MEMORY KEEPING 101: ADD MEMORIES TO EVERY DAY OF 2024

Calendar, Planner, Notebook or Journal

So, how do you keep your life organized? A large monthly calendar on the wall? Or is it a chunky planner you carry everywhere you go? Or are you the more free flowing type who keeps a notebook with all your pertinent information and to do lists? Or perhaps you’re the reflective type that settles down at the end of the day to write down what was important.

Just about every store you’ll walk in for the next month or so will have zillions of calendars, planners and blank books on fixtures throughout the store – especially in those impulse buying areas. They want you to think “Oh yeah, I need a ___________________________(fill in the blank: calendar, a planner, a journal)!

Ooooh those exciting travel places! Look at those cat and puppy faces! That one has motivational sayings! What’s your hot button? How about, instead of that canned theme and stock pictures, you design a calendar or planner that instead focuses on your travels, your pets, your goals, your friends and your family?

Well, with FOREVER Create & Print you can use photos of your own memories, motivational sayings and Bible verses you choose, or even download images from the internet of things you want to do – it’s up to you. Just click on Create & Print on the FOREVER website and start designing your calendar, planner or notebook with their great templates. Or use Artisan 6 to add even more more exciting choices, like a personal event list.

The Wall Calendar

No matter what other calendars and planning tools you have in your life, most of us have a wall calendar hanging somewhere – on the refrigerator, next to our desk wherever we need to be reminded of what the year looks like. Every insurance agent, real estate agent and most financial advisors are quick to offer you a free calendar, but do you really want to look at their advertising all year long?

There are many great designs for wall calendars in Design & Print. You can have one large glorious image on each month or multiple images with a variety of themes. While the basic calendar design is great, with Artisan 6 you can change up the format, putting the month and days where you want them, the way you want them, in the font you want them.

Oh, and if you do choose Artisan 6 to design your calendar, then you have even more options when you design from a blank page. Perhaps the best part is that there’s a customizable event list which will offer both sets of holidays like Christian and Jewish or American and Canadian, OR you can create your own personal event list with birthdays, anniversaries and milestones! (Oh, and with Artisan you also have the choice of making desk calendars!)

The Planner

I’m a planner girl. Confession, I also have a wall calendar and desk calendar, because I am a little obsessive, but I love my planner best. FOREVER Planners became available in the summer, so mine starts in August. That’s one of the beauties of of creating your own calendar, you can start it whenever makes sense for you, whether it’s tied to an event or just when you decide you want a new planner or calendar.

One of my favorite features of the FOREVER planners is the three templates available. I’m a month/week girl, but you may identify most with a weekly or daily view of your life. Along with three different page styles, you can choose between hardbound and spiral-bound. I’m using spiral bound right now and I love it.

Notebooks/Journals/Blank Books

FOREVER calls them notebooks, but you might call them journals or blank books. Whatever you call them, there are a million ways to use them and the choices we offer make it easy to create your own perfect place to jot notes, ideas, memories, dates, goals – anything.

First, you choose what you want on the cover. Will it be a motivational statement, your Bible verse for the year, photos of your goals, photos of the ones you love or photos of the places you love.

Then you can have hardbound or spiral bound – whichever best fits your taste and usage. How people resist having a few of each is beyond me!

Best of all, you get to choose exactly which style of pages best suit your needs. (See why it’s hard to resist having a stack of them?) Do you think best on lined pages? Are you using the notebook to journal your way through your year? Do you think in images? Then you’ll definitely enjoy the bullet pages. If your method depends on your mood, then perhaps the graph/lined combo will attract your attention.

Create Your Planning Tool Today

While we’re talking about planning tools, I wanted to let you know you can use our Table Top Panels to make great dry erase boards. That’s not the same thing, but it’s in the planning family.

Whatever planning tool you’d prefer, give it a go with FOREVER – and while you’re at it, I will remind you, they also make great holiday gifts. Design & Print your calendar today.