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Planning Planning Basics Series

Planning Basics 2: The Two Keys

I’m guessing if you’re following this blog you already know these things, but here are some of the general planning tips and key points I share with my students, most of whom are just starting out on figuring out the best system for getting things done. Regardless of your personality type, this will help you plan better.

To me there are only two things you really need to plan successfully. Everything else is just to your taste — go simple and pure bullet journalling, use a pre-made planner, go all-digital, or decorate your own. The choice is up to you, but whatever you do, here’s how to use that system effectively.

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Planning Planning Basics Series

Planning Basics 1: Planning by Personality

I’m an art educator, and one of the things I work on with my high school and college-age students is planning and time management. I thought I would adapt one of the lessons I prepared for them into a series of blog posts about how to plan. This post discusses how you can use a personality test to help you use your planner more effectively.

If you know yourself well, then you can “hack” your planning tools, methods, and habits to make sure you are using all of them in a way that really suits how you work best.

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Hauls

Haul: Life Story (Edinburgh)

I recently went on vacation to Europe and while I held myself back in Bruges and Amsterdam from buying All The Stationery, I just couldn’t help myself at a beautiful little shop called Life Story in Edinburgh, Scotland…

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Tools

Weekend Planning Tools

In addition to my everyday carry, I use a few key extra tools that I keep at home to setup my weekly spreads every Saturday or Sunday. Here are my current essentials for getting my spreads ready!

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Reflections

My Planning Journey

Hello there and welcome to my blog! This site holds my musings about planning, stationery, pens, time and project management, and using artistic minimalism to make both a functional planner and an unassuming little work of art.

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Everyday Carry

In the 8 months since I’ve started bullet journalling (or well, my strange sort-of bullet journal, mainly hand-drawn planner hybrid!), I’ve developed a set of absolute favorite tools for my planner that stay in my pencil case and travel everywhere with me, alongside my Leuchtturm 1917 journal.

Here are my everyday carry items in order of most important/used.