Posts Tagged ‘Sapa X’

Blank pages and Sapa X

Posted March 2, 2011 by
in Planning Tips | 3 comments »

I’m an erstwhile Sapa X user, and I never really knew what to do with the blank pages that precede the start of each month. Occasionally I’d jot down notes, but I wasn’t systematic about it, and I rarely referred back to them afterwards. Maybe that’s due to the unsystematic way in which they appear? Because some months start towards the beginning of the week and others in the middle of one, the Sapa X’s two blank pages sometimes face one another, and other times are formed by a single, blank front-and-back sheet.

In any case, judging by one email we just got, I’m not the only one who doesn’t know what to do with them:

I’ve been buying Sapa X for years. I really like this planner, but I never use the blank pages that occur now & then, so I cut them out. It would help if you made them easily removable, using the little holes that you use to make the bottom corners easy to remove.

Of course, that wouldn’t be possible unless each blank page was exactly that — a single page, front and back — otherwise, you’d tear out part of a planning page, too. But it’s definitely an interesting suggestion. Are there any other Sapa X fans who would like to see us implement it? Or people who’ve figured out how to incorporate the blank pages into their planning routine?

Let us know!

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Changing My 2010 Planner

Posted October 27, 2009 by
in Pens, Paper & People | 10 comments »

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I’m changing my planner for 2010. For the past several years I have used Space 24 and loved it. I had a full page to write down everything I needed to do that week for work and home: people to call, dry cleaning reminders, scribbled notes for books to buy, my noon class on Wednesdays, projects to work on, mailings, and all the other memoranda of my life. As usual, I would get done about half of what I planned to do, so I’d erase various notes and distribute them over the next week or two. The paper is strong enough to hold up to lots of erasing.

This year, Quo Vadis introduced Equology – a planner line made with recycled paper. As a former staff member and volunteer with the Sierra Club, and a committed environmentalist, I had a real dilemma on my hands: stay with Space 24 or go over to Equology. 

I hasten to add the Clairefontaine paper used for Space 24 is made with strict environmental standards. The mill manufactures much of its own energy, all the pulp and wood by-products come from FSC and PEFC certified forests — none from old growth forests — and the water is cleaner when it leaves the mill then when it arrives. So clean, in fact, people can fish, swim and boat downstream within sight of the plant. With a background in Sierra Club fights in Alaska over logging practices and pulp mill pollution, that is pretty impressive.

But, recycled paper is recycled paper. I made the decision to give Equology a try for a year.

Then, I couldn’t find a format that would exactly meet my need for a notes page. Continue reading »

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