I’ve done plenty of 1 color, 2 color and rainbow weekly spreads in the past but I rarely do 3 color layouts. The color for November in the Purple Trail Planner is teal so I wanted to use a teal pen and thought about other colors that work with teal. Since I always use pink and purple, I opted for something different: teal, green and blue.

Before the Pen

Purple Trail Weekly Planner Review

After the Pen

Kept it simple this week as was a bit preoccupied with… Black Friday sales!!

I was going to use my TUL needle tip pen which comes in a really nice teal, but I’ve only had those pens for a year or 2 and the ink is already dried out.

Supplies Used

• Papermate Inkjoy Gel 0.7mm (Teal)
• Inklab Fineliner (like a cheap knock off of the Staedtler Triplus Fineliner that works just as good
• Teal washi tape
• Teal, blue and green dot stickers
• Shopping icon planner stickers

Pros of the Purple Trail Planner

• Nice colors (and different colors for each month)
• Large tabs so you can easily find the month you’re looking for
• Half lined / half unlined writing space
• Bright white paper that’s really smooth to write on
• Very quick to set up the spread

Cons of the Purple Trail Planner

• The coil is way too big, you definitely need to fold the pages back to write as the coil gets in the way
• Sunday has a smaller space than the rest of the days

Would I use this planner again?

This planner is ok. It was ideal for this week when I didn’t have much on but it’s not a layout I could use every week. I’m a bit over the usual vertical & horizontal layouts that most planners have. This company does have other week layouts e.g. categories for school, wedding planners etc.

Past weekly spreads

• Week 31: Using the Ashley Shelly Planner for weekly planning 
• Bullet journaling in the Scribbles that Matter Notebook (is it worth the hype?)
• How (and why) I pre-plan the week using the Plum Paper horizontal lined with notes layout

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