One Book July is funny to me, because I really struggle with using more than one planner! I'm a one-book girl all year round--planner stacks feel very overwhelming to me, and I lose track of what things I wrote in which planner/notebook. That said, I planner-hop a whole lot, because I get "itchy" very easily in my planner. So, I'm always only using one at a time, but I have a whole bunch I've started and then abandoned *shrug*
I would have to back fill so it would be more overwhelming to fill in months at a time to have it all than just breaking down into two books so the part I didn't need out and about didn't add extra weight and bulk.
The person that created one book July is Rhomany from Rhomany’s Realm here on RUclips. This is the 11th year. Each year they have different areas and goals so there are so many that you can choose. Get it to fit your needs. The first one, 11 years ago was 1 book, 1 pen, and 1 highlighter. Now with so many people bullet journaling 1 book isn’t necessarily an odd thing.
Aww, I hope that you heal well. Please make sure to give yourself grace. I'm glad that you're participating in One Book July, too. I've been having fun downsizing to one planner, so far. I'm also using the B6 Common Planner. Ha, ha! I have hydrangeas. Don't worry, once they finally take off they are low maintenance.
Good to hear from you but obviously you are not obligated to fill us in. Many of us are thinking of you and hoping for the best for you! Less importantly, as someone juggling multiple planners always (just have analysis paralysis! and am a maximizer), I did One Book July years ago with A5 rings and it totally suited all of my needs. May have been so many years ago it was before I fell hard for the Tomhoe River Paper, which is now very difficult for me to ever consider not using. All this said, I am doing a "2 book July" (still a reduction in the # of planners I have) but using a B6 bound Wonderland222 and then a 6-month Daily Duo from EC. Already missing rings (it is July 1!), but seriously hoping this month can have me reflect on what my real deal is and what could work for 2025. Good luck to all of us giving this a whirl! Take good care of yourself!
So thrilled to see you join the challenge this year. Looking forward to your videos on One Book July! Praying for a speedy recovery Julie. You are amazing. ❤🙏 TN Common Planner.
I didn’t know about this planner but since I missed most of the year in my planner this year, guilt free entries/missed entries sounds good right now. Thank you and so glad you’re back and on the mend.💝
So happy to hear your voice & laugh! Glad you are doing well! Breast cancer sucks! Something in the water where I live. In my circle of friends, it has affected so many of my girlfriends. sigh. So makes me happy to here you on the other side it :). On a planner note, I am gonna try one book too! What is your cute pink pen pouch? I need a new one!! Take care!!
Welcome back!! Wishing you a speedy recovery. I missed your videos. I am also doing One book July in my. Common A5 Planner. I hope I can stay with it the full month..lol
👋🏿🫶🏿 Two minutes of research 😂 I think one year I did one book July on discs. I am in a state of chaos and overwhelmed. I kinda want to damn everything in one book yet not.
I've been using one book since January 😅 For me the whole appeal of using a planner is having my entire year in one book so once I found something that works for me, I've stuck with it. I love my Sterling Ink horizontal N1 planner. I'm glad to see you're giving Sterling Ink another shot!
Welcome Back Julie! Sending healing and prayers to you my friend! I am talking this challenge of sticking to one planner for the month of July and I am excited to see how I do. I LOVE your gold ring? I have been looking for it everywhere. May I ask where you got it? Thanks :)
Have missed you so much Julie! Wishing you all the best for happiness, health, and recovery! We love you! I used an undated B6 Sterling Ink planner last year and it didn't end up working out for me! The undated pages were ultimately my downfall. With great flexibility comes great indecision!!! 🤣 On days that I didn't feel like writing, I felt that I had to allocate space in case I did ever want to go back. But how much space? Then the days would add up and eventually I stopped journalling altogether! This year, I've found that dated pages really allow me that space to write (or not write) without worrying about not being able to back journal. I now have two A6 Hobonichi planners and a Hobonichi Weeks and have seemed to just hit my groove, so I won't be joining in on the one book July challenge, but I love seeing how everyone else plans to do it!
B6 has become my favourite to use and take with me. I’ll always have my hobo A5 and Hemlock & Oak weekly, but B6 is quite the perfect size! I pre-ordered a B6 for 2025 from Twines & Paper. So happy to see you, Julie 🌼
Hearing your voice makes my day! I’m sending up prayers and I always wish you well. HABITS…okay I thought it said Rabbits. I was wondering what kind of treatment they had you following! 😂
I'm glad to hear you're recovering well. Good luck with your journeys, both OBJ and postsurgical recovery. You have been in my thoughts and prayers, have sent healing energy your way. Thank you for your video 🤩
I am a teacher so I've kind of been doing the One Book thing all summer. I've been using my Hobonichi weeks and it works great during the summer when I don't have as much going on. I do also use a small daily notebook as a modified version of a bullet journal but it is working well for me. Glad to see you back on YT and hope you are getting plenty of rest to aid in your recovery.
Now I’m influenced to try just one planner! 😮 The shock of it to my system, oh my! Can you tell me about the markers in your pen case please? Always curious about writing utensils. 😊 oohhh and also the pen case please.
So happy you are feeling up to filming! ❤❤❤❤❤ The thing that holds me back from Common Planner is that I do quite a bit of back journaling and skip around. So if it's all blank and I want to journal June 15 before I journal June 1, I can't? Or I can but it will be out of order? I love the size of the Common Planner but can't get over this. I realize I could date every page beforehand but that seems counterintuitive to the design of the planner. But who makes the rules anyway? 😂 Can't wait to see how you use it and how the undated part goes for you. Again, so glad you are healing and feeling a bit better.
This has inspired me to do this for my upcoming school year. I'm an elementary art teacher, and I love planners/planbooks. Over the last 4 years I have jumped into new planbooks mid school year. Lol Once I start in one planbook, a different planbook looks shiny and new to me. So this year, I'm going to try my very best to stick to the planbook I chose for this upcoming school year and I'll ONLY switch to something different /new if my current planner is not working out. All rambling aside, thanks for sharing!!
I love these one book planner challenges cause my goal progressing with my bujo has been to get it to a place where i can both do the tracking I want, the logging i need for memory help, AND the journailling I miss. These videos give me ideas about new things to try and actually gave me my perfect daily spread a couple years ago. I'm still figuring out the trackers but as all things, it's a process.
Prayers for healing and recovery! I like watching these one book July videos! I prefer the flexibility of a blank page. I have been watching bloom daily planners RUclips channel live planner clinic videos where they discussed four planner personalities, which is helping find a format that will work for me!
I love the common planner. I take the daily pages and split them down the middle do have 2 days on one page. I can also use more than one for celebration. I used 2 pages for my birthday. I gave myself 300 pages for the whole year. I am loving it.
So glad you are back. I would check to see if you posted and am happy to see you are on recovery road. I pray it goes smoothly and you heal quickly. As for your empty pages, I too was out of my book last year due to surgery and when I look back on those empty pages I think, it's a good thing they are empty, I was concentrated on my healing. Empty pages can be a good thing too. Continue to take good care of yourself and good to see you back.
I’ve tried to stick to one planner this year but I am itching to try personal size again. lol it’s good to see you in a B6, as that’s what I’m currently in, maybe seeing your b6 will inspire me to stay in one as well! 😊😊😊
Was just wondering how you are doing this week and just saw this video pop up. Your lightness to your voice in this video is just inspiring after what you've gone thorough. I hope you have a smooth recovery.
I currently only use one book. But as a Program Specialist at a library June and July are my two busiest months and it was a struggle to keep up with my planner in June because there were so many things happening every single day and I didn't prioritize a while lot outside of work. So I think for July I might switch to my junk journal/watercolor book so that I can have some personal, nothing to do with work, creative time and just play with things with less pressure.... so it's different book July for me!
🙏🏾…during your recovery I’m already in one book…B6 Aura Estelle it’s not the catch all but it’s the one that has the month followed by two blank pages an the the week none page-horizontally and then seven daily pages. This is what sold me. I had a LD horizontal the first half the year and just decided I wanted to downsize so I can carry my planner everywhere I go. I’m just working on how I can incorporate my life into this size. So far so good…but school and work start back next month so we shall see. 🤞🏾 Loved your video❤
Love this! I kind of just downsized to one book as well, even before I knew about one book July. I’m now in a Hobonichi A6 avec with the weekly supplement tucked into the same cover. That counts as one book, right? 😂 I’m loving it so far! I use my planner pretty functionally for planning, so each day has a personal task list and a work task list and I roll incomplete tasks over to the next day. I have a Sterling Ink grid notebook for my separate journal, so I don’t need as much room in my planner.
I started in the Sterling Ink A5 Common Planner in February. I've got the version that's split into two books, so I was so excited to start the 2nd book today so I can use the whole book from the beginning. I absolutely love the neutral colored pages. I hope you end up loving yours as much as I've been loving mine!
Nothing like a fresh planner start mid year! I have rings and a cousin but I only really plan in my sterling ink TN Common Planner….. so I’m calling that a win as in… Im probably breaking the rules haha. It was so nice to see you pop back up on the feed, may you have peace and comfort in the continuing of your healing journey. ❤
I didn’t even know about one book July but yes I am doing it because I do one book every month! 😂 I’ve been out of the loop for some time and have clearly missed some things. I’m so sorry about Bruiser. And I hope you have a speedy recovery from your surgery.
Great info and video. I love a commonplace journal/planner. My needs are simple and I love the just “turn the page aspect”. I use a bound journal or a Stalogy. Blessings to you and your continued recovery. You are an inspiration for many reasons. ✝️💜
So happy for your journey to recovery ❤ One brave lady and thanks for joining in on OBJ 2024. I have been doing OBJ since it first began as Planning is my hobby and place of happiness. Thanks for joining us on an adventure to finding ways to improve our planning. So many great ideas, resources to explore.
You are a warrior! Prayers for a speedy recovery. Glad to see another video. Continue to take care of yourself.
I'm super impressed with your positive attitude after having a double masectomy. Prayers for your complete healing❤❤❤
One Book July is funny to me, because I really struggle with using more than one planner! I'm a one-book girl all year round--planner stacks feel very overwhelming to me, and I lose track of what things I wrote in which planner/notebook. That said, I planner-hop a whole lot, because I get "itchy" very easily in my planner. So, I'm always only using one at a time, but I have a whole bunch I've started and then abandoned *shrug*
I’m very similar. Every time I’ve tried using multiple planners at once I’ve gotten overwhelmed and stopped planning completely.
That used to be me. now i just rewrite things in different things
I would have to back fill so it would be more overwhelming to fill in months at a time to have it all than just breaking down into two books so the part I didn't need out and about didn't add extra weight and bulk.
Where are your cute vinyls from? Have been keeping you in my prayers 😊
So glad to see you posting a video! I really didn’t care what the topic was as it is just a joy to see your work. Hoping you are healing well!
Wow, you are a true warrior. Prayers for a speedy and complete recovery. Thanks for sharing. 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷💪💪🏻💪🏼💪🏽💪🏾
The person that created one book July is Rhomany from Rhomany’s Realm here on RUclips. This is the 11th year. Each year they have different areas and goals so there are so many that you can choose. Get it to fit your needs. The first one, 11 years ago was 1 book, 1 pen, and 1 highlighter.
Now with so many people bullet journaling 1 book isn’t necessarily an odd thing.
Awesome. Absolutely no way I could do just one pen 🤣love seeing how everyone makes it their own and how it’s evolved!
Wishing you a great month and good luck with your one book July journey! It's gonna be good! ❤
Nice to see you, Julie. Best wishes for your recovery.
Thank you!
Aww, I hope that you heal well. Please make sure to give yourself grace.
I'm glad that you're participating in One Book July, too. I've been having fun downsizing to one planner, so far. I'm also using the B6 Common Planner.
Ha, ha! I have hydrangeas. Don't worry, once they finally take off they are low maintenance.
Praying for you and your recovery 🙏🙏
Good to hear from you but obviously you are not obligated to fill us in. Many of us are thinking of you and hoping for the best for you! Less importantly, as someone juggling multiple planners always (just have analysis paralysis! and am a maximizer), I did One Book July years ago with A5 rings and it totally suited all of my needs. May have been so many years ago it was before I fell hard for the Tomhoe River Paper, which is now very difficult for me to ever consider not using. All this said, I am doing a "2 book July" (still a reduction in the # of planners I have) but using a B6 bound Wonderland222 and then a 6-month Daily Duo from EC. Already missing rings (it is July 1!), but seriously hoping this month can have me reflect on what my real deal is and what could work for 2025. Good luck to all of us giving this a whirl! Take good care of yourself!
My prayers go out to you girl! Stay strong! ❤ But enjoying the content in the video so far because I SO hardcore struggle with only one book 😅
So thrilled to see you join the challenge this year. Looking forward to your videos on One Book July! Praying for a speedy recovery Julie. You are amazing. ❤🙏 TN Common Planner.
My book will be my personal rings planner. I’m one book Jan-Dec.
I didn’t know about this planner but since I missed most of the year in my planner this year, guilt free entries/missed entries sounds good right now. Thank you and so glad you’re back and on the mend.💝
So happy to hear your voice & laugh! Glad you are doing well! Breast cancer sucks! Something in the water where I live. In my circle of friends, it has affected so many of my girlfriends. sigh. So makes me happy to here you on the other side it :). On a planner note, I am gonna try one book too! What is your cute pink pen pouch? I need a new one!! Take care!!
So good to have you back. Sending you lots of healing thoughts and prayers.
So happy to see a video from you Julie. Thinking of you!
Welcome back!! Wishing you a speedy recovery. I missed your videos. I am also doing One book July in my. Common A5 Planner. I hope I can stay with it the full month..lol
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Two minutes of research 😂
I think one year I did one book July on discs. I am in a state of chaos and overwhelmed. I kinda want to damn everything in one book yet not.
I've been using one book since January 😅 For me the whole appeal of using a planner is having my entire year in one book so once I found something that works for me, I've stuck with it. I love my Sterling Ink horizontal N1 planner. I'm glad to see you're giving Sterling Ink another shot!
Julie, wishing you a speedy recovery 🙏🏼 What a great idea about the one journal July. Take care of yourself.
I'm not doing one book July as I'm only ever in one book 😆. I liked seeing you plans though and I hope your recovery is going well x
Glad you’re back! Do you have a link to this planner?
Sending love and have you in my thoughts.
Sending you healing vibes 🩵
Hello, love the video. Hope you are feeling well. I’m also participating in the #OnebookJuly. Good luck 👍
Yay! We got this! And thank you so much!
Oh where, oh where did you get the initial ring you have on your middle finger/ right hand???? xoxoxoxo ... Susan
It was Christmas gift, not sure where it was from
Welcome Back Julie! Sending healing and prayers to you my friend! I am talking this challenge of sticking to one planner for the month of July and I am excited to see how I do. I LOVE your gold ring? I have been looking for it everywhere. May I ask where you got it? Thanks :)
Have missed you so much Julie! Wishing you all the best for happiness, health, and recovery! We love you!
I used an undated B6 Sterling Ink planner last year and it didn't end up working out for me! The undated pages were ultimately my downfall. With great flexibility comes great indecision!!! 🤣 On days that I didn't feel like writing, I felt that I had to allocate space in case I did ever want to go back. But how much space? Then the days would add up and eventually I stopped journalling altogether! This year, I've found that dated pages really allow me that space to write (or not write) without worrying about not being able to back journal. I now have two A6 Hobonichi planners and a Hobonichi Weeks and have seemed to just hit my groove, so I won't be joining in on the one book July challenge, but I love seeing how everyone else plans to do it!
B6 has become my favourite to use and take with me. I’ll always have my hobo A5 and Hemlock & Oak weekly, but B6 is quite the perfect size! I pre-ordered a B6 for 2025 from Twines & Paper. So happy to see you, Julie 🌼
Hearing your voice makes my day! I’m sending up prayers and I always wish you well.
HABITS…okay I thought it said Rabbits. I was wondering what kind of treatment they had you following! 😂
very good I like
I'm glad to hear you're recovering well. Good luck with your journeys, both OBJ and postsurgical recovery. You have been in my thoughts and prayers, have sent healing energy your way. Thank you for your video 🤩
I am a teacher so I've kind of been doing the One Book thing all summer. I've been using my Hobonichi weeks and it works great during the summer when I don't have as much going on. I do also use a small daily notebook as a modified version of a bullet journal but it is working well for me. Glad to see you back on YT and hope you are getting plenty of rest to aid in your recovery.
Now I’m influenced to try just one planner! 😮 The shock of it to my system, oh my!
Can you tell me about the markers in your pen case please? Always curious about writing utensils. 😊 oohhh and also the pen case please.
So happy you are feeling up to filming! ❤❤❤❤❤
The thing that holds me back from Common Planner is that I do quite a bit of back journaling and skip around. So if it's all blank and I want to journal June 15 before I journal June 1, I can't? Or I can but it will be out of order? I love the size of the Common Planner but can't get over this. I realize I could date every page beforehand but that seems counterintuitive to the design of the planner. But who makes the rules anyway? 😂 Can't wait to see how you use it and how the undated part goes for you. Again, so glad you are healing and feeling a bit better.
This has inspired me to do this for my upcoming school year. I'm an elementary art teacher, and I love planners/planbooks. Over the last 4 years I have jumped into new planbooks mid school year. Lol Once I start in one planbook, a different planbook looks shiny and new to me. So this year, I'm going to try my very best to stick to the planbook I chose for this upcoming school year and I'll ONLY switch to something different /new if my current planner is not working out. All rambling aside, thanks for sharing!!
VERY GOOD
So happy to hear you!! Glad you came through the surgery and are on the mend. Keeping you in my prayers!
I love these one book planner challenges cause my goal progressing with my bujo has been to get it to a place where i can both do the tracking I want, the logging i need for memory help, AND the journailling I miss. These videos give me ideas about new things to try and actually gave me my perfect daily spread a couple years ago. I'm still figuring out the trackers but as all things, it's a process.
Prayers for healing and recovery! I like watching these one book July videos! I prefer the flexibility of a blank page. I have been watching bloom daily planners RUclips channel live planner clinic videos where they discussed four planner personalities, which is helping find a format that will work for me!
I love the common planner. I take the daily pages and split them down the middle do have 2 days on one page. I can also use more than one for celebration. I used 2 pages for my birthday. I gave myself 300 pages for the whole year. I am loving it.
So glad you are back. I would check to see if you posted and am happy to see you are on recovery road. I pray it goes smoothly and you heal quickly. As for your empty pages, I too was out of my book last year due to surgery and when I look back on those empty pages I think, it's a good thing they are empty, I was concentrated on my healing. Empty pages can be a good thing too. Continue to take good care of yourself and good to see you back.
I’ve tried to stick to one planner this year but I am itching to try personal size again. lol it’s good to see you in a B6, as that’s what I’m currently in, maybe seeing your b6 will inspire me to stay in one as well! 😊😊😊
Was just wondering how you are doing this week and just saw this video pop up. Your lightness to your voice in this video is just inspiring after what you've gone thorough. I hope you have a smooth recovery.
Julie, you have truly been missed 💜 Glad you are taking the time you need to recover 🥰 Sending all of the healing vibes!
Glad you are getting closer to total health, 🙏🏽 for you.
Glad to see you in a video! Hope you are feeling better. Many blessings.
So glad to see you back. This looks like a fun project!🎉
Praying for a quick recovery.. take some time to rest !
Love seeing a video from you again. Prayers for your recovery.
Glad to know that everything went well!
I currently only use one book. But as a Program Specialist at a library June and July are my two busiest months and it was a struggle to keep up with my planner in June because there were so many things happening every single day and I didn't prioritize a while lot outside of work. So I think for July I might switch to my junk journal/watercolor book so that I can have some personal, nothing to do with work, creative time and just play with things with less pressure.... so it's different book July for me!
Also very happy to have your videos pop up in my subscriptions again!
🙏🏾…during your recovery
I’m already in one book…B6 Aura Estelle it’s not the catch all but it’s the one that has the month followed by two blank pages an the the week none page-horizontally and then seven daily pages. This is what sold me. I had a LD horizontal the first half the year and just decided I wanted to downsize so I can carry my planner everywhere I go. I’m just working on how I can incorporate my life into this size. So far so good…but school and work start back next month so we shall see. 🤞🏾
Loved your video❤
Thank you for watching 🫶🏼
Love this! I kind of just downsized to one book as well, even before I knew about one book July. I’m now in a Hobonichi A6 avec with the weekly supplement tucked into the same cover. That counts as one book, right? 😂 I’m loving it so far! I use my planner pretty functionally for planning, so each day has a personal task list and a work task list and I roll incomplete tasks over to the next day. I have a Sterling Ink grid notebook for my separate journal, so I don’t need as much room in my planner.
Of course that counts as one book 😉 I need to grab a Sterling ink grid notebook!
I started in the Sterling Ink A5 Common Planner in February. I've got the version that's split into two books, so I was so excited to start the 2nd book today so I can use the whole book from the beginning. I absolutely love the neutral colored pages. I hope you end up loving yours as much as I've been loving mine!
I love that they offer the split version!
Nothing like a fresh planner start mid year! I have rings and a cousin but I only really plan in my sterling ink TN Common Planner….. so I’m calling that a win as in… Im probably breaking the rules haha. It was so nice to see you pop back up on the feed, may you have peace and comfort in the continuing of your healing journey. ❤
No rules 😉 and thank you 😊
I didn’t even know about one book July but yes I am doing it because I do one book every month! 😂 I’ve been out of the loop for some time and have clearly missed some things. I’m so sorry about Bruiser. And I hope you have a speedy recovery from your surgery.
Thank you 🙏🏼
Great info and video. I love a commonplace journal/planner. My needs are simple and I love the just “turn the page aspect”. I use a bound journal or a Stalogy. Blessings to you and your continued recovery. You are an inspiration for many reasons. ✝️💜
Thank you so much 😊
Glad to see you’re back! I was just thinking about you. Sending you positive, healing energy.
Thank you so much!
So happy for your journey to recovery ❤ One brave lady and thanks for joining in on OBJ 2024. I have been doing OBJ since it first began as Planning is my hobby and place of happiness. Thanks for joining us on an adventure to finding ways to improve our planning. So many great ideas, resources to explore.
So glad to be doing it this year! Looking forward to seeing what it reveals about my planning needs:)
Yay you’re back! Had already resorted to watching old videos as I know that helps you. So glad you feel well enough to film a video. Loved it ❤
Yay! Thank you!
Glad to see you back at it! I've been watching your old planning videos and getting all the planner inspo! Hope your recovery is going well ❤
Thank you so much!!
So good to see you back, Julie. I’ve been praying for you😊
Great video as usual!
Thank you so much!
Don't thank us for being patient! Thank YOU for taking the time off you need in order to rest up and get back on track.
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So happy to hear you again, hugs and prayers to you during your recovery! I am already a one book person! Daily Duo all the way!
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Glad to see ya back. 💙💙
Welcome back, Julie!
Julie so great to hear you
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Welcome back sweetie! xxxxx
Thank you 😊😊😊
I have planner guilt when I miss days.