I am trying to decide if I want to invest in new planner pages for next year or if I should just get the best apps for what I am looking to do and just get really nice journals for the hand writing that I feel I must do daily.
Some of what I am looking for:
Grocery shopping/menu planning
freezer/pantry inventory-to stop over buying
budget pages
bill paying schedule
savings plan
school resources & planning
goals
attendance record
homeschool planner/daily schedule
ideas-for what ever
appointments
trips-and all the necessary info for them
van maintenance
a total inventory of what we actually have
all the stuff that I need to try to keep in one place and not loose.
I know there is a calendar already on the phone and I do use it, but there really isn't enough room for everything that I tend to try and jot in a day.
I was thinking of 2 pages per day that way, I have a small daily log of what we did for school, plus appointments, and just what ever notes. But then I want to be able to get to this stuff a year from now if needed. How can I get stuff off of my phone? I love that I can go back over the years and either pull my F.C. storage binder off of the shelf or a school yearbook/planner down. But I'd like to have them all in one book. I am also struggling between the Classic and full size sheet binder size. I have the classic, but everything else is a full sheet of paper.
I have several different homeschool planners, or software things where I can print out all the pages I need and make my own. Which I have done several times over the years. I just can't decide what I want.
I usually end up with two or three single subject spirals full of stuff-thoughts, bible verses, ideas, planning, just my journal, bills. You name it it ends up in there. But then I also have my planner where I tend to try and write a short synopsis of what we did for the day, even it was really nothing.
I have my bills under control as far as storage and I will be doing that again from now on. But I need a paper or list of what is due and when, where I can look at it often.
I like my phone and I using it all day, but I also like paper and pen very much. What would you do?
27 June, 2009
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2 comments:
You need something you can organize out with the computer - think :o). Your phone could easily crash or simply be outdated in a hurry with the updates and upgrades to smartphones coming on so quickly. And they will only hold so much information.
But you have that mega external HD that will store innumerable files over longer periods of time.
Something jumbled together without division (bill keeping, inventory, book lists, etc) will make it hard to locate something individual later on. With a good file keeping app or even a PDF app you can have it with you while out and about, and easily transfer things to and from your laptop and into safekeeping on the HD.
:o). But what do I know? I just think you're too techie for simple paper. You'd get way more out of an app you could interface with your laptop.
Deanna
Stick with the paper! At least it works better for me!
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