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Does anyone use non-digital planners or notebooks to keep their projects organized? If so, what do you use or what is your system?
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Lissette Indhira Pimentel Sosa
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Program Manager| HARPER SRL Santo Domingo / Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic
I do use one, but mainly for personal activities, not for work. I prefer to keep work-related tasks synced in digital tools, as it makes them much easier to manage and stay organized.
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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Personally, I started going paperless since last year. I use Notes on the iPhone for personal purposes. For the projects, we use Excel.
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Luis Branco CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Using a simple non-digital notebook offers clear advantages in project management.

It helps slow things down, clarify thinking, identify patterns, and improve decision quality, especially in complex or ambiguous situations, where speed alone often hides important signals.

Planning and task tracking remain in digital tools, while the key insights captured on paper are later integrated into digital systems, strengthening both execution and learning over time.
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Zakaria Botros
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Project Manager | Driving Clean Energy Innovations for a Sustainable Future| Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Ontario, Canada
I use paper as a temporary thinking space, not a planning system.
It’s useful for workshops, risks, or messy conversations where ideas aren’t ready for tools yet. Once things are clearer, everything moves into digital systems.
For me, it’s less about analog vs digital and more about using the right medium at the right moment.

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