Being Organised - DIY Planner

For several years I have been using a leather planner from "Business India". To Order refill pages and other forms I ticked the items I wanted in the ordering sheet and sent it along with a cheque to "Business India" and this continued every year for the yearly refill pack untill sometime after the year 2000 "Business India" decided to stop the planner refills. So I had to settle for "Business Today" and later "Sanka" from Landmark (the book store) but then getting this in time for my yearly planning exercise (just before christmas) was a pain. At times I could procure these yearly refill pages only during mid Jan. This threw all my planning out of gear untill I discovered DIY Planner.

This blog is dedicated to personal productivity solutions and offers a software application - Dynamic Templates that prints out planner pages. I use the 2 page per day format by printing these on an A4 stationery with two pages per sheet and using the duplex option to print like a booklet. I created my own templates for Itinerary Sheet, Project Planning, Notes. I use a simple two ring binder to keep it all together. Will post pictures of it soon.

I am creating additional templates and adding more capabilitites to my binder like having a pen loop, a place to keep post-it flags, a transperent sleeve to carry stuff, a business card sleeve and a lot of other stuff. Will post the photos of the project soon.

Flexible Keyboard

I watched "Die Hard 4 - Live Free or Die Hard" this past Sunday and was intrigued by the gadget used by the protagonist hacker Farrell (played by Justin Long) - a flexible keyboard. It appears in the scene where Mai Linh (played by Maggie Q) starts the shutdown procedures for the powerplant. Also visible are two Smartphones/PDA's similar to the HP iPAQ.

Checked out the pricing of the flexible keyboard on Indiaplaza it costs about Rs 844 and you get to take one free when you buy one.

Also visible in the movie is a white iPOD. Its in the scene when Fareell and McClaine (played by Bruce Willis) meet WarLock (played by Kevin Smith) in his command centre.