If you’re a regular blog reader, you’ll know that rainbow spreads are my go to!

Since I do them so often I’ve tried a few different ways to mix it up to avoid getting bored.

If you’re someone that doesn’t normally do rainbow weekly spreads, I hope this encourages you to give it a try!

Rainbow spreads:

1. By day

The quickest and easiest way to add color to the page is using a different color by day. Just don’t forget to switch between pens. You may want to start with erasable pens.

2. Color coding by category

Probably the most obvious and often used method for planner color coding – using different colors for each person in the family, for school subjects, projects etc.

Using Limelife Planners Weekly Layout C

Planning by category rather than by day using a Kikki K Notepad – ‘Work Smarter : Live Better’

3. Urgency / level of importance

A method that works well and which I should really use more often.

Some options:

Must do, should do and if I have time
Numbered to do list
To do list with due dates (or days) assigned for each task
The priority quadrant

Using the priority quadrant for weekly planning

4. By Section

Different colors for each section of the planner:

Color coding by section using the Kikki K Goals Weekly Planner

5. By task

Different colors for each task, similar to:

6. Random colors

Grab a bunch of colourful pens, each time you add something to your planner, use a different pen. I tried this once. It turned out ok but I probably wouldn’t do it again (bit too much color)

Colorful Bullet Journal Inspired Weekly Spread

I’d rather take a little bit longer to choose colors. I normally lay out out the pens I want to use and re-shuffle them until I’m happy with the color combination.

I tend to do green touching blue, orange touching red etc. (just like you’d see on a color wheel).