Date Books
Business #04
Noto #21
Trinote #48

In 1952, a French doctor, F. G. Beltrami, invented the “one week on two pages” planner format. Up until that time, appointment books were diaries, a “day per page”. Dr. Beltrami, feeling cramped and unable to plan ahead his week, month or year, he took a sheet of paper and created his own personal management system. He made his first diary by stamping a grid on the white pages of a notebook. This modern diary is a combination of a calendar and a journal.

Dr. Beltrami called his unique planning grid an “Agenda Planning Diary®”. This format allows you to:

• Plan and organize your week clearly and precisely, with space to note activities and tasks
• Set a daily priority
• Write notes without cluttering the appointments schedule
• Perforated corner opens to week in progress

Friends and family were so enthusiastic about his creation, Dr. Beltrami decided to switch careers and form his own company to manufacture his creation. In 1954, Editions Quo Vadis was formed in Marseilles, France.

Today, Quo Vadis planners and diaries are sold internationally in ten languages, including French, English, Japanese-English, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Polish. The planners sold in the United States are manufactured at our plant in Hamburg, New York.

One of the joys of using a paper planner is opening to a fresh, clean page. Quo Vadis planners are made with ultra smooth Clairefontaine paper. This 90 gram paper has excellent opacity and is perfectly brushed, resulting in an ideal writing experience. The color is white enough for the written text to appear clearly, but it is maintained at a level that prevents glaring. This exceptionally white vellum paper is easy to write on; ink never bleeds and pencil marks stay put. Perfect glazing allows pen nibs to glide easily.