A notebook and a task manager designed to help you achieve your goals and work-life balance, using a four-step system: PLAN, ACT, MONITOR, REFLECT.

The size is excellent, the paper quality is exceptional and the ability to move pages around as well as add pages of different types is spectacular. Combined with the friendly and flexible approach to goal setting/reflection and this is an absolute winner. 

- Asha Darling

This notebook is AMAZING! I know, it’s a notebook, but it really is so much more..it’s structure is super helpful in daily & long term planning. Helps me break down projects into manageable steps and it reminds me to balance my professional & personal life.. & I’m even able to look back & be proud of accomplishments.. try it, I’m glad I did!

- CC

The impact the notebook created on my daily schedule exceeded my expectation! It aids in strategizing my daily tasks and targeting the important ones, creating the connection between these tasks and my long-term goals.

- Isadora Duncan

STEP 1: PLAN.

• Plan your "BIG BLOCK" goals for the next two-week cycle. 
• A “BIG BLOCK” is a personal or professional task or goal requiring more than one day to complete, and can be broken down into a few daily tasks.

• Add to your daily task manager a few small tasks that will get you closer to finishing A "BIG BLOCK" task.
• Then, add all your other tasks to the daily task manager according to their priority. 
• Now, act and complete your tasks.

STEP 3: MONITOR. 

Cross completed tasks in the daily task manager and mark your progress in the "BIG BLOCKS" dashboard, and gain a visual graph of your focus for the period.

STEP 4: REFLECT. 
At the end of a cycle, use the REFLECTION page to learn how you can improve your next cycle.

• Did you achieve your goals or not?
• If yes, how will you maintain them? If no, how can you improve?
• Why didn't you achieve your goals?

• Add, remove and rearrange pages any way you want using a modular disc binding system.

• Refill based on your needs: weekly calendar, monthly calendar, task management, goal tracking, notebook pages and more.

• Take pocket notes and add them to the notebook.

• Use the two included rulers to bookmark what’s important. 

The Perfect Notebook is a fully customizable notebook, packed with unique, highly effective, refillable productivity tools (90 pages, 180 sheets):  

There are 9 different refills to choose from. Each add-on or refill cost is $7. Some rewards include 3 refills of your choice at a discounted price, but you will also be able to add any add-on once we send out the BackerKit survey.

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Why do we so often fail on the tasks that matter to us the most? This is a question asked and answered by Prof. Dan Ariely in several articles and research documents. 

We followed Prof. Ariely’s guidelines when we designed our BIG BLOCKS system, which is included in The Perfect Notebook.

Dan Ariely is a Professor of Psychology & Behavioral Economics at Duke University, as well as the author of the New York Times bestsellers Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality, The Honest Truth About Dishonesty and Pay Off. 

The Perfect Notebook never runs out: 

• Buy only ONE and keep refreshing it with our refills.
• Manage weight and bulkiness: remove and archive pages you are done with, add new ones and start creating new ideas.
• Opens 360 degrees to save desk space. 

What could be better than a notebook you can customize to your particular sense of order?

It’s actually much faster!
I usually have my daily task manager open right next to me. Writing a new task is a one-click action (or two if you count picking up the pen). To do the same in an app, I need:
1. Pick up the phone.
2. Type my password.
3. Find the app.
4. Open the app.
5. Navigate to the task list.
6. Type task.
Paper saved me five clicks.

It prevents distractions.
I assume that your phone, just like mine, is one big distraction and enabling procrastination system. When you turn on your smartphone, you are bombarded with distractions, email notifications, Facebook alerts and a hundred other possible ways to get lost and waste time. When I used To-do list apps, I often picked up the phone to type in a task, saw my notifications, and eventually forgot why I picked up the phone in the first place.

It has a better field of vision.
Seeing your daily plan in full right in front of you clearly shows you everything you need to get things done. You can’t get that using a smartphone, even if it is a larger screen model.
My daily task page is printed on B5 paper, which is the equivalent of a 12" monitor!

It helps you remember your tasks.
It’s well a well-known fact, backed by research that writing things down helps commit them to memory, compared to typing them into a device. This is similar to what we experience when we ask someone to remind us to do something. Usually, if we ask for that help, we have better chances to remember even without the help.

Here is what Amy Schellenbaum, Popular Science, had to say:  

“Writing things down can make you feel better, mentally and physically.”  

“...Once you’ve written down all the tiny things you need to get done, you give your brain the capacity and the encouragement to actually do the things.”  

“The manual effort: It’s easy to underestimate the swell of satisfaction from making progress on something physical. To-do lists give nerds like me the thrill of checking something off. It’s a genuinely pleasurable experience.”  

 “A lot of tech people I know are going back to paper, because a paper planner … there’s still no better tool than a paper planner.” organization and time-management guru, David Allen, said during a recent Wired.com interview.

• Select your preferred perk and pledge. 
• We will send you a BackerKit survey, which will allow you to finalize your order, change reward tiers, select more than one reward tier and customize your order with add-ons. Extra shipping rates may apply, depending on your selection(s).

We put a lot of thought into the design of the Perfect Notebook to make sure it would be both effective and beautiful. 

Color Palette - the Perfect Notebook couldn’t just use black ink. We tested many colors and shades and finally opted for a color palette which used the the classical Montblanc Leo Tolstoy ink as reference. This beautiful ink shade, printed on a thick, 90 g/gqm, cream colored paper just looks great.

Blue color shades used across The Perfect Notebook:

However, color is not just about looks. We decided to use colors as a simple and intuitive prioritization tool in the daily task pages. 

The mechanism is simple - darker blue equals high priority. Lighter blue equals lower priority: