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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: clive ware on January 05, 2016, 07:49:47 pm
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I`m still using a page a day collins diary for all my carpet cleaning despite having one nicked a few years ago and another one catching fire. Does everyone else use one?
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err, yes, im still using page a day diary..................... no reason not to,
i also use a feather quill, but thats just me being retro..............
joking apart, i have a tablet, i have a phone with diary and god knows what,
but when my phone rings and im asked when can you do it, its nice to open up the diary
and have a look see........... no doubt we will be told we should be you facing , or blue tweeting
our bookings, but its just not for me!!!!
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Yep and a pencil and I still have every one from when I started in 1990. Yes I know, sad ;D
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Yep me too 26 years on its hard to change, ive not long since stopped faxing invoices and been dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century , send my invoices via email using my posh I mac
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ive got a row of old diaries from the last 18 years, come in handy if i get another tax investigation, then i show them my other row of diaries, in the other room................... ;D
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Paper diary for me. Have you ever tried to stick a post it note to your phone?
Tried on online one synced between phone, iPad, computer etc but found it to be more trouble than its worth. Would be different if I had to co-ordinate two or more people but for just me, paper wins.
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Use a tablet but, still use a week to view filofax as well. Hard habit to kick
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Hi
I have iPhone,iPad ,laptop and 4 desktops at the office,.
You guessed it still use a diary lol
Collins leadership flavour of choice at the minute.
Find all electronics to slow to input details and contacts in. Did have a software once called 'to do matrix'
It worked great on my Blackberry bold , but when I deserted to iPhone it wasn't supported.
Great thing it had if an email or call came it had what they called injectors. So a lead could be moved into a to do list in the app at the push of a button. No clicking or pasting.
So it's back to hard copy till I find something as good.
Cheers
John
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I still use a page a day diary. I am a little surprised not one person so far uses a phone or tablet. Interesting post though.
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A competitor, but good friend was always good to watch when taking a booking.
Whilst scrabbling for a pen he would then write brief notes on his hand so that once he'd finished the phone call he could then transfer the details (or what he could remember) into the phone's diary. :o
He seemed a little surprised that he sometimes forgot bookings and/or what he was supposed to be doing on the job.
He kept all his customer's details on his phone as well. :o :o
He usually managed to lose at least one phone a year. :o :o :o
Without backing it up. :o :o :o :o
Rog
PS I find that looking at a diary and seeing the different amount of space left in the diary always helped me visualise the size and complexity of the job as well as at a glance being able to see at a glance the geographical spread of the day's jobs.
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Glad it`s not just me then!! :D
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Does everybodies diary last the full year before falling apart? I usually get to November before the cover comes away (even though I put it in a diary case)
This year I'm using an academic diary which runs from August to August so half the dairy is last year which is unused which I will use these pages for talking notes and jotting down stuff.
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Does everybodies diary last the full year before falling apart? I usually get to November before the cover comes away (even though I put it in a diary case)
This year I'm using an academic diary which runs from August to August so half the dairy is last year which is unused which I will use these pages for talking notes and jotting down stuff.
Mike
Use a filofax or Collins Executive then they are ring binder loose leaf and never fall apart
Kev
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Does everybodies diary last the full year before falling apart? I usually get to November before the cover comes away (even though I put it in a diary case)
O boy does that ring bells!
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By December it would be held together with sellotape ;D
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Does everybodies diary last the full year before falling apart? I usually get to November before the cover comes away (even though I put it in a diary case)
This year I'm using an academic diary which runs from August to August so half the dairy is last year which is unused which I will use these pages for talking notes and jotting down stuff.
Mike
Use a filofax or Collins Executive then they are ring binder loose leaf and never fall apart
Kev
Thats why have gone over to using a academic diary, they come ring binded, could never find a normal diary that was A/4 but had a ring spine
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Mine are normally gaffer taped at some point in the year to see them through. Had one drop in a bucket of dirty i water i had just emptied out the machine once, dried off in the end though!!
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Until a programme with built in voice recognition software becomes available we will continue using hand written dairies. It takes to long to Open an app or programme and manually type in data.
Imagine if I could speak into my phone......."Monday 24th, 9:30am Mrs smith, 23 high st. London hu39bd 3pc suite & living room". Then it was automatically typed into my diary
And then I could just be In The van and say "next job" and the details come up on the sat nav screen, then plots the course to the job
that would be really cool 8)
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Hi Guys
Yes proper diary here too.
Cover lasts anything from 6-9 months apart from one year when I put the diary on top of the van whilst speaking to someone, forgot and drove off.
Luckily wasn't going far when I realised and went back where my newish diary was in the gutter having been run over. Kept it going all year as a reminder not to be so stupid.
Cheers
Doug
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I keep a paper diary also I also like Denis keep pencils for 18 years waste not want not.
Ps I've kept some of the shavings as well
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:D
Bet you've still got the takings from 18 years ago too. ;)
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Collins classic is the best diary. Costs a lot - around £28 but lasts all year. Nice size too.
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Collins classic is the best diary. Costs a lot - around £28 but lasts all year. Nice size too.
Clive
Is that the one where you just put a new insert into every year?
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Nothing quite like having a real nicely bound Diary on your desk, I get one every year as an xmas present and like above sadly( ;D)
I have mine going back years stashed away.
The last few years though they are practically empty of any content by me :) just like having them.
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Collins classic is the best diary. Costs a lot - around £28 but lasts all year. Nice size too.
£28!!!! Do you know how many suites I have to clean to earn that amount!
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paper diary for me as well, a large page per week to keep in office, an A5 for everyday use, a spare A5 ( in case in need a spare due to loss or falling apart) never pay more the a fiver for the lot
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Hi Kevin, no its a normal diary, looks like its leather covered and has gold coloured pages. It`s a bit smaller than the big cardboard a4 sized diaries but it doesnt fall to bits!!
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Yep I've used the said diary for years and also use a pencil.
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We use voice recognition software to book our dates in diary, as we are talking on the phone it listens till we say the date and then it pencils it in to an electronic diary, it then listens for address from customer and pencils that in too, this then programmes our sat nav each day so we dont even have to punch in the postcode. it also updates our accounts once we have given a price for the job.
be good though wouldn't it. ;D
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And then they cancel the day before and you're screwed! ;D
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Yep and a pencil crayon and I still have every one from when I started in 1990. Yes I know, sad ;D
Fixed it for you Dennis ;D ;D
And be honest here.... you only use crayon and diary, because being from Norfolk you have six fingers on each hand, and the webbing in between the fingers means that you cannot operate a keyboard properly.... :-* :-*
;D
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Got you Hectoid, if I'm using a diary and crayon you admit I can read and write. Hah! ;D
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Who said anything about you writing in the diary?? ?? :P :P :P
The last one of yours that I saw... You had just coloured in between the lines..
;D ;D ;D
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All the same colour??
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Too right Trev.... ;D ;D
They haven't got as far as colour in Norfolk yet.... :P
;D ;D
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For all the mickey taking we are the future! ;D ;D ;D
http://news.sky.com/story/1621814/humans-of-the-future-could-grow-webbed-feet