trendsetting again
I am ahead of the curve yet again. I started carrying index cards around for note taking and list making a little over a year ago; last month I wrote about returning to my Franklin Planner. Today, 43 Folders did a piece on the D*I*Y Planner with this lead-in:

In this day and age, paper-based planning (PBP) is a notion roughly analogous to horse-and-buggies, pneumatic networking, sliderules, and steam-powered lawnmowers — in other words, ancient technology.

So, why are we suddenly seeing a resurgence in paper-based organizational tools like planners, index card sets (a.k.a., the Hipster PDA), file folders, pocket briefcases, and honest-to-goodness real-ink pens? Outside of a number of philosophical reasons, I believe that it's ultimately a matter of knowing that these things actually work. After all, not even the trendiest tools last for more than a season if they don't deliver (and I have a junk drawer overflowing with orphaned gadgets to prove it). There's a proven track record behind paper-based planning, and an endless array of options for those people wanting to define — and redefine — their systems.

I downloaded the DIY planner package; my cursory first glance shows it to have a lot of potentially very useful add-on forms for my system. Now if someone could figure out a way to create daily pages in Quark and merge them with a calendar so I can print my own preprinted daily pages instead of having to write in dates, I'll be incredibly happy.
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