Today’s post is the next part in my series on how to use a vertical weekly planner: Choosing a planner: Horizontal versus Vertical versus Hourly planners (which is right for you?) The best vertical weekly planners (my top 5) Are…
How to ‘lazy plan’ your week (in 4 simple steps)
If you’re short on time, I have a quick and easy ‘shortcut’ method for planning your week: How to ‘lazy plan’ your week A 7″ wide x 9″ high notebook works best for this, as we’re going to add 2…
How to quickly make a recipe book in Canva
While moving my grandma into a nursing home I came across old cookbooks (from 50+ years ago!) that were falling apart. I wanted to digitize them before pages were lost, and also because they didn’t have color printers back then…
How to use ChatGPT to speed up your meal planning (plus download free printable meal planners)
Lacking inspiration for dinner recipes, and wanting to experiment with chatGPT, I decided to ask it to help me meal plan an entire month. Here are the results! I am not affiliated with chatGPT and this is not a sponsored…
How I plan for a new financial year (review questions, tools and my favorite finance books)
A new financial year in Australia means tax time but also a fresh start. Similar to doing a monthly review, I’ve been doing an annual financial review the last couple of years. Some of the things I consider that you…
Aluminium versus plastic discs: which are better for binding your planner?
When I started blogging about planners way back in 2016 really the only discbound planner available was the ARC and Happy Planner. Things have progressed a lot since then and there’s now plenty of brands to choose from! As you’re…
Review of the Leisure Arts Dot Art Markers (Dual Ended Dot and Fine-Line Markers)
If you’ve followed me for a few years you might remember a past post where I did a comparison between the Tombow Dot Marker and the Zig Kuretake. Well I might need to go back and update that post, because…
30 Things to track in the monthly spread of your planner
There are particular things I plan on my monthly spread not on the weekly spread. If you find yourself doubling up writing things on both spreads, I hope this post helps you decide which things you’re going to plan in your…
Why I buy paper planners when I could create my own
Today I’m answering a question someone asked me after I posted another planner review. ‘But don’t you make your own printables? So can’t you turn that into a planner? Why do you keep buying and reviewing planners made by other…
Which discs are compatible with Plum Paper’s disc punched planners?
For whatever reason, Plum Paper have an option to order your planner pre-punched for use with discs, however do not sell any planners with the pages already on discs, nor do they sell any discs for you to thread the…