oh this absolutely is how the process should go. review, re-assess, implement. i would hope people are setting up their 2025 books *after* reviewing their 2024 ones
Thank you so much for sharing your process (the initial set-up and this reassessment). I really appreciate how thoughtful and intentional you are. The first video provided good questions to ask when setting up and health and wellness journal/tracker and the reassessment was so insightful. I was winging my own log until I found your first video on this and I'm impressed by the framework you've provided along with the need to be flexible with what you are tracking.
Thank you so much for the feedback and for your kind words. I'm so glad that you've found my initial set-up and reassessment videos helpful! What are some things you'll be tracking next year? :)
Yes! What are the questions I need this book to answer. I'm on HRT so I'm tracking symptoms such as sleep, mood, anxiety, skin etc. so that needs to be my focal point I think. I'm hoping to up my dose as my sleep has deteriorated a bit and my mood lower. Thanks for the inspiration!
Thank you for your kind words! I'm so glad you found it helpful to think about the questions you need the book to answer. I'm also sending you support on your HRT journey. I hope you are able to find the right dose that helps to reduces your symptoms!
It's such a helpful video! I was looking for a Hobonichi Weeks setup for my health journal, and this video is just what I was looking for. I love your tracker ideas, and your explanations clarified my health journal's purpose. I will apply some of your ideas to mine. I really appreciate you for sharing ideas!
Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm glad you found this helpful. What are some of the ideas that stood out to you the most? And how is your planner planning going? :)
Thank you for this video! I am struggling with deciding what to log/track in 2025 after losing some weight in 2024 and wanting to focus on things other than the number on the scale. This is such a great bouncing off point for my own journal/planner. I really appreciate you taking the time to share it all.
Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm glad that you found this helpful as you work towards your 2025 goals. How is your planning going? You've got this!! :)
Thank you for this video. It definitely helps me. I'm in the process of trying to figure out what will work for me to track wellness, mainly because of anxiety. I like to see how other people are doing it for inspiration.
Thank you for your kind words! I’m glad it was helpful! Tracking all of these things wasn’t a priority for me until they became so problematic that I couldn’t ignore them. I hope you’re able to come to a set-up that you feel good about!
I have a B6 sterling ink common planner and I track similarly. I track my mood, sleep, and energy in a graph, because those I can quantify either in hours or rating out of 10, then in my "habit tracker" I track things that may affect my food: whether I have time by myself and with people I care about, whether I work out, whether I have caffeine or alcohol, and whether I'm sick or on my period. In the notes section below the tracker I note what sickness stuff I'm experiencing. I also use it as a way to answer questions when I am in therapy! On the weekly pages I track habit habits, like taking meds or flossing, things I'm trying to do daily. It doesn't matter if I see trends over the month for those
This sounds like a fantastic set up! Some day, I am going to try tracking these things in a bigger book. The idea of a bigger book and an "all in one" is so appealing to me, but I also love how compact and portable the weeks is. I love the addition of incorporating therapy notes/thoughts into it as well! Well done!
Love this video so much😍 I have a little tracker in my monthly section (hobonichi weeks) but it does not seem enough… I was struggling to figure out how to insert things in my weekly view, so thank you so much for explaining how you use and adapt your health and wellness planner. Really appreciate it🥰💙
Thank you so much! 😍 I’m happy to hear that you found this helpful. I always struggle to use the monthly section effectively, so I was hoping I could do the majority of my tracking in the weekly section. Also - I have gotten a lot of inspiration from your videos and your blue weeks collection! 💙
This video is so helpful! You've given me some great ideas. I know I can't track this much, or I won't keep up, but I can take a selection from your ideas.
Thank you! I’m glad you found it helpful and it’s great that you’ll be adapting it to your needs. What I am proposing for now is a lot! 😅 I’m not sure if I’ll be able to keep with it all, either. My actual hope is that my skin clears up at some point next year and that I won’t have to track my symptoms as carefully as I am planning to right now. 🤞
Thank you for this video! This year, i got deep into trackers but didn't find many of my trackers beneficial. I found I was just tracking to track. "What questions do I want this to answer?" is such a great approach to think about and build your planner around. Appreciate your thoughts and layout!
Thank you! I think this was engrained in me as a researcher - to always consider the research questions and objectives before writing a research plan. 😅 Who would have thought work would come in handy for my hobonichi weeks!
This was a really helpful and inspiring video! I want to focus more on health and wellness in 2025 so I can be more effective in my life. The part about having information for doctors is also very important for me because I have a monthly medication check-in appointment and it would be very helpful to have more concrete data for my doctor to review. Thanks for the great video!
Thank you so much for your kind words! Yes to building more concrete data points to share with your doctor! I think that focusing on having the information set up in an easy-to-glance way for doctors, etc, was missing in my tracker for this year. If I'm going to take the time to track this information all year long, I'd like to make it easier for me to analyze and communicate it to others!
I find that my mood, energy, and anxiety all fluctuate in certain ways depending on which phase of my menstrual cycle I'm in (ex: more sociable, energetic and happy-go-lucky in my follicular phase VS a recluse and crabby, more prone to anxiety in my late luteal phase), which in turn affects flare ups (worse when I'm anxious, ergo when I'm in my late luteal phase). I've also noticed that my eczema flare ups can really correlate to the changing of seasons. So: yes it can happen in high humidity in the summer, but also when summer changes into autumn/winter here in Montreal and temperatures fluctuate like crazy, I can get random patches of uber dry skin on my face (sexy!) that are itchy and refuse to absorb any hydration in any form whatsoever (ugh). So I think tracking monthly or even annually can really help!
The dry patches are awful! You described exactly what I've been struggling with. How is your skin doing these days? I am really hoping that all of this tracking will help me uncover some kind of pattern that I can work with. Perhaps something that lines up with my menstrual cycle or stress, etc. Thank you for reminding me to consider that as well!
this was such a helpful video! i also have a health tracker for my chronic conditions and your layout is a very good symptoms overview! thanks so much for sharing! 💛 also wanted to note that i use the same cream white out in my weeks and it works great for me :)
Thank you so much! I’m glad you found it helpful. ☺️ That’s a relief about the cream correction tape! I’ve been using it this week and haven’t found it too difficult to get used to. It’s the small things 🥲
For the yearly overview I’ve got 2 ideas - an accordion folder insert from TN - like a passport size that you could slip in the back cover or similarly Filofax do an accordion style yearly overview insert that you could use as a tracker for a main habit? 💙
😍 these are great ideas! Thank you! I have seen a few accordion style inserts before, but I haven’t tried anything like that in my books before. I’ve come up with a layout option that I want to try in my Weeks, but if that doesn’t work out, I think I’ll try the accordion or extra notebook like you suggested. Thank you so much!
Hi, I just want to let you know that the way you did this layout to work for you is really helpful. I’ve set up my health planner in the same way and sitting down and actually asking what do you want your health planner or logs to tell you really help in setting up a great health planner/log
Thank you so much! I feel really passionate about sharing how much maintaining this type of tracker has helped me. I never understood its importance until I hit a breaking point and realized I needed to be more proactive about my health. I hope you’ve landed in a good spot with what you want your health planner or log to tell you! 😊
@ yes! And thank you for this idea! Main focus for me is gut health, stress management, hair and skin care, so I’ve used your format with just different trackers 👍🏼
im very interested to see when you do figure out the monthly/yearly overview on these things. I would really love a book like this next year, but im not great at keeping up with filling it in, so it has to be easy enough to be consistent with. because not filling in the things every day makes it harder to understand the info because its not the complete picture if that makes sense.
Thank you! I'm excited to try out a few layouts to see what will tell me the information I need at a glance, and (hopefully) be easy enough to fill out and be consistent with. I agree that having incomplete data makes it harder to actually see the bigger picture. I worry that having so many things to track will overwhelm me, so we'll see how things go in the next few weeks. At the very least, I can always fall back on my existing layout, which I know works well for me.
I have a system where if I know I did the habit or had the symptom I tick it of, if I skip tracking for that particular day or am unsure if I did it ,I'll put a dot and if I didn't do it I put a hyphen. I wouldn't stress about if you have missing days and such. It's a habit that you need to build up. It comes with time. I'm usually shit with maintaining trackers but I've been doing this kinda system since March, and whilst I'll sometimes take a week or two off, I always end up back in it because it's just such a norm now. I rather have some info on my health even if it isn't 100% accurate than zero. 😊
Thank you for this Video. I am planning on Setting up a Health/Wellness tracker and am Not sure, if i will use a Weeks Mega or a Sterling ink n2 which has a Great Goal section. I will definitely use a passport sized vertical from Sterling ink to Track my eating by the time i eat something as i am facing a combination of emotional eating, carving sweets and a ced plus Some other chronic deseases. Tracking on Point will help me Not to forget about eating but for the overview and correlations i think i will need a bigger size than passport …
It sounds like you have a good idea of the type of information you're wanting to increase your awareness around, and the Weeks Mega, Sterling Ink N2, or passport sized book all sound like great choices! Does the passport sized Sterling Ink have a goals section as well? And how many notes pages does it have?
I’m curious how you use your monthlies and your cal-index in this planner. I feel like if as part of your monthly routine you could transfer key data there for a very easy visual for Dr visits and analysis. The cal-index could be turned into a graph and you could use different color pen or different styles lines to graph a few things for the month. Like your sleep and steps for example. And then on the monthly you could put key data with a color or symbol code or even words/numbers. Like mood/anxiety and symptoms even weather/humidty. To see large stretches together for a better visual of the trends.
Thank you so much - these are great suggestions! I’m currently using the cal-index to track my steps and I plan to use colour coding to mark down days I exercise. The monthly is used to track my social interactions. It’s a bit of joy that I can add into a book that leans tracking into tracking symptoms and issues that I’m facing. I do like the idea of trying to make better use of the monthly section, though. I might have to experiment with that! Thanks again!
I think when you're trying to figure out an issue, tracking many points might be annoying but you never know what might catch your eye and lead to some important clues. My coworker has bad skin flareups when she's super stressed. I'm sure your dermatologist will appreciate you coming so prepared. Good luck at your appointment!
I think you're right about finding a good balance between casting a wide net to see what data sticks, and not trying to track so much that it's overwhelming and difficult to maintain. I think I'll know within 1-2 weeks whether the amount of information I want to track is too much or not. I feel for your coworker - mine also tends to flare up when my stress levels are high. And thank you for the positive energy about my appointment! It has been a really long wait, so I'm glad that it's now about a month away! I already have a list of questions that I plan to ask at the initial appointment! 😅
I’m tracking in the weekly pages and then transferring on a monthly basis the top 3-4 items. Haven’t made the final decision on those items and one of them is my blood pressure. On the weekly pages I’ll put in my actual readings from the morning and evening, then just use simple color coding in front index/tracker pages. Blue for low, because that’s my primary issue, green for normal and red for high. This way when I go to the doctor I can at a glance see the the whole month/year.
I love this idea! I've been wondering what to do with my calendex in my Wellness Hobo since it's so tiny, and colour-coding is such a smart way to go! As for the monthly top priority items, do you do that in the monthly calendar or in the extra notes pages in the back? (also haven't figured out a use for Wellness Hobo monthly pages LOL I love seeing how other people organize their Wellness journals!)
@@ligli500 I two plans. If I use the weeks, I will divide the left page in 3rds, and use the last block for BP. The first two will likely be protein and fiber intake in block one, and exercise in block two. The right page will be trackers for mood, sleep, a weekly weigh in and steps. And steps is likely something I’ll color code too. The notes pages in the back will be for weekly free form writing on the items I tracked. What went well, what did not, and what can I control. Which is not much and as a recovering perfectionist, it’s helpful for me to remind myself ☺️ Second plan would to use the weekly layout in a cousin but I’m leaning towards the weeks. It’s tidy and compact.
Thank you for sharing this! I love the idea of using the yearly view. I had been using that page to track my steps, but I think your approach of using colour codes to highlight the issue you're mainly tracking is brilliant!
Set up a yearly overview section: months at the top number of days down the side . And then I log what exercise I do B for cycling or biking T for treadmill W for walks etc. I like to see yearly overview too of my exercises but I like how you are keeping track of skin and mindfulness something I want to incorporate in my routine but the thing with objective stuff for me my mind takes over and then I start to lean towards the negative maybe I’m just overall negative I don’t know I’ll track and see.
I love how you’ve set up your yearly tracking! I’ve hesitated on using that page for my main tracking because I have a habit of skipping right to the weekly pages when I open up my book. That sounds like a silly reason, but when I tried that in the past, I was always slipping my tracking. Tracking the objective stuff sounds like a great idea! It’s a lot easier to see if we truly lean a certain way once we have that data in front of us!
I really like the way Danielle does her charts as well. I have two charts that I try to fill out each week, one of which I know I got from her, and the other one might have been from her too, but I'm not 100% sure. The one I know I borrowed from her is what I call my 'brain stuff' chart: it's a single, combined line graph where I track mood, anxiety, energy levels and focus (one colour for each) on a scale of 1-10 for each day that week. I really like being able to see how they all interact and intersect with each other on the same chart. The other one that may or may not be hers is a 'sleep timeline' graph. It has the days of the week along the x axis, and then times (from 9pm to 9am) along the y axis. Then I have specific symbols to mark when I went to bed, when I went to sleep, when I wake (or get) up in the morning, and any times I wake (or get) up throughout the night. I also use different types of lines (solid, dashed or dotted) between the symbols to indicate whether I was awake in bed, dozing without sleeping properly or sleeping during those times - with complete breaks between the symbols over the course of the night meaning I got up and stayed up during those times. I've never been a great sleeper, but perimenopause is absolutely kicking my butt, and one of the key symptoms is major on-and-off insomnia, so having that clear, at-a-glance visual record of what each night of my week looked like is really helpful to look back on.
Oh, that sleep timeline graph sounds so interesting and useful. I'm intrigued! How easy/difficult has it been to track the times you were awake, dozing, etc?
@@LittleCocoStudio - super super easy 🙂. I have a 'sleep notes' section in my book where I spend just a couple of minutes literally writing down "I went to bed at xxpm, went to sleep at xxpm, etc', and the act of writing it out reminds me what my night was like. My brain really processes linguistically, rather than visually, so it helps me to put it in words first. Then it just takes me another minute to translate those notes into a visual timeline for the night (because while I process linguistically, it's easier for me to get a sense of my week as a whole when I have the 7 daily timelines right there next to each other on a single chart).
BTW! I bought that same cream correction tape (along with other sizes, all from the same company) from Paper Plus Cloth (a shop in TO ☺) so don't worry about having to use it sparingly -- it's available in Canada too!
I think for an annual graph I'd use excel (or similar free version). I understand this is a paper journal channel but this is what computers are good at.
I’ve been mulling over it this week, and I’ve come to a similar conclusion about what I’m describing being better suited for excel. At the same time, using excel suddenly feels too close to work, and while that isn’t necessarily a bad thing, I like the idea of containing it all in my Weeks. So… I’m currently re-evaluating what and why I want to track in the notes pages. Basically, I’m overthinking everything. 🙃
@LittleCocoStudio relatable on all fronts. My day job is as an analytical chemist so graphing data is a substantial portion of my job. For the most part I've purposefully quit tracking personal information because I find it to be problematic for my mental space. But I do understand that sometimes we need information and I agree with you that giving one's doctor the information they are going to ask for is very helpful. Best of luck on the overthinking 💕
@@KatiesCraftStudio Thank you! Oh gosh, if that’s what you’re doing at your day job, then I can understand why you’d want a break from it in your personal life! I could never stay consistent with tracking personal information in the past becuase it always started to feel too much like work. I often worked on data dashboard / data visualization projects at work, which is probably influencing many of my decisions right now. It has been helpful, but it has also brought up a lot of work memories. I’m interested to see how consistent I am with tracking this information after the initial excitement of trying a new layout wears off. I’m also looking forward to hearing my doctor’s perspective on what’s worth tracking for future treatment / symptom management perspective.
Currently, it's a mix of both where some symptoms are being tracked on a 10-point scale while others are on a 5-point scale. Thanks for asking this clarifying question - it has made me realize that it will make my life easier if I standardize them to all be 1-5 or 1-10!
Also, you talked about not self diagnosing and stuff, but am i correct that you do have ADHD or did i just assume that? As a fellow neurodivergent person i'm always interested to see how others plan and make it work! :D
Yes, you are correct in that I received a formal ADHD diagnosis. :) I am with you on being interested in learning how others use their planners! I'm always learning something new, and I find it very inspiring! :)
oh this absolutely is how the process should go. review, re-assess, implement. i would hope people are setting up their 2025 books *after* reviewing their 2024 ones
Yes!! I've been pretty happy with my set up this year, so I thought I was going to repeat it. I'm glad I didn't skip that step! 😅
Thank you so much for sharing your process (the initial set-up and this reassessment). I really appreciate how thoughtful and intentional you are. The first video provided good questions to ask when setting up and health and wellness journal/tracker and the reassessment was so insightful. I was winging my own log until I found your first video on this and I'm impressed by the framework you've provided along with the need to be flexible with what you are tracking.
Thank you so much for the feedback and for your kind words. I'm so glad that you've found my initial set-up and reassessment videos helpful! What are some things you'll be tracking next year? :)
Yes! What are the questions I need this book to answer. I'm on HRT so I'm tracking symptoms such as sleep, mood, anxiety, skin etc. so that needs to be my focal point I think. I'm hoping to up my dose as my sleep has deteriorated a bit and my mood lower. Thanks for the inspiration!
Sending you so much love and encouragement and support on your HRT journey!! ❤ Hope you're able to find the right dose for you ^^
Thank you for your kind words! I'm so glad you found it helpful to think about the questions you need the book to answer. I'm also sending you support on your HRT journey. I hope you are able to find the right dose that helps to reduces your symptoms!
i’m on HRT too! i hope you’re able to find a good dose for you! :)
It's such a helpful video! I was looking for a Hobonichi Weeks setup for my health journal, and this video is just what I was looking for. I love your tracker ideas, and your explanations clarified my health journal's purpose. I will apply some of your ideas to mine. I really appreciate you for sharing ideas!
Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm glad you found this helpful. What are some of the ideas that stood out to you the most? And how is your planner planning going? :)
Thank you for this video! I am struggling with deciding what to log/track in 2025 after losing some weight in 2024 and wanting to focus on things other than the number on the scale. This is such a great bouncing off point for my own journal/planner. I really appreciate you taking the time to share it all.
Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm glad that you found this helpful as you work towards your 2025 goals. How is your planning going? You've got this!! :)
Thank you for this video. It definitely helps me. I'm in the process of trying to figure out what will work for me to track wellness, mainly because of anxiety. I like to see how other people are doing it for inspiration.
Thank you for your kind words! I’m glad it was helpful! Tracking all of these things wasn’t a priority for me until they became so problematic that I couldn’t ignore them. I hope you’re able to come to a set-up that you feel good about!
I have a B6 sterling ink common planner and I track similarly. I track my mood, sleep, and energy in a graph, because those I can quantify either in hours or rating out of 10, then in my "habit tracker" I track things that may affect my food: whether I have time by myself and with people I care about, whether I work out, whether I have caffeine or alcohol, and whether I'm sick or on my period. In the notes section below the tracker I note what sickness stuff I'm experiencing. I also use it as a way to answer questions when I am in therapy! On the weekly pages I track habit habits, like taking meds or flossing, things I'm trying to do daily. It doesn't matter if I see trends over the month for those
This sounds like a fantastic set up! Some day, I am going to try tracking these things in a bigger book. The idea of a bigger book and an "all in one" is so appealing to me, but I also love how compact and portable the weeks is. I love the addition of incorporating therapy notes/thoughts into it as well! Well done!
Love this video so much😍 I have a little tracker in my monthly section (hobonichi weeks) but it does not seem enough… I was struggling to figure out how to insert things in my weekly view, so thank you so much for explaining how you use and adapt your health and wellness planner. Really appreciate it🥰💙
Thank you so much! 😍 I’m happy to hear that you found this helpful. I always struggle to use the monthly section effectively, so I was hoping I could do the majority of my tracking in the weekly section. Also - I have gotten a lot of inspiration from your videos and your blue weeks collection! 💙
This video is so helpful! You've given me some great ideas. I know I can't track this much, or I won't keep up, but I can take a selection from your ideas.
Thank you! I’m glad you found it helpful and it’s great that you’ll be adapting it to your needs. What I am proposing for now is a lot! 😅 I’m not sure if I’ll be able to keep with it all, either. My actual hope is that my skin clears up at some point next year and that I won’t have to track my symptoms as carefully as I am planning to right now. 🤞
Thank you for this video! This year, i got deep into trackers but didn't find many of my trackers beneficial. I found I was just tracking to track. "What questions do I want this to answer?" is such a great approach to think about and build your planner around. Appreciate your thoughts and layout!
Thank you! I think this was engrained in me as a researcher - to always consider the research questions and objectives before writing a research plan. 😅 Who would have thought work would come in handy for my hobonichi weeks!
This was a really helpful and inspiring video! I want to focus more on health and wellness in 2025 so I can be more effective in my life. The part about having information for doctors is also very important for me because I have a monthly medication check-in appointment and it would be very helpful to have more concrete data for my doctor to review. Thanks for the great video!
Thank you so much for your kind words! Yes to building more concrete data points to share with your doctor! I think that focusing on having the information set up in an easy-to-glance way for doctors, etc, was missing in my tracker for this year. If I'm going to take the time to track this information all year long, I'd like to make it easier for me to analyze and communicate it to others!
I find that my mood, energy, and anxiety all fluctuate in certain ways depending on which phase of my menstrual cycle I'm in (ex: more sociable, energetic and happy-go-lucky in my follicular phase VS a recluse and crabby, more prone to anxiety in my late luteal phase), which in turn affects flare ups (worse when I'm anxious, ergo when I'm in my late luteal phase).
I've also noticed that my eczema flare ups can really correlate to the changing of seasons. So: yes it can happen in high humidity in the summer, but also when summer changes into autumn/winter here in Montreal and temperatures fluctuate like crazy, I can get random patches of uber dry skin on my face (sexy!) that are itchy and refuse to absorb any hydration in any form whatsoever (ugh). So I think tracking monthly or even annually can really help!
The dry patches are awful! You described exactly what I've been struggling with. How is your skin doing these days?
I am really hoping that all of this tracking will help me uncover some kind of pattern that I can work with. Perhaps something that lines up with my menstrual cycle or stress, etc. Thank you for reminding me to consider that as well!
this was such a helpful video! i also have a health tracker for my chronic conditions and your layout is a very good symptoms overview! thanks so much for sharing! 💛 also wanted to note that i use the same cream white out in my weeks and it works great for me :)
Thank you so much! I’m glad you found it helpful. ☺️ That’s a relief about the cream correction tape! I’ve been using it this week and haven’t found it too difficult to get used to. It’s the small things 🥲
For the yearly overview I’ve got 2 ideas - an accordion folder insert from TN - like a passport size that you could slip in the back cover or similarly Filofax do an accordion style yearly overview insert that you could use as a tracker for a main habit? 💙
😍 these are great ideas! Thank you! I have seen a few accordion style inserts before, but I haven’t tried anything like that in my books before. I’ve come up with a layout option that I want to try in my Weeks, but if that doesn’t work out, I think I’ll try the accordion or extra notebook like you suggested. Thank you so much!
Hi, I just want to let you know that the way you did this layout to work for you is really helpful. I’ve set up my health planner in the same way and sitting down and actually asking what do you want your health planner or logs to tell you really help in setting up a great health planner/log
Thank you so much! I feel really passionate about sharing how much maintaining this type of tracker has helped me. I never understood its importance until I hit a breaking point and realized I needed to be more proactive about my health. I hope you’ve landed in a good spot with what you want your health planner or log to tell you! 😊
@ yes! And thank you for this idea! Main focus for me is gut health, stress management, hair and skin care, so I’ve used your format with just different trackers 👍🏼
im very interested to see when you do figure out the monthly/yearly overview on these things. I would really love a book like this next year, but im not great at keeping up with filling it in, so it has to be easy enough to be consistent with. because not filling in the things every day makes it harder to understand the info because its not the complete picture if that makes sense.
Thank you! I'm excited to try out a few layouts to see what will tell me the information I need at a glance, and (hopefully) be easy enough to fill out and be consistent with. I agree that having incomplete data makes it harder to actually see the bigger picture. I worry that having so many things to track will overwhelm me, so we'll see how things go in the next few weeks. At the very least, I can always fall back on my existing layout, which I know works well for me.
I have a system where if I know I did the habit or had the symptom I tick it of, if I skip tracking for that particular day or am unsure if I did it ,I'll put a dot and if I didn't do it I put a hyphen.
I wouldn't stress about if you have missing days and such. It's a habit that you need to build up. It comes with time. I'm usually shit with maintaining trackers but I've been doing this kinda system since March, and whilst I'll sometimes take a week or two off, I always end up back in it because it's just such a norm now. I rather have some info on my health even if it isn't 100% accurate than zero. 😊
Thank you for this Video. I am planning on Setting up a Health/Wellness tracker and am Not sure, if i will use a Weeks Mega or a Sterling ink n2 which has a Great Goal section. I will definitely use a passport sized vertical from Sterling ink to Track my eating by the time i eat something as i am facing a combination of emotional eating, carving sweets and a ced plus Some other chronic deseases. Tracking on Point will help me Not to forget about eating but for the overview and correlations i think i will need a bigger size than passport …
It sounds like you have a good idea of the type of information you're wanting to increase your awareness around, and the Weeks Mega, Sterling Ink N2, or passport sized book all sound like great choices! Does the passport sized Sterling Ink have a goals section as well? And how many notes pages does it have?
@ yes it has and about 120 notes Pages. I also got a booklet, if that would be too less
I’m curious how you use your monthlies and your cal-index in this planner. I feel like if as part of your monthly routine you could transfer key data there for a very easy visual for Dr visits and analysis.
The cal-index could be turned into a graph and you could use different color pen or different styles lines to graph a few things for the month. Like your sleep and steps for example.
And then on the monthly you could put key data with a color or symbol code or even words/numbers. Like mood/anxiety and symptoms even weather/humidty. To see large stretches together for a better visual of the trends.
Thank you so much - these are great suggestions! I’m currently using the cal-index to track my steps and I plan to use colour coding to mark down days I exercise. The monthly is used to track my social interactions. It’s a bit of joy that I can add into a book that leans tracking into tracking symptoms and issues that I’m facing.
I do like the idea of trying to make better use of the monthly section, though. I might have to experiment with that! Thanks again!
@ it was a great video!!
I think when you're trying to figure out an issue, tracking many points might be annoying but you never know what might catch your eye and lead to some important clues. My coworker has bad skin flareups when she's super stressed. I'm sure your dermatologist will appreciate you coming so prepared. Good luck at your appointment!
I think you're right about finding a good balance between casting a wide net to see what data sticks, and not trying to track so much that it's overwhelming and difficult to maintain. I think I'll know within 1-2 weeks whether the amount of information I want to track is too much or not. I feel for your coworker - mine also tends to flare up when my stress levels are high.
And thank you for the positive energy about my appointment! It has been a really long wait, so I'm glad that it's now about a month away! I already have a list of questions that I plan to ask at the initial appointment! 😅
I’m tracking in the weekly pages and then transferring on a monthly basis the top 3-4 items. Haven’t made the final decision on those items and one of them is my blood pressure. On the weekly pages I’ll put in my actual readings from the morning and evening, then just use simple color coding in front index/tracker pages. Blue for low, because that’s my primary issue, green for normal and red for high. This way when I go to the doctor I can at a glance see the the whole month/year.
I love this idea! I've been wondering what to do with my calendex in my Wellness Hobo since it's so tiny, and colour-coding is such a smart way to go!
As for the monthly top priority items, do you do that in the monthly calendar or in the extra notes pages in the back? (also haven't figured out a use for Wellness Hobo monthly pages LOL I love seeing how other people organize their Wellness journals!)
@@ligli500 I two plans. If I use the weeks, I will divide the left page in 3rds, and use the last block for BP. The first two will likely be protein and fiber intake in block one, and exercise in block two. The right page will be trackers for mood, sleep, a weekly weigh in and steps. And steps is likely something I’ll color code too.
The notes pages in the back will be for weekly free form writing on the items I tracked. What went well, what did not, and what can I control. Which is not much and as a recovering perfectionist, it’s helpful for me to remind myself ☺️
Second plan would to use the weekly layout in a cousin but I’m leaning towards the weeks. It’s tidy and compact.
Thank you for sharing this! I love the idea of using the yearly view. I had been using that page to track my steps, but I think your approach of using colour codes to highlight the issue you're mainly tracking is brilliant!
Thank you for this video!! Also what is that notebook you used for your notes?
Thank you! I think you’re asking about the completely blank notebook? If so, it’s the Hobonichi A5 gridded notebook!
Set up a yearly overview section: months at the top number of days down the side . And then I log what exercise I do B for cycling or biking T for treadmill W for walks etc. I like to see yearly overview too of my exercises but I like how you are keeping track of skin and mindfulness something I want to incorporate in my routine but the thing with objective stuff for me my mind takes over and then I start to lean towards the negative maybe I’m just overall negative I don’t know I’ll track and see.
I love how you’ve set up your yearly tracking! I’ve hesitated on using that page for my main tracking because I have a habit of skipping right to the weekly pages when I open up my book. That sounds like a silly reason, but when I tried that in the past, I was always slipping my tracking. Tracking the objective stuff sounds like a great idea! It’s a lot easier to see if we truly lean a certain way once we have that data in front of us!
I really like the way Danielle does her charts as well. I have two charts that I try to fill out each week, one of which I know I got from her, and the other one might have been from her too, but I'm not 100% sure.
The one I know I borrowed from her is what I call my 'brain stuff' chart: it's a single, combined line graph where I track mood, anxiety, energy levels and focus (one colour for each) on a scale of 1-10 for each day that week. I really like being able to see how they all interact and intersect with each other on the same chart.
The other one that may or may not be hers is a 'sleep timeline' graph. It has the days of the week along the x axis, and then times (from 9pm to 9am) along the y axis. Then I have specific symbols to mark when I went to bed, when I went to sleep, when I wake (or get) up in the morning, and any times I wake (or get) up throughout the night. I also use different types of lines (solid, dashed or dotted) between the symbols to indicate whether I was awake in bed, dozing without sleeping properly or sleeping during those times - with complete breaks between the symbols over the course of the night meaning I got up and stayed up during those times.
I've never been a great sleeper, but perimenopause is absolutely kicking my butt, and one of the key symptoms is major on-and-off insomnia, so having that clear, at-a-glance visual record of what each night of my week looked like is really helpful to look back on.
Oh, that sleep timeline graph sounds so interesting and useful. I'm intrigued! How easy/difficult has it been to track the times you were awake, dozing, etc?
@@LittleCocoStudio - super super easy 🙂. I have a 'sleep notes' section in my book where I spend just a couple of minutes literally writing down "I went to bed at xxpm, went to sleep at xxpm, etc', and the act of writing it out reminds me what my night was like. My brain really processes linguistically, rather than visually, so it helps me to put it in words first.
Then it just takes me another minute to translate those notes into a visual timeline for the night (because while I process linguistically, it's easier for me to get a sense of my week as a whole when I have the 7 daily timelines right there next to each other on a single chart).
BTW! I bought that same cream correction tape (along with other sizes, all from the same company) from Paper Plus Cloth (a shop in TO ☺) so don't worry about having to use it sparingly -- it's available in Canada too!
Ooh, that is good to know!! Thank you! I love how thin it is - it fits perfectly in the small Hobonichi grids!
I think for an annual graph I'd use excel (or similar free version). I understand this is a paper journal channel but this is what computers are good at.
I’ve been mulling over it this week, and I’ve come to a similar conclusion about what I’m describing being better suited for excel. At the same time, using excel suddenly feels too close to work, and while that isn’t necessarily a bad thing, I like the idea of containing it all in my Weeks. So… I’m currently re-evaluating what and why I want to track in the notes pages. Basically, I’m overthinking everything. 🙃
@LittleCocoStudio relatable on all fronts.
My day job is as an analytical chemist so graphing data is a substantial portion of my job.
For the most part I've purposefully quit tracking personal information because I find it to be problematic for my mental space. But I do understand that sometimes we need information and I agree with you that giving one's doctor the information they are going to ask for is very helpful.
Best of luck on the overthinking 💕
@@KatiesCraftStudio Thank you! Oh gosh, if that’s what you’re doing at your day job, then I can understand why you’d want a break from it in your personal life! I could never stay consistent with tracking personal information in the past becuase it always started to feel too much like work. I often worked on data dashboard / data visualization projects at work, which is probably influencing many of my decisions right now. It has been helpful, but it has also brought up a lot of work memories.
I’m interested to see how consistent I am with tracking this information after the initial excitement of trying a new layout wears off. I’m also looking forward to hearing my doctor’s perspective on what’s worth tracking for future treatment / symptom management perspective.
Are you tracking 1-10 for symptoms? I think I am going to use my weeks as a health planner
Currently, it's a mix of both where some symptoms are being tracked on a 10-point scale while others are on a 5-point scale. Thanks for asking this clarifying question - it has made me realize that it will make my life easier if I standardize them to all be 1-5 or 1-10!
Also, you talked about not self diagnosing and stuff, but am i correct that you do have ADHD or did i just assume that? As a fellow neurodivergent person i'm always interested to see how others plan and make it work! :D
Yes, you are correct in that I received a formal ADHD diagnosis. :) I am with you on being interested in learning how others use their planners! I'm always learning something new, and I find it very inspiring! :)