After YEARS of planner chaos, I ended up in a $10 blue sky planner from target in May, and I’ve never been happier 😅 something utilitarian that doesn’t feel so “precious” was exactly what I needed
I'm 45 and have had a planner every year since I was in high school. My mother started me out with one. I've only recently started paying attention to the planner community. I think there is a lot of unnecessary excessiveness in it but there are some new things I learn every now and then.
I like how you touch on the difference between scheduling and planning. What really sets a planner apart is when it is used to think through and use your time intentionally. Just keeping track of your schedule is great, but thinking through everything else is the next level.
Same with the difference between tracking expenses and budgeting. It's good to track and know how you spend, but if you really want to take control of your finances, then you have to budget and set intentions for your money *before* they are spent. It's a really great distinction to make.
This is the best beginner planner video I’ve seen, and anyone starting out should just watch this, and make a start. I’ve been bullet journaling for over 5 years now and have made all the mistakes, started, stopped, started again… and it’s only been the last year or so that I’ve started to concentrate on adding reflection moments into my journals for recall. Being able to go back to specific times to track a health moment or a meeting note or memories of an event is so extremely beneficial. Reflection pages for each month feed on to reflection pages for the year are good place-holders to easily find what you’re looking for. You also become better at the kind of information you leave for your future self. And it becomes so much easier to review your year, to reflect on how you can do your next year. But to get to this stage, you just need to start: monthly, weekly, daily… and reflect your week or month in bullet points and move on. Pre-printed planners never work for me, there’s never enough space to just turn to the next blank page spread and have a brain dump for an idea or an interest… and then the next day on the next blank page write the days day and date and resume your daily’s… But they do for other people, so experiment, and just start😊
My planner is $1 grid composition notebook. With $0.5 erasable pen. It works. I don't care how it looks like as long as it works. Takes all the pressure off. Oh, and notion
I recently moved into a passport size bujo planner and have never been happier! The smaller size is perfect for me and less intimidating because I don’t have as much space that I feel like I need to fill.
Every one of your planner videos gives me two or more new ideas which is just wonderful. I've been using the back of a dot journal I use as a commonplace book to trial out different layouts ahead of 2024, which I'm going to start in a nice new notebook
My planner peace has been cheap letter size off the shelf and a notebook from a dollar store. Just finished my 2022-23 academic yesterday and moved into my 2023-24 this morning.
ahh thanks so much for the great reminder that we can start a planner with just a plain notebook. since i’ve not done well with pre-printed planners (but am tempted to get one), using a blank journal will help me figure out what layouts work best for me. i’m trying analog this week because of your video!
When I was in high school, they started handing out basic planners when we were in sophomore year to get us used to planning out our schedules. I color coded my classes and always knew my homework based on the color. I will never forget my Psych teacher using mine as an example of how to use it (apparently I was one of 25 in the entire school who actually used theirs). I never forgot the pride and how easy it made my life and never looked back. Now I have a planner for everything and couldn’t be happier. A5 for work, Weeks for personal, TN for financial, and A5 Day Free for media (books, movies, shows, and video games).
I started planning two years ago. I started out with a horizontal planner with only checklists and I thought that I wasn't "doing planning right", so I bought myself a big vertical layout Happy Planner and a whole bunch of stickers and started using it last September- and now I'm overwhelmed... and I've still for the "I'm not doing planning right" feeling. I refer to my phone's calendar app more than I do the planner that is always sitting open on my desk right next to me. What you have shown here is closer to what I want to do: it's very simple and looks quite manageable. Thanks very much for this video 🙂
As someone who gets overwhelmed on the layout, telling me to design and hand draw the lines and make a custom layout through use of a notebook. Just adds way more options and exacerbates the problem.
This is really helpful, thank you! I love that you showed basic vs decorated versions! I love decorated pages but find that I don't keep up with it and my planner gets abandoned. Also... I want that Spirited Away pen!!! ❤
I get sooo giddy when I get a notification about your videos! Then I saw the title and got even more excited ! Your ability to make planning practical helps me ‘learn’ my planner style and not get overwhelmed!
I've tried, so hard, to find more planner tubers and I just can't. Your charisma, demenour and video layouts can't be beat! I just admire your channel so much. If it's had a large uptick in the past week it's probably because I've binge all your content over and over for the past couple weeks, haha. Thank you xo, Renee
This is an interesting video. Very thought out and definitely covers a lot of information. But I disagree with the recommendation of a blank notebook for a beginner planner. Although it is cheaper and very versatile for many people that need a planner it requires time they don’t have - they need to get into their planner and no matter how simple drawing your own spreads takes time. And many people, especially newbies, are very overwhelmed by the blank page. They fear messing up their planner and it not being “perfect” and they don’t know what they want or need. Figuring out what they want to add, the order, the layout etc is a lot for someone that’s new. And I also don’t recommend sticker boxes for newbies because they are costly and overwhelming. You don’t know where to use the stickers, where you’ll want them, how much functional space they need etc. I believe that the easiest thing to start with is 1) a store bought inexpensive planner - target, office supply stores, Walmart etc all sell them and a pen. It’s cheap and simple and ready for you. Or 2) printables that you stick in rings or a TN. There’s tons of free ones and inexpensive ones too and you can easily text out different layouts and sizes and see what you like. You can even print them and not put them in any cover and just carry them in pencil bag or glue them in a cheap spiral notebook until you find your way.
I ❤ the way you present your information. It just jives with me! I have always been a pre-printed planner person and this year, decided to have a “draft” BUJO to play in. It has been great to feel like I can make mistakes, try things out, and figure out how I “tick” in the that format. I am going on a weeklong trip, taking that BUJO and allowing myself to let it become what it may-journaling as needed, brain dump, just anything. I do love, also, have one small, portable “go-to”.
I have a small planner to keep in my bag to use as a quick reference planner and “to do list”/shopping list. I use a notebook to make a more intensive planner and daily journal.
This is a really practical planner startup video! I love your approach and how you condensed your presentation into the essence of planning. That planner box set is adorable!
Just wanted to say a big thank you as this video is absolutely brilliant and it's just what I needed. I love the idea of a planner but can honestly say I have no idea how to actually use one as I am a complete beginner. I love the way that you have shown us different layouts. I have a couple of notebooks at home so I'm going to attempt a layout and see how I get on. I always feel like the day runs away with me so it would be so good to plan things out then I may not get so overwhelmed. I wish I could let you know how I get on😊
HAHA I feel you. Not too normal though, right ;) Personally, I super appreciate a back to basics method when I feel some distance from my planner system.
@@RachelleinTheoryyes, I usually get all the planners and inevitably, a couple months down the road, I’m miserable and can only use some sort of journal, a notebook, and a “catchall”. That’s where I’m at right now actually. 😂
I have come to the conclusion that I prefer loose leaf, it makes it much easier to move things around as I like (and I also use my planner as a notebook). Most of my schedule lives in my phone/computer, so it is really for planning action that I need the planner. And I’m sort of a modified GTD person.
You plan exactly how I plan. And I try to do weekly and monthly reflections as well, but I find that that is what overwhelms me. I sometimes get over perfectionistic with the way I am doing things and then it’s like my brain just shuts down and doesn’t want to think about it anymore. I just can’t handle the stress and sheer mental effort. For example I was today looking at my monthly reflections from back in 2020 and I wrote some pretty useful stuff about habits I need to establish to be more productive, things that worked for me that I have since abandoned, and a bunch of other useful stuff, but I just experienced this wave of information overload. I just don’t know how to keep things simple but progress at the same time.
Funny you should mentioned that June-ish reassessment of your planner system… 6 months into the year and I have discovered I overcomplicated things. I'm staying in my Sterling Ink for weekly/monthly schedule, common planner, journaling, but going back to my Weeks for work. It was a really good idea to try the Franklin-Covey one page a day for work, but discovered that I need a lot of note space and for strategizing and planning and it doesn't have that. Weeks is a little better, but again not sure if it's the right move. But I have another six months to figure out alternatives! Enjoy your camping trip!
I think I’m just realizing now that I dislike the traditional monthly calendar layout with the boxes, I always have a hard time fitting what I want in them. I love the first option in comparison.
I want to second how key it was to see the same month and the same items in two different displays!! I had the opposite reaction, but that's the thing, we both figured out what we prefer! I would love to see a video that includes something similar for the vertical/horizontal weekly layouts. Also the two horizontal layouts (horizontal all in one page or horizontal as a full spread on both pages). I personally like the vertical month in my digital "perpetual calendar" (reference calendar for people's birthdays, events, things to do in certain months, etc.). However, for the actual current month/year, I need to see it in calendar form for my brain to process it properly.
Thank you Rachelle. I am getting ready to start one of these and learning so much from your videos. I did subscribe of course. Just ordered my journal and some stencils tonight. In my head, I am already calling it my TaDa Journal (instead of To Do), as I am going to watch how much I get done. Then I get to go TaDa at the end of each week. LOL Here's some thoughts running through my head at the moment, in case they help someone. I was thinking that the "What worked" and "What didn't work" each week would be really useful. But I thought I'd call mine. "What to celebrate" and "What Can I learn from" Then list all the things I learned that week from what didn't work as planned to remember and look back on later. For me personally, I am the world's biggest procrastinator, which I am going to work to improve on through this journal, My thoughts of what might help me most with that is when I list monthly goals.... to put a letter next to each, R=I feel completely ready to do it. H= I am feeling hesitant. Then write all the Rs into the week to be done. And stop and break the H's into as many smaller steps as feels comfortable and then find some fun way to do them and/or a reward as each is completed Love the idea of adding in inspirational quotes too! Thanks again for all your help.
I suggest an even easier approach: RING PLANNER. With a ring binding you can change things freely and is super flexible! Ex: forgot the yearly? Just open and add it in. The monthly spread is not useful? Open the rings and remove it. You like the notes page but need them in another position? Just open and move the pages. Plus you can print pages more seamlessly, and have any format and a clean layout all the time.
This does seem so easy and functional! I love the idea of never having a spread I hate again in my planner 😂 However, I do not own a printer so this is really not an easier solution for me personally 😭 Someday I'll try it!
This is a great idea, thank you! I've noted it down... ✏️ I do have a video about a reading journal set up on the channel, and a video coming up soon about project planning a trip! Traveling is some people's "hobby" although I don't think that's QUITE what you mean 😂 Anyway, thank you for the suggestion!
Absolutely loved this video as im in the middle of creating a hybrid digital - analogue system ( for the monthly, weekly and dailies) and digital for capturing and probabably scheduling but havent made the scheduling a habit yet. But I tried to go completely digital and realised I just felt like something was missing ... the slow organic process and satisfaction of using a paper planner. Luckily you touched on the absolute basics of planning in this video , will be rewatching it as a set up my planner 😊😊 !! Thank you so much for your content !! Also idk if it was just me who's never heard this before but , I would never understand the need for a monthly and weekly and a daily untill you explained how you sort of use the previous one to set up the other, with each getting more detailed 😮😮. I have literally never understood the point of these layouts untill you said that so thank you for enlightening me ❤ !!
Love this! I am going back to simpler layouts recently and more bujo style [non-artistic, tysm] because I’ve been overwhelmed lately and need to focus less on making it ‘look cute’ and more on making it functional. Although I do love a good sub box because it CAN help add that flair without me having to think too hard about it 😅 But been loving just a mildliner and pen for my set-ups lately.
Only now have I really gotten to planning. I just use the monthly planner since Daily planning is just too specific. I just need to know whats due when. I don't care to know what hour I'm doing it nor the specifics of it. But now I don't know what to do with the pre-printed daily planner sections. I don't need a to-do list since I just use a sticky note on the monthly planner spread. I know this video was 11 months ago, but I need ideas.
I love Jet Pens! My faves are uni Power Tank 1.0, Uni ball Signo Bold 207, and the Schneider Slider Rave XB. I had to use a special calendar for work for 30 years and that was my paper planner. I’m now retired and trying to get back into paper planning in addition to the digital calendar that is essential for reminders and alarms. It’s a bit tough to get back into as the work calendar was extremely basic and I’m trying to tap back into my creative side. The thicker pens were better for work, too, so I think I have to downsize to work in a planner more efficiently. Thanks for the tips, I’ve been going through your helpful vids and just subbed 😊
The cover design of the Hubman & Chubgirl notebook is sooo cute! 😍 My main/work planner is Sterling Ink‘s Common Planner (so, same as yours) and I love it. Vertical weeklies are what works for me. That said, I‘m itching to draw out some planner layout by myself for some reason. I think it‘s mostly the act of doing it that I‘m craving… Maybe I‘ll draw out some layouts for a travel planner/journal for the summer.
Yesss I always have to have a blank notebook around so that I can get all my urges to draw random layouts out every now and then. I do love the blank back pages of the Common Planner for this too.
I'm using some elements that are nearly universal in many planning systems, including the Bullet Journal method, so makes sense that it feels a little bit like that! Ngl, I don't use disc, ring or inserts at all. I don't have a printer! So I always end up forgetting about it. But it could have used a mention in the choosing a planner section, even if I don't personally use them :)
Great video! I think it’s very approachable 😊 For someone like me, I think I’d get overwhelmed by a blank book. If I have to do something like draw a spread before planning, might end up just not planning. But I found printing sample layouts was really helpful to find what I like and I’m still experimenting. It gives me the flexibility to change at any time but I can also just grab a page if I need to plan Maybe I’m weird, but I don’t always do a daily to do list. I keep a running list of things on my plate and have different sections for things that need to be done by certain times (which could be EOD)
Thank you! I am in the process of deciding to go back to bujo or stay with a preprinted planner. I worry about not having all the months to see with bujo. I know you do with the yearly page but my mind almost needs to see that month. Hmm, any suggestions?
Well the good news is, you can set up whatever spreads you want in a blank notebook. So, what pages are you missing from your preprinted planner? Just add those in! There's also no rule that says you can ONLY have monthly or yearly views for the time period that that blank notebook "covers." If you need to plan ahead to July of next year but you know you typically only get 6 months out of a blank notebook, who cares? Dedicate a few pages to it anyways! If it gives you peace, that's what matters :)
Ok. I know I'm the daily type. Do you have enough pages in the moleskin to do monthly and daily? Or days there's only 192 pages. So are those pages or sheets?
Have you ever tried planning with the Commit30 planner? I’m “using it” this year and had one last year too, but it does have some really good reflection opportunities in it. ☺️
I have been using a planner of some form since 2010. I started bullet journaling since 2017. I am now in a hobonichi day free with a my own method that I enjoy. Did I watch this whole video? yes. Would I consider myself a *normal person* definitely not... :P
@@RachelleinTheory I found with my bullet journal, I was craving a monthly calendar. I was using a google calendar, but wanted it analog. My 'planner' is more than just a planner. It is a journal, my to-do lists, a commonplace ( which, for me, just means I collect stuff in it). I stick in photos and quotes and feelings and my life all into the one book. This is my only notebook I use for my personal life. I have a work notebook, which is just work task lists and I have a D&D notebook for my D&D sessions, but my LIFE is all in the one hobonichi.
I’ve had a planner since 2000, mostly generic pre printed ones from bookstores. I’ve found I need 1) a big monthly view 2) vertical week layout 3) lots of space. I’ve used the big Planner Pad for the past 4 years and love it, although it took me 3 years to figure out how to customize and use it to keep me coming back to it. I am chronically ill so I have a challenging relationship with “to dos” and schedules as I can’t trust my health from day to day. So I use my planner for 1) journaling about the day and tracking what I did and how I feel 2) scrapbooking 3) managing to-dos and appointments. Once I started doing active scrapbooking/art in my journal it all clicked…now I can’t wait to use my planner.
I have a genuine question? When you do your daily to do list doesn’t that seem redundant if all you are doing is taking what you planned on the weekly pages? Couldn’t you just read from the weekly layout the to do list you have to do if it’s already written there or is there some other function for doing this?
It does borrow some familiar elements from bullet journaling as I mention in the vid, but bullet journalers don't have the monopoly on blank notebooks ;)
@@elizabethwilliams6329 OK, had to go back to the original video on the bullet journal channel to be sure, but... Ryder's original method doesn't have a weekly? I've never read his book though, so maybe it's in there? But in any case, many, many systems have some kind of monthly, weekly, daily, and reflection built in (Full Focus, 12 Week Year, Bullet Journaling etc etc). I chose these things for this video because they are near universal in most planning systems I've come across - and all those people must be on to something! 😂 Absolutely, the original Bujo method is influencing the aesthetic this takes in my video, but there's a reason this isn't a Bullet Journal 101 video. It's utilizing the basics of so many different planning systems.
@RachelleinTheory he added the weekly in his updated system... I think we just disagree and that's ok... we don't have to argue and I hope you have a good day 💗
What is the reason for the title? I didn't know if it was going to contrast between neurodivergent and "normal", or if it really was specifically for "normal". Because if it is really the latter, there isn't a reason for me to watch
What does this video have to do with ‘normal’ i find that word very triggering. This video has absolutely nothing to do with people so why are you naming it ‘for normal people’ what is a Normal person?
I took it as people who don’t need/want all the ‘extras’ typically that are the norm within the planner community, or for people who are overwhelmed with making things so aesthetic that they end up not using their journal for what it’s meant for - to keep you organized and to get things done. Obvi, I can’t speak for her but that’s my interpretation!
Elena has my intention spot on as well! A lot of planning/planner content is inaccessible to people who are just looking for super simple solutions. Becky, I also appreciate your comment voicing how the words we use might have effects beyond our intentions!
@@RachelleinTheory I didn’t think of it that way at all it does make sense now though. I really enjoyed the video. Sometimes we need to strip back to the basics
After YEARS of planner chaos, I ended up in a $10 blue sky planner from target in May, and I’ve never been happier 😅 something utilitarian that doesn’t feel so “precious” was exactly what I needed
YES I know exactly what you mean Rebecca
My planner peace's actually a $2 pocket notebook. Lol. Bujo all the way.
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I'm shocked! That might be the solution for me as well! 😮
I’ve spent loads on Cloth and Paper, Erin Condren, pens, washi, stickers, tombow….I’m in a $10 no name planner from Amazon and it’s perfect.
I'm 45 and have had a planner every year since I was in high school. My mother started me out with one. I've only recently started paying attention to the planner community. I think there is a lot of unnecessary excessiveness in it but there are some new things I learn every now and then.
that is amazing. SO many years of consistent planning! would love to get a sneak peak of your planner.
Please elaborate. How are you planning now after 45 years? What is the excessiveness?
I like how you touch on the difference between scheduling and planning. What really sets a planner apart is when it is used to think through and use your time intentionally. Just keeping track of your schedule is great, but thinking through everything else is the next level.
Same with the difference between tracking expenses and budgeting. It's good to track and know how you spend, but if you really want to take control of your finances, then you have to budget and set intentions for your money *before* they are spent. It's a really great distinction to make.
This is the best beginner planner video I’ve seen, and anyone starting out should just watch this, and make a start. I’ve been bullet journaling for over 5 years now and have made all the mistakes, started, stopped, started again… and it’s only been the last year or so that I’ve started to concentrate on adding reflection moments into my journals for recall. Being able to go back to specific times to track a health moment or a meeting note or memories of an event is so extremely beneficial. Reflection pages for each month feed on to reflection pages for the year are good place-holders to easily find what you’re looking for. You also become better at the kind of information you leave for your future self. And it becomes so much easier to review your year, to reflect on how you can do your next year. But to get to this stage, you just need to start: monthly, weekly, daily… and reflect your week or month in bullet points and move on. Pre-printed planners never work for me, there’s never enough space to just turn to the next blank page spread and have a brain dump for an idea or an interest… and then the next day on the next blank page write the days day and date and resume your daily’s… But they do for other people, so experiment, and just start😊
My planner is $1 grid composition notebook. With $0.5 erasable pen. It works.
I don't care how it looks like as long as it works. Takes all the pressure off. Oh, and notion
throwing in "oh and notion" at the end has me loling. 😂 we love a composition notebook and I'm glad it works for you!
I recently moved into a passport size bujo planner and have never been happier! The smaller size is perfect for me and less intimidating because I don’t have as much space that I feel like I need to fill.
Every one of your planner videos gives me two or more new ideas which is just wonderful.
I've been using the back of a dot journal I use as a commonplace book to trial out different layouts ahead of 2024, which I'm going to start in a nice new notebook
My planner peace has been cheap letter size off the shelf and a notebook from a dollar store. Just finished my 2022-23 academic yesterday and moved into my 2023-24 this morning.
Your method sounds doable for me. What goes in the letter size and what goes in the notebook?
ahh thanks so much for the great reminder that we can start a planner with just a plain notebook. since i’ve not done well with pre-printed planners (but am tempted to get one), using a blank journal will help me figure out what layouts work best for me. i’m trying analog this week because of your video!
I'm binge watching all your planning videos and now you are my go-to in terms of planning! New subscriber here :)
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When I was in high school, they started handing out basic planners when we were in sophomore year to get us used to planning out our schedules. I color coded my classes and always knew my homework based on the color. I will never forget my Psych teacher using mine as an example of how to use it (apparently I was one of 25 in the entire school who actually used theirs). I never forgot the pride and how easy it made my life and never looked back.
Now I have a planner for everything and couldn’t be happier. A5 for work, Weeks for personal, TN for financial, and A5 Day Free for media (books, movies, shows, and video games).
I started planning two years ago. I started out with a horizontal planner with only checklists and I thought that I wasn't "doing planning right", so I bought myself a big vertical layout Happy Planner and a whole bunch of stickers and started using it last September- and now I'm overwhelmed... and I've still for the "I'm not doing planning right" feeling. I refer to my phone's calendar app more than I do the planner that is always sitting open on my desk right next to me.
What you have shown here is closer to what I want to do: it's very simple and looks quite manageable. Thanks very much for this video 🙂
As someone who gets overwhelmed on the layout, telling me to design and hand draw the lines and make a custom layout through use of a notebook. Just adds way more options and exacerbates the problem.
This is really helpful, thank you! I love that you showed basic vs decorated versions! I love decorated pages but find that I don't keep up with it and my planner gets abandoned. Also... I want that Spirited Away pen!!! ❤
This is really helpful for someone like me who is feeling very overwhelmed in not knowing how to start a planner! 😊
I get sooo giddy when I get a notification about your videos! Then I saw the title and got even more excited ! Your ability to make planning practical helps me ‘learn’ my planner style and not get overwhelmed!
🥹 This honestly just made my whole day. Thank. you so much for commenting and just being awesome ♥️
I've tried, so hard, to find more planner tubers and I just can't. Your charisma, demenour and video layouts can't be beat! I just admire your channel so much. If it's had a large uptick in the past week it's probably because I've binge all your content over and over for the past couple weeks, haha. Thank you xo, Renee
This is an interesting video. Very thought out and definitely covers a lot of information. But I disagree with the recommendation of a blank notebook for a beginner planner. Although it is cheaper and very versatile for many people that need a planner it requires time they don’t have - they need to get into their planner and no matter how simple drawing your own spreads takes time. And many people, especially newbies, are very overwhelmed by the blank page. They fear messing up their planner and it not being “perfect” and they don’t know what they want or need. Figuring out what they want to add, the order, the layout etc is a lot for someone that’s new. And I also don’t recommend sticker boxes for newbies because they are costly and overwhelming. You don’t know where to use the stickers, where you’ll want them, how much functional space they need etc.
I believe that the easiest thing to start with is 1) a store bought inexpensive planner - target, office supply stores, Walmart etc all sell them and a pen. It’s cheap and simple and ready for you. Or 2) printables that you stick in rings or a TN. There’s tons of free ones and inexpensive ones too and you can easily text out different layouts and sizes and see what you like. You can even print them and not put them in any cover and just carry them in pencil bag or glue them in a cheap spiral notebook until you find your way.
I love this suggestion! Definitely a cheap pre-printed planner can achieve the same effect. Thanks for commenting!
I ❤ the way you present your information. It just jives with me! I have always been a pre-printed planner person and this year, decided to have a “draft” BUJO to play in. It has been great to feel like I can make mistakes, try things out, and figure out how I “tick” in the that format. I am going on a weeklong trip, taking that BUJO and allowing myself to let it become what it may-journaling as needed, brain dump, just anything. I do love, also, have one small, portable “go-to”.
❤❤❤❤ I love a blank notebook for this reason! Such free experimental space. Thank you for the comment!
I have a small planner to keep in my bag to use as a quick reference planner and “to do list”/shopping list. I use a notebook to make a more intensive planner and daily journal.
I love this video! And your decorated weekly layout looks amazing. Thanks for making it easy.
This is a really practical planner startup video! I love your approach and how you condensed your presentation into the essence of planning. That planner box set is adorable!
Thank you Denise!! Isn't the cozy cat box so cute 😄😺
i absolutely do not need more stickers. but i will be purchasing the cat box 😅
Just wanted to say a big thank you as this video is absolutely brilliant and it's just what I needed. I love the idea of a planner but can honestly say I have no idea how to actually use one as I am a complete beginner. I love the way that you have shown us different layouts. I have a couple of notebooks at home so I'm going to attempt a layout and see how I get on. I always feel like the day runs away with me so it would be so good to plan things out then I may not get so overwhelmed. I wish I could let you know how I get on😊
I like using highliters. JetPens has Sarasa MarkOn gel pens that are very black and do not smear with a highliter 😊
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I love this. I am in such a slump right now and need to act like a normal person. 😂
HAHA I feel you. Not too normal though, right ;)
Personally, I super appreciate a back to basics method when I feel some distance from my planner system.
@@RachelleinTheoryyes, I usually get all the planners and inevitably, a couple months down the road, I’m miserable and can only use some sort of journal, a notebook, and a “catchall”. That’s where I’m at right now actually. 😂
I have come to the conclusion that I prefer loose leaf, it makes it much easier to move things around as I like (and I also use my planner as a notebook). Most of my schedule lives in my phone/computer, so it is really for planning action that I need the planner. And I’m sort of a modified GTD person.
You plan exactly how I plan. And I try to do weekly and monthly reflections as well, but I find that that is what overwhelms me. I sometimes get over perfectionistic with the way I am doing things and then it’s like my brain just shuts down and doesn’t want to think about it anymore. I just can’t handle the stress and sheer mental effort. For example I was today looking at my monthly reflections from back in 2020 and I wrote some pretty useful stuff about habits I need to establish to be more productive, things that worked for me that I have since abandoned, and a bunch of other useful stuff, but I just experienced this wave of information overload. I just don’t know how to keep things simple but progress at the same time.
So helpful. I followed along and made both spreads in my A & O.
Funny you should mentioned that June-ish reassessment of your planner system… 6 months into the year and I have discovered I overcomplicated things. I'm staying in my Sterling Ink for weekly/monthly schedule, common planner, journaling, but going back to my Weeks for work. It was a really good idea to try the Franklin-Covey one page a day for work, but discovered that I need a lot of note space and for strategizing and planning and it doesn't have that. Weeks is a little better, but again not sure if it's the right move. But I have another six months to figure out alternatives! Enjoy your camping trip!
Really helpful thank you,over time I have had plenty of false starts with planers in the hopes of being more productive and organised
I think I’m just realizing now that I dislike the traditional monthly calendar layout with the boxes, I always have a hard time fitting what I want in them. I love the first option in comparison.
such a valuable realization!
I want to second how key it was to see the same month and the same items in two different displays!! I had the opposite reaction, but that's the thing, we both figured out what we prefer!
I would love to see a video that includes something similar for the vertical/horizontal weekly layouts. Also the two horizontal layouts (horizontal all in one page or horizontal as a full spread on both pages).
I personally like the vertical month in my digital "perpetual calendar" (reference calendar for people's birthdays, events, things to do in certain months, etc.). However, for the actual current month/year, I need to see it in calendar form for my brain to process it properly.
Thank you Rachelle. I am getting ready to start one of these and learning so much from your videos. I did subscribe of course.
Just ordered my journal and some stencils tonight. In my head, I am already calling it my TaDa Journal (instead of To Do), as I am going to watch how much I get done. Then I get to go TaDa at the end of each week. LOL
Here's some thoughts running through my head at the moment, in case they help someone. I was thinking that the "What worked" and "What didn't work" each week would be really useful. But I thought I'd call mine. "What to celebrate" and "What Can I learn from" Then list all the things I learned that week from what didn't work as planned to remember and look back on later.
For me personally, I am the world's biggest procrastinator, which I am going to work to improve on through this journal, My thoughts of what might help me most with that is when I list monthly goals.... to put a letter next to each, R=I feel completely ready to do it. H= I am feeling hesitant. Then write all the Rs into the week to be done. And stop and break the H's into as many smaller steps as feels comfortable and then find some fun way to do them and/or a reward as each is completed
Love the idea of adding in inspirational quotes too!
Thanks again for all your help.
I suggest an even easier approach: RING PLANNER. With a ring binding you can change things freely and is super flexible! Ex: forgot the yearly? Just open and add it in. The monthly spread is not useful? Open the rings and remove it. You like the notes page but need them in another position? Just open and move the pages.
Plus you can print pages more seamlessly, and have any format and a clean layout all the time.
This does seem so easy and functional! I love the idea of never having a spread I hate again in my planner 😂 However, I do not own a printer so this is really not an easier solution for me personally 😭 Someday I'll try it!
I find rings are the most flexible but a Hobonichi is the simplest for me.
Great tip with a blank notebook another one of my favorites.
Sometimes you just gotta do what is easy!! Thanks for commenting :)
Thank you for making me realize, it doesn't have to be that hard or complicated❤
How about a video on planning for your hobbies? Like crafting and such.
This is a great idea, thank you! I've noted it down... ✏️
I do have a video about a reading journal set up on the channel, and a video coming up soon about project planning a trip! Traveling is some people's "hobby" although I don't think that's QUITE what you mean 😂 Anyway, thank you for the suggestion!
@@RachelleinTheory thank you for noticing me senpai 💜 i look forward to seeing it become a video. I will be sure to check out the suggestion as well.
Absolutely loved this video as im in the middle of creating a hybrid digital - analogue system ( for the monthly, weekly and dailies) and digital for capturing and probabably scheduling but havent made the scheduling a habit yet. But I tried to go completely digital and realised I just felt like something was missing ... the slow organic process and satisfaction of using a paper planner. Luckily you touched on the absolute basics of planning in this video , will be rewatching it as a set up my planner 😊😊 !! Thank you so much for your content !!
Also idk if it was just me who's never heard this before but , I would never understand the need for a monthly and weekly and a daily untill you explained how you sort of use the previous one to set up the other, with each getting more detailed 😮😮. I have literally never understood the point of these layouts untill you said that so thank you for enlightening me ❤ !!
Love this! I am going back to simpler layouts recently and more bujo style [non-artistic, tysm] because I’ve been overwhelmed lately and need to focus less on making it ‘look cute’ and more on making it functional. Although I do love a good sub box because it CAN help add that flair without me having to think too hard about it 😅 But been loving just a mildliner and pen for my set-ups lately.
Sometimes what's simplest is what's best
Wow I rlly needed this video cus I just buy planners and never use them😭
Only now have I really gotten to planning. I just use the monthly planner since Daily planning is just too specific. I just need to know whats due when. I don't care to know what hour I'm doing it nor the specifics of it. But now I don't know what to do with the pre-printed daily planner sections. I don't need a to-do list since I just use a sticky note on the monthly planner spread. I know this video was 11 months ago, but I need ideas.
Thanks the details guide. It really help me a lot 🥰
I love Jet Pens! My faves are uni Power Tank 1.0, Uni ball Signo Bold 207, and the Schneider Slider Rave XB. I had to use a special calendar for work for 30 years and that was my paper planner. I’m now retired and trying to get back into paper planning in addition to the digital calendar that is essential for reminders and alarms. It’s a bit tough to get back into as the work calendar was extremely basic and I’m trying to tap back into my creative side. The thicker pens were better for work, too, so I think I have to downsize to work in a planner more efficiently. Thanks for the tips, I’ve been going through your helpful vids and just subbed 😊
The cover design of the Hubman & Chubgirl notebook is sooo cute! 😍
My main/work planner is Sterling Ink‘s Common Planner (so, same as yours) and I love it. Vertical weeklies are what works for me. That said, I‘m itching to draw out some planner layout by myself for some reason. I think it‘s mostly the act of doing it that I‘m craving… Maybe I‘ll draw out some layouts for a travel planner/journal for the summer.
Yesss I always have to have a blank notebook around so that I can get all my urges to draw random layouts out every now and then. I do love the blank back pages of the Common Planner for this too.
Looks like bullet journal planning. Left out discbound and ring binders, inserts
I'm using some elements that are nearly universal in many planning systems, including the Bullet Journal method, so makes sense that it feels a little bit like that!
Ngl, I don't use disc, ring or inserts at all. I don't have a printer! So I always end up forgetting about it. But it could have used a mention in the choosing a planner section, even if I don't personally use them :)
I use a weeks for work and cousin for personal. So far it works! I tried just a blank notebook for goals, but find I don’t really use it
Oh wow. I hadn’t thought about combining my crazy cat lady with a planner! I love it!
DAWN. Welcome to the future. Crazy Cat lady planner girlies unite 😤
@@RachelleinTheory 😹😹😹
Very good and nice >>>>>>> Thank you .
Great video! I think it’s very approachable 😊
For someone like me, I think I’d get overwhelmed by a blank book. If I have to do something like draw a spread before planning, might end up just not planning. But I found printing sample layouts was really helpful to find what I like and I’m still experimenting. It gives me the flexibility to change at any time but I can also just grab a page if I need to plan
Maybe I’m weird, but I don’t always do a daily to do list. I keep a running list of things on my plate and have different sections for things that need to be done by certain times (which could be EOD)
Not weird! Makes total sense and if it works for you that's awesome :)
We find your videos informative. Keep up the good work.
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YAY i hope you got somethin cute!!
Thank you! I am in the process of deciding to go back to bujo or stay with a preprinted planner. I worry about not having all the months to see with bujo. I know you do with the yearly page but my mind almost needs to see that month. Hmm, any suggestions?
Well the good news is, you can set up whatever spreads you want in a blank notebook. So, what pages are you missing from your preprinted planner? Just add those in! There's also no rule that says you can ONLY have monthly or yearly views for the time period that that blank notebook "covers." If you need to plan ahead to July of next year but you know you typically only get 6 months out of a blank notebook, who cares? Dedicate a few pages to it anyways! If it gives you peace, that's what matters :)
This was super helpful! Thank you.
Ok. I know I'm the daily type. Do you have enough pages in the moleskin to do monthly and daily? Or days there's only 192 pages. So are those pages or sheets?
Very useful points. Thank you. Now I know why so much of my hobo weeds is left empty.
Helpful and clear
Love Jetpens!
Have you ever tried planning with the Commit30 planner? I’m “using it” this year and had one last year too, but it does have some really good reflection opportunities in it. ☺️
I have not, I'll have to look into it!
This tour of “Woods” is SO good! Enjoy!!
Love this! Super helpful! It's nice to see the method to the madness. 👏
No spiral bound, discs or ringed planner?
I have been using a planner of some form since 2010. I started bullet journaling since 2017. I am now in a hobonichi day free with a my own method that I enjoy. Did I watch this whole video? yes. Would I consider myself a *normal person* definitely not... :P
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I'm gonna try the day free next year for work I think!!
@@RachelleinTheory I found with my bullet journal, I was craving a monthly calendar. I was using a google calendar, but wanted it analog. My 'planner' is more than just a planner. It is a journal, my to-do lists, a commonplace ( which, for me, just means I collect stuff in it). I stick in photos and quotes and feelings and my life all into the one book. This is my only notebook I use for my personal life. I have a work notebook, which is just work task lists and I have a D&D notebook for my D&D sessions, but my LIFE is all in the one hobonichi.
@@WhaleTank That fits so well with their branding of it as a Life Book! I love that idea and am gonna try to do that with my planner for july :)
I love that journal! :) Super cute!
I’ve had a planner since 2000, mostly generic pre printed ones from bookstores. I’ve found I need 1) a big monthly view 2) vertical week layout 3) lots of space. I’ve used the big Planner Pad for the past 4 years and love it, although it took me 3 years to figure out how to customize and use it to keep me coming back to it. I am chronically ill so I have a challenging relationship with “to dos” and schedules as I can’t trust my health from day to day. So I use my planner for 1) journaling about the day and tracking what I did and how I feel 2) scrapbooking 3) managing to-dos and appointments. Once I started doing active scrapbooking/art in my journal it all clicked…now I can’t wait to use my planner.
I have a genuine question? When you do your daily to do list doesn’t that seem redundant if all you are doing is taking what you planned on the weekly pages? Couldn’t you just read from the weekly layout the to do list you have to do if it’s already written there or is there some other function for doing this?
Planning is easy. Doing is the hard part 😂
You should really look into phone apps for planning. Way faster to use and way cheaper.
New subbie here 👋 Great video on planning 👍
omg welcome to the channel and thank you so much for commenting!!
This is bullet journaling
It does borrow some familiar elements from bullet journaling as I mention in the vid, but bullet journalers don't have the monopoly on blank notebooks ;)
@RachelleinTheory it's not just the blank notebook... the weekly, daily and reflections are part of ryders method
@@elizabethwilliams6329 OK, had to go back to the original video on the bullet journal channel to be sure, but... Ryder's original method doesn't have a weekly? I've never read his book though, so maybe it's in there?
But in any case, many, many systems have some kind of monthly, weekly, daily, and reflection built in (Full Focus, 12 Week Year, Bullet Journaling etc etc). I chose these things for this video because they are near universal in most planning systems I've come across - and all those people must be on to something! 😂 Absolutely, the original Bujo method is influencing the aesthetic this takes in my video, but there's a reason this isn't a Bullet Journal 101 video. It's utilizing the basics of so many different planning systems.
@RachelleinTheory he added the weekly in his updated system... I think we just disagree and that's ok... we don't have to argue and I hope you have a good day 💗
@@elizabethwilliams6329 Thank you for the context!!
My ADHD brain just stopped working after I read *for normal people* then continued watching anyway😂
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for normal people you said?
What’s a ‘normal person’?!
What is the reason for the title? I didn't know if it was going to contrast between neurodivergent and "normal", or if it really was specifically for "normal". Because if it is really the latter, there isn't a reason for me to watch
“normal” likely as in for the non-planner devoted community or people exploring planners for the first time
this is basic?
Interesting...more time spent on supplies than choosing a planner.
not much to say when my rec is a starting with a blank notebook ;)
@@RachelleinTheory Any suggestions on size? What did you choose?
@@EdieBrown The one I'm working with in the vid is A5 wide, and I do like a B6 size/Medium Moleskine size
What does this video have to do with ‘normal’ i find that word very triggering. This video has absolutely nothing to do with people so why are you naming it ‘for normal people’ what is a Normal person?
I took it as people who don’t need/want all the ‘extras’ typically that are the norm within the planner community, or for people who are overwhelmed with making things so aesthetic that they end up not using their journal for what it’s meant for - to keep you organized and to get things done. Obvi, I can’t speak for her but that’s my interpretation!
Elena has my intention spot on as well! A lot of planning/planner content is inaccessible to people who are just looking for super simple solutions. Becky, I also appreciate your comment voicing how the words we use might have effects beyond our intentions!
@@RachelleinTheory I didn’t think of it that way at all it does make sense now though. I really enjoyed the video. Sometimes we need to strip back to the basics
@@Whoopsididitagainco Thank you so much!! And I appreciate the comment as well :)