Could I have Found a Planner that Works?

Regular readers of this blog will know I’m a great advocate of forward planning to achieve better productivity and great results.  One of the areas I personally struggle with is planning topics for blog posts and articles so as to have an even mix of categories.  Without planning, I tend to write too many articles on whatever topic is occupying my attention at the time - which means posts can be of more interest to me than to you, the reader!  Obviously that’s completely the wrong way round.

About a month ago, I came across a collection of downloadable planners by Charles Gilkey.  From past experience, most preprinted and often expensive planners I’ve used don’t seem to suit the way I like to work, but there was something about the simplicity of this collection, combined with the fact that Charles says about himself:  "I’m constantly learning new things, which means I’ve constantly got a lot of stuff to do. My complicated, layered life was just an extension of my quest to learn and experience a bunch of new things." which is very similar to the way I work.

The planners which I’m most pleased with, and which are really helping to organise my writing output are ‘The Blog Post Planner’ and ‘The Blog Post Calendar’.  I used them both for a complete month and am delighted that they’ve captured my often scattered ideas very neatly.  This month I’m trying out the ‘Monthly Action Planner’ to find out if it will fit in with the projects I need to work on this month (I’ll let you know how it goes).