Thursday, April 24, 2008

Consider A Planner?

In today, time-crunched people need planner to organize the work and control the time before they get out of control and the consequence mean - no free time to enjoy.

So what is a planner?

A planner is a tool to help you to schedule your works. Works can be range from organize your household’s chores to arrange for a trip to the cinema or even family planning for kid. Today, there are two types of planners – hardcopy planners and electronic planners. Let’s talk about hardcopy planner.

What is a hardcopy planner?

Not all hardcopy planners are made of paper. Hardcopy planners can be whiteboard, a wall planner with moveable magnets or a laminated wipe-off surface.

Planner Size

Hardcopy planners come in all shapes and size. We can category them as below:

Wall size planner – big enough that allow to you see most of the information in one view. It is suitable to use as family planner. Good thing about this wall size planner is that it is impossible to lose. But the bad point is that limit information can be written on it.

Desk size planner - usually size of notepad or may be slightly bigger. You can write in more details and allow more than one people to add information to it. The problem it is portable which can be easily move around so it can get misplaced. And the person who misplaced it may forget where he or she left it.

Pocket size planner – ideally for individual and highly personalized with relevant information for that individual.

Planner Formats

Hardcopy planners come with four different formats – yearly, monthly, weekly and daily formats. And it is depend how long you want to plan, which would determine what format you like to have in your planner.

To find out more about planners, you can read Organize Your Family's Schedule In No Time by Valentina Sgro.

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