Organizer Q.? Can I 'see' what is scheduled before getting there?

The CM Organizer is a “what’s next” planner rather than a date based planner. You have to think about it a little differently if you are used to a strictly date-based approach, but it’s very freeing once you get used to the idea.

When everything is tied to a date and you miss an assignment or read an extra chapter it throws off your whole schedule. On paper that means lots of erasing and rewriting.

That’s not a problem with the CM Organizer because it simply tells you what to do next. In fact, it doesn’t know how quickly you will use a particluar resource to be able to predict where you will be on a certain date. For example, let’s say you schedule a history book for Tuesday and Thursday. You could read and check off a whole chapter, multiple chapters, or only read part of a short chapter and mark it as “worked on” to continue later. How would we know what chapter you will be on for a particular date?

That said, we do want to add a report that shows a week at a glance in broad terms to give you some idea of how dense your schedule is.

We find that most families really just need an overview of which subjects are happening on which day of the week so you don’t over or under schedule. You might want to take a look at our Week at a Glance video for some good ideas of how to accomplish that.

Heidi, if you go to the Scheduler tab, all your scheduled work will show up, and if you look at the little boxes for day of the week, you can just skim down looking for “M’s” that are green, and you can see what you have on each day.  This works very well for me.