We know it’s not 2025 yet, but January is 35 days from today and many of you have not purchased your next agendio.
So we thought we’d remind you about the risk of shipping delays and longer production times, and of waiting for your new agendio to show up in January because you started working on it too late.
Or you could order now and receive it in December with much less stress.
And this year there’s another reason to start now: Agendio Pro. The reaction has been amazing and the new features are very engaging. But Pro takes a little longer, because you’ll need to make your custom pages.
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.
After many years of work, the new agendio.com is live. It’s not just a new website, it’s an entirely new way of making planners.
It includes four amazing new features:
– Pages & more, the starting place for making your pages and the place to keep all your pages, your planners and your lists of activities, events and holidays;
– Agendio Designer, an application we developed to create and modify pages;
– The new Agendio Builder, packed with even more industry-leading features;
– The Agendio guide, a complete guide providing assistance for all our applications and making sure you don’t miss any features.
We added a huge number of new features, including adjustable font sizes, but we can’t list them all here because the list would be too long. So the best way to find out is to explore the website.
If you like having control over your planner pages, then we think you’ll really like Pro. However, if you prefer to stick with our current Builder, that’s fine too: We now refer to it as our Classic Builder and we will continue to offer it and to support it.
It’s now July. 2024 is already half gone (!) and planner fans are starting to think about planners for 2025.
You can now order your agendio with start dates up to July 2025.
If you like to order two agendios for each year in advance, one starting in January and the other in July, you can now order them.
Don’t forget about our “Future month” pages – Our Extra pages that look like row monthlies. They can be very useful if your agendio runs only for part of a year.
Add some after your dated pages to have a place to list appointments and todos right after your planner ends, and then copy over those tasks when you start your next planner.
We’re continuing our series on the best agendio features. Today we look at Lists.
When you customize your agendio, you can add lists to your divisible pagelets. So you can include repeating todos, without having to write them by hand on every spread.
You also add checkboxes or checkcircles when you add list labels, which will add a checkbox on each line before each list item, so you can mark each one when it’s done.
You can also add multiple lists. If you divide your divisible into multiple pagelets, you can add separate lists to any or all of them.
We’re continuing our series on the best Agendio features. Today we look at start date options.
Start on any date…
You can start your agendio on any day of the year. That means not only any month, but also any day of any month. So it can be January 1, but it can also be March 15th, July 4th, September 25… Whatever day you prefer.
It can also be your birthday. Your planner guides you as you live your life – Consider starting your agendio on your birthday and track each year of your own life.
… and any day
Does the week start on Sunday or Monday? We don’t know, which is why, at Agendio, you can choose any day to start. You can even start your Weekly on one day, such as Monday, and your monthly on a different day, for example Sunday.
You can also set your layouts and mini-calendars to start on different days. So you can start your weekly pages on Mondays, but start your monthly mini-calendars on Sunday.
Last week we shared details about our colors. This week we want to share details about shading and highlights:
SHADING
You can add pale shading to most of the pagelets in your agendio. You can do this to draw attention to them or simply to add color to your pages.
You can also choose to shade just your weekends, so as to separate them visually when you look over your week or month.
HIGHLIGHTS
You can also highlight your events and activities in one of six highlight colors to make them more visible and categorize them. Highlight activities and events such as birthdays, paydays, garbage day, practice, or any other event or activity you don’t want to miss. Do you forget to pay credit card or utility bills? Did you forget your last anniversary? Highlights might help.
Choose from six highlight colors – Yellow, blue, green, pink, orange and violet.
