January means you’re probably setting up your planner for the year, doing your future log for the months ahead etc. One thing I found myself often forgetting to schedule into my planner… definitely not deliberately… was cleaning tasks. Below are…
7 Quick & Easy Ways to Personalise Your Planner
If you’ve bought a basic planner you want to customise to be a bit less generic and a bit more personal, here are a few quick options: 1. Add your own cover If you have a coil bound or discbound…
DIY Tutorial: How to Print and Assemble Your Own Planner
If you’ve looked everywhere and can’t find the perfect planner for you – it’s time to DIY your own! 1. What printables do you need? Some of the printables you might want to add to your planner: Budget printables Checklists…
Converting a vertical hourly layout into a categories layout using the Lucky Life Tools Planner
The Lucky Life Tools planner is a vertical hourly planner which I would normally avoid (#teamhorizontal)… however, the way the planner is structured means you can also convert it into a categories layout (using each row for different things). Before…
Hardbound versus coil bound planners (pros and cons)
Most planners seem to fall into 2 categories these days: 1. Hardbound with stitched / sewn binding 2. Coil binding If you’re trying to decide, here are some things to consider! Hardbound planners I classify hardbound planners as those that…
Rainbow weekly spread in converted Blue Sky Teacher Planner
I’m not a teacher, but I like tweaking teacher planners into weekly planners. They’re typically full page size so there’s room to space things out and keep everything neat. After how well my hack on the Erin Condren Teacher Planner…
50 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your Planner
If you’re stuck in a planning rut, it may be because you’re not using your planner effectively. Here are 50 tips for getting the most out of your planner! 50 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your Planner Using…
10 Things I don’t put in my planner (and why)
I’ve been using planners for years and finally feel I’m at a point where I have a streamlined system that works well. One of the factors in that was ensuring I have a specific place for each thing I plan,…
Planning Tips: 10 Ways to Plan Your Week Faster
We’re all short on time so here are 10 ways to speed up the weekly planning process (while still keeping your planning looking cute!) 10 Ways to Plan Faster 1.Use Planner Stickers Header stickers, checklists, habit trackers and icon stickers…
Bored with your planner? 25 ways to mix it up
So you’ve been using your planner for a while and it’s getting, well, a little boring. Your spreads look basically the same week to week, you tend to use the same colors and types of stickers and planning has become…
After trying 52 planners, these were my top 7 favorite weekly planners
So I tried a lot of different ways to plan the week last year – 52 in fact! These were my top 7 favorite weekly planners. 1. Mi Goals Planner This planner was the one where it clicked for me…
Using blank pages: 50 useful lists to add to your planner
I love making lists! I gravitate towards planners that focus on lists as I find lists are the easiest way to organize all my ideas. If you’re a fellow list maker, have some blank pages of a notebook to fill,…