The Q4 Organizer

Traditional Planners

Information is recorded on an “ Information Manager” and filed alphabetically in the A-Z file section of the organizer.

Notes are filed in a daily diary format.

How the Q4 Organizer Functions

How Planners Function

• To retreive your information later, you only have to remember the subject.

• To retrieve your notes later, you have to remember the date you wrote them.

• All your notes for one subject are on one page.

• Your notes on one subject get spread between many daily pages.

• Each Information Manager contains ony one subject.

• Each page of the daily diary has many subjects mixed together.

• Finding information takes 1 step.  All your notes are on one page, filed alphabetically by subject -- just like your office files.

• Finding information takes 3 steps.
• 1.  Create an index recording the dates where various subjects can be found.
• 2.  Look under many different dates.
• 3.  Scan numerous pages of mixed topics to find just the items you need.

• Keep single Information Managers in the alphabetical section of the organizer as long as you want.

• To keep old notes in the planner it is necessary to carry all the daily pages (including notes of unrelated subjects) going back as many months as required.

• Notes can be removed and the Information Manager filed seperately.

• Notes must be recopied from the daily pages to be filed elsewhere.