
Detailer Day Planner — Agenda / Referenced Notebook / Portable Filing System
| The Detailer day planner accommodates your needs in a practical and simple system. It has some special features that you will not find in other day planners – such as expandable to-do lists with your planning calendar and clear pockets for filing under each alphabetical index. Check it out! | |
| Detailer IS | Detailer IS NOT |
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•Trying to teach you time management •Complicated and time intensive •Cumbersome and bulky |
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Calendar Format |
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Most other day planners •Horizontal format •difficult to sort out appointments / timed events |
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| •Separate section for timed activities and daily notes•Small reminder / to do sheets **Special Feature •Kept in view w/your calendar •Most effective place for to do lists •elaborate on events or a particular day •prioritize on different sheets •transfer notes to following week to do lists |
•Notes mixed in with appointments •No space for general reminders •To-do lists often in separate section (If separate space for notes are provided…they are limited. If they need to be forwarded to the following week, they must be rewritten there) |
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Referenced Notebook |
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Most other day planners •Pre-designated tabs |
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| •You decide what info/data you want to keep under the appropriate alphabetical index •Helps to eliminate misplaced notes •Open format pages for flexibility |
•Tabs may or may not be appropriate for you •Most of your notes without a place to reference later •Many times pages are overly formatted |
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On the go Filing system for coupons, receipts, etc. |
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Other day planners •Do not offer feature (some may have some enclosures but not under each index for reference filing) |
Example – paint chip filed under ‘P’ |
No alphabetically referenced pockets for your coupons, receipts, tickets, material swatches, etc. |
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Address/Telephone/Data Section |
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Most other day planners •Highly formatted and restrictive spaces |
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| Small separate overlapping sheets designed to place where and when you want them •Open format to keep all the data you want •Attach business cards alphabetically •Perpetual – never redo messy outdated pages •Do not require separate section |
•No room to note all the data you may want to keep •Pages get very messy and must be redone •An entire page is required for one listing •If you keep business cards – you cannot file them alphabetically |
Functional / Adaptable / Perpetual






Example – paint chip filed under ‘P’




