One thing I have in my planner is a sort of index. I don't list every little thing like you see some planners demonstrate. I list project notes... the dimensions of the back door or the notes for that social security issue. Because my pages aren't numbered, I reference the date of the planner page notated. Not only is this handy for finding my notes, but looking back over this index, it's become a snapshot of what I've been working on or even what I've been thinking about this year. Having the dates instead of the page numbers really completes the picture upon review.💖🌞🌵😷
I love rings. It offers so much more flexibility than a bound notebook. If I want to use special art paper, there's no gluing in pages... A quick punch and it's in. You mentioned moving to a new notebook at the year's halfway point. I do that when I move my sheets to my archive binders. But many of my spreads continue to stay in my working notebook until they are too tattered or too annotated and need a refresh. 💖🌞🌵😷
What are you using for archiving Suzi? This has always been my struggle with rings - I don't feel like I have a completed, whole book in the end that I can look back on. Would love to know about your system there. Thanks as always for sharing your ideas!
@@PlanningAnnie , truthfully I use cheaper rings for archiving the last couple of years so I can add pages that I've revised. Then (every 4 or 5 years) I make pretty chipboard covers and lace my pages together as I rarely reference notebooks more than 5 years old. I'm not sure what you'd do if you had split holes like the happy planners... probably just keep the old pages on plastic rings. As for keeping whole books together, I'm okay with not having my address book in every year. I'm okay with not having my yearly & quarterly task tracker in every year. But if that bothered me, I would revise and print out new ones every year so the old ones could be archived. I like to use spreadsheets to make trackers with all those little boxes. I guess I'm not clear on what you mean about keeping whole books together. 💖🌞🌵😷
@@PlanningAnnie , If you mean that some years are thicker than others... Yes, some years have more than one archive notebook, just like you do in bound notebooks. But, I know future logs are found before January and my address books, trackers, index and other odd pages are found after December 31st. (That's why I use rings to archive the more recent years... so I can add trackers and address book etc. as I revise them.) I suppose, I could keep October's future log with it's month, but I've found that it's just easier to keep them all together. I like before January because that's where I keep them in my working notebook (in the first section.) 💖🌞🌵😷
Ive been using an EC monthly with 10 blank pages in between. I have the monthly dashboard for my goals and bottom tracker for my fasting glucose. Then i have ... Page 1. To Do's for the month, to buy and waiting on. Page 2. Monthly tracker for everything i track during the month. Page 3 & 4 . 4 weeks on 2 pages that i set-up Page 5. Grocery list on top,meal ideas on bottom Page 6 & 7 Note pages for phones,brain dump, etc. Page 8. Monthly scripture reading plan Page 9. Faith notes. Prayers, scripture etc Page 10. Memory keeping. I tip in decorative paper and put pictures of the month, i have tons of pics of my grands each month lol. I use a 7x9, so it sits on my kitchen table. I grab my bible in the morning and my devotion and write down whatever comes to my mind. I did add extra pages to the back for projects, trip planning, etc. I have a birthday list,a monthly budget & symptom list. Im peri-menopausal and Diabetic so i track a lil of everything. I do have a personal tn that i keep in my purse , i put the hobonichi weeks away for a bit lol. Anyway i can't wait to see your setup.. Have a lovely weekend!
Great minds think alike! I am currently laying out a planner starting in June. I will be down sizing from an A5 rings to a passport journal. My needs are simple and I’m enjoying the smaller pages. I’m doing a 2 page for the week, and boxes on each page to make the week. Then a whole page, maybe 2 pages, dedicated to various lists. I am retired and enjoying less tracking. Thank you for all your videos, your channel is amazing. 🤩 🌟🤩⭐️🤩💫
You are the most encouraging planner content creator I have seen. My style just clicks with yours. Thank you for sharing and I can’t wait to see the next six months
I currently use an A5 ring binder and I don't forsee me changing that for the rest of the year. It's not the most convenient for writing, but I can exchange pages anytime. Your symptom tracker reminds me, that I should do something like that as well. I have a few chronic issues. Pretty extensive lists. Unfortunately I cannot read them due to my low vision. So I'm not sure, if those are on them: - Setting up your planner pages for thanksgiving / christmas (meal plans, drinks, decoration to fetch/diy, plans for entertainment, guest list, gifts given / received etc.). You can't start early enough with prep work at least in your head and journal. Early gift shopping helps and might be cheaper, too. - vision board (fresh notebook = fresh start = fresh goals = fresh vision board)
When I'm preparing to move into a new journal/planner, I review what worked, what didn't and consider why that is. It looks like you have everything covered, and I'm looking forward to the next video!
First page I add at the back each time I begin a new planner is called “Next Journal”. As I go, I record thoughts about changes, additions, etc. I want to consider the next time. Then I don’t have to remember it all at time of setting up the new one.
I clicked on this because 2 days ago I was watching a video about bullet journaling and just clicked on 3 different videos. And I too am trying to simplify my life. So I made a list on my phone; I wrote down habits ima going to eliminate because I’ve incorporated them into my daily life already, eliminating some planners and just combining some into one. Adding notebooks versus using notion, asking myself how many times I’ve used notion and seeing if it’s gunna be a documentation type of space or something I’m going to be using weekly, reviewing some of my planners to truly see why I haven’t been reaching for em or using them in the way I planned to. Revamping some planners and changing the way I use them so it can be more effective. Sorry for the long post lol
You are such an inspiration to me! I’m such completionist that I struggle so much with not “completing” a planner all the way through. I love new supplies, planners and stationary but I struggle to enjoy what I have bc of that mindset. Thank you for encouraging me to embrace change and play with my supplies!
I get some kind of immense satisfaction when I complete every single page of a planner so I always stay in the same one for a year. But there are so many others that I would like to try. I’m torn.
I stay in the same one for a year also. I like to have each year together. I use a 6-ring A5 binder and print my own pages on a monthly basis. That means I can make adjustments fairly regularly.
That's why I love rings too! If I see a new layout that I want to try, I just make one... If it has a lot of lines I use a spreadsheet app. I can even add graphics if I want. 💖🌞🌵😷
I'm getting back into using one planner too. I've been experimenting with different planners but keep coming back to my Stalogy for a full year. I have to keep a separate planner for work and one for health to take to doctor appointments
I just bought a personal size ring planner for my wallet. Also stores are starting to stock academic planners starting in July. I contemplated using them but my brain won't let me use bound books. I have to use rings so I have the possibility to reorganize and change!
I am not changing planners mid year at this point. I have until January. So I will be taking down notes until then on what types of things work/don't work for me. I almost always have space for my kids' health info, their school schedules, and future plans as well as a spot for a book list. Other than that, I do not have a ton that I migrate over from one planner to the next.
I absolutely adore your video's, Annie. Except for the routine enthusiasts/community/tribe-segment 😜. But I found a solution: I just forward about 2min into the video before pushing Play and now I enjoy the video's even more.🎉
Using a cousin for entire year. Switching planners now is too costly and takes too much time to set up. I’ve integrated some digital planning and Notion for other list I’d like to keep. Though I love stationery and craft/planning supplies, I’m no longer wanting to spend so much on them. I like the continuity of one daily book for the year.
I spent my life on an academic schedule and continue that now that I am retired. So, new planner coming up. Using an EC life planner this time. Normally I use an EC monthly
One thing I have in my planner is a sort of index. I don't list every little thing like you see some planners demonstrate. I list project notes... the dimensions of the back door or the notes for that social security issue.
Because my pages aren't numbered, I reference the date of the planner page notated.
Not only is this handy for finding my notes, but looking back over this index, it's become a snapshot of what I've been working on or even what I've been thinking about this year. Having the dates instead of the page numbers really completes the picture upon review.💖🌞🌵😷
I love rings. It offers so much more flexibility than a bound notebook. If I want to use special art paper, there's no gluing in pages... A quick punch and it's in.
You mentioned moving to a new notebook at the year's halfway point. I do that when I move my sheets to my archive binders. But many of my spreads continue to stay in my working notebook until they are too tattered or too annotated and need a refresh. 💖🌞🌵😷
What are you using for archiving Suzi? This has always been my struggle with rings - I don't feel like I have a completed, whole book in the end that I can look back on. Would love to know about your system there. Thanks as always for sharing your ideas!
@@PlanningAnnie , truthfully I use cheaper rings for archiving the last couple of years so I can add pages that I've revised. Then (every 4 or 5 years) I make pretty chipboard covers and lace my pages together as I rarely reference notebooks more than 5 years old.
I'm not sure what you'd do if you had split holes like the happy planners... probably just keep the old pages on plastic rings.
As for keeping whole books together, I'm okay with not having my address book in every year. I'm okay with not having my yearly & quarterly task tracker in every year. But if that bothered me, I would revise and print out new ones every year so the old ones could be archived. I like to use spreadsheets to make trackers with all those little boxes.
I guess I'm not clear on what you mean about keeping whole books together. 💖🌞🌵😷
@@PlanningAnnie , If you mean that some years are thicker than others... Yes, some years have more than one archive notebook, just like you do in bound notebooks. But, I know future logs are found before January and my address books, trackers, index and other odd pages are found after December 31st. (That's why I use rings to archive the more recent years... so I can add trackers and address book etc. as I revise them.)
I suppose, I could keep October's future log with it's month, but I've found that it's just easier to keep them all together. I like before January because that's where I keep them in my working notebook (in the first section.) 💖🌞🌵😷
Ive been using an EC monthly with 10 blank pages in between. I have the monthly dashboard for my goals and bottom tracker for my fasting glucose. Then i have ...
Page 1. To Do's for the month, to buy and waiting on.
Page 2. Monthly tracker for everything i track during the month.
Page 3 & 4 . 4 weeks on 2 pages that i set-up
Page 5. Grocery list on top,meal ideas on bottom
Page 6 & 7 Note pages for phones,brain dump, etc.
Page 8. Monthly scripture reading plan
Page 9. Faith notes. Prayers, scripture etc
Page 10. Memory keeping. I tip in decorative paper and put pictures of the month, i have tons of pics of my grands each month lol. I use a 7x9, so it sits on my kitchen table. I grab my bible in the morning and my devotion and write down whatever comes to my mind.
I did add extra pages to the back for projects, trip planning, etc. I have a birthday list,a monthly budget & symptom list. Im peri-menopausal and Diabetic so i track a lil of everything.
I do have a personal tn that i keep in my purse , i put the hobonichi weeks away for a bit lol. Anyway i can't wait to see your setup.. Have a lovely weekend!
Great minds think alike! I am currently laying out a planner starting in June. I will be down sizing from an A5 rings to a passport journal. My needs are simple and I’m enjoying the smaller pages. I’m doing a 2 page for the week, and boxes on each page to make the week. Then a whole page, maybe 2 pages, dedicated to various lists. I am retired and enjoying less tracking. Thank you for all your videos, your channel is amazing. 🤩 🌟🤩⭐️🤩💫
You are the most encouraging planner content creator I have seen. My style just clicks with yours. Thank you for sharing and I can’t wait to see the next six months
I currently use an A5 ring binder and I don't forsee me changing that for the rest of the year. It's not the most convenient for writing, but I can exchange pages anytime.
Your symptom tracker reminds me, that I should do something like that as well. I have a few chronic issues.
Pretty extensive lists. Unfortunately I cannot read them due to my low vision. So I'm not sure, if those are on them:
- Setting up your planner pages for thanksgiving / christmas (meal plans, drinks, decoration to fetch/diy, plans for entertainment, guest list, gifts given / received etc.). You can't start early enough with prep work at least in your head and journal. Early gift shopping helps and might be cheaper, too.
- vision board (fresh notebook = fresh start = fresh goals = fresh vision board)
When I'm preparing to move into a new journal/planner, I review what worked, what didn't and consider why that is. It looks like you have everything covered, and I'm looking forward to the next video!
First page I add at the back each time I begin a new planner is called “Next Journal”. As I go, I record thoughts about changes, additions, etc. I want to consider the next time. Then I don’t have to remember it all at time of setting up the new one.
That's a great idea!
I clicked on this because 2 days ago I was watching a video about bullet journaling and just clicked on 3 different videos. And I too am trying to simplify my life.
So I made a list on my phone; I wrote down habits ima going to eliminate because I’ve incorporated them into my daily life already, eliminating some planners and just combining some into one. Adding notebooks versus using notion, asking myself how many times I’ve used notion and seeing if it’s gunna be a documentation type of space or something I’m going to be using weekly, reviewing some of my planners to truly see why I haven’t been reaching for em or using them in the way I planned to. Revamping some planners and changing the way I use them so it can be more effective.
Sorry for the long post lol
This was very helpful. Im starting a bullet journal for June and I'm so overwhelmed. Great idea!
You are such an inspiration to me! I’m such completionist that I struggle so much with not “completing” a planner all the way through. I love new supplies, planners and stationary but I struggle to enjoy what I have bc of that mindset. Thank you for encouraging me to embrace change and play with my supplies!
I get some kind of immense satisfaction when I complete every single page of a planner so I always stay in the same one for a year. But there are so many others that I would like to try. I’m torn.
I stay in the same one for a year also. I like to have each year together. I use a 6-ring A5 binder and print my own pages on a monthly basis. That means I can make adjustments fairly regularly.
That's why I love rings too! If I see a new layout that I want to try, I just make one... If it has a lot of lines I use a spreadsheet app. I can even add graphics if I want. 💖🌞🌵😷
I'm getting back into using one planner too. I've been experimenting with different planners but keep coming back to my Stalogy for a full year. I have to keep a separate planner for work and one for health to take to doctor appointments
I just bought a personal size ring planner for my wallet. Also stores are starting to stock academic planners starting in July. I contemplated using them but my brain won't let me use bound books. I have to use rings so I have the possibility to reorganize and change!
I am not changing planners mid year at this point. I have until January. So I will be taking down notes until then on what types of things work/don't work for me. I almost always have space for my kids' health info, their school schedules, and future plans as well as a spot for a book list. Other than that, I do not have a ton that I migrate over from one planner to the next.
I absolutely adore your video's, Annie. Except for the routine enthusiasts/community/tribe-segment 😜. But I found a solution: I just forward about 2min into the video before pushing Play and now I enjoy the video's even more.🎉
I love your vids , so helpfully, the leaderboard ideas is gold works so well, I interchange them with small sticky notes. Thanks God Bless You 💫
Using a cousin for entire year. Switching planners now is too costly and takes too much time to set up. I’ve integrated some digital planning and Notion for other list I’d like to keep. Though I love stationery and craft/planning supplies, I’m no longer wanting to spend so much on them. I like the continuity of one daily book for the year.
I spent my life on an academic schedule and continue that now that I am retired. So, new planner coming up. Using an EC life planner this time. Normally I use an EC monthly
Do you carry your bujo everywhere? Never mind, you just answered my question.
Has the baby arrived? Details please 🙏 ❤
🥰yes!🥰 He is here. And he is perfect! Grandkids are definitely where it's at🎉
Congrats!