–Thom

A draft for meetings (hour, participants, conclusions, etc). But maybe you already consider it in ‘projects templates’.

Thanks for you work!
Mario.

http://www.wynia.org/wordpress/?p=129

A DIY ‘widget kit’ sounds great. There’s a couple of forms I’d like to tweak that don’t really rise to the occasion of needing a whole new form. I’d also like to see a 2 page per week calendar. Sometimes one page per week isn’t quire big enough but I don’t need a entire page per day.

I do really love the Monday-Sunday versions of the templates. It is much simpler to treat weekends as a single continuum. There are 2 bumps:

1. the weekly template puts Saturday and Sunday into a single square - but this is where I need the most detail. I don’t have a good fix - but whatever you can creatively come-up with will be a blessing.

2. even though I really need the Mon-Sun format, my brain has been trained in the American Sun-Sat format - so when I take a quick glance at a monthly calendar I quite often miscalculate the day-of-the-week. Perhaps some sort of heavier line between Friday and Saturday, or a light background color for Saturday and Sunday.

I second the “Less ink is good” comment, although I’d rather see the shades in the various templates less dark (e.g. there are 2 Notes pages that only differ in the color of the shades).

I’d like to see a different version of the “Next Actions” template: with single lines for each action, like the left column on the “GTD All-In-One” template.
Maybe just the “Shopping” template with an appropriate header.

A 2-column “Next Actions” template (also with single lines) would also be very helpful, since I usually have lots of short descriptions.

I’d love to see the DiYkit.

Thanks again.

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday on the left page, Thursday, Friday, Saturday/Sunday on the right. Feel free to use squares for Sat/Sun as you have for weekdays on the one-page weekly planner.

Thank you for all the work you’ve done on the D*I*Y Planner!

In general, I would like to have more space for each day than the current one-page week, but I don’t want narrow vertical strips for each day.

(In the meantime, I’ll fish through the current planner to see what I can repurpose as a four-day page…)

Does anyone have suggestions for where on earth to find a 7-hole punch? I’m going to end up hitting the FranklinCovey store, I guess…

First, the ‘blank’ paper that I currently use has small dots very faintly printed in a grid every 5mm. It means that I can use the paper as graph paper, lined paper (in a horizontal or vertical alignment), Sudoku/Boxes/Logic Puzzles/Crosswords etc puzzle paper or blank paper, all on the same sheet. It’s so useful, and yet so hard to find- If there is a way to print this, I’d be hooked for life!

The only other thing is - A6? I know it’s a lot to ask, but I’ve tried reformatting the North American standard sizes and I can’t find a way to make any of them look good on A6 paper (or more usually, A4 quartered to A6). I’m so used to having an A6 notebook in my pocket; the index cards would be a good option if you can bulk-purchase paper in 3″ by 5″ format, but I’ve not seen this anywhere here in the UK. Anyone with advice, let me know!

I am not in the UK, so some of the tricks might not apply to your case, but…
a) try buying a 160-200 g/m2 A4 paper (usually available in any colour: white, pastel, bright colours) or business cards paper. They usually come in packages of 100-250 sheets per pckg. Or buy a so called hammer paper (A0 paper) - in that case you would first have to have it sliced down to A4 sheets. Then ask somebody in photocopying shop or private printhouse to trim it down for you, to the 3″ x 5″ size cards. Or buy a trimmer. Anyway, it should cost you significantly less than buying originally cut index cards.

b) Perhaps this would be more applicable: try to find a shop where art & design students buy their papers, or some ‘hobby-shop’.

c) in some cases, private or other printint houses might be willing to supply you with their residue paper, e.g. leftovers for brochure soft-cover, etc. The thickness is the same as index cards, and you might even get a bargain