Here are 4 tips to get you started
1. Evaluate Your Needs
Think of what fits your typical day. If you’re busy enough to sometimes forget plans in your schedule, then go for a simple dated daily planner. If you like to make long to-do lists, see if the planner has enough space for that. If you like to use your planner for short-term and long-term planning, habit tracking, and improving your productivity, then Office Hero combines that into a superb combo of a classic planner and a positivity journal.
2. Develop A System
Think of what you want to journal, track, measure, and put down in writing. For example, use symbols or colorful stickers to mark habits, color markers for labeling or prioritizing. However, it is very, very important that you don’t over-complicate it.
3. Import The Data
If you’re already using a digital planning system, carefully check all your apps and calendars that you track stuff with and transfer to your new planner. Check your recurring tasks and add those in the future areas of your planner. Of course, if you’ve found it easy to stick to a productivity or habit tracking app of choice, you may as well use a paper and a digital combination for separate areas. You do you!
4. Take Up A One-Month Challenge To Use It Daily
Take a month to test out your paper planner and see how using it daily works for you. Set up a reminder in mornings or evenings and try to take it up as a habit.
When it comes to your productivity, it’s important to adopt habits, systems and tools that work for you. If you like to keep some things digital, and some on paper, there’s nothing stopping you from that. Whatever works for you is what you need to stick to. Some people might find that paper planners are inefficient for their lifestyle, however, in the era of all things digital, there is strong evidence that writing on paper might be one of the easiest steps towards a healthy and productive life.