PM Tips and Tricks: Moleskine notebook

It may be a little late in this BER season to be posting this, but maybe someone next year will be able to benefit from this sort of planner I devised to aid in keeping track of travel and paperwork details.

As you very well know, I am a white person so, of course, I like moleskine notebooks. If you click the image above, you can see a detailed depiction of how I've made my little 3.5" x 5.5" ruled notebook worth its weight in gold in relation to the program manager job. If you're a fellow PM and would like to use this idea, what follows is an outline for doing so:

1. Month Day, Year Day of Week
2. L(ocation): City, State (Zip Code)
3. H(otel): Hotel Name (Nightly Rate)
4. P(resenter[s]): Presenter(s) Name(s) (Developer's Initials)
5. S(eminar): Seminar Code(s)
6. T(ravel):
   Airline Name (Confirmation #)
   Origin Airport Code, Departure Time, 'to,' Arrival Time, Arrival Airport Code (Flight #)
   If applicable, other travel details
   

On the top line of the first page of each week, I write the week number and I alternate ink colors each week to make flipping to the right page easier. This is a great way to keep track of hotel nights stayed and plane flights taken when it comes time to checking all your award accounts to see if everything is up to date. Quite a few times I've realized a hotel night wasn't recorded and, because of this notebook, I haven't had to log onto a computer and pull up an old email with that week's itinerary on it.

I hope this idea can be helpful to anyone and I'd love to see what other PMs have used in a similar fashion. Let me know in an email or in the comments.