#DIY planner

[parklandcryptid-studies]

Happy August!

May your month be filled with wonder, and may you achieve all your goals.

Washi from Tinkerbells Kawaii, stickers from @dogfruit01 and Bright Bat Design, the Furby was a gift and I don't know who the artist is unfortunately.

#Bujo #August spread #bullet journal #journalling #journal setup #planning #planner #DIY planner #plan with me #planner layout #bujo layout #August 2023 #Dogfruit01 #Bright Bat Design #Tinkerbells Kawaii #Cryptid layout #Cryptid theme #Cryptid planner #spooky aesthetic #cute spooky #studyblr #study #uni #uni student #student blog

[morganali-books]

Here are the diaries I made for work and home in 2022-2023 (Pink with green spine is home diary, red with blue is for work).

Not much different from the original template, though some minor tweaks were made. I believe I added in the Mail Pending page for this iteration of the diary, and lost the WoW tracker page as I had long since stopped playing at that point (although, had newly started FFXIV so, you know 👀).

Trimmed the page edges for both of these with a chisel, so they look nice and smooth. Covers are just scrapbooking paper with a bookcloth spine. The blue for the work diary is bookcloth I got from the NSW bookbinding shop, and the green is DIY bookcloth made from green linen and iron on fusible webbing - it works pretty well as a DIY bookcloth, but isn't quite as sturdy as cloth made with book glue. You can't do any tooling on it either as the surface isn't primed for it.

#bookbinding #diy books #case binding #diy planner #diy journal #dot grid journal

[bluebienycheesecake]

Our minimalist study corner.

#studyblr #diy planner #study aesthetic #study blog

[buildyourplanner]

Have you got an idea to start a bullet journal for the new year, but you are a newbie? I got you!

Read the article to learn how to make a bullet journal.

#Bullet journal #bujo #diy planner #bujoideas

[tapeskingdom]

flower fairy in bottle washi tape

#bottle girl #magic bottle #girl in bottle #bottle art #fancy girl #decorative tape #diy planner #daily planner #dream world

[mcleemlis]

creativity & organization

I'm finally getting around to giving myself space to write an update. I completed the 90 day probation period in my new job last week (so woohoo to it being more difficult to fire me, not that it was likely to happen anyways, lol)! I have been pretty overwhelmed these last couple of months. Between starting this new job (that has so much more work than my old job did, which is a mixed blessing), moving across town, partaking in a dear friends' wedding (it was the first wedding I ever went to and I was a bridesmaid :D ), and assisting my roommates with their recent transportation issues, I've been SO DAMN TIRED. The surprising thing is that I didn't realize how stressed I was until a couple weeks ago when I had a mini breakdown at work and pretty much realized the sheer amount of things on my plate. Since then I've had some conversations with my team lead and unit director about work stuff, and some of my personal responsibilities have wrapped up or my stress has been mentioned to contributing parties and is beginning to be addressed.

Something that has been a real challenge for me during the past few months, but is really helpful once I get a system set up, is organization. With the new move and the new job, I have been experiencing a lot of disorganization as I adjust to my new spaces, responsibilities, and roles. In the move, we ended up downsizing in a couple of ways. We lost a roommate who recently moved in with her new husband. In losing that roommate I also lost what felt like one of my main support pillars in the house. Lets just say she and I made up the responsible half of the household, so I've lost some of that... guaranteed/instinctual support (maybe that's the way to say it, basically I didn't have to tell her to clean, or do things around the house, or check that she paid bills, etc.). We also went from renting a 4 bedroom house to a 2 bedroom apartment. I personally went from having a bedroom (that I share with my bf) and an office/studio, to just having the shared bedroom and trying to fit my office and art supplies in the living room.

With work, you might say I've upsized. I went from being in a position that was poorly defined and where I had so little to do and so few expectations that I was consistently looking for work to do and things to improve the sad state of the library. Now I work in a position that already had a clearly defined role with a variety of tasks and responsibilities assigned to it, as well as projects in development and underway. So now I have a pretty full plate at work that I'm still analyzing and understanding as I try to figure out what my regular work flow might look like and how I should be prioritizing various responsibilities. I've been juggling more tasks and responsibilities lately, and organization has been key in knowing what all I need to work on. I'd been wanting to have a bullet journal for a while and even bought notebooks and outlined what all I thought I wanted to record in it and looked at different spreads and layouts, but it pretty much stopped there. Between my indecisiveness on layouts and fear of messing up, my physical bullet journal went nowhere. But the idea of a digital bullet journal had sprouted from all of my layout design searches.

So after looking at some templates others had made, I went to Canva and made one of my own. You can check it out at the link at the bottom of this post. I made it over the course of maybe 6 hours over 3 days? It was something I was able to put little bits of time into here and there as I kept it open in one of my browser tabs. The ability to make major and minor adjustments was key to my being able to "complete" the template in that amount of time. I say "complete" because I developed this template as a draft, knowing I would make new templates and adjustments as I figured out what I wanted, what works best for me, and what theme I wanted to go with. So the template I made is only setup for about 3 and half months (from late February to the end of June) and has a fairly basic layout. There are daily and weekly spreads, with monthly calendars and pages for monthly goals, a couple pages for notes, and that's pretty much it. I wanted to make something pretty basic and flexible on the daily pages, to see what I ended up using it for or not using it for, so I could consider adjustments going forward. The short time commitment for this template has also allowed me to learn more about how to use my template in OneNote and ways I might make my next template different to take into account some of OneNote's quirks and features.

All in all, the planner has been helpful in organizing tasks I want to accomplish at work and outside of work, as well as providing reminders and space for some of my hobbies. Now I'm trying to work towards finding better balance between work, supporting others, and doing things for myself. Case in point: my zines. I (laughably) thought I would be done with my manifesto zine awhile ago, but I haven't devoted as much time to it as I thought I would be able to, nor did I accurately predict how long it would take me to do some of the research and to mess with the layout of the zine itself. At this moment I still have 1-2 pages to research and fit into the layout, plus the bibliography. I also have the problem(?) of thinking up lots of ideas for zines but not having (or making??) the time to work on these ideas, despite very much wanting to. Hopefully over the coming months I'll be able to find some balance. With Fall semester being a busy season for my unit, I think I'll be keeping my expectations low for my hobbies then, but I'm hoping this summer I'll be able to indulge in them more!

You can check out my planner here: My first planner

#daily planner #planner #bullet journal #digital planner #digital bujo #canva #diy planner #organization #life #librarians #women artists

[purolibro]

Surely it’s too early to be planning my 2023 diy planner?

I’m still enjoying using the 2022 one with the varied spreads but consistent dashboards and month end assessment pages but I am wondering if I will continue with the same set-up for next year’s notebook. I realized I may not need to stick to weekly spreads because I’ll be done with the 52 writing prompts book by then. Will I go for flexibility instead and just leave it blank? Or will I give in to the artistic urge and do pretty spreads like this year’s? I love that I’m not constantly wondering about what I’ll do this week or this month so maybe the latter.

Structure works better for me than flexibility, I’ve found. But then I am also journaling in a lot of other spaces (digital and paper notebooks) so my diy planner has become a very aesthetic space for the very important things that happen daily. I don’t add a lot of tasks in it—just my reading project, trackers for exercise/writing/making art, and the occasional work task or chore. I thought I wouldn’t use it for work but that’s how it turns out. And any free space I gave myself sometimes ends up being filled by long-form journaling so it all works out. My writing spreads to fill the given space. I can do messy drafts and doodles in another notebook; the planner is for keeping things together. (On the other hand I’ve always ended up discarding planners so designing one for myself means I feel more attached to it and am more likely to use it to the end)

What I would change:

- Less painted backgrounds as they’re hard to write on, and doesn’t work with highlighters

- No glued in flaps as they add bulk and the notebook always opens on that page

- Less meta on notebook (I’ll just do that in my digital journal) but add space for monthly assessments/thoughts

- Monthly projects are just so hard to plan for—maybe give that up entirely? I’m still doing the Sealey Challenge in August and maybe will try for Nanowrimo but I feel drained just thinking about it

- Playlists are useless to me because I mostly listen to the same songs year in and year out

- Pink cover is pretty but I gave up on cleaning it already so my next one will be black—I thought I would stop using the official one but there was a sale…

#bujo #bullet journal #diy planner

[knotty-et-al]

Two weeks to-do-list hanger

[too lazy to write description rn, communicating is exhausting atm, but i want to share nevertheless]

#diy #planner #colorful #foldback clamps #knottys crafts #weekly calendar #to do list #gamification #adhd #adhd solutions #boredom #boredoom #paperclips #modular #hanger

[sleepytecho]

#filofax #plotter japan #plotter usa #diy plotter #ring binder #ring planner #daily planner #planner #journal #diary #own

[quills-planning]

I initially got a late start on my Feb spreads, but they're on their way to being done. Here's a sneak peak of what they're looking like so far!

Sorry for the light pencil lines, lol. I'm about halfway done with the month spreads being sketched out, then I'll be lining and coloring some! After the month spreads being done, the weekly and daily sections should be quick to get through!

#bujo #bullet journal #journal #planner #planning #goals #goalsetting #school #university #gamifiedlife #hand drawn #handmade #dungeons and dragons #d&d 5e #fantasy #craftblr #diy craft

[parklandcryptid-studies]

Happy February!

My monthly theme was ✨ space magic ✨

Also my not-so-pretty habit tracker. I don't usually use these but there are some things I'm trying to improve in my life, so I'm tracking to see how much I can get done and what my progress looks like over time. Maybe next month I'll try to make this page a bit prettier but I added it in last minute so I just wanted something simple for now.

#Bujo #bullet journal #journalling #journal setup #planning #planner #DIY planner #plan with me #planner layout #bujo layout #february bujo #2023 bujo #space #magic #potion #habit tracker

[morganali-books]

And last, but not least (at least for now!), are my work and home diaries for 2023-2024. Same template as for previous years, with some tweaks to add or change things to make them work better. Calendar format has not changed. I did forget it is a leap year next year, so my February pages are ever so slightly wonky.

You may notice that there is kind of a theme for both. 👀💦

For my work diary (the one with the shield), I wanted to evoke something of the House Fortemps armour - green faux leather bookcloth for the spine, the slightly metallic scrapbooking paper for the chainmail, the green and yellow marbled paper endsheets and yellow pages for the text block for that general green and gold colour scheme.

Then I decided to go a little crazy with a craft knife and sketched (more or less freehand from reference) and cut out the unicorn design from the shield. Arguably I should have stuck to just the unicorn head, but then I did the whole dang shield anyway.

The home diary is also subtly House Fortemps themed, and because I am well and truly stuck in the blorbo zone, it is also subtly Artoirel themed as well. This was a bit of an afterthought, so the coloured pages of the textblock and the endsheets have no bearing on the overall design, but I went in for similar colours as the work diary (yellow, green and the sort of greyish brown of the cover), went simpler with the unicorn motif, and picked a scrapbooking paper design for the cover that incorporated the music staff in it (because, you know, orchestrions).

Also please enjoy the picture of me working on these during one of the many Prae runs I did during the last Moogletome event 😂

#bookbinding #diy books #case binding #diy planner #diy journal #dot grid journal #ffxiv #house fortemps #artoirel de fortemps #deep in the blorbo pit

[arnab-comel]

floral garden stickers

#scrapbooking #scrapbook journal #stickers #pretty stickers #diy #arts and crafts #journalling #journal #art journal #journaling #bullet journal #diary #planner #pretty aesthetic #pretty things #pretty stuff #pretty finds #butterfly aesthetic #butterflies #butterfly #floral aesthetic #flowercore #flower aesthetic #kawaii #kawaii aesthetic #cute finds #cute aesthetic #kawaii core #kawaiicore #cute stuff

[buildyourplanner]

🎨 Unleash your inner artist and craft the perfect planner cover! From materials to ideas, our guide has everything you need to create something truly unique. Get inspired now! ✂️📒 Read more!

#planner #diy planner #bujo

[tapeskingdom]

4 patterns colorful sweets candy raw diamond planet star blue cloud washi tape

#washi tape #colorful stone #mini sweet #mini cloud #colorful gift #diy planner #planner accessories #girl planner #mini candy

[radlissa]

🕊️🩰🌷✨🤍🪐

#angelcore #cinnamon girl #collage #coquette #diary #diy diary #dollcore #dollette #hello kitty #inspiration #journal #journaling #kawaii #kewpie #mochette #morute #notebook #planner #sanrio #stationary