Great organizer! A few questions/suggestions….

Hi Patricia,

Let’s see if I can answer your excellent questions:

1. Currently, the daily plan only prints in alphabetical order by subject. I’ll check and see if we have reordering them on the wish list yet.

2. You can easily view the next day using the “See Tomorrow’s Plan” link in the upper-right corner of the daily plan screen.

We extend out more than one day at this time because there is no way to know what pace you will use a particular resource. We can’t assume a resource will be used only one chapter per day. For example, a student may do two chapters a day for some easier books but spend a week on a chapter or lesson of a math book.

3. The Bookfinder search should work fine with a partial title, keywords, or author. Capitalization and punctuation don’t matter. You can also use the “More Search Options” link under the search box to refine your search by geographic setting, time period, school subject or grade level.

You can mix up word order within a title or author but not combine them. Here are a few examples looking for “By the Shores of Silver Lake” by Laura Ingalls Wilder:

– A search for “Laura Ingalls Wilder” returns the target book and others.

– A search for “Wilder Ingalls” or “wilder, ingalls” returns the same set of books.

– A search for “silver lake” returns the target book and one other.

– A search for “lake shores silver” returns the target book.

– A search for “West to Dakota Territory” returns the target book because those words are in the description.

– A search for “The Wonderful Afternoon” returns the target book because those words are in a chapter title.

– A search for “wilder silver lake” returns nothing because it mixes the author and title. (I didn’t realize this wouldn’t work until I started testing it now. That will go on the wish list.)

– A search for “wilder” in the main search field and with “Dakota” in the geographic setting field returns the target book and others.

Does that help?

Hi, Patricia. I would love to help you figure out how to schedule your daughter’s music books. I like trying to figure out puzzles like that.  You said that the six books vary according to the lesson. Does that mean that there is a “master” lesson book that tells which other books to use and when to use them as she progresses through the lessons? There is no set pattern to when the other books come into play? (Is this the Alfred’s course?)

I realize I’m kind of jumping in on another’s conversation, but I would really like to see the option to put the subjects in an order other than alphabetically. We do not complete our subjects in alphabetical order, and it would be helpful to not have to scroll up and down all morning to remember what I want to do next. I’m not printing out daily plans for my kids yet, as they are too young; but all the same, it would make things easier for me.

Great suggestion!

Hmmm, time to get creative. You could

1. Manually “close” the assignment on those days when they have no supplemental books to do.

or

2. You could add your own “generic” assignment on those days. Maybe something like “Review your favorite solo piece” or “Play a C major scale” would work. Your children’s teacher might have some ideas. If you are their teacher, the sky’s the limit. You could treat those days almost like drawing Chance cards in a game. Those little surprise assignments tucked hither and yon into their regular practice schedule could add a lot of spice. They might “Play a duet with mom” or “Take a break and get a snack.” I would have loved something like that when I was taking lessons as a child. 

What do you think?

Summer, How does this sound? http://simplycharlottemason.com/planning/cm-organizer/wishlist/wishpersonallists/