Hi Guys!
I would love to know what your thoughts are on this…
I found a YouTube Channel called Plan On It. She has beautiful layouts of planner pages like the one you see below. I have a planner. Even in this digital age I do like having a physical planner I can use. I use it to help me remember to do things. I keep track of everything in my phone for “reminders” but when I write it down, I find I don’t forget about it as easily and can sometimes finish things before they are “due”. With a physical planner I am more capable of remembering the tasks I want to complete. I also like to reference the planner when I am scrapbooking so I don’t have to use my phone. I have dates of vacations and notes, etc. So, my planner pages are either full or empty depending on the day and things going on. I have a few planner sticker books thinking it would be fun to use them in my planners… and you know what? I haven’t used a single one for my planner. I’ve used them for scrapbooking but not my planners. I feel that if I have a week all done up like this (see pic) that it leaves me with very little space to write down what I need to for the day… Some days are blank, but if I need to write stuff down or make a list, it would be a no go with a layout like this. I also use the planners that have landscape days with lines to actually write and use and while I love how this looks I am not sure the portrait style with blank boxes would work for me… I LOVE the layout here and the concept, but how realistic is it? Do people do this and then just have a pretty week in their planner they can't actually use efficiently? What if on the 23rd I needed to pick up groceries, get a gift for a birthday my son is attending on Sunday and order a cake along with notes on what the cake should look like given my daughters input and times/location for the grocery pickup (yes my actual day on Thursday after work). My writing is so big (I can't stand writing small) that I could never fit that in the tiny single box left unfilled on that day. I do recognize that she left at least one box and normally two for writing of things… but that wouldn’t be enough some days (like when we are on vacation and I am writing down anything that happened knowing photos will need journaling, other days it may be more than enough or left blank. I guess I am WAY to literal with my planners to let them be all fancy. Even when I did a dot journal planner it was VERY functional. I did artsy stuff for the month, but on the notes page where I would write down all the tasks I needed to do with a date next to them and all the details were left all plain so I could write and just had a doodle at the top with a side bar all the way to the right with tick boxes of extra important tasks. If I used a weekly spread like the photo and had a pretty sticker covering a day that was busy or had lots of notes it becomes a useless space and I would have to write things down somewhere else defeating the purpose. I would love to know about you and what you think. Could you use a weekly spread like this and have all your things written down as you would normally do? Or would this not work for you either? Do you use the landscape style planners with lines for the days where there are normally three days on one side and four days on the other with a number to indicate the start of a new day and lines covering everything? If so, do you do fun things covering up some of the space to write? I am curious if anyone has found a balance to keep their planners efficient but still be able to have fun with it like the person has in this pic. When I am caught up on the majority of scrapbooking I am always looking for some way to be creative and I would love to do things like this or the really fun and artsy dot journals, I just haven’t found that happy place yet with balance of functionality and creativeness. Let me know what you think and share with me how you use your planner!
Happy Crafting!