52 Planning Systems in 52 Weeks

Way back in 2017 I had been making printables for years (and made over 4,000 printables in that time!). Yet I still couldn’t find that perfect planner. So I decided to try 52 different planning systems (one for each week of the year). I tried a mix of pen & paper and digital planning systems. Then, at the end of the year I was going to combine all of the elements of the planners I liked throughout the year, to design a custom planner that was once and for all going to be THE planner I stuck to using.

However, it didn’t turn out that way. See this post where I shared a review at the end of the challenge: 52 Lessons learned after trying 52 different planners in 52 weeks

Spoiler: planner peace for me is trying different planners. I can’t stay loyal to one planner (I get bored.) So I’ve continued to use different planners almost every week. Sometimes I post the spreads here on the blog. Want to follow along? Click here.

Do have a planner you’d like to suggest or want me to use a planner you’ve designed? Send me an email via [email protected] 🙂

The 52 planners in 52 weeks ‘challenge’ started as I was already taking photos of my weekly spreads to refer back to later. Since I was already taking photos and doing an analysis of how the week went at the end (what things I did and didn’t like in the layout, what I would change etc.), I figured others might find it useful and started sharing them here on the blog.

In each post I share a ‘before the pen’ photo (the planner as you see it when you buy it) and ‘after the pen’ photos after I’ve tweaked the planner to suit my needs. I don’t post a photo of what the planner looked like at the end of the week as I add personal / private things after I take the ‘after the pen’ photos. Please keep in mind that the spreads look neat at the start of the week by by the end of it I’ve usually added random scribbles, or sticky notes when I’ve run out of space etc.

Anyway, I hope you find the posts below helpful, and that they give you some ideas to adopt to your own planner.

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See past week’s of the challenge:

How (and why) I pre-plan the week using the Plum Paper horizontal lined with notes layout

52 Lessons learned after trying 52 different planners in 52 weeks

After trying 52 planners, these were my top 7 favorite weekly planners

My top 10 favorite weekly spreads from the past 5 years

2018 and beyond Planner Spreads

BULLET JOURNAL SPREADS

Digital Planning

Read all planner posts on the blog here.

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