A discussion on the nuts & bolts of scheduling...

Usually in late Summer, I'll go into MS Word or MS Works and print off blank monthly calender pages for the upcoming year. I'll staple them in the upper right corner and carry them with me. As I make my rounds I'll alert my clients that I'm ready for scheduling when they are. As the dates come in, I write them in long hand on these pages. Once I get home, I update my website schedule with them. I update the website at least once daily, very often moreso.

I'll continue this process until late December and then as neatly as I can, with as fine point a pen as I can, record all my gigs into a new planner, that I'll carry with me always. (My handwriting is horrible!)

I've used the Monthly "At a glance" product for years...I've got a big stack of them on my bookshelf that are handy for reference.

It's be great if I could find a way to transfer/print out my schedule into my planner, but nothing quite works.

I suppose I'll wind up with a blackberry or something similar that will replace my planner. Knowing that I can't accidentally delete all my dates, or whatever is comforting, I must say, lol...

How do others do this?

What planners are you fond of?

(Hopefully, this is the benign thread of the month!)

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Bill in Dayton