Comments on: In Which I Review Charlie Gilkey’s Premium Planners, and Explain How I Found My Perfect System

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:58:44 +0000

Oh dear, I thought I had responded to this awesome review, but I haven’t yet! Sorry about that, Rachael!

I see so much of myself in this post that it’s not funny, and, really, most of my design work has been trying to get my Spock and Creative Self to sit down and talk rather than fight it out. Like you, I have a system that jumps from notecards, to notebooks, to planners, to Backpack and Highrise, and if things get really complicated, it scales up to Basecamp. That said, most of the time the notebooks are okay, but it’s nice when I reach for the planners.

Thanks for sharing the planners and how you use them, Spock/Elf.

By: Matt S

Matt S — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:16:01 +0000

I email myself all the danged time, with mixed results. I’ll have to check these planners out. I’ve been meaning to moleskine one of my cheap notebooks, too. I may also go back to writing reminders on my hand.

By: Rachael E.C. Acklin

Rachael E.C. Acklin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:08:37 +0000

You’re one of us too? Yay! :)

By: lucy

lucy — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:54:54 +0000

‘heaven opened and a chorus of rainbows started singing hallelujah’ – I know that feeling!

I have the premium planners too, and also run them alongside google apps, plus my trusty paper notebooks. Somehow they all hook up to form the only system that’s ever worked for me :)