Entrepreneur Kristian Dupont sent me a link to his app 12 Months, a strategic planning app for the iPad that is inspired by the Compact Calendar. I haven’t been able to try it, but it apparently integrates with the iOS built-in calendar.
I was starting to outline a book, and was finding the bottom of the Fast Book Outliner hard to write on. So I moved the page lines to the top, which is where the action is when actively reading the book. This way, I can put the paper to the right-side of book I’m reading and do the page indexing on-the-fly, without having to cramp my hand to write at the bottom until I’m ready to make notes. Or so goes the theory!
If you’d like to put it to practice, the 50-page version has a new “alternate layout” you can download on the FBO Page.
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.
I’ve just updated the USA Compact Calendar for 2012. It’s the same “Candy Bar of Time” you know and love, with a few new features:
In addition to these new features, I’ve also made a short video that describes how to modify the calendar’s starting date, length, and color formatting. So check out the updated calendar.
I’ve noticed that quite a few of the international versions of the Compact Calendar are using old versions of the spreadsheet; if you’re making a version for your own country, I encourage you to update to the latest spreadsheet base.
> Jump to the official Compact Calendar 2012 Edition Page
After a couple of months of experimenting with E-commerce plugins, we’ve finally gotten the new European Store ready for taking orders. Your order will be submitted via email (don’t worry, you won’t be asked for any credit card info), and then my collaboration partner Al Briggs will send you instructions on how to do a secure payment. If you are in the United States, please continue to use my Amazon Shop.
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