that could figure out a way for me to accuratly keep two separate calendars matched if one is written with a pen. I simply don't have that functionality. That being said, what I do have is a need to track lots of items. Like: miles and expenses and calls and how many times a day Janet goes to the bathroom. (that would be funny and hurtful, except that I work from home.) Ehh...still funny.
But here I was, saddled with a journal that impressed me from the start. 1. It has some heft to it. It just feels substantial. 2. The paper is magical.
I will let the experts go over the details:
16 months monthly, September 2009 to December 2010
12 months daily, January to December
8 AM to 9 PM schedule
Soft green tinted vellum paper
72g, acid-free and pH neutral paper
Annual planning calendars for 2010 and 2011
Current and following month calendars
Elegant round corners — tear-off corner opens to day in progress
Sewn binding, lays flat when open
Full line per half-hour
Blank space for daily notes
Bound in address book
Refillable
You know what, there isn't one of those things that I disagree with. (and I have a little man crush on a few of those up there.)
So I don't tend to fill it up. I add things daily, but I am not sure I am using this as it is intended. Sure it reminds me of things and tracks items but I see this as a planner for someone who REALLY uses a planner. Like...life starts to crumble if the planner gets lost. Those people are still out there.
The good news is...that it is vacumatic and I love it. (no that's not the good news.) The good news is that it works on this paper. It's true, a journal that you can use your sloppiest fountain pens on. So go nuts! You can make this picture larger and try to figure out what I do during the day, but it's mostly like Nicholas Cage in Windtalkers....some sort of Navajo-like clicky sounds that would be impossible for the enemy to decipher. (Whew, that took a bit longer to explain that I needed.)
So, pop quiz...you are called to a meeting in D.C. and you have 5 minutes to pack for a day trip. (not tottly unrealistic for me) What do YOU take? Here are the 4 things that I would grab to handle the meeting. Maybe a power cord also, but if I am limited to 4 items I can handle it for a while.
Bottom line, great journal, you can buy it here and I am glad I get the chance to use it.
I didn't have a quote in the journal so I will leave you with this one:
A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble at his door.
- Confucius
Planning...get it?
A collection and some insight into the pens I use and love and a few of the dead ones as they pass their last drops of ink to paper from a pen junky.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
We have a winner (in my best carnival voice)
Jamie at Waterhalo is the winner. I was going to get creative with cats or a monkey or something to determine the winner randomly, but some people freak out about stuff like that, so I picked the most boring option ever.
Jamie, shoot me an email and we can sort out the details, congrats.
And how could I not give the bonus prize to A Quiet mind for bringing Buddha into the mix. I don't need that kind of bad karma on me, so I will dig into the vault and pass something along to you as well. Thanks for all the comments!
Seth
Jamie, shoot me an email and we can sort out the details, congrats.
And how could I not give the bonus prize to A Quiet mind for bringing Buddha into the mix. I don't need that kind of bad karma on me, so I will dig into the vault and pass something along to you as well. Thanks for all the comments!
Seth
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