What planner layouts worked and how I have adapted them

Planner Style Overview

14/1/2017

What planner layouts worked and how I have adapted them

Bujo style planning; (PGC Series). 2016 planner overview - what worked and what didn't and welcoming my new travelers notebook bullet journaling style. #plannerlayouts #plannerspreads #planningstyle

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Yay, my first post as part of the Planner Girls Collective (formerly part of Confessions of a Plannerholic) - albeit it a little late to the party...

PGC has been created by Emma from The Stationery Geekette and gives us Planner blogging girls some unity and a chance to blog about the same themes each Monday (or when we can).

I first started planning in September 2015, but it wasn't a passion until January 2016 when I bought my first real planner; A Carpe Diem in coral. I must say I loved using it, but it was more aesthetic than anything else and didn't really work for me as planner. 1. It was too big and didn't ever leave the house with me. 2. I discovered my love for notebooks and wanted to move to a travelers notebook / bullet journaling system (indeed I have - see my post here). 3. I was writing things in after I had done them rather than using it to actually plan.

My Planner: What worked and what didn't:

Carpe Diem Planner 2016 Kerrymay._.Makes

Planning in my Carpe Diem from 2016. I loved doing this, but it just wasn't practical and was more decorative than anything else.

I loved being creative with the layouts and will still be using stickers and washi tape, but using a notebook system will give me more freedom to create my own layouts and to be creative in other ways. I won't be restricted to what can go into that months planning and can vary it up from week to week if it's not working.

I am also going to have a separate blog planner (which will be next blog post). I've enjoyed using Monthly pages and will keep this up in my new system by getting a Monthly overview insert in my Uglydori from Travelers Times.

Stickers from The Brimbles Box.

Korean stickers from Amazon and printables from Monicas Marevelous Printables.

Gorgeous vinyl style stickers from Managing Mischief Co.

2017 Planner Setup and Plan With Me:

In the post a few weeks ago I explained my new BUJO style system, where you can see my first weeks planning. This has been working to a point, except for this week which was a write off due to having flu, so was filled in after the week (hence no BUJO tracking was done). What I have loved is playing around with the different layouts and getting to be creative each week using different styles, it was often limiting when you just have one style of inserts like last years. I really like being able to vary what I track and how I track things each week too. I have been using my printable tracker boxes to track Vitamins, Exercise, Mood and Sleep on a weekly basis and then can add extra tracking if I wish to - or not. I made the notebook by cutting down an A5 sketchbook from Hobbycraft to fit in a regular tn, which proved to be quite tricky to get perfect, but it will do (the perfectionist in me is still struggling with some uneven pages).

Have a look below at my first Plan With Me video where I show you how I have decorated one of the weeks. It is not what I had hoped it would be as I have not done any tracking or checklists as the planning came at the end of the week and after most of the week had already gone (this damn flu!).