Most of us planner nerds probably have a lot of extra pages for our planners. Some of those pages need to be readily available and some just need to be nearby somewhere. But they do need to be organized so we can find what we need.
I organize my pages in two different ways based on the two types of pages I have.
The first pages are my daily pages. I keep those in my Franklin Covey Storage Binder. And the Franklin Covey Storage Binder stays on my desk where I can get to it easily and quickly. That makes it a lot easier to remove old pages and add new pages. If the storage binder isn’t convenient, it’s too easy to take the previous month’s pages out of your planner and set them down somewhere. I’ve done that one time in 20 years and I never did find that month’s pages.
The second type of pages I have are miscellaneous pages like check registers, page finder inserts, bills to be paid, menu forms, etc. I keep those in a shoe box divided by form type. When I need a particular page, it’s easy to find.
I keep the shoe box in the closet in my home office. It’s not as readily available as my storage binder but I don’t need it as often and it’s still very convenient
So that’s how I store my extra pages. How do you store yours?
This is very helpful! When I was using Franklin Covey, my storage binder was not close by – which made it difficult to retrieve information from previous months. Also – great idea to use a shoe box – my inserts are all over the place at the moment!
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I’ve always kept my storage binder at my desk. It makes it a lot simpler. And at one point, my inserts were all over the place, too. I got sick of trying to find what I needed and that’s when I started keeping them in the shoebox. It really does make it a lot easier to use them. Less frustrating, too.
I do the same exactly as you. Is that a Kanban board I spot underneath with your pink post it’s on? Would be interested to know how you use that!
The board is a dry erase board. I started out using it as a dry erase board but I ended up writing the days of the week at the top and then using post-its for my blog posts. I plan a week at a time and put post-its for each post. Then I can see at a glance when I’m sitting at my computer what I need to do and what I’ve done. I keep a month at a time on there. I had the list in my planner but it works much better on the board.
How did you get a 2013 sticker for your storage binder? I just ordered a binder and sleeve and it did not have a 2013 sticker
I bought the binder at the store and it came with a set that had 3 years of stickers. I’m really surprised you didn’t get the sticker when you got your binder. In 20 years of buying storage binders, they always came with the current year’s sticker. I would call Franklin Covey and tell them. It’s possible they would send one out. You should have gotten one.
I love the idea of putting the miscellaneous pages in a shoe box organizer!
It works and it’s cheap!
How to store all those extra pages is a BIG ISSUE for planner geeks, or what my husband calls ‘a first-world problem!’ I use A5, so I have an ordinary A5 binder and A5 sheet protectors. But your system looks so organised!
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Thanks. Do you carry your A5 with you? I’ve really been tempted bumping up to the bigger size but I’m not sure I could handle taking it with me.
Patty, I’ve been thinking the exact same thing – but the personal IS working well for me. I just get itchy…
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You are SO right! I don’t need to lug around a giant planner when the smaller one works just fine! Thanks for the reminder.