We’ve just added a really fun new feature to Agendio Pro: Column headers. When you customize a monitor or a Flex-table extra page, you can now add colourful headers to columns, or to parts of columns, to give your page more pop and to separate out each part of your page.
Chelsea just created an amazing Class planner page with our new headers.
Carolyn used our new column headers in her monthly pages to separate each section of the right-side column.
You can add the headers when you’re in the Designer. Click the pagelet as usual, and if it allows the new header option, you will see the following options:
Give it a try today and let us know what you think.
During the past few years we shared with you some great covers made by our customers. Everyone really enjoyed looking at them, so we decided to share some more with you.
We just added a dozen new covers to our customer designs page. Let us know what you think – Would you like to see more covers from our community of planners?
We’ve added a great new feature: You can now mix labels and happenings in your list pagelets on your Pro layouts.
In the past, you could add happenings (activities, events and holidays) in the dated sections of your pages, and you could add labels mostly in the right side columns. But we didn’t have a proper way to show the labels on every day of your planner.
Now our code has advanced to the point that you can combine labels and happenings in the same list pagelets on all dated pages, including weekly, daily and monthly. The labels will show every day and the happenings will show at the frequency you select. You can add them anywhere in your list pagelets.
For example, you can now customize your layout to include these labels on a weekly layout:
Give it a try and let us know how it works for you.
We’re receiving more requests lately from customers asking how to reprint an agendio. This is a great time to review how to do that, since now there are two ways to build an agendio (Classic and Pro).
First, let’s look at Classic
1. Start by signing in: Go to the silhouette on the top right of the home page and select the option to Sign in
2. Then go to the silhouette again and select “Go to my purchased Classic agendios
3. Scroll down to the Purchased agendios section and look for the agendio you wish to reprint.
4. Roll over “Options” and click on “Update & Re-order”. This will bring you to the Builder and load your agendio automatically.
5. Review each section of the Builder to be sure that every part of your agendio is customized as you want it. In particular, check that your activities and events are still correct, that the dates are accurate and that your cover details are as you want them to be.
6. Once you’re sure that all is good, add to cart and checkout.
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To reprint a planner made with Pro
1. Sign in
2. Go to Pages & more at https://pro.agendio.com
3. Click on “Planners” under MY AGENDIOS
4. Find your planner, roll over “Options” ad click on “Re-order”.
5. This will bring you to the Builder and load your agendio automatically. You will then be able to adjust and customize your agendio and purchase.
You can now auto-align your pagelets in the Designer!
When you create pagelets side by side, it’s not always easy to ensure that their borders are aligned. When working on the Designer screen, you may not notice a slight misalignment that you will then see in the print version of your planner.
So we’ve now added a new auto-alignment feature for monitors. It automatically scans for neighboring pagelets and aligns the edge of the live pagelet with its neighbors.
And while we’re on the topic of pagelets, do you know about snapping?
The Designer doesn’t allow empty spaces on a page – Every bit of each page must be covered with pagelets to ensure your page prints properly.
So last month we added snapping: If two pagelets in a column are very close to each other but don’t touch, we snap them together for you, to minimize the risk of there being any empty spaces on your page.
Agendio Pro offers amazing new features such as building your pages from blank canvases, stretching and shrinking pagelets, two fonts per page and much more.
Another big plus is that with Pro, we’ve added new templates and canvases that many of you have asked for over the years, for example a weekly column layout with 4 days/columns on the left.
Classic offers “5 columns-on-the-left” and “3 columns-on-the-left”. But some of you find the columns on the 5 too narrow for your needs, and the 3 too wide, but that 4 would be just right. So we’ve added that option in Pro for you, not only as templates, but also as a blank canvas for you to make your own page.
Try the 4-column and see if it’s the right fit for you. And, if you make a layout that you think will interest others, remember that you can also share it with the community.
With the introduction of Agendio Pro, we have added many new options for you to use in designing your pages. It occurs to us that many of you may feel a little overwhelmed – Would you like us to share with you some design ideas to make the most of your options?
Today I’ll share with you a few pointers for selecting fonts. Pro allows you to mix two fonts on the same page, one for page headers and the other for the body text. There are better and worse ways to mix them.
First, let’s review the basic kinds of fonts:
Serif fonts:
‘Serif’ refers to the small details attached to each letter. These details, combined with the varied width of the letter strokes create a very legible font. Our “Classic”, “Stylish”, “Alternative” and “Playful” fonts fit in this category.
Sans Serif fonts:
Sans Serif means exactly that: without serifs. Sans serif fonts provide a more modern, clean look. Our “Smooth” and “Lean” fonts are good examples of sans serif.
Script fonts:
Script font styles look like handwriting and have a more personal feel, as you can see from our Script category.
What rules should you follow?
When all is said and done, there are two main rules.
Go for contrast – Pair fonts from different categories to differentiate the header text from the body text. That’s why header fonts are usually more elaborate, heavier and fancier and the body text font is usually lighter.
Select a simpler or sans serif font for your body text: Fancy lettering looks great at the top of a page or the front of a book, but it can be hard on the eyes to read pages of text printed in a very elaborate font.
Combine the two, and you get
That being said, you can choose similar or identical fonts for your header and body if you like the look. It isn’t wrong to do that – It’s just a little less interesting for the eye and won’t do as good a job of separating headers from body text.
Agendio is the only company in the world that allows you to share planner pages with other Agendio customers and to use pages they shared.
This Pro feature helps you in two ways: You see a wide assortment of page customization ideas from other customers and you save the time it would take you to make them yourself.
We thought you might be interested to see the kinds of pages customers have shared.
With the introduction of Pro, we have added many new template layouts. Over the next weeks and months, we plan to highlight many of them for you.
Today we’re showing you some new row formats, the 4 / 3 and the 3 / 4. The first number refers to the number of days on the left page and the second to the number of days on the right page.
Here are two of our new row templates:
You can select these models by going to Pages & more, selecting Templates and setting the filter to Large / Weekly / Row and keeping checked 4 / 3 and 3 / 4.
Please note:
These are just a few of the new row templates;
After selecting templates, you can customize them substantially, including stretching pagelets, moving them and making other major changes to pagelets to suit your preferences.
You also have the option of making your own row dated layout, by choosing a Blank canvas instead of Template, filtering your options to find the row canvases of this or another type and then filling your pages exactly as you want with the pagelets that you choose.
