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How do you use Chronodex? Please Share

This is the week when you can start using Chronodex Weekly Planner for 2012!

Approximately 2500 people downloaded Chronodex!  Many customized it to their own system, and I'm glad it actually helped people the way I intended it to be.  Do exploit the fact that it encourages your radial thinking with the free space all around the circles.  If you don't know how to use it, please read the instruction I included in every page of the PDF files.  Once you get use to the radial thinking mode, it is like you are into another dimension being able to see things more clearly and that's an advantage over a lot of others.

I'm planning to share my own method of notation on Chronodex soon, but since this is a rather free system, you may have your very own methods and I'd love to hear about them.  So please post photos to the Chronodex flickr group, Chronodex Facebook page, comment here, or share your blog post about it.  I'm gonna gather your methods of notation and share to everybody.

Kate from Studio-Sweepings decided to print off the Chronodex circle on stickers and use them only when needed, a free diary idea very well executed on her Moleskine hack.  It becomes a way to track time spent on different projects.  Lovely colors Kate!

Boris has been using the undated version for a month and moving forward to the dated version in his Russia time zone. 

How do you use Chronodex? Can't wait to hear from you all!

 

Chronodex Mods by Folks at Fountain Pen Network

Here's an update of the Chronodex Weekly Planner for 2012.

I'm very happy to find like minded people who love the Chronodex idea.  Although it was first designed for the Midori Traveler's Notebook format, folks at Fountain Pen Network really took it to the next level.

Coronado took the time to modify it into a more popular portrait format and in half letter size for his Levenger Circa.  He also changed the grid background into dots so it is less intrusive.  You can download Coronado's version of the Chronodex here.

Coronado also made a Levenger Circa version of the bookmark I portrayed. Like minded.

jsButterfly, who has just started a new blog called Paper Spaces, made Chronodex her 2012 diary too, also following Coronado's bookmark hack.

If you are into radial thinking for heightened creativity, or simply want to have a little change of your scheduling method, please do try Chronodex and share with us fans here on Scription or the Chronodex Flickr group.

Lastly, Boris from Russia, how do you find using Chronodex?  I'm yet to receive any comments from people from Hong Kong and Japan.  どのようにスケジューリングのChronodex方法が好きですか？

100 Xmas Gift Ideas Catalog - Hong Kong

Since this amazingly good looking catalog is out of print, I'd like to share with you the PDF file here so that you can select your gift before you visit our shops (city'super, LOG-ON).  There will be just too many people shopping and you will have a hard time finding the right gifts in such a crowd, so enjoy the comfort reading this at home and pick yours - 100 Xmas Gift Ideas 2011

A to Z, Action to Zen

Desktop down, tube clock failed, Dad in hospital, Mom suffers from fatigue, couldn't update blog the way I used to, but it gives me a great space to contemplate.

To me, a rewarding life is never about balance and compliance (you achieve nothing), neither being an extremist too (you isolate yourself and achieve nothing too) IMHO, it is about switching modes at your own pace, examine and find a path worth living for, one path.

When you do radial thinking too much, you see big pictures but you are too much into a Zen mode you feel no motivation to act (think of top management guys).  When you do too much GTD/taks/goal/achievement and stuffs like that, you miss the point (think of those working hard day in and day out at the bottom).  What's out there that's worth living for?  One thing, just one thing, you stick to that and the rest don't mean shit.  What's that one thing you may ask. "That's what you have to figure it out".

Ok enough of the City Slicker thing.  What I'm saying is that, make sure you have time to think free, make sure you can be determined to act free.

Vintage Shop, Delayed Postage, Paper Plane

I don't know about you but I simply don't have the luxury to sleep much, life is too short I think I'm using up my time fast in this life.  Dad is getting better in hospital despite tons of worries in the past few weeks, my team at work is somehow mad at me for reasons I can't quite comprehend, Xmas biggest season for our retail chain is kind of stressful, etc etc.  But all these don't stop me at all to discover more.

I had a few hours of free time the last weekend and dropped by this very nice vintage shop called nLostnFound.  The owner Shirley opened the shop 2 years ago and has been traveling to collect interesting vintage stuffs for her shop.  We had a short conversation but I will definitely going back to interview her soon.  If you happen to drop by Hong Kong, do visit her shop and bring her anything owl related, it is her passion to collect owl vintage stuffs.  Do explore that area coz it is a new hip area full of gallery, select shops, and cafe/bar.  Some of the great shops there are Kapok, Monocle.

I got this cool corkscrew in the form of a huge key from nLostnFound.  Shirley was honest and kind enough to tell me that it is not really a genuine "1960's Germany vintage corkscrew", which I figured ahead from the replica features :)

Back two weeks earlier traveling in Shanghai, I found some nice stuffs.  Some of which was these washable kraft paper made pockets and document holders, durable and tough as your jean label/tag.

I also got a nice pair of scissors (I'm somehow collecting interesting scissors) at RMB 45.  It was labelled "Paris Church" but eventually I figured it doesn't resemble any of the Paris churches I found.  Moreover, the so called "stainless steel with titanium coating" is totally unacceptable.  Titanium or not it doesn't matter, the coating just came off pretty fast and every time I use the scissors my hand stinks.  Poor China products, sigh.

Here's something I'm proud of.  It was not about winning the Best Pilot Award AND the Best Design Paper Airplane Award for my kid.  It was a paper plane (I love paper you know) flying competition in his school and I was determined to make him proud of something.  So I Googled for supreme paper plane designs and found nothing interesting except one guide, The Paper Pilot, which costed US$8.95.  No regret for such purchase, it was a great guide and we won.  The reason I'm proud of?  My kid is proud of himself and his Dad :)

I don't know what the hack is that thing, but all of a sudden there are tiny caterpillars living on my wall, what are they?  Tell me if you know.

UNI from Japan just released new versions of their StyleFit pen barrels, absolutely lovely designs on the barrels.  I feel the sweetness already when I see them in person.  There are chocolate and ice-cream versions and I'm trying to put them in our stores soon.

Now here comes a very delayed package by post.  A dear old friend (by old I mean Scription's oldest reader Colin from Margate UK, 83 I assumed?) sent me this package months ago and it never arrived until a few days ago.  It was battered but I just love how it looks, handwritten, properly stamped and … battered.  Thanks to him, I got to read with my kid the letter he sent to him.  Lovely mail and I learned a lot more about his life adventures and Margate.  I hope I can meet him someday soon before he meet our dear Father (Sorry Colin, no offense), too bad my 2012 trip plan doesn't include UK.  Do check out Colin's new blog adventure.

Lastly, I promoted my Chronodex weekly planner for 2012 on Fountain Pen Network and seems like I've found new acquaintances.  An update of my bookmark idea, instead of having the bookmark in rectangular format in previous post, I trimmed off excessive part and it helps to reveal the content beneath.  If you wonder about the pens, they are made by Kaweco, the black on here is a new Kaweco AL Sport Touch, ball point at one end, stylus at the other.  I'm happy there are people out there perfecting their own life by sharing.