{"id":49,"date":"2005-09-04T17:02:12","date_gmt":"2005-09-05T00:02:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-09-16T14:46:44","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T14:46:44","slug":"planner_pandemonium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2005\/planner_pandemonium\/","title":{"rendered":"Planner Pandemonium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"juiz-outdated-message jodpm-top\">Heads up, this content is 21 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.<\/div><p>Somewhere near the top of my list-of-things-to-do-this-year is getting organized (at least, I think it&#8217;s near the top, but I forget where I put that list&#8230;).  Not just pens-in-a-cup organized, but actual on-the-ball, able-to-size-up-life organized.  That&#8217;s why I followed a link to the &#8220;free&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diyplanner.com\/\">D*I*Y Planner<\/a> page.  It claimed flexibility and customization.  I imagined it would set me up with a system I could just print out, patch together, and throw in my bag.  But no, its first step is to buy a planner.  A real planner.  And that&#8217;s where all my troubles began in the first place&#8230;<b>Reasons I dislike off-the-shelf planners:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They&#8217;re expensive.  If I buy cheap, they will fall apart or annoy me for some other reason.<\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;re always customized for the wrong person: not me.  Granted, this is what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diyplanner.com\/\">D*I*Y Planner<\/a> claims to fix, and they seem to do a pretty good job at it.  But if I&#8217;m going to spend that much money on a real planner in the first place, I&#8217;d like it to work with me without requiring a complete makeover.<\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;re either too big to carry around, or too small to hold what I need.  I have not yet found an in-between.<\/li>\n<li>The calendar pages have a similar problem.  The spreads never give enough space for daily lists and task blocks, unless  I go day-by-day, in which case I can&#8217;t view my whole week at once (and I&#8217;m now carrying too many pages around).<\/li>\n<li>The brands tend to have proprietary page sizes and hole placements, so you can&#8217;t mix and match.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The likely solution to all this would be to just buy a PDA, but I&#8217;m not convinced it will fix my organizational crisis.  For one, they&#8217;re even more expensive.  Second, I don&#8217;t trust hard drives with important information.  They tend to crash.  Third, I&#8217;m at a computer all day long anyway &#8212; it&#8217;s nice to take a break and look at real paper.  The real solution is time and money &#8212; money for a decent planner and time to customize it.  In fact, the solution to <i>everything<\/i> is time and money.  Interestingly, these are two things I lack right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads up, this content is 21 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.Somewhere near the top of my list-of-things-to-do-this-year is getting organized (at least, I think it&#8217;s near the top, but I forget where I put that list&#8230;). Not just pens-in-a-cup organized, but actual on-the-ball, able-to-size-up-life organized. That&#8217;s why I followed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}