Kentucky Serendipity

Paper Planners? Yes — Paper. 18 January 2015

In this day of Google Calendar, Outlook, and similar tools being available on phones as well as on computers, some people still use paper planners. And I’m one of them. I’m not a Luddite and I use Google Calendar along with Todoist to keep track of things. However, I find that carrying a paper planner helps in many ways. It’s easy to jot a note in the planner while I’m out and about. I use it to hold business cards, brochures, receipts, and other printed items which I collect during the day. But the biggest advantage is this: While my computer calendar and to-do list contain many, many entries, my paper planner has only the things which I write in — the things which I choose to pay attention to today or this week. The paper planner helps me to stay focused on what needs to be done now, and not be distracted by other tasks. (more…)