Color Coding in the Blue Sky Weekly Planner

Blue Sky has become one of my favorite planner companies with plenty of options to choose from (and affordable)! Their custom personalised planner option my favorite – horizontal days of the week on 1 side and list making space on the right.

Before the Pen

See my full review of the planner in this post.

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After the Pen

There are 2 main ways I color code: colored pens or highlighters. I tend to gravitate more towards pens as it’s neater and there’s more pen colors than highlighters to choose from. Plus it only takes 5 minutes to set up the week.

The only con (in my opinion) of the Blue Sky planners is that the paper quality isn’t the best so I opted for pens this time.

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I try not to use more than 4 colors when color coding:

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The bad ghosting I was talking about:
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Pens Used

I used the InkLab Fineliner which are very similar to the PaperMate Flair’s… but better. They’re more affordable and the ink looks thicker on the page.

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Would I use this planner again?

Definitely! Love the layout, the proportions for each section are right and the single column list / notes page has the right line spacing.

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Past weekly spreads

Planning tips & ideas

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