Okay, so I wanted to talk about this thing I worked on, kinda called it the ‘det katie booker’ project in my notes. It wasn’t anything official, just me trying to figure out a system someone mentioned offhand once.
It started pretty simply. I heard about this ‘Katie Booker’ method for organizing, well, bookings or appointments, I think? The details were super fuzzy. Nobody could point me to a proper guide or anything. Sounded interesting, though, maybe a bit different. So, I thought, alright, let’s try and piece this together. See if I can make it work for my own stuff.
Getting Started – More Guesswork than Plan
First off, I tried to break down what the core idea might be. ‘Booker’ obviously suggested scheduling. ‘Katie’ – no clue, maybe the originator. ‘Det’ – I took that as ‘details’ or maybe ‘determine’. Like I had to determine the details myself. Classic.
I grabbed a notepad. Old school, I know. Started sketching out flows. How would an appointment come in? How would it be tracked? What details would be essential? I imagined this Katie Booker person had some clever trick for handling overlaps or reminders.
- Attempt 1: Simple list in the notebook. Date, Time, Name, Short Note. Too basic. Things got messy fast.
- Attempt 2: Moved to a spreadsheet. Columns for everything. Added status tracking – ‘Confirmed’, ‘Pending’, ‘Cancelled’. Better, but felt clunky. Still didn’t feel like a ‘method’, just a spreadsheet.
- Attempt 3: Tried color-coding entries based on type or urgency. That helped a bit with visualizing the week.
Hitting a Wall
The main problem was, without knowing the actual ‘Katie Booker’ rules or tricks, I was just reinventing the wheel. And probably making a worse wheel. Was there a specific way to handle follow-ups? A system for prioritizing? I had no idea. It felt like trying to assemble furniture with half the instructions missing.
I spent a good few afternoons tweaking the spreadsheet, adding formulas, conditional formatting. It got complicated, but not necessarily better. It wasn’t saving me time, which I figured was the whole point of having a ‘method’.
What I Ended Up With
Eventually, I kind of gave up on cracking the specific ‘det katie booker’ code. It was taking too much effort for something that might not even exist properly.
But the process wasn’t totally wasted. All that messing around forced me to really think about what I needed from a booking or scheduling system. I ended up simplifying things massively.
My final setup was way less fancy:
- A shared digital calendar for the core appointments. Easy access, reminders built-in.
- A very basic spreadsheet just for tracking payments linked to bookings. Nothing more.
- Regular check-ins at the start and end of the day to review the schedule.
So, yeah. Didn’t really figure out the mysterious Katie Booker technique. Maybe it was brilliant, maybe it was nothing. But trying to find it led me to build something that actually works okay for me right now. Sometimes the journey, even a confusing one, gets you somewhere useful. Just gotta know when to stop chasing ghosts and build your own thing.
