D*I*Y Planner for iLiad

[yokos]

We need something to do our daily planning on iLiad. One option would be to use pdf files & scribble on them.
I have found some pdf files on diyplanner.com which I tweaked to get iLiad's screen dimension. The crux is, the diyplanner's colours are not compatible with iLiad [they are much too light], therefore they needed a patch.

Attached zip file is the output of my Adobe Illustrator session [I have never opened a pdf file in Illustrator before. ]. Please deal files with great care, it's just beta.
to-do-list:
[1] find optimal colours
[2] fix font problem
[3] tweak more pages
[4] write a pdftk step-to-step guide [combining pdf pages with user's gusto]

[Adam B.]

I like the idea, but I don't think a PDF is the best way to go about this. With a PDF, you'll have to make a new folder for every day/week/year etc. If this could be saved as a png, and made so when a new page is created, it will use the original as a template (such as the default iliad one does) you could have one long, multi page planner.

[Adam B.]

Like I said though, I do like the idea. I've converted the pages to png. Just put them in the notes directory, and it should work like a charm.

[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.

[mike b]

Adam's solution for .png is nice but if you could zoom on the documents and then scribble ...