Editing The Pen Addict 366/transcript (section)

== Planner System Needs ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Right, yeah, because the weekly one is way more in-depth. You might be writing how you're feeling about something, writing about achievements, that kind of stuff. But the monthly view is, like, from this day to this day, something's going to be happening. And on this day, I have to go to see Jeff or, like, whatever, right? Like, it's just basically a big calendar is what you're looking for.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. So I have my agenda. It's got all 52 weeks of the year, but I never write ahead. Right? Because I can't... It's not worth it for me to flip week to week to week to week to figure out what's going on in the future. That doesn't work. So I need... Can I get both of these things in an agenda? So that's the challenge. You want it only one book. Yes. Because I can get it in two books. And I will do that if I have to, to get what I want in a planner. What I want. I will do it if I have to. Because I can get my weekly layout that I like either in the Sumkin or Travelers also does that style, which is where I first found it. And then they also have a calendar, just a two-page-per-month calendar. But we're shockingly close to planner season, which is why I'm thinking about this now. Like all the orders for the 2020 planners are in, and they'll be arriving like in August and mostly September. Right? So I have to figure out, am I going back to some big, thick planner that I'm not going to like where it's like one day per page, which I despise, just to get the calendar that I want? Or do I go into a two-book layout to keep the weekly that I want and then have a separate calendar section, you know, either in like a smaller format?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, the two-book could work for you. I mean, you already make a product that can quite handily look after two A5 notebooks, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. And that's how I have it set up. Yeah. Yeah. Because like I have three softcover A5 notebooks in my seed case. That's how I carry the Sumkin. And then with an extra A5 Notco notebook in between just for blank notes. So yeah, it's like I don't know if what I want exists. Because like the calendars, like the bigger you get, the more complex they get, right? They have essentially what I call like a one of each layout, right? Like you get into the Hobonichis, like the cousins, it has literally every calendar option you could hope for. Like that's too much. And then my weekly agenda is now becoming too little for me because magically I've come to love and enjoy it, which I never thought would happen in a million years. So I got to figure out if there is some type of setup. You know, I'll be looking at a bunch of things. So as listeners go through planner season here in a couple months, keep me in mind. And if you see something, because there's so many, the options these days are endless on planners. So it's just something I wanted to throw out there.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Maybe you should just make the Dowdy system.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right? Yeah. I know a guy.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I've, you know, I felt recently that if you're unhappy with your planner system, just make your own.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I mean, that's not above me to do. It just seems, it just seems like it's so simple. Like it's got to be done. And I would like to not have it in two books, but maybe it is. But so maybe I just do it myself. I don't know. It's not. Yeah. I've thought about that. I've definitely thought about that. So we'll figure it out. I just wanted to bring that up because that's something that, you know, we've talked about in episodes past just of like scheduling and planners and plannings and how like.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's interesting because I could never imagine doing calendaring non-digitally. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I never thought. Well, my digital calendars are too busy because they have family in them. Right. Right. And I don't like going in to like turn off the buttons to just what I want to see at the time. Right. I just keep all the buttons on and it's just too much. My stuff gets lost. Like my work stuff is not separated from my life stuff in the digital space.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You know, actually, this isn't like we're talking about it in notebooks, but like something that I do for stuff like that is I have a second app of some description. Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So that's that's see, that's the solution that everything's coming to is two different things. Two is one. So, right. One is one. So I guess I'm just going to have to make it, but I'm holding out hope. I will keep on this path because something needs to change with my planning and my tasks and reminders and just for the way my life is set up. You know, I like I need to work on refining that and I need a longer term view to go in with my weekly view of of what I've got going right now. So something I'm working on. So I just thought I'd bring that up so listeners can can help me out when they run across the eight million planners that'll be coming out in the next couple of months. Maybe there's going to be one that will fit will be an all in one for me, but I'm not holding out hope and I may just like settle for the two, which there's nothing wrong with that either, because then it's just more stuff to use, which I'm good with.