Comments on: How do you personalize your planner? http://quovadisblog.com/2008/09/23/how-do-you-personalize-your-planner/ A blog about planning, people and paper. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:24:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Kara Russelo http://quovadisblog.com/2008/09/23/how-do-you-personalize-your-planner/comment-page-1/#comment-2351 Kara Russelo Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:52:48 +0000 http://quovadisblog.com/2008/09/23/how-do-you-personalize-your-planner/#comment-2351 Kara Russelo, owner of Little Virgo Organizing in Holly Springs (http://www.littlevirgo.com) uses Microsoft Outlook's Calendar to keep track of appointments and color codes them based on appointment type and priority. "I keep it simple with the "Stoplight System" for prioritizing everything from emails to calendars to "to-do" lists. - RED for high priority appointments such as client meetings - YELLOW for medium priority tasks like phone calls or non-client engagements that can be shuffled if needed - GREEN for personal or fun stuff which is very easy to cancel if I'm swamped or exhausted. Then I print my calendar, and stick it in in the front of my Levenger Circa notebook (http://www.levenger.com) which goes everywhere with me. In less than 3 seconds, I can see how busy my month is and which items I definitely can't miss!" Kara Russelo, owner of Little Virgo Organizing in Holly Springs (http://www.littlevirgo.com) uses Microsoft Outlook’s Calendar to keep track of appointments and color codes them based on appointment type and priority.

“I keep it simple with the “Stoplight System” for prioritizing everything from emails to calendars to “to-do” lists.

- RED for high priority appointments such as client meetings
- YELLOW for medium priority tasks like phone calls or non-client engagements that can be shuffled if needed
- GREEN for personal or fun stuff which is very easy to cancel if I’m swamped or exhausted.

Then I print my calendar, and stick it in in the front of my Levenger Circa notebook (http://www.levenger.com) which goes everywhere with me. In less than 3 seconds, I can see how busy my month is and which items I definitely can’t miss!”

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