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DIY Planner v2 Ideas

Posted January 8th, 2005 at 02:45pm

I’ve been considering a number of additions to the existing set of templates for DIY Planner v2. The ones I’m thinking about are:

• A set of “Web Developer” templates. I can’t recall the number of times I’ve had to write down and design the same things… I might as well create a form for it.
• A “Sources” template, usually used to gather together pertinent contact people, equipment leasors, project staff, all-night pizza delivery places, etc. Sort of like a “yellow pages” for a category or project.
• A basic “Expense Report”.
• A fold-it-yourself Receipts form/envelope (this could be neat if I can make it work right).
• Project Ideas.
• Other possibilities:
  • Trip Diary
  • “Inventory” Control
  • Various quick reference cards
  • Important Numbers (simple form for police, fire, poison control, insurance, Chinese take-out, etc.)
  • Simple DIY templates for OpenOffice.org (and possibly other) formats.

These are mainly vague ideas right now, and none are set in stone. There comes a time when you can have too many forms, and I want to avoid going that far. After all, nothing is preventing you from taking a Notes page and simply labelling it whatever subject you want. And sometimes, that’s far more efficient.

In addition to the new templates, some old ones are being modified, a new design will probably be integrated, and different sizes (letter-size, A4 and A5) and possibly languages will be offered (the latter being dependent upon volunteers).

Any other suggestions for templates, GTD or otherwise? Please leave ‘em in the comments or send me an email, and I’ll collate them for future consideration.