[lloydt]

I've been using this sort of system since September, when I completely removed my paper planner from my life. It does indeed work wonderfully.

The only problem I've had is that you need to make sure you leave a planner page before shutting the unit down or before plugging it into your computer. Otherwise, in either of these cases you stand a decent chance of losing your current file. Even if that happens, though, you lose only the page for that day; other pages and the templates remain unaffected.

I copy my pages daily to my computer, into a clone of the iLiad's directory structure--both to keep a running backup and to allow myself to check out the pages on my computer when my iLiad is powered down.

By making a wise choice of naming conventions for templates and directories, you can make it very quick and easy to get to the files you typically need to access most frequently. Here's what I use presently:

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|--Daily_Calendar_Pages
| Daily.png
|--Daily_Note_Sheets
| Daily_note_sheet.png
| Index_daily_notes.png
|--Weekly_Sheets
| Weekly.png
|--Z-Goal_Sheets
| Goal_New.png
|--Z-Mission_Etc
| Mission-060818.png
|--Z-Old_Pages
|--Daily_Calendars
|--Daily_Notes
|--Weekly_Records

Whenever the files in a folder move much beyond a single screen, I copy the png files into a structure in the Z-Old_Pages folder. This way, unlike a paper planner, I always have access to former months' pages.

Setting things up this way immediately paid off in the form of freeing me from needing to carry around a planner, which itself happened to be a tad bigger than the iLiad.