We heard from our Koloist friend HC about her discovery of the Kolo Trivino’s binder's new insert booklets. Kolo was happy to provide these photos from their web site.

Several years ago I started a new job at a company that sent every new executive to a one-day time-management seminar. I thought it was going to be a waste of time! Of course, it turned out to be a great investment. I learned a time management system that involved using a 3-ring binder organized in such a way that it kept all the information I would need at my finger tips — calendar, day planner, meeting notes, current project files, etc... It really got me organized and I was much more productive (and sane and happy) when I used that time management binder. And for once my desk wasn’t buried under a pile of papers and files.

But that brown vinyl binder — boy, was it ugly.

A couple career moves later and with the advent of the laptop computer, somewhere along the way I lost track of that binder. I’ve thought of it many times recently (the laptop computer has not replaced paperwork completely!) thinking that I need to get organized and create a new binder for myself...

...and I’ve finally found the perfect thing! Looks like someone else was thinking of this, too. It was shown on this Koloist blog in a previous post a couple weeks ago.

It’s the Kolo Trivino three-ring cloth-covered binder and the new insert booklets that you can order to customize your own binder, all made with beautiful, strong papers. Such nice detailing, like cover windows on the booklets with embossed edges. You can choose from weekly planners, lined paper for note-taking, blank paper, photo pages, tabbed divider pages — even those cool old-fashioned tie-closure envelope pages (where I keep receipts and brochures and other loose papers safely tucked away ‘til it’s their time to get moved into the permanent cabinet files).

I’m organized again! And this time my binder is a thing of beauty. It’s a chartreuse cloth-covered binder with a cover window, that I’m happy to bring to a meeting (gets a lot of compliments) or put right out on my desk for the world to see. I’ve not decided yet what to put in the cover window — a picture of myself? Maybe a funny one. My name? My initials?

Any ideas?

- Ugo