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How to Bring Your Plans Along When Out & About
The In-View System is really designed for use when you have a fixed home base, in situations where your workday centers around a desk or workbench. Or if you are caring for children and a home, perhaps even homeschooling, the homebase for your stand might be the kitchen counter or the dining room table. Because of our family’s particular needs, I shift my homebase some evenings and weekends from my office/workshop area to our kitchen counter.
But what about when you’re going to be out and about? Can you bring your plans with you? Absolutely! There are three basic ways.
- Firstly, just bring the clipboard along. I sometimes bring my clipboard along when I go to something like a doctors appointment, and especially when I go for a deep-thinking walk. What I mean by a deep thinking walk is that I’ll go for a long walk out on a trail out in nature with my clipboard and pencil (like this). I’ve found that when my mind knows I’ll write things down, it gives me more ideas, which leads to better ideas. Similarly, I love to plan or problem solve after a trail run. After a run, I feel great: my head is clear and focused, I feel completely relaxed, so I’ll pick up my clipboard when I get back to the car and walk for a while longer. It’s an ideal time for generating novel ideas or solutions to problems.
- Another way to bring your to-dos and schedule along is to snap a quick picture with your phone of your daily page, or maybe a picture of a shopping list that you made in the notes section. If I know I’ll have to make an appointment, I might snap a picture or two of my monthly planner.
- Lastly, the Daily Page is designed to fit in your pocket and bring along. Just fold it down the middle, like this, then in half like this, and slip it in your pocket.
- When you get back home, you can just put your page back on the clipboard, like this.
- As far as a portable pencil, I use a golf pencil inside a pencil extender, which keeps the pencil tip from breaking or making a hole in my pocket.
- Even on vacation, I’ll sometimes bring my folded Daily Page with me. It helps me to be more conscious and involved in the family’s plans. After we map out our day, I like not forgetting the details, not always asking or wondering what’s next. I even form better vacation memories because I am processing the activities more.