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PTPL 135 · Joyfully slotting the Wonderland222 planner into my task management workflow

Ellane W
3 min readDec 16, 2024
Open book at an angle showing a cropped portion of a weekly spread with vertical days. There are coloured tabs poking out about 5mm, down the right hand edge of the book’s pages
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Digital task lists, paper planner

My Wonderland222 2025 planner arrived this week, and it’s as beautiful as I’d hoped! I love how it fits into my Paper Saver folder, along with enough scrap paper for free-form scribbling. I bought the A5 core planner with unstacked weekends. I’m in Australia and saved shipping by purchasing from the Favourite Things website.

This is how the W222 fits into my current task management workflow:

  • Capture — paper (There’s always an A4 sheet folded to A7 in my EDC), Master Task List (a vanilla text file), Apple Reminders (for voice notes)
  • Organise — Move captured tasks to Master Task list and give each a tag based on when I intend to do it: this week, this month, next month, long term
  • Do — Use queries to review the This Week tasks and write a daily to do list in my planner that contains 2 must-do tasks (excluding routine chores), and an additional 7–8 that would be…

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Ellane W
Ellane W

Written by Ellane W

Designer and educational publisher for 30 years+. Plain-text advocate. Still using paper, but less of it. https://linktr.ee/miscellaneplans

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