Digital planners have been around for years. Whether your a new principal or been in education administration for many years, let this be your year to start using a digital planner. Here are five fantastic benefits of going digital this school year:
1. Makes Brainstorming Easy
Busy principals are always brainstorming. Grabbing post it notes, writing on the back of an envelope, or looking for the first piece of paper in sight. One of the first benefits of digital planning is that going digital makes brainstorming easier and more efficient than ever. With a digital planner you can capture ideas on the fly, organize them effortlessly, and share them in real time. Plus, you can add drawings and pictures and links making them more engaging.
2. Always with you
One of the greatest advantages of a digital planner is the ability to sync across multiple devices. Gone are the days of losing important notes or assignments because you left your planner or notebook at home. With cloud-based apps and services, your documents, schedules, and resources are always at your fingertips, whether you’re using a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or desktop. This seamless accessibility ensures that you can stay organized and productive no matter where you are, making leadership and management more flexible and convenient.
- Noteshelf App – (My favorite:)
- Goodnotes App – (Has the most features)
3. Add Some Pizazzz
Who says leadership can’t be pretty? This is probably my favorite benefit of digital planning. Using a digital planner allows you to make your materials visually appealing and engaging. With a plethora of design tools and templates at your disposal, you can create personalize your notes and add highlights and use an infinite amount of pen colors. Whether you’re taking notes for personal reasons or in a meeting with the “big boss” the ability to make your notes aesthetically pleasing can boost motivation to take in all the information and improve retention of meeting content.
4. Edit Like a Wizard
Mistakes happen, and ideas evolve. Another advantage of digital planning, is that editing your work is a breeze. Unlike traditional pen-and-paper methods, where errors can be messy and time-consuming to fix, digital documents allow for quick and clean edits. You can easily rearrange content, update information, and experiment with different formats without the hassle of starting from scratch.
5. Unlimited Digital Templates
Finally, my last benefit of using a digital planner is that digital planners offer an abundance of templates for almost any purpose you can imagine. Need a data tracker, a meeting note catcher, a to do list, or an informal observation data collector? There’s a template for that! These ready-made templates save you time and effort, providing a simple and organized look without the need for extensive design skills. With unlimited templates at your disposal, you can streamline your workflow and focus more on what truly matters – culture and learning.
Conclusion
Below is a link to a digital planner created by and for elementary principals. This was a pasion project of mine a couple years ago. I have always wanted to create something pretty to collect all the not so pretty info that sometimes comes our way.
From easy brainstorming and constant accessibility to making materials visually appealing, facilitating effortless editing, and offering unlimited templates, the benefits of using a digital planner are undeniable. So, let’s harness the power of technology to create a more fun, pretty, and efficient leadership tools. Welcome to the future of digital planning – it’s pretty, and it’s here to bring life back to boring notes!
Digital Planner For Principals: Paperless Planning
IMPORTANT
This digital planner for principals is a downloaded file. It is best used in an app sold separately on the App Store. You can use the apps GoodNotes, notability, and other PDF annotation apps. We recommend GoodNotes. This is just a one-time purchase in the app store and you can store all of your planners and stickers and use them in this app.
