DavidBrady
homegrown planner sheet
I used to work for a company that sold time management tools and products. It was my job to help customers find the planner that fit them perfectly and teach them how to best use it. The most important thing I learned at that job is that MY perfect planner did not exist. Over the course of nearly a decade, I developed my own planner system.
This is a photo of the final and best iteration of weekly planner sheets I developed for myself. They were by far the most effective time management solution I have ever used.
It was a Visio drawing, and I had a Python script that would launch Visio, open the document, update the dates, send it to the printer, save the updated document, and then shut Visio down.
This system worked spectacularly well right up until the company I worked at--and provided me with access to Visio and a high-end laser printer--had a layoff at a time when I was experimenting heavily with political and career suicide.
I've been trying to recreate this planner sheet--or something close to it--for ten years. I believe that general purpose drawing programs and scripting languages have come along far enough to merit the attempt once more, this time using Ruby and a PDF drawing library called Prawn.
homegrown planner sheet
I used to work for a company that sold time management tools and products. It was my job to help customers find the planner that fit them perfectly and teach them how to best use it. The most important thing I learned at that job is that MY perfect planner did not exist. Over the course of nearly a decade, I developed my own planner system.
This is a photo of the final and best iteration of weekly planner sheets I developed for myself. They were by far the most effective time management solution I have ever used.
It was a Visio drawing, and I had a Python script that would launch Visio, open the document, update the dates, send it to the printer, save the updated document, and then shut Visio down.
This system worked spectacularly well right up until the company I worked at--and provided me with access to Visio and a high-end laser printer--had a layoff at a time when I was experimenting heavily with political and career suicide.
I've been trying to recreate this planner sheet--or something close to it--for ten years. I believe that general purpose drawing programs and scripting languages have come along far enough to merit the attempt once more, this time using Ruby and a PDF drawing library called Prawn.