The Weekly Times No. 1
Over the years I have tried many ways of keeping myself organized. I used a paper planner all through college. After, however, with a nice, new smartphone in hand, I tried many times to keep a digital calendar with appointments and tasks. I have found every attempt to go digital to flounder. I attribute this to three major things:
- it is too easy to set specific times and miss them
- there is too much space to enter data
- it is difficult to see a whole week at a glance
I think I was just too used to the moleskine I carried all through college. I like to prioritize what goes on my plan. Having limited space is optimal for this.
I could have gone with another moleskine, but I was interested in trying something new. I’ve always liked Korean stationary options that allow you to enter your own dates and start whenever you would like. While I’m starting the first week of July, and many planners are sold that way for the school year, it seemed fun, and a bit therapeutic, to go through and enter all the information myself.
The photos above show what the planner looked like before I started entering dates and info. A clean, blank slate to enter my life into. Below you can see my first week all filled in. Keeping a planner like this not only lets me keep track of what is coming up, but lets me look back at what has happened. I still have several of my filled in planners from years past, all a little history of what I’ve gone through and where I’ve been.
