The era of post-its is thankfully over. Lots of little colourful sticky notes with things to remember that would A L W A Y S be forgotten. No wonder why.
But life has changed since - enter the power of desk planners. Seriously. This is the place where you can make quick notes to later transcribe in better calligraphy or in your master planner, but it's also the place that can give you a complete overview of the week and the days ahead.
When it comes to desk calendars - some may be too large, others far too small. The ones you can buy for cheap in some big chain shop has useless glue which causes one to pull too many pages every time.
One of the most annoying things about generic desk calendars is those unwanted paper ears! If order and organisation on your desk are essential to you - having a custom desk calendar printed that is glued at the bottom is highly recommended. A tiny, crucial, very smart detail. No dog ears, no risk of ruining pages, no pages leaving before due time.
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else. ~ Peter Drucker
1. No More Procrastination
Every student but also professional needs a visual system that will keep important dates and projects organised. Having a desk planner leads to more efficient time management and less procrastination. Luckily, custom calendars can be formatted in such a way that a whole week of assignments clearly stands in front of your eyes and tasks can be crossed off as you get them done.
With a desk calendar in front of your eyes, it will be harder to avoid your work. It's simple psychology: it's harder to slack off when you see your to-do list staring at you all day long.
2. Quick And Easy To Refer To
Do you get a call or a new assignment while you are in the middle of something? I get it, it's super annoying and it takes time to open up your daily planner or your weekly planner and search for the right date. On your desk calendar instead, you simply scroll through the weeks to make a quick note of your new appointments in real-time. Your desk calendar is always right there.
Out of the way, but still never out of sight so if someone asks for a meeting/call you can immediately refer to your desk planner and give them a quick answer without having to scroll through your entire planner.
3. Put Things Into Perspective
Sometimes, people set off their work week thinking it is going to be a light one. But then, a quick flick through the weeks of their desk planner and they immediately realise what and when they need to get done. A desk calendar helps you to get started on things well in advance rather than rushing things at the last second. If you’re a solo entrepreneur AND a freelancer, often having overlapping projects - a desk planner will help you stay on top of things.
4. Be And Feel Inspired
In the design of our desk planner, reserve an area to scribble down an inspirational or motivational quote every week of the year. Sometimes we only need a little of self-encouragement or, maybe we need to focus on something specific for a few days. Use your words of the week area as your own space to inspire yourself.
5. Space For Your Creativity
The way you layout your desk calendar is completely up to you, as there is lots of room for creativity. You can keep it in black and white if you want to personalise each page of your calendar as you wish.
6. Shopping And To-Do List In Real-Time
How often have you gone home after your shopping only to realise you forgot one of the ingredients you need for dinner? Or toilet paper? Exactly for this reason, you could add a tearable column on the right-hand side for your shopping list so that you fill it as soon as something comes to mind rather than when you stand in front of the fridge and can't remember what you actually need.
7. Personal And Work/Study Life In One Place
Made your desk planner as large as possible so that you can annotate both important appointments and exams as well as meetings with your friends and thoughts.
8. Get Over It
One of the things we love the most about custom desk calendars is that you can actually more than cross off things on your list. You can tear your to-do list away, if you designed it this way. And we swear - the feeling of ripping off pages is great! It really makes you feel as you've accomplished something!
9. No Risk To Lose It
The best part of a desk calendar? You can't lose it. Everybody has lost something in their lives. Might be their planner, house keys, dog or something else. But I guess that losing your schedule and appointments would be a major disaster for most of us. But with a desk planner, which stays at home on your desk, you don't have the risk of losing all your deadlines and meetings.
You always know where your information is and will never forget when an important project/assignment is due. The perfect combo is, of course, to use both a planner AND a desk calendar because you might be out when you need to add something new to your schedule, but it's clear that a desk planner can improve your productivity by 19450350%.
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