Metis was the Greek Goddess of wisdom, planning, advice, and deep thought. She was married to Zeus, and that, of course, led to her share of “Greek” drama in her life. But she did what she needed to do. And she got it done on time, in accordance with her schedule and based on her plan.

The Academic Edition of the METIS Planner is designed for the Fall Semester through the following Summer Session academic year.

The Business and Home Edition of the METIS Planner is designed for Q1 through Q4 of a calendar year.

The core of the planner includes:

The METIS Planner is more than just schedules and to do lists. Each month includes a place to reflect and celebrate the prior month and a place to plan and organize the upcoming month.

The final section of the METIS Planner allows users to look beyond the current year. This section includes thought provoking and fun pages that include:

Registered users of the METIS Planner will have full access to the following supplemental downloadable content.

Depending on the specific content, many downloadables are available in both Landscape and Portrait formats.

At the end of each day, check your daily schedule and plan additional time for any to do items that do not have a check indicating they were completed.

Download a PDF of the METIS Planner Quick Start Guide.

For any entry that requires more than one block of time (typically >15 minutes), record the entry beginning at the start time.

At the end of each day, you should scan that day’s Daily Schedule and review any task that does not yet have a check in the Completed O

Additionally, at the end of each day, scan your To Do Lists (weekly, monthly, quarterly or semester, and any project or class specific) and for any unmarked item …

The letter in the box for each major step provides a short hand notation for referring to the entry if you need to allocate time for completing that step. For example, if the Project or Activity is named "Optics" and major step "B" is identified as "Design lab layout to optimize data collection," you could block out time in your daily schedule by indicating, "Optics-B" rather than rewriting the entire entry.

In the email you will receive from Google Groups, be sure to Accept the Invite for the METIS20SUP Google Group by clicking on the "Accept this invitation" button at the bottom of the email.

Please note that Google Group invites expire after 7 days so please do not delay in accepting the invitation.

If you don’t remember seeing an invite, please check your spam filter.

If your request has expired, please re-request access by sending an email to metisplanner@gmail.com and be sure to use the same Google/gmail address you provided when you completed your paypal transaction and provide your Receipt Number from your paypal confirmation. As quickly as possible, our support team will review each email and enable your access.

If you are not currently logged in to a Google Service with a valid Google account, you will be prompted to either select from a cached list of user names or enter your Google User Name and password. This is expected and needed to access the files that are stored in a secured Google Drive.

If you see a 403 error message like the following, it means that the primary account currently logged in to Google does not have access to the requested files.

Many users have multiple Google accounts. Please be sure that the account that is currently logged in is the account that joined METIS20SUP.

If multiple Google Accounts are active at the same time (e.g. using the Google Add Account feature), Google typically defaults permissions to the 1st account that logged in. If you are not sure which account Google is defaulting permissions to, log out of ALL of the active accounts and re-login with ONLY the account that joined METIS20SUP.

If you are still unable to access any of the Print At Home METIS Planner pdf files or any supplemental downloadables and believe that your gmail account should have already been granted access, please send an email to metisplanner@gmail.com with your Name, gmail account (if different than the sending email), and a brief description of what problems you are experiencing. If possible, please include a screen shot of any error message you are seeing. Our support team will try to resolve your access issue as quickly as possible.

Please note that many METIS Planner is designed to be printed 2-sided. Additionally, many supplemental pages will work best if printed as a two sided document. If your printer does not support 2-sided printing, please see Printing Tips for suggestions on how to print 2-sided on a printer that does not natively support duplex (2-sided) printing.

After printing the METIS Planner using a duplex printer or using the 2-sided work around described above, there are three basic options that METIS Planner users have successfully utilized to bind their planner:

An alternative to printing the METIS Planner at home/school/work is to have the METIS Planner printed at a print shop or office supply store and have them use a coil binding. The downside of the approach is that supplemental pages can not be added directly to the planner, but need to be kept in a separate binder.

These separate downloads are provided as a convenience for METIS PLanner users that do not want to print the full planner all at once. Some users want to carry around a subset of the full planner and these separate files make it easier to print what is needed at any given time.

The difference between the 1-sided and 2-sided versions of the supplemental downloads is the margin for even numbered pages. In general*, the 1-sided versions have the same margin for all pages, allowing sufficient room for punching holes to bind the pages. The 2-sided versions adjust the spacing of the top/bottom or left/right margins so that the space for holes correctly aligns for 2-sided printouts.

The original design of the METIS Planner had a black cover. However, many print at home users indicted that the black cover used too much ink and so a white cover option was introduced.