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.
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.
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.
We’re continuing our series on the best agendio features. Today we look at Extra pages and planning pages.
EXTRA PAGES
Agendio offers dozens of customizable Extra Pages. They include lined, dotted, grid and blank, as well as Habit trackers, Meal planners, Financial pages, Contacts, Year-end carry-over pages and even Tables with flexible column widths.
Customize them with your details and select individual colours for each set of pages to make them even more functional and effective.
PLANNING PAGES
Agendio also offers planning pages that support you with every kind of personal goal. Use them to plan ahead, to review the previous month or just to evaluate how you’re doing right now.
Choose from a wide variety of layouts, keep the categories and labels we added or customize the labels to better suit your planning requirements.
Look at our full selection of Extra pages and planning pages in our Features section.
We’re continuing our series on the best agendio features. Today we look at activities, events and holidays.
With an agendio, you have full flexibility and control over what activities, events and holidays appear in your planner and also where they appear.
Events
You can enter all your personal and family events and we will include them in your planner.
We will save your list for the following year, so when you buy again from us, you will not have to re-input all your information, as you do with store-bought planners.
Activities
At agendio, you can not only create a custom list of your activities, but you can choose from more than a dozen options for how often to show them, such as every week, once a month on day x, on the last day of the month, and many others.
Holidays
Most planners show only a small number of standard national and religious holidays. Agendio maintains a huge list of all national national and religious holidays from around the world, and also offers lists of state, provincial and other holidays, as well as observances, so you can customize your planner to suit your affiliations.
You can add your selections by country, by type within a country or add and remove individual holidays one at a time. You can also add full or partial lists from religions or even individual religious holidays. It’s up to you.
Content Display
Once you create custom lists of your activities, events and holidays, you can also choose on which pages to print them in your planner. You can choose to show them on any combination of monthly, weekly or daily pages.
Next time you’re in the Builder, explore all our activities, events and holidays options, make your choices and we’ll take care of the rest.
We’re continuing our series on the best agendio features. Today we look at Divisibles and Detailing.
Standard to-do lists quickly become very long and disorganized. You can’t see what’s more important or what goes together and you have to go through the entire list to find anything.
Agendio’s Divisible pagelets are the solution: Lists can be subdivided into many smaller pagelets. Select the number and sizes of pagelets you need, then label them as you want, all in minutes.
Once you subdivide your pagelets, you can also detail them: Customize your pagelets with solid lines, dashed lines, checkboxes and other visual details, and also adjust the line spacings.
Do you like one big todo list or sub-divided? Plain todo lists or lined? Do you want to check off tasks as they are done, or simply cross them out? With agendio, it’s up to you.
We’re continuing our series on the best agendio features. Today we’re looking at schedules. Agendio schedules are the most customizable schedules available in planners today.
Did you know that you can:
Choose from multiple designs to suit your style
Adjust your line spacing: Increase it for large handwriting or reduce it to increase the number of lines in your schedule.
Select a custom start time: Very handy if you start early or you work a late shift.
Replace time labels with text labels, such as “Supper time” or “Go for a walk” or change your time labels to the 24:00 format
Vary your pace: Part of your schedule can be one line per hour, then another section can be one line per 15 minutes. This can be very convenient for teachers: One line per class period, then 10-15 minutes per line after school for meetings.
