How to choose the perfect diary: 6 variants for different purposes

The popular online stores to 10,000 options on request "diary." Species many diaries, they are often presented, but most of them or we lay aside "for later", or fill in the first month and throw. Sometimes supplement their stickers, notebooks and electronic schedulers.

Habitual typology of paper notebooks based on periods: dated or undated, for daily, weekly or quarterly records. But not everyone is suited. It is best to choose a day planner in terms of what you need and what you want to achieve.

Reduce stress: daily therapist

At first glance, such a daily need to dispel the boredom: gives fun tips from Sherlock Holmes, little raccoon or Paulo Coelho, just uplifting quotations and images. The main purpose of this category of notebooks - not only to entertain, but also to reduce the level of stressSometimes let you prokrastinirovat relish, their emotional charge the battery.

The trend holds for several years: bookstores filled anti-stress daily logs from the series "razrisuy me", "destroy me", "Anti-diaries." Among these diaries have even templates personal diaries.

Diaries to track emotions will be useful for the development of emotional intelligence. Popular crafting pages with patterns, doodle, mandalas, colorful sheets of art assignments, self-portraits on every day phrases and amusing mini-stories.

Appointment therapists need to hear yourself, cope with stress, focus, emotional recharge.

Save important for family history: blog-archivist

For recordings on a specific topic will approach this type of snakeskin. His goal - to keep in one place important records, which usually we carry is not very systematic. This diary can be a good gift, the main thing - to know the interests and hobbies to bestow.

Expectant mother can keep track of the pregnancy day by day, the young parents - to take notes of the baby life, the whole family - written in a generic book, and important dates, and family history. There are also readers' diaries, cookbooks for recording your favorite recipes for every day, diaries gardener.

All diaries, archivists have a very important principle - keep a history of system, whether it is a record of family events or descriptions of types of seeds in the planning of seedlings.

To develop good habits and skills: teacher diary

This is both a diary, and a tutorial on a specific topic. For example, keep the family budget will help with the daily Japanese system KakeboIn the beginning - the theory and examples of filling, etc. - templates for each day of the recording of costs and revenues. This diary accustomed to thrift and proper management of personal finances.

Master English can be a diary of a foreign language: to conduct regular recording and at the same time learn new words, grammar rules and phrases to communicate.

There diary writer - every day you read one Board from well-known writers, perform creative tasks, find inspiration, new ideas and a way out of writer's block.

Even invented diaries, benefits for parents - with advice on parenting toddlers theme from 3 to 7 years.

Appointment-teacher to help develop self-discipline, if you have a goal to instill a useful habit themselves, learn a foreign language, read more, eat right, and so on.

Plan your day, week, year: diary secretary

Most often it is they are hearing the word "daily" business planners, "kvartalniki" diaries with a daily schedule and units for the projects. These helpers can be a good-quality navigation and status covers. Their massively buy the company for employees, give as gifts. The goal - to help you every day to take notes, make lists, schedule appointments. These diaries are laconic, strict and keep within the time limits. Suited office workers, but a small number of projects and daily tasks.

Kinds:

• Scheduler. The week before your eyes, you record appointments, phone calls and other tasks.
• Business diary. Typically used to record each day for a year, save the new contact, urgent notes and planning affairs on certain dates.
• Organizer. It contains contacts and short entries, often without an appointment date.
• Notebook. Used for intensive record-keeping, for example when working on a large project.

Appointment secretaries most displaced by electronic counterparts that synchronize and accelerate access to information from anywhere. Toolkit "secretary" is useful to take note: the system of planning periods is very important, it is pivotal to time management. The purpose of this diary - help you organize a segment of life, whether it be a day, week, month, quarter, or year.

Focus on developing: daily sniper

This type of diary - goal-setting. Typically, each contains the author's technique of well-known business coach or consultant. Gleb Archangel, Igor Mann, Andrew Luger, Alexander Levitas, Ian Frank and dozens of other the authors help to act according to the formula, "Believe in the dream → → set a goal of plan-do → → Rate result".

This diary will help you to work on priorities, habits, and to find the motivation to achieve personal growth. It allows you to choose a suitable system efficiency and to keep records, with a focus on skills development and career planning.

Motivate and support yourself: Custom diary

There is one more assistant, which you will not find in bookstores and online retailers. He is the most developing, motivating, knowing you in detail. This diary, which you have created for yourself - personal collection of tools for self-organization and goal setting.

Author's diary - is a unique compilation of all diaries options. You pick yourself comfortable templates, add therapeutic art sheets, job production habits, put personal and professional goals.

The constituent elements of the author's diary for example:

• 1 folder-cover A5, dense, with opening spring;
• printed patterns blocks (A5): the plan year quarter, net tasks for the next month, week and day plan, timing patterns, the results of the meetings - whatever is appropriate for your planning system;
• 9 plastic spacers: two pieces into blocks of scheduling periods (quarter, month, week, day), five - on blocks of tasks for projects and two more on the development of separator units;
• 3 pockets for stickers of different formats (often they are sewn into the cover-folder);
• Stickers text (wide and narrow, transparent, paper, convenient sizes).

Additionally, you will need a hole punch single hole and a set of colored gel pens.

Also worth to take care of 2-3 folders to archive pages with personal plans and successes, as well as to design pages and records the results of the meetings. Suit simple folder on the rings with dividers. Once a month stale pages from the diary can be transferred to the archive in the thematic cluster.

That we get a system of personal planning business and personal tasks, the formation and structuring blocks for individual work, the presence of a hand the current status and plans, convenient archive of old records.

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Diary - just one of the personal performance management tools, but it sure will help you deal with deadlines and get out of the swamp of bad mood or creative stagnation. Experiment and have time to live!

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