(last edited on April 29, 2014 at 1:25 am)
I spent a good chunk of Sunday redesigning the Emergent Task Planner to fit onto a 4×6 recipe card. I’m pretty pleased with the result. The picture above shows a stack of printed ETP designs. The bottom is the 8.5×11 ETP pad you can buy from Amazon. The middle pad is a custom A5 design I did for a company in Spain, and the very top is the mocked-up 4×6 sitting on a pile of 4×6 index cards.
The 4×6″ size is designed for printing on re-stickable paper notes (like a Post-It®) that Papergraphics can handle. Since the area is about half of the already-small A5 design, I had to simplify the design quite a bit more. This one is based on the Mini-ETP 7-Task Design, with a redrawn day grid and a more tightly-defined base grid.
There’s one more tiny adjustment I’d like to make (the spacing at the top), and then I’m going to send the design to the printing guys and have them made. I’m hoping to have them up in the Amazon store in time for the new year.
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UPDATE: This is a version that has the standard 14 hours, which gives more room for writing.
If you have any comments or requests, feel free to leave ’em here or in the design synopsis I posted in my process blog.
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That’s some fine looking product you got there.
Looks great!
FYI – since I couldn’t ship from Amazon to Canada for the pads, I ended up shipping them to a friend in the US and then she sent them to me. Looks like I may do that again when I run out – I think the sticky pads will work better for me, size-wise.
Looks great, I will order as soon as it arrives, or preorder if that would be helpful. It’s going to be very useful. I’m finally learning to plan my week (although I don’t reliably do what I’ve planned) However I usually manage to carry out what I’ve laid out on the ETP.
You are going to get some email from me…I’ve been swamped, until the end of this week.
Any chance you have some extras of the custom A5 designs hanging around that you would sell? I have been looking for a bound solution like that!
Hey, Dave, great to know your ideas for our notepad did stick :) They were a huge success for us, people love them.
Best of lucks!
Do you have any custom A5 designs that you would sell? This is what I have been looking for.
Thanks.
Excellent! I’m looking forward to getting them, and mentioning them to my family as stocking stuffers. Good luck with the final push!
Just like what Kim asked, do you have it on A5 design? Pretty neat design you got here.
There’s a digital version of the A5 for sale, but there is no bound printed version for sale. Not yet, anyway! After we get the sticky pad version out, the next one will be the A5 size. Just need to figure out just how to make it.
Nice work! They look great. Will be looking forward to their release.
looks good. btw, i’ve just been on the site downloading some forms for 2012. And just wanted to thank you for sharing your work all these years. It’s been an invaluable resource and I’m sure tons and tons of people share the sentiment! Happy Holidays…
Really looking forward to ordering this post-it size!!
Any update on when these will be ready to order on Amazon? I know you were shooting for Jan 1st… just wondering.
Thanks!
Currently, I’m waiting on the printer to confirm on new samples and pricing. Hopefully will get an update soon.