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After all my grunting about expensive planners that are either too big or too small and never customized to me, I just found a (hopefully) great solution — a hack for turning a regular notebook into an idea organizer. The instructions for building it are here: PigPodPDAI like it because my brain works in spurts of ideas, rather than in blocks of appointments. Capturing and processing those ideas are a challenge for me; they often get lost in the dated pages of agendas. This system is based on idea spurts. In the first 24 hours, I put five pages of ideas down on paper — ideas that have been bouncing around in my head for weeks without a place to live. They thanked me.As for cost, the author writes about turning Moleskine notebooks into this fabulous mechanism — but I have a hard time spending $15 – $20 on 100 pages that I’m likely to fill up in a month or two. So I bought a $2 spiral-bound that included a moveable plastic tab (like the “Today” bookmarks in “real planners”). I think it will be just right.So far it works great. My creative mind feels more honored than it has in a long time, and my obsessive planning side has a checklist always nearby.