After having kids, I quickly realized that my brain just didn't remember things as efficiently as it once had.  So, I began the quest of a life organizer. I had tried written plain planners (which I recently found the stack of failed attempts in my office).  I tried using technology.  While I LOVE my iphone, and it is really nice being able to sync with my husband's calendar through google, it just didn't work for me.  I'm not very good at committing to exact times for certain to-do's.  It has to be a bit more flexible for me.  So, after a few weeks, that was it.   Last year, I resorted to creating my own planner.  After purchasing three different sets of planners, punching and re-punching the holes, add and removing pages, I finally had a planner that worked for me.   (I know it worked because I effeciently used it from April- December last year! Wooo-hooo!!!)