I’ve spent thousands of $$ on planners/stationery/supplies over the past 11 years. I’m currently destashing all of it and switching to a cheap spiral notebook like this (got one for 10 cents after redeeming my Walgreens rewards points! 🙌🏼). So.much.better. I’ve gotten into the #minimalism movement lately, and decluttering my entire life. It feels amazing.
Pretty much lol and add in the Alastair method. If you want a nicer notebook the artist loft brand at Michaels was my go-to for bullet journaling. Around A5 size & so much easier to carry around vs a full blown notebook ♥️
My mom used a steno notebook, it’s got a line down the middle. One side for todo, one side for notes through the day. Got a big project: give it its own page that works the sane way. When your current list or nites gets too jammed up? Copy it fresh, edit out the junk as you do, and carry on.
I agree. Nothing, but a notebook. I do everything in it. It’s a planner Also, I write my grocery list in it and take it to the store. It’s always with me.
I put my grocery list on my phone calendar so it is with me all the time and I can add to it without looking for a pen. Don't have to carry anything else. Writing it down is a good idea though if your phone gets destroyed or lost. Historical things need to be written down always.
@@davidvogel6359 bad part of using cellphones tho is you get each time more dependent of it and as I heard in a really interesting interview with Cal Newport that's damaging our brains (the excessive use of phones due to having everything on them 😓
@@margy2000 I think you are right, if I don't put it on my phone I probably won't have my list because I left it at home on the desk. I have left my phone at home too so I won't get all I need the first time either. Frustrating when your memory isn't good.
@@margy2000 Writing notes in a phone isn’t ruining your brain any more than writing notes on a piece of paper is though. If that’s what he said, he’s misconstruing what research shows. What the research shows is that we’re relying on phones _and their internet access_ to keep us from having to remember anything on our own. With internet, you don’t even have to write something down; you just look it up when you need it. This causes you to not exercise your memory and recall ability which impairs your ability to remember things and creates a dependence on that always connected device that leaves you stuck if you ever don’t have that connection or your device. But writing it down (even in your phone) isn’t damaging your brain. In fact, the act of writing it down actually acts as an extra buffer for remembering what it is that you wrote down, because now you have not just the original memory in your brain, but also the memory of remembering it or needing it and writing it down. That causes it to burn more thoroughly into your brain.
I use these as well. My big problem with printed planners is too much space is taken up with crap. Who needs a fricking dedicated space to list your moods, anyway. I am either pissed off or neutral. People fill their planners with stickers and washi tape. Too much time spent designing planner pages and not enough time getting crap done.
Mood trackers could be useful for people who may suspect something may be causing odd fluctuations in mood such as periods in women or perhaps even weather in some people, and it helps get to the bottom of why you may feel a certain way during certain times or situations, but overall I do agree it's not that useful for everyone
Unfortunately for me, I dump all my ideas in one page, and the next set of ideas end up in a different notebook on a different page all over the place. I'll try this, wish me luck lol
Finally!!!! Someone who’s using a regular journal/notebook/spiral as a planner! Lol I started using the exceed spirals a few years back and I’m still using them now to organize my life! I tried the happy planners, but again it’s not enough space for what I need! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for Sharing 👍 I know Now it would of been a waste of money and time If I would of purchased A Happy Planner. The spiral notebook is A Great idea 😊
Yeah! Someone else bullets in a spiral notebook! Calmness for my chaotic mind without stress of not filling out pre-made sheets, always made me feel wasteful and stressed. Love your energy!!
Thank you for sharing this.. I just ordered a planner with such sections I must fill out and I'm already aware of the potential to let myself down there. I'll look at it when it arrives but I'm thinking I'll just do bujo in a simple spiral notebook. So thank you again, now I know I'm not alone in my thinking. 😅
68 years old and have never been able to think with planners or bullet journals. For some reason this clicked. What I am going to do on the first 2 pages, though, is a spread on what I want to accomplish for the year as a focus, the 4 things I always mean to accomplish, but never do, like achieve and maintain a healthy weight, finally get my house in order... etc. Having it all in one notebook (bought a sparkly rose gold version so I don't lose it :D) in a format I can think with will really help. Thank you!
Make sure to write your phone number and name on it, just in case it needs to be returned to you! Notebooks like this always worked for my Mom, so this short made me think of her.
This is just a form of bullet journaling. For those that want this, but want a little better quality, you can always get larger size bullet journals, theyre not all book size, or, if you want to remove pages, although slightly harder to find, they do have ones with perforated pages for removing. Alternatively, keep a glue stick on you to stick pages together. However! Notebooks are incredibly underrated and very, incredibly valid, and can help *so* much when all you need is a simple place to throw all of your tasks in. For this girly? Look up the original bullet jornal videos, totally easy to find. Everything you have here, but with simple, easy to organize and remember bullets. Probably less than ten minutes. You could benefit from it, and if you change nothing? Thats cool! That means you already found something that works perfect for you! But you can always learn and grow, and the original videos are an amazing way to help understand how, and *why* you are helping organize your life.
Love it!!! As a professional project manager I totally love your system. I also personally make use of a few sticky notes which can easily be moved around if the item doesn’t get finished as planned. You go girl!
absolutely there is a system here. I was a project manager for years. Started long before it was the norm for people to use anything but lined paper to take notes and heavy leather Franklin planners to keep track of meetings and I was utilizing this method. I evolved quickly with my note taking and calendar to my laptop and tried to use various apps, web sites, etc. but nothing worked as well as my bullet lists to keep track of tasks for the the day for work, home, volunteer, etc. Everyone has to figure out what works for them to keep them on track. There is no right or wrong. I mentored a lot of people in my career and everyone has their own way of checking the boxes.
@@bbirdlady7357- Exactly. When some people work with their planners, they really depend on the fact that it’s pre-printed and dated. It makes life easier for them. That’s not the kind of planner for me, right now, but it has been before, and it might be again someday.
This is exactly why I bullet journal! I plan my week, meal plan, grocery list, events,practice plans for the basketball team I coach, etc. I keep a dollar tree calendar inside of it so I can have future events and planning in there. I use a sticky note or scrap piece of paper to do a block schedule on the days I have a lot to get done so I stay on track.
Yes! I use a simple planner that just has the weeks and days laid out. Simple works. I’ve tried fancy ones and pretty ones, but pointless to need to be pretty and not function
Whenever I look at a complicated and thick planner, springs pop out of my head!!! A simple month at a glance calendar and a spiral or steno notebook and I have all I need!!!
I love Disc binders, too. I like how I can take small ones with me, and they fit in my purse, or pocket, no matter how small! I just picked the size that works for what I’m gonna be doing when I’m out. And if I’m not actually ready to transcribe what I write on the go, I can peel out the page and press it into the one I use at home that’s big. All the info I need in one place.
Yes!!! I have been using a plain notebook for the last year, and it has been great… BUT you just totally explained it in a way that I think will help me even more!!! Thank you for sharing!!
Thank you for reminding us that we don't need fancy bullet journals or planners! Just go back to the basics like we did back in the day. Simple and we can choose to do what we want to our notebook. Society now makes things so complicated and has to be "esthetic " to "be productive" not true!! Lol. Thanks again for the reminder!! Happy New Year!
This all makes great sense. My husband always bought the dollar store calendar with a month on 2 pages and wrote all his appointments in there. We followed this for 32 years of our marriage until his passing. We told people, "If you want a piece of our time, ya gotta get on the square."
I love this idea. I have never found anything that works with my brain and I need to quit trying to pretend I’m not a visual person and quit trying to hold everything in my head.
I love that it's simple, so many productivity people make these beautiful planners with stickers and boxes using different pens and highlighters but it takes too much time to do that, you have to be good at drawing/creative to do them, and I swear half of them are unemployed and living at home because they leave tiny spaces for to do lists in their journals, I cant fit all the things i have to do in tiny boxes.
Every year I get a Blue Sky planner from Amazon. I love it because it has weekly and mthly layouts in one book. The notebook would be difficult to use for future dates but a great idea for planning out your week with more details. BTW it costs $10 sometimes $8 on sale.
Those of us who are "old" have been doing this for decades! Glad to see those young are catching up that you don't need fancy calendars or constrained planners to make your work flow easy!
Thank you for saving me from dropping an insane amount of money on a planner that I know I’ll only use 1% of. 😂 Seriously, I was looking at planners on Amazon recently when you posted this - budget planners, actually, but this video inspired me to just use a notebook and design budgeting, savings, expense, etc. pages in a way that works for me. Seems silly to spend a ton of money on a thing hoping to help you save money. 😂
But it's already obvious u don't need to buy a planner to create a to do list. I write things in my phone, on post it's, and loose pieces of paper, if not the back of a notebook. It's really not revolutionary wat she's saying.
I use an excel spreadsheet for budgeting. The first tab shows ALL insurance policies on top left with notes about their start and end dates, amounts, due dates and I do the sum formula to tell me at a glance what I pay monthly on insurance. I do the same for utilities and for debts. 2nd tab is my specific month where I list what is due from the 1st to the 31st And I'm getting more elaborate with it so that I can survive right now because I'm paycheck to paycheck and it's really cool and helpful. I use the Jorte app on my android to do what she is doing in the notebook, but I like her idea and may just do BOTH!
@@dig1272You sound impressively organized, but living on a strict budget, this is necessary to make it from check to check. I hope things will ease up for you in the new year.
I love this idea. I've always hated the little boxes on planners that don't relate to how I think. I'm going to try this. What a money saver. Thanks so much.
I use a plain spiral as well, but I have not been doing the monthly spread, just daily’s. I’ve tried finding videos just about planning, but it seems most are just decorating them, which is not my goal. Thanks for simplifying it, not decorating it 😁 Merry Christmas 🎄
My mom did something similar. She called her notebook "her brain". She'd have a page with the grocery list, meal plan, chores, tasks, events. It was a thing. If you're going to carry this notebook with you, splurge an extra $5-9 and buy a hardback. 😊 In my experience, there's a reason the $1 is that cheap.
Biggest lesson i learnt in 2022/23 in the trading market is that nobody knows what is going to happen next, so practice some humility and follow a strategy with a long term edge.
Nobody knows anything; You need to create your own process, manage risk, and stick to the plan, through thick or thin, While also continuously learning from mistakes and improving.
Uncertainty... It took me 5 years to stop trying to predict what about to happen in market based on charts studying, because you never know not having a mentor cost me 5 years of pain I learn to go were the market is wanting to go through the help of my advisor and keep it simple with discipline.
Definitely! All of this happened in less than a year after *Camille Alicia Garcia* told me what to do. I started with less than $100,000, and now I'm about 17,000 short of having a quarter million dollars.
You just saved me tons of money, was looking at all the planners popping up on my various social media feeds and then this came up, so easy and exactly the format i need
I'm a simple planner person. I've used tons of planners over the years. I even made my own life planner 25 years ago, before life planners became a thing. I finally found a simple planner that really works for me. It's the Erin Condren 7 X 9 spiral bound, horizontal life planner. I call it my brain and take it with me everywhere.
I do have actual planner for keeping track of money and appointments and family events but my day to day tasks, quotes, musings, and to do lists go in a monthly notebook! New month, new notebook !
In 2019 I was researching bullet journals, but none met my needs. So I got an Apple Pencil and the app GoodNotes for my iPad. The first year I purchased an undated electronic BuJo from Etsy and I reuse and update from there. If it is not working for me, I create new formats for my pages however I want them. I like doing it electronically because you can cut/copy/paste, change colors, write in cursive or dictate and the program converts to text. Or just write in your own handwriting. This will be my 5th year and I LOVE it!!!
Thank you, agree 💯. Spiral notebooks are awesome and I keep many for life areas like to do lists, poetry and creative ideas, trainings and work stuff, trip planning and bills. They are like a personal assistant when life picks up and you realize you can no longer just rely on memory. Use them in conjunction with phone calendar and whiteboard decal month calendar in the kitchen for family. I love the idea of topic buckets and first learned of this in Julia Morgenstern's book Organizing from the Inside Out and Time Management from the Inside Out.
I agree, I use a cheap 1 subject for my finance and a cuter notebook for to-do lists and schedule mapping. I love the idea of stickers and tabs but I don't use them.
A lot of comments are saying this but in defense of this video, i never thought bullet journaling was for me because it always looked like they were spending sooo much time on the aesthetics. This was so much more actionable than anything else ive seen
I’ll repeat something I posted in another comment. I value this video because it reminds me that My best bullet journaling was done in old recycled notebooks. I had no problem with them not being pretty. With a brand new notebook, even the minimalist journals with only dots in them, I tend to get paralyzed by the anxiety of it needing to be perfect. So for me this is getting back to basics.
I do this exact thing. Mom of 6 here along with a nurse,, business owner and soon to be TH-cam and this video of what we do is a life saver. It keeps our life sane and less messy. ❤
Brilliant! This resolves the problem of losing tasks on old dated pages, reduces the amount of rewriting, and automatically incorporates the weekly review that so many professional organizers recommend. Thank you so much!
Thank you! The best. I really appreciate this as a mom planning to start my own TH-cam painting channel this year. And just in time for the new year! 💖✨
I do the same! It's easy and smart. I have occasionally used an ARC page style so I feel a tad more chic, but use it.the same way. Makes me happy and organized.
Yep! You and my daughter Rebecca.💐 I do also, but since retirement (45 years in Education Grade 2 to University🤯)... I went back to the common Planner- Weekly/Monthly. PS I truly enjoy your energy and compassion for others who might feel overwhelmed.♥️🥰 Thank you.
I love seeing people using plain notebooks as planners because I've been doing that for years. It wasn't until the rise of social media did I even see these insane thirty dollar planners. I literally had no idea expensive planners existed. Imagine spending thirty bucks on a silly planner just because it has someone's name on it. Designer planners are ridiculous but to each his own.
Lol. You just described exactly what I have found out. Planners w restrictions. Plain lined pages work so much better to freeform your thoughts, to do, to call, 😮 , etc
Nope : Annual Daily planner with time in half hour increments…..I can see the entire week on 2 pages . I am ADD - I can see everything right in front of me and it works very well for me!
I have been doing this for over 20 years but the 5 * 8 which usually has enough space for whole year. I save them so I can always look back just like notes. Very useful.
I’ve been thinking about this since it came out. I’ve come back to say thanks, just scribbled my own version out and my head feels a lot clearer. Thanks for continually making us great content, love from London England! X
Excellent advice. I have a huge stack of expensive journals, planners, budget books, fitness trackers, nutrition journals - even one that's meant to break through procrastination. Not one has been used, because of all the reasons you stated. I'll take your advice, before I succumb to the New Year sales pitches again. 😊
You just made my life so much easier! I have a file cabneit full of waisted planners that cost to much $$$. This advice is a game changer! Thank you for the simplicity ❤
love this a lot. so many of us have been seduced by the shiny pretty planners. i wish i could do a completely blank notebook, but theyre a little to unstructured for me. so i use less expensive slightly structured planners, they seem to be best for my brain...hopefully ill make myway to effectively use the $1 notebook 🙂cheers and thanks for a great, functional planning video!
I 100% agree! I started planning using a small lined notebook like this which seemed to work. But then I wanted a fancy planner which was a disaster. I stopped using it in May because it was too constrained like you mentioned. I might get a regular sized notebook like this because I need organization again
Mom of 2 boys with Autism. I use the Happy planner system. We have many therapy appointments each week as well as Dr. appointments. I use it because it is my fun and even my boys love seeing it. I also use one in our home school. It is all pretty and makes me happy. I have now added on as our main bill plan.
I know you did the video short on your $1 planner notebook but I was wondering if you could do a full video on it. My eyesight is a little messed up and I was having trouble seeing and hearing everything you were talking about. I’m pretty sure there are other viewers who might appreciate this also. Thank you
This is my work planner set up, it by far the most functional notebook/planner I’ve had. Can make a spread for each week, then use pages as a notebook, then make a new spread for the next week, etc.
Been spiral bound notebooking for three years. Your system works well if you are not cursed with the time blindness you get free with every case of adhd.... trying to figure out what I can get done in an hour or a day or a week is flat out stumping!
That's a really good idea! I started using one of those 5x7 ish 5 dollar hardback diary journal things I had lying around. I write the month, day of the week, number ( July Saturday 01) at the very top, count all the lines, divide them by two or three and put another day or two on that page. Rinse and repeat. I should probably dedicate a page every month to a master list or overview or something. You usually are better off creating your own for how you do things.
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I’ve spent thousands of $$ on planners/stationery/supplies over the past 11 years. I’m currently destashing all of it and switching to a cheap spiral notebook like this (got one for 10 cents after redeeming my Walgreens rewards points! 🙌🏼). So.much.better.
I’ve gotten into the #minimalism movement lately, and decluttering my entire life. It feels amazing.
Goals!! And I’m right there doing the same. Don’t need all this stuff
Homegirl just explained bullet journals
Exactly. I was just coming here to say this.
And it's 1 dollar! Jk bullet planners are so pretty and perfect I want to get one soon.
Without the insane markup
Pretty much lol and add in the Alastair method. If you want a nicer notebook the artist loft brand at Michaels was my go-to for bullet journaling. Around A5 size & so much easier to carry around vs a full blown notebook ♥️
@Everything's Peachy right?! 🥰 Nice quality/features for the price point! And the paper is 🔥
My mom used a steno notebook, it’s got a line down the middle. One side for todo, one side for notes through the day. Got a big project: give it its own page that works the sane way. When your current list or nites gets too jammed up? Copy it fresh, edit out the junk as you do, and carry on.
I agree. Nothing, but a notebook. I do everything in it. It’s a planner Also, I write my grocery list in it and take it to the store. It’s always with me.
I put my grocery list on my phone calendar so it is with me all the time and I can add to it without looking for a pen. Don't have to carry anything else. Writing it down is a good idea though if your phone gets destroyed or lost. Historical things need to be written down always.
@@davidvogel6359 bad part of using cellphones tho is you get each time more dependent of it and as I heard in a really interesting interview with Cal Newport that's damaging our brains (the excessive use of phones due to having everything on them 😓
@@margy2000 I think you are right, if I don't put it on my phone I probably won't have my list because I left it at home on the desk. I have left my phone at home too so I won't get all I need the first time either. Frustrating when your memory isn't good.
@@margy2000 Writing notes in a phone isn’t ruining your brain any more than writing notes on a piece of paper is though. If that’s what he said, he’s misconstruing what research shows. What the research shows is that we’re relying on phones _and their internet access_ to keep us from having to remember anything on our own. With internet, you don’t even have to write something down; you just look it up when you need it. This causes you to not exercise your memory and recall ability which impairs your ability to remember things and creates a dependence on that always connected device that leaves you stuck if you ever don’t have that connection or your device.
But writing it down (even in your phone) isn’t damaging your brain. In fact, the act of writing it down actually acts as an extra buffer for remembering what it is that you wrote down, because now you have not just the original memory in your brain, but also the memory of remembering it or needing it and writing it down. That causes it to burn more thoroughly into your brain.
Adding things to Google Keep notes really helps me. I can just start typing in the word and it brings it up.
I use these as well. My big problem with printed planners is too much space is taken up with crap. Who needs a fricking dedicated space to list your moods, anyway. I am either pissed off or neutral. People fill their planners with stickers and washi tape. Too much time spent designing planner pages and not enough time getting crap done.
Mood trackers could be useful for people who may suspect something may be causing odd fluctuations in mood such as periods in women or perhaps even weather in some people, and it helps get to the bottom of why you may feel a certain way during certain times or situations, but overall I do agree it's not that useful for everyone
Unfortunately for me, I dump all my ideas in one page, and the next set of ideas end up in a different notebook on a different page all over the place. I'll try this, wish me luck lol
Me too lol!! You are not alone
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Finally!!!! Someone who’s using a regular journal/notebook/spiral as a planner! Lol I started using the exceed spirals a few years back and I’m still using them now to organize my life! I tried the happy planners, but again it’s not enough space for what I need! Thanks for sharing!
Same here have the happy planner but end up using the notebook anyways. So no more planner for me a notebook works better
I write everything in mine, except the grocery list. I’m afraid if I took my precious book to the store, I’d lose it.
Thanks for Sharing 👍
I know Now it would of been a waste of money and time If I would of purchased A Happy Planner. The spiral notebook is A Great idea 😊
Yeah! Someone else bullets in a spiral notebook! Calmness for my chaotic mind without stress of not filling out pre-made sheets, always made me feel wasteful and stressed. Love your energy!!
Thank you for sharing this.. I just ordered a planner with such sections I must fill out and I'm already aware of the potential to let myself down there. I'll look at it when it arrives but I'm thinking I'll just do bujo in a simple spiral notebook. So thank you again, now I know I'm not alone in my thinking. 😅
68 years old and have never been able to think with planners or bullet journals. For some reason this clicked. What I am going to do on the first 2 pages, though, is a spread on what I want to accomplish for the year as a focus, the 4 things I always mean to accomplish, but never do, like achieve and maintain a healthy weight, finally get my house in order... etc. Having it all in one notebook (bought a sparkly rose gold version so I don't lose it :D) in a format I can think with will really help. Thank you!
Make sure to write your phone number and name on it, just in case it needs to be returned to you! Notebooks like this always worked for my Mom, so this short made me think of her.
Wonderful idea 💕
Woman, you have just saved my life with this handy, dandy, organizing, tip. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
This is just a form of bullet journaling. For those that want this, but want a little better quality, you can always get larger size bullet journals, theyre not all book size, or, if you want to remove pages, although slightly harder to find, they do have ones with perforated pages for removing. Alternatively, keep a glue stick on you to stick pages together. However! Notebooks are incredibly underrated and very, incredibly valid, and can help *so* much when all you need is a simple place to throw all of your tasks in. For this girly? Look up the original bullet jornal videos, totally easy to find. Everything you have here, but with simple, easy to organize and remember bullets. Probably less than ten minutes. You could benefit from it, and if you change nothing? Thats cool! That means you already found something that works perfect for you! But you can always learn and grow, and the original videos are an amazing way to help understand how, and *why* you are helping organize your life.
Love it!!! As a professional project manager I totally love your system. I also personally make use of a few sticky notes which can easily be moved around if the item doesn’t get finished as planned. You go girl!
There's no system here tho. She just wrote in a notebook wat u can write in a regular planner or post its.
It's a system that works for her. Apparently planners didn't. To each his own.
absolutely there is a system here. I was a project manager for years. Started long before it was the norm for people to use anything but lined paper to take notes and heavy leather Franklin planners to keep track of meetings and I was utilizing this method.
I evolved quickly with my note taking and calendar to my laptop and tried to use various apps, web sites, etc. but nothing worked as well as my bullet lists to keep track of tasks for the the day for work, home, volunteer, etc.
Everyone has to figure out what works for them to keep them on track. There is no right or wrong. I mentored a lot of people in my career and everyone has their own way of checking the boxes.
@@bbirdlady7357- Exactly. When some people work with their planners, they really depend on the fact that it’s pre-printed and dated. It makes life easier for them. That’s not the kind of planner for me, right now, but it has been before, and it might be again someday.
This is exactly why I bullet journal! I plan my week, meal plan, grocery list, events,practice plans for the basketball team I coach, etc. I keep a dollar tree calendar inside of it so I can have future events and planning in there. I use a sticky note or scrap piece of paper to do a block schedule on the days I have a lot to get done so I stay on track.
Yes! I use a simple planner that just has the weeks and days laid out. Simple works. I’ve tried fancy ones and pretty ones, but pointless to need to be pretty and not function
Whenever I look at a complicated and thick planner, springs pop out of my head!!! A simple month at a glance calendar and a spiral or steno notebook and I have all I need!!!
Very practical but I prefer a disc notebook, much easier to add/remove pages. Buy it once & refill pages as you like.
I love Disc binders, too. I like how I can take small ones with me, and they fit in my purse, or pocket, no matter how small! I just picked the size that works for what I’m gonna be doing when I’m out. And if I’m not actually ready to transcribe what I write on the go, I can peel out the page and press it into the one I use at home that’s big. All the info I need in one place.
This is exactly what I do for my meal planning and schedule. It's simple, direct, cheap and it works.
Yes!!! I have been using a plain notebook for the last year, and it has been great… BUT you just totally explained it in a way that I think will help me even more!!! Thank you for sharing!!
Thank you for reminding us that we don't need fancy bullet journals or planners! Just go back to the basics like we did back in the day. Simple and we can choose to do what we want to our notebook. Society now makes things so complicated and has to be "esthetic " to "be productive" not true!! Lol. Thanks again for the reminder!! Happy New Year!
This all makes great sense. My husband always bought the dollar store calendar with a month on 2 pages and wrote all his appointments in there. We followed this for 32 years of our marriage until his passing. We told people, "If you want a piece of our time, ya gotta get on the square."
This is so sweet.
I love this idea. I have never found anything that works with my brain and I need to quit trying to pretend I’m not a visual person and quit trying to hold everything in my head.
I love that it's simple, so many productivity people make these beautiful planners with stickers and boxes using different pens and highlighters but it takes too much time to do that, you have to be good at drawing/creative to do them, and I swear half of them are unemployed and living at home because they leave tiny spaces for to do lists in their journals, I cant fit all the things i have to do in tiny boxes.
Every year I get a Blue Sky planner from Amazon. I love it because it has weekly and mthly layouts in one book. The notebook would be difficult to use for future dates but a great idea for planning out your week with more details. BTW it costs $10 sometimes $8 on sale.
I've found the ones sold at target come with little rulers and sticker sheets while the ones at the drug store do not.
Blue sky definitely has some nice and convenient. Planners at a great price!
Those of us who are "old" have been doing this for decades! Glad to see those young are catching up that you don't need fancy calendars or constrained planners to make your work flow easy!
Some of us who are "old" never came up with an effective system.
Thank you for saving me from dropping an insane amount of money on a planner that I know I’ll only use 1% of. 😂 Seriously, I was looking at planners on Amazon recently when you posted this - budget planners, actually, but this video inspired me to just use a notebook and design budgeting, savings, expense, etc. pages in a way that works for me. Seems silly to spend a ton of money on a thing hoping to help you save money. 😂
@@delanataylor ooh, stickers doubled for dividers = genius!
The best planner is Day Designer Planner Notes.
But it's already obvious u don't need to buy a planner to create a to do list. I write things in my phone, on post it's, and loose pieces of paper, if not the back of a notebook. It's really not revolutionary wat she's saying.
I use an excel spreadsheet for budgeting. The first tab shows ALL insurance policies on top left with notes about their start and end dates, amounts, due dates and I do the sum formula to tell me at a glance what I pay monthly on insurance. I do the same for utilities and for debts.
2nd tab is my specific month where I list what is due from the 1st to the 31st And I'm getting more elaborate with it so that I can survive right now because I'm paycheck to paycheck and it's really cool and helpful.
I use the Jorte app on my android to do what she is doing in the notebook, but I like her idea and may just do BOTH!
@@dig1272You sound impressively organized, but living on a strict budget, this is necessary to make it from check to check. I hope things will ease up for you in the new year.
Every month is a fresh 1 subject, college ruled notebook. Love it!
She doesn’t start a new notebook each month, she turns to a new two page spread.
I use a 5 subject and use it for my finances as well. I also use erasable pens so I can change stuff or have check lists I can use multiple times
This is awesome!! Too many folks get caught up in spending hundreds of dollars on planners….just keep it simple.
I love this idea. I've always hated the little boxes on planners that don't relate to how I think. I'm going to try this. What a money saver. Thanks so much.
I use a plain spiral as well, but I have not been doing the monthly spread, just daily’s. I’ve tried finding videos just about planning, but it seems most are just decorating them, which is not my goal. Thanks for simplifying it, not decorating it 😁 Merry Christmas 🎄
They show the decorating part only bcos the planning part is mainly their private affairs
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Im a big fan of the notebook brain dump. Also appreciate there are still other “paper planner” peeps out there 🎉
That's the foundation of the bullet journal method! Been using that for years and love the freedom of it!
Every planner is going to have to dos and days.
My mom did something similar. She called her notebook "her brain". She'd have a page with the grocery list, meal plan, chores, tasks, events. It was a thing.
If you're going to carry this notebook with you, splurge an extra $5-9 and buy a hardback. 😊
In my experience, there's a reason the $1 is that cheap.
Yep I agree the hardback is durable for traveling and getting tossed everywhere ❤❤.
The $1 notebooks also have a lot of bleedthru from the other side of the page.
Biggest lesson i learnt in 2022/23 in the trading market is that nobody knows what is going to happen next, so practice some humility and follow a strategy with a long term edge.
Nobody knows anything; You need to create your own process, manage risk, and stick to the plan, through thick or thin, While also continuously learning from mistakes and improving.
Uncertainty... It took me 5 years to stop trying to predict what about to happen in market based on charts studying, because you never know not having a mentor cost me 5 years of pain I learn to go were the market is wanting to go through the help of my advisor and keep it simple with discipline.
@@maryHenokNft I'd be glad to get the help of one, but just how can one spot a reputable one? How did you spot this adviser
@@maryHenokNft I would appreciate receiving assistance from a reputable advisor, but how does one identify one? How did you identify this advisor?
Definitely! All of this happened in less than a year after *Camille Alicia Garcia* told me what to do. I started with less than $100,000, and now I'm about 17,000 short of having a quarter million dollars.
You just saved me tons of money, was looking at all the planners popping up on my various social media feeds and then this came up, so easy and exactly the format i need
Simple but Genius!!! Love it!! And congratulations!!
Can u make a longer video about this. I'd like to try it..
I’d love more info too!!
Me too. Too much info in too short a time, and it can't be saved to any playlist, nor slowed down so i can follow along easily.
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Look up Bullet Journals
I was buying a planner every month it seems. Took me hundreds of dollars to realize that I simply love spiral notebooks!
I'm a simple planner person. I've used tons of planners over the years. I even made my own life planner 25 years ago, before life planners became a thing. I finally found a simple planner that really works for me. It's the Erin Condren 7 X 9 spiral bound, horizontal life planner. I call it my brain and take it with me everywhere.
I do have actual planner for keeping track of money and appointments and family events but my day to day tasks, quotes, musings, and to do lists go in a monthly notebook! New month, new notebook !
do you fill up a notebook in one month ?
I like the strategy. New month and new notebook.
In 2019 I was researching bullet journals, but none met my needs. So I got an Apple Pencil and the app GoodNotes for my iPad. The first year I purchased an undated electronic BuJo from Etsy and I reuse and update from there. If it is not working for me, I create new formats for my pages however I want them. I like doing it electronically because you can cut/copy/paste, change colors, write in cursive or dictate and the program converts to text. Or just write in your own handwriting. This will be my 5th year and I LOVE it!!!
Do you mind sharing the links for the things you mentioned? I’m still trying to find something that works for me. Recently diagnosed with adhd at 52
I use free app called documents on my phone
Thank you, agree 💯. Spiral notebooks are awesome and I keep many for life areas like to do lists, poetry and creative ideas, trainings and work stuff, trip planning and bills. They are like a personal assistant when life picks up and you realize you can no longer just rely on memory. Use them in conjunction with phone calendar and whiteboard decal month calendar in the kitchen for family. I love the idea of topic buckets and first learned of this in Julia Morgenstern's book Organizing from the Inside Out and Time Management from the Inside Out.
I agree, I use a cheap 1 subject for my finance and a cuter notebook for to-do lists and schedule mapping. I love the idea of stickers and tabs but I don't use them.
You are literally doing bullet journaling in a notebook. Yes you showed that you can do bujo in any medium
A lot of comments are saying this but in defense of this video, i never thought bullet journaling was for me because it always looked like they were spending sooo much time on the aesthetics. This was so much more actionable than anything else ive seen
@Danielle Raso I really recommend the book from Ryder Caroll then. He invented the system. I promise you there is not a single drawing :)
I’ll repeat something I posted in another comment.
I value this video because it reminds me that My best bullet journaling was done in old recycled notebooks. I had no problem with them not being pretty. With a brand new notebook, even the minimalist journals with only dots in them, I tend to get paralyzed by the anxiety of it needing to be perfect.
So for me this is getting back to basics.
I doubt you can find me a bujo tutorial that's this simple.
@@danielleraso5419 Agreed! Also thought bullet journaling is too time-consuming and just complicated.
I do this exact thing. Mom of 6 here along with a nurse,, business owner and soon to be TH-cam and this video of what we do is a life saver. It keeps our life sane and less messy. ❤
An excellent way to organize your life 👏. Two thumbs up 👍.
Yes, love this! I do the same thing. plus it saves money on expensive planners. I also like to use multiple colors for different projects.
I do this,too! Those planners just don't have what I need, especially because I like a Sunday start.
Brilliant! This resolves the problem of losing tasks on old dated pages, reduces the amount of rewriting, and automatically incorporates the weekly review that so many professional organizers recommend. Thank you so much!
You just showed the BEST Planner EVER! Thank you! 🎄
Girl yeesss! Thank you for this. Life is so much easier this way❤️❤️👍
This is beautifully simple.❤️ I bullet journal and also have those categories, I just have more categories in top of to dos.
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Thank you! The best. I really appreciate this as a mom planning to start my own TH-cam painting channel this year. And just in time for the new year! 💖✨
Gurlllllll 😮I have been using this type planner since I was 16 and now at 54 years young still keep my life discipline in dollar notebook 📒 ❤
I use a small binder so I can add and remove pages. Good video!
I do the same! It's easy and smart. I have occasionally used an ARC page style so I feel a tad more chic, but use it.the same way. Makes me happy and organized.
Yep! You and my daughter Rebecca.💐 I do also, but since retirement (45 years in Education Grade 2 to University🤯)... I went back to the common Planner- Weekly/Monthly.
PS I truly enjoy your energy and compassion for others who might feel overwhelmed.♥️🥰 Thank you.
perfect... you hv open pages to go with your own flow and how your brain naturally works 👍👏🏼
The only thing I would add is I also need to see a monthly calendar. The visual aide helps.
Happy New Year! 🐾🍸🎩🎈🎊
Thank you!!! I’ve been searching for a simpler way of planning!! I’m giving this a try!
Why is this revolutionary??
I love seeing people using plain notebooks as planners because I've been doing that for years. It wasn't until the rise of social media did I even see these insane thirty dollar planners. I literally had no idea expensive planners existed. Imagine spending thirty bucks on a silly planner just because it has someone's name on it. Designer planners are ridiculous but to each his own.
Lol. You just described exactly what I have found out. Planners w restrictions. Plain lined pages work so much better to freeform your thoughts, to do, to call, 😮 , etc
Nope : Annual Daily planner with time in half hour increments…..I can see the entire week on 2 pages . I am ADD - I can see everything right in front of me and it works very well for me!
AND you can decorate it for $1 with Dollar Tree stickers. EVEN could use a photo or make a decorative cover. TFS🙌
I always need a calendar. However u could always just tapr one inside your notebpok
I draw out my own calendar inside
Yes or use in conjunction with phone calendar.
That’s what I need! Thank you!
Omg, my adhd brain has finally found something that feels like it will work for me. 😊 Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
The beauty of using notebooks/bullet journals! I have also tried to use planners and such, but never got used to them
I have been doing this for over 20 years but the 5 * 8 which usually has enough space for whole year. I save them so I can always look back just like notes. Very useful.
I like it but PLEASE STOP CALLING EVERYTHING A “HACK“
I think she is calling it a hat because people seem to think you need a fancy journal to plan
I agree .. what's wrong with just using the good old fashion word 'tip'?
This is the exact way I’ve been doing it for years. It works for me too.
Great plan, thanks for the tips. I love how a one dollar notebook is the GOAT.
Where did this GOAT expression come from? Am seeing it everywhere!
I’ve been thinking about this since it came out. I’ve come back to say thanks, just scribbled my own version out and my head feels a lot clearer. Thanks for continually making us great content, love from London England! X
Please may you do a longer video on this? It would be so helpful :D
Excellent advice. I have a huge stack of expensive journals, planners, budget books, fitness trackers, nutrition journals - even one that's meant to break through procrastination. Not one has been used, because of all the reasons you stated. I'll take your advice, before I succumb to the New Year sales pitches again. 😊
GENIUS....LOVE this!! Thank you!
I really needed this without the bullet journal razzle dazzle. Thank you - def earned my subscribe.
Love this thank you so much ❤
You just made my life so much easier! I have a file cabneit full of waisted planners that cost to much $$$. This advice is a game changer! Thank you for the simplicity ❤
love this a lot. so many of us have been seduced by the shiny pretty planners. i wish i could do a completely blank notebook, but theyre a little to unstructured for me. so i use less expensive slightly structured planners, they seem to be best for my brain...hopefully ill make myway to effectively use the $1 notebook 🙂cheers and thanks for a great, functional planning video!
I 100% agree! I started planning using a small lined notebook like this which seemed to work. But then I wanted a fancy planner which was a disaster. I stopped using it in May because it was too constrained like you mentioned. I might get a regular sized notebook like this because I need organization again
Yesss this! I always revert back to just a notebook when I’m in a planner slump
Mom of 2 boys with Autism. I use the Happy planner system. We have many therapy appointments each week as well as Dr. appointments. I use it because it is my fun and even my boys love seeing it. I also use one in our home school. It is all pretty and makes me happy. I have now added on as our main bill plan.
I wish u would do a full video on this
There is one :) check "life changing productivity secret" video I made about 2 years ago
@@thatpracticalmom be great to do a new one
I love the simplicity of this!
Thank you! 💜🙌🏾💐
I know you did the video short on your $1 planner notebook but I was wondering if you could do a full video on it. My eyesight is a little messed up and I was having trouble seeing and hearing everything you were talking about. I’m pretty sure there are other viewers who might appreciate this also. Thank you
This is my work planner set up, it by far the most functional notebook/planner I’ve had. Can make a spread for each week, then use pages as a notebook, then make a new spread for the next week, etc.
Cool. I just spent 3 weeks looking for the perfect planner to no avail.
I bought a blank notebook instead. ❤
I love this so much!!!🎉
Been spiral bound notebooking for three years. Your system works well if you are not cursed with the time blindness you get free with every case of adhd.... trying to figure out what I can get done in an hour or a day or a week is flat out stumping!
Can I see a detailed version of this? I do feel this is what will work for me.
She did it in a TH-cam video... th-cam.com/video/ylSjb3bFMnQ/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=ButFirst%2CCoffee
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This is perfect for me! I’ve had years of frustration with structured planners and Biko did not have enough structure. Simple and flowing.
I love a bullet journal ❤
I use composition notebooks like this all the time, except I add parts of the bullet journal method, such as an index, a key, and a future log.
That's a really good idea! I started using one of those 5x7 ish 5 dollar hardback diary journal things I had lying around. I write the month, day of the week, number
( July Saturday 01) at the very top, count all the lines, divide them by two or three and put another day or two on that page. Rinse and repeat. I should probably dedicate a page every month to a master list or overview or something. You usually are better off creating your own for how you do things.
Excellent, I do the same but with a bound $5 notebook, no lost pages.