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April 10, 2019

10 Functional Ways to Use Washi Tape in your Planner

Washi tape lasts a long time but that doesn’t mean you should let it sit there gathering dust! Here are 10 functional ways to use washi tape in your planner.

Functional Ways to Use Washi Tape

1. Adding durability

Especially if you use 3 ring, discbound or any other punched inserts where you’re take the pages in and out all the time.

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2. Adding printables

If you’re tired of ruling up the same spreads in your bullet journal a printable can save a ton of time. Rather than gluing into your planner you could use washi tape to adhere.

If you still want to write on the page underneath only tape one side to create a ‘flap’. Since washi tape can be peeled and re-stuck when you’re finished with the page you can peel off and throw away i.e. don’t waste pages in the notebook.

See this post for instructions on how to resize any printable for any size bullet journal (or planner)

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This is what I mean by creating a flap:

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3. Finding things easily

Especially helpful for planners that don’t include tabs and for organizing your bullet journal.

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4. Color coded lists

Related: Best pens for writing on washi tape 

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5. Covering up sections you don’t need

Converting the Erin Condren teacher planner…

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Into a weekly planner:

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Week 25: Using the Erin Condren Teacher Planner for weekly planner 

6. Filling space

Not all dot grid notebooks have the same number of dots. And when you want the same number of dots for each day you may end up with an awkward space at the top and bottom. The perfect spot for some washi tape!

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It’s also good for covering up stuff you don’t need. In this case it was timeslots (hourly planners don’t work for me):

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Rainbow Color Coded Weekly Spread Using the Passion Planner

7. Borders

Separate weeks, months for future logs, columns for lists etc.

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Related: Quick 1 page rainbow spread in the Happy Notes

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