{"id":745,"date":"2011-11-16T19:03:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T01:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/?p=745"},"modified":"2011-11-16T15:30:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T21:30:59","slug":"taylor-planner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/taylor-planner\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Planner"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><!-- @font-face {   font-family: \"\u30d2\u30e9\u30ae\u30ce\u89d2\u30b4 Pro W3\"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: \"Times New Roman\"; }p.Body1, li.Body1, div.Body1 { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: black; }.MsoChpDefault { font-size: 10pt; }div.WordSection1 { page: WordSection1; } -->3.5 out of 5 stars<\/h2>\n<h3>Pros:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Small, portable size<\/li>\n<li>Limited space for tasks<\/li>\n<li>Week at a glance view<\/li>\n<li>Perforated edges for easy marking of current week<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Cons:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Monthly view too compact<\/li>\n<li>Limited space for planning outside of scheduled time slots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Review:<\/h4>\n<p>I discovered Harold Taylor at the NAPO conference last year, and came home with some questionnaires he developed to identify problem areas with organization and time management.\u00a0 This year, I came home with one of his books and a sample of his planner. After using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/planner-pad-organizers\/\" target=\"_blank\">PlannerPad<\/a>, I moved to this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorintime.com\/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&amp;Itemid=100123\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Planner<\/a>.\u00a0 What better time of year to consider what you might need for next year?<\/p>\n<p>One of the things that I absolutely love about this planner layout is the extremely limited space allotted for daily tasks.\u00a0 I have often struggled with trying to do too much in a given day and I see this frequently with the people I work with as well.\u00a0 We&#8217;re never satisfied with our accomplishments, &#8220;we should have done more.&#8221; With this planner, you choose the top 3 things you want to get done on a given day, which is written above the daily scheduling column.\u00a0 It can help focus you on the most important tasks, then everything else you get done is a bonus.\u00a0 You only had three things, you get those done, you&#8217;ve succeeded with your plans.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_746\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mainpages.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-746\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-746\" title=\"mainpages\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mainpages.jpg?resize=300%2C223\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mainpages.jpg?resize=300%2C223 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mainpages.jpg?resize=150%2C111 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mainpages.jpg?resize=400%2C297 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mainpages.jpg?w=900 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The weekly view of the Taylor Planner<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There is an additional space in each column for any follow-up actions you need to attend to for a given day.\u00a0 I used this more sporadically, as it applied to my life and tasks.\u00a0 It&#8217;s good to have an additional space, yet limited space for something that arises.\u00a0 He suggests using that to record when assignments are due.<\/p>\n<p>On the left side of the two-page weekly layout is a column for that week&#8217;s priority, your weekly action items, and notes. It&#8217;s important to focus on your goals, and it&#8217;s great that he provides a small box to remind you on a weekly basis as well as cuing you to work toward your long-term goals.<\/p>\n<p>There are different ways to approach your calendar.\u00a0 As I talked about in the review of Getting Things Done, David Allen proposes that you schedule tasks into your calendar with caution.\u00a0 Harold Taylor is of a different perspective, where you use your calendar to schedule all activities, providing the commitment as well as time to get them done.\u00a0 Since this is just talked about in the beginning of the planner, I cannot tell to what extent he promotes this.\u00a0 I know that for myself, if I schedule things that are not time sensitive or important, it&#8217;s too easy to still not work on those tasks and then feel the sense of failure at not accomplishing them!\u00a0 Other than in the column to the far left for weekly action items, there is not much space for planning.<\/p>\n<p>When I was strictly a paper planner person, I relied on the monthly calendar view.\u00a0 This planner&#8217;s version of that is considerably too small for me.\u00a0 The monthly view consists of 3 months on a page.\u00a0 Yet, as I move to scheduling on my iPad, the monthly view no longer holds much value to me.\u00a0 You need to evaluate what your priorities are in this regard.\u00a0 This is the same layout for the future years, at the back of the planner.\u00a0 I find the year at a glance intriguing while at the same time a little odd &#8211; each column is a month and the holidays are labeled.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_747\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/monthly.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-747\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-747\" title=\"monthly\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/monthly.jpg?resize=201%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/monthly.jpg?resize=201%2C300 201w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/monthly.jpg?resize=100%2C150 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/monthly.jpg?resize=400%2C595 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/monthly.jpg?w=450 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-747\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The monthly view, with 3 months to a page<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_748\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/yag.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-748\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-748\" title=\"yag\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/yag.jpg?resize=300%2C223\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/yag.jpg?resize=300%2C223 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/yag.jpg?resize=150%2C111 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/yag.jpg?resize=400%2C297 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/yag.jpg?w=900 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Year-at-a-glance on two pages<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From my sensitivity to carrying around planners, I appreciate the compact size of this planner.\u00a0 It is slightly larger than a standard trade paperback book and fairly thin; it will not contribute much weight to a purse or bag.\u00a0 The version I have is bound, with some space for the binding to not interfere with entering the information you need to. Since it was a free copy, it&#8217;s just the planner itself, though offers a cover, with pockets for business cards and to carry post-it notes around with your planner.\u00a0 Also, with the perforated lower corner, it&#8217;s easy to mark (tear it off) and find the current week.\u00a0 Included with the planner are contact pages, several assignment record pages, notes, and a section for back burner ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With so many different planners on the market, here is one that you might not have heard of with some interesting parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[10,8,18,5,25,22,15,16],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-behavior","tag-discipline","tag-goals","tag-household","tag-postaweek2011","tag-productivity","tag-resources","tag-to-do-lists"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7p82c-c1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}