Category Archives: My Organizer

Wednesday routines focus

One of my goals this month (starting 5/5) is to fill out all the routine bubbles and my fruit-and-veggie-serving bubbles on my daily tracking sheet every Wednesday. So today is my first attempt!
Here is how I’m doing so far:

morning

exercise
shower
brush hair
brush teeth
dress
devotions
dishwasher
breakfast
vitamin (lunch is coming up soon, I’ll take it then!)
menu plan

day

blog
goals (I can fill in [...]

Cheering groundhog forms added

Doodah suggested that I incorporate the cheering groundhog into the monthly goal tracking forms, and thanks to Illustrator’s Live Trace function (using “Comic” setting), it didn’t take very long (I just had to adjust the paths for the letters and words). You can download the updated PDF or Word document versions on the Monthly Goal [...]

Keeping on top of my goals

I thought Dave Seah’s idea for Groundhog Day Resolutions would be a fun system to try. Instead of making “New Year’s Resolutions” when you’re most tired (and probably feeling rather full and/or fat from all the holiday goodies you’ve consumed), make your resolutions on 2/2 and then review your resolutions on 3/3, 4/4, 5/5, etc. [...]

Two weeks into my organizer

I’ve been using my new organizer for two weeks.
I still love it! But here are some changes I’ve made and additional thoughts that I’ve had after using it for two weeks. (These thoughts may not make sense unless you’ve read my previous posts.)

Photoshop brushes tutorial

I printed out my monthly calendar pages, cut them in half and trimmed them with my paper cutter, and hole punched them to go into my new organizer. Then I numbered the pages to end up with something like this:
Click for larger view…

The picture above is a Photoshop-created mock-up, because I’m too lazy to drag [...]

Organizer pages available for download

Just a quick post to say that by request, I’ve put up PDFs that you can download for the weekly and daily pages of my organizing system.
Jump to the update now…

Creating a calendar layout in Illustrator CS2

I decided to take some time this morning to make a monthly calendar spread for my new organizer in Illustrator. Similar to my weekly pages, I wasn’t going to put actual dates on the pages, but wanted to have a base layout that I could then fill in. So, basically, I wanted to make a [...]

My new organizer

My history of organizer systems in bulleted list format:

Early college years: Cheap DayRunner vinyl organizer with calendar refill and address book
Later college years: Leather DayTimer organizer that weighed about 50 lbs. with binder-ring style calendar, addresses, notepaper, etc., slots for ID and credit cards, zipper pocket, notepad, blah blah blah…
Briefly: Hand-me-down Palm Pilot from my [...]