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Organization is a skill that utilizes tools. The best tool for school, work, and personal projects is a planner. Whether you use an electronic planner such as google calendar, or one of the several other calendar apps now available or a more traditional physical paper version. Although I have used both, the electronic calendar is useful and convenient I still prefer a physical calendar that pages could be turned. Every year even without being enrolled in school I have a planner.
#1 Color Coded
A planner with multiple purposes utilizes different color pens for color-coding for each category. The use of color pens to identify the task in a type of your day to day helps to keep items easy to find. Other ways to categorize task include using highlighters either highlight a job or mark the item with a circle or square. The use of sticker has also made its way into my planners. A nursing sticker is I have to work a shift. Plenty of other labels can be used for the gym, classes, or as a habit tracker.
#2 Due date and checklist
The calendar pages I fill up with my due dates and scheduled appointments. Everything with a definite date right at a single glance. The weekly page views are filled with a daily to-do list and task. If an appointment is scheduled for that day it will also be added to that day’s task list amongst. A daily list of things that need to be done along with a checkbox before the item. There is always something so satisfying as to check an item off a list.
#3 Anything that needs organization
The use of planner in middle school to write my homework for each class. In high school, the assignments continued but I add social events and after-school work. Now events used to include work, appointments, and writing projects. Milestones and a breakdown, of task needed for that milestone. The planner is a central place to put all this information.
Whether you used an app or a physical bound book they are an essential tool. Do you prefer a physical planner or an app as your planner?