Use your Monthly Index

Your Franklin Planner has a Monthly Index page at the beginning of each month. It’s an amazing tool that is underutilized. If you use it correctly, you’ll absolutely love it. Here’s how it works:

Most of us can’t go an entire month without something significant happening. Let’s say, for example, you’re in charge of a company party or family reunion. As you are making plans for this event, you’re going to write important information in your planner notes—the phone number for the caterer, the reservation fee for the park or campground, and menu items. As you write this information in your planner you’re sure to think, “This is important stuff. I’ll probably want to find this information later.” Finding it is easy. Simply turn to your Monthly Index and note where that information is in your planner.

Caterer for Company Party phone number October 16

Campground reservation info Oct. 2

When your boss asks you to do it again next year, you may not remember the exact day that you took the notes, but you’ll remember that it was sometime in the fall. As you look through your Monthly Index pages you’ll quickly discover all your important information just as it was when you wrote it.

Your Monthly Index is incredibly valuable for other events throughout the year as well such as: children’s vaccinations, dentist appointments, and the day your child took her first step or said his first word. You get the idea. Why thumb through every page of the year to get the details of an important event, when you can simply browse through your Monthly Indexes?