Welcome to The Daybook!

The Daybook’s purpose is to help you organise your work.  It will make your job easier and save you time.

The Daybook will enable you to keep track of what you have done, what still needs doing and will give you quick access to the information you have collected.

Use your Daybook to write in everything you would normally write on notepads and loose pieces of paper.  Write down also any information relevant to your work that you keep in your head.  (If you do write something on a piece of paper, stick it in your Daybook so you don’t lose it and have access to that information later.)

If you do this, all your information will be in one place so nothing can be lost, misplaced or forgotten.  If you need to refer to something later, it will be in your Daybook.  You will also be covered if there is ever any question or query about a decision you have made or action you have taken.  For you will be able to look back in your Daybook/s and find out how, why and when something happened.   

To help you remember to do everything you have written down, The Daybook gives you a simple cross checking system that works as follows:  You work through your Daybook, writing all your information on the General Work pages, using as many pages each day as you need.  When you have completed everything on a page, colour in the triangle at the top corner of that page.  After every seven pages you will find a yellow Outstanding Action Summary page.  These are there to prompt you to go back to the preceding work pages and check those that do not have their triangle coloured in.  If there are any unresolved actions on these pages, bring them forward to the yellow page, re-prioritise them and deal with them.  This cross checking system is easy to use and it works brilliantly.

To help you plan your work The Daybook has a Time Line Task Planner on the back of every Outstanding Action Summary page.  By planning your tasks on this page you will get an overview of what you will be doing over a period of time, be it a fortnight, a month or even a year.  This task planner is on the back of every outstanding action summary page so that you can update your plan every time you are prompted to cross check your work.  To use this task planner just list your upcoming tasks down the left hand side of the page and fill in the time axis across the top of the page with the time intervals you need, depending on the time frame you want to use.  Then to plan your work simply draw lines across the page from the starting time to the finishing time of every task you have written down.  These lines will represent the time you expect your tasks to take.  This page will enable you to see your busiest times and will help you plan your time more effectively.

For more information about using The Daybook, please refer to the How To Use page near the front of the book. 

Best wishes,
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