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Is your pen a gel pen? If so, I’ve never seen a multicolor gel pen!

Thanks for sharing! Do you have more info on the mesh bag you keep your meds and lip stuff in?

I did my washi declutter yesterday and got rid of almost 300 rolls❣️ I’ve been in the planner community for almost 20 years so I have a boatload of supplies. I am also in a standard TN (SI CP N1 vertical 1/2 year). Knowing your planner size and style makes decisions so much easier. I am with you in the decluttering journey this year, so thanks for the accountability ☺️

Seeing Ro pop up in your video brought me so much joy!!!

Wish I had more going on…this looks so satisfying. What a great and unique system.

Loved this! Thanks for sharing!🤗

Love the video. My dog also has valley fever and we get her meds through Chewy. She’s a mastiff and takes a high dose.

so cool to see your process!!!

I really love this format, it’s super cool to see how others are using their planners.

Loved this video. Its nice to see how someone is actually using their planner!

This was incredibly helpful!!! As many more as your schedule can handle- I would like to watch them❤

I loved this type of video from you!! Your planning inspires me! 🎉

Hey Elena, the adulting log is a nice idea. Mine would be a little bit different because my teenagers help out by doing most of our household chores. It's awesome that you got to meet a new planner friend at a cafe!

I ever get tired of them either. So soothing - thoughts and action on paper ❤

Our brains are very similar... I also HAVE to have my planning and journaling together. Great video!

This is very helpful and inspiring to see how to setup and use a planner and stay organized! Thank you for sharing! 😊

Really helpful to see your process and how you're planning 😊 I can't make out the items on your list, so could you tell me what is an adulting log??!

I love to see people staying with their TN instead of moving to 3 or 4 notebooks. I’ve had my TN since late last year and still love it 😀

This is a great example of why we have to understand how we think before we can settle into a planner. After floating between dated Daytimers, Blue sky, Franklin planner, (which were fine for classes and work schedules back in the day but which was never fully utilized as intended) and spiral notebooks, and digital solutions, And some attempts with bullet journaling (I'm on the same flexibility page!) I decided that at age 60 I would experiment with the disc binder situation. I considered it a birthday present to experiment with the different products, taking the time in the money to try them and listen to a lot of videos about them. They really solved my challenges of wanting variety inside and on the outside of my planners and notebooks, and allows me to purge my regular planner of excessive notetaking and to separate those notes physically into categories in other notebooks/sections. That makes it so much easier to just archive my big life events instead of everything I ever wrote about everything I ever thought. 😂 A lot of times my dated calendars would get crowded out with Notes! And I'm sorry, I just can't do the index thing. To me that would be so much friction it would drive me crazy. Each year I use the current free version of OneNote to create really nice looking two - page monthly spreads for myself. I've also created various planner pages in there as I figure out what works for me in different seasons of life. But the ones I want to keep as archive or the two page monthly spreads. I keep an ongoing perpetual calendar that's printable. I just write in the changes as they occur and reprint a nicer updated copy when I'm in the mood. Same with routines. I don't wanna keep writing things I do on a routine over and over and over again. At intervals, I use an older format of OneNote - 2010 - offline to update and print out The next actions of different projects (which happily prints out full size, half size or happy planner classic size or any custom size at all) so that I can see exactly what the next actions are - That has been pretty helpful Especially when circumstances are feeling a bit overwhelming… Which happened this year. I pick a couple targets and then I can put them on whatever my today pages. I don't know if the new, paid version of OneNote allows printing to different sizes of paper but in my free version it doesn't. I can also print out my contacts and other useful things from that old Microsoft office program. Very handy to not have to keep paying for the privilege of doing that. Sometimes my today pages on my phone, sometimes it's on a blank piece of paper or an index card. Sometimes it's on a page I designed for my planner. It depends on what I feel like carrying around with me. I actually cut up both used paper, junk mail paper and new paper to fit different size binders for free/nominal cost. I either print custom pages on these (especially using the waste paper for experimental pages, pages I don't plan to keep like Dailies, And for scribbling notes on the go) - I use a simple paper trimmer to do this in front of the TV at night every month or so. But you can also probably have your local office supply store cut paper to spec for you.... my local office supply shop is definitely willing to do that for a very small charge. This works out great for me because while I like my plan is to be attractive I don't necessarily Love the artwork that comes with the proprietary ones. Mostly I love the proprietary planners because they have good looking tabs on their dividers and I find ways to repurpose them (sometimes covering them with a more attractive art paper than what the original was. I don't necessarily enjoy "You go, girl!" and other slogans on my dividers 🤣

Need your links for your covers!!

I love how you’re using the TNs. I see so many videos of planner content where people are moving to various diary notebooks, even a well known one that has ‘weeks’ set up, which is quite expensive and is the size of a £2 diary from the local supermarket….and invariably they either stop using it, or don’t use the note pages in the back which is such a waste of paper. Or huge notebooks which seem to be used for a few weeks, then pages missed and eventually abandoned because the book is too big for their needs. And then there’s us, the die hard TN users who have everything nicely sectioned out in different inserts, and we don’t seem to have wasted pages or the ‘too big a book’ syndrome. And your Dad…I heard something that helped me understand my Dad’s passing…”grief is all the love being stored up with nowhere to go” ❤️

I love all your hand tattoos!

Oh, wow! Thats a chunky stack in one cover. 😅 It sounds like you found a great system that works for you. I love using SI notebooks. But currently, I'm using a few other notebooks for different things.

Love the FCC hack!

Yes, same! Everything needs to be in one planner or I get overwhelmed and shut down. And I also need to pick and choose what works for me in the setting goals department. #nuerodivergent

You could consider using the yearly overview for bills due/periodic expenses, menu planning or tracking (dinners), holidays/days off/vacation, medication/symptoms tracker, etc? As always, love your videos. I’m also back in standard TN this year. I’m going to have to pick up the SI monthly because the paper and layout are perfect. I can’t get myself to use my cheap inserts…

Thanks for posting this thorough video. I'm thinking about pairing a Sterling Ink N1 half year common planner with a cut down standard stalogy and was wondering how I might set it up. I too am going to put in two pages a day and put in note pages and probably use it for two months. I didn't think about an index in front so thanks for mentioning that. The cost of the Stalogy for two months seems like a good economical choice too if you get the half year it's 6.50 a month. Not a bad investment for insuring a bit of sanity in our lives lol.

I haven't bought washi tape in months because I realized that I never ever finish any of the rolls. But I have no problem using up full sticker sheets. I've tossed out at least half of my stash. That's unfortunate that you didn't like what you got in that grab bag.

I am just loving this! I have pre-dated planners for 2025, but I have a lot of outdated and undated planners and tons of notebooks, so I was legit thinking of just doing something similar to this in the future. Honestly might still pull in some of the pg ideas for my notes sections and my grid ntbk.

Ohhhh I like the weekly goals pages idea… I think I will incorporate that in my system ❤

What store did you go to or how did you get the corners rounded. Loved this video. Especially the fact that you are doing time frames and things that WORK FOR YOU! That is something I have come to terms with for 2025. For me to use what works regardless of how it looks.

Very thorough setup! I enjoyed watching this video while I did my weekly review in my planner.

Can you PLEASE do a reel or video on how you round the corners? I want to try getting something cut down but I don't enjoy non rounded corners.

I like using The 12 Year Year framework. I used to use the Makselife goal system, but I found that I didn’t need most of what was included in it. It’s a great system, it’s just not for me anymore. It was great hearing what your goals were.

I’m looking forward to the goal setup video 😊 the way you think of it, makes sense to me, I think this would finally work for me so yey! And thank you ☺️

I’ve got some undated HP size Makselife inserts that I’ll be using along with some custom health trackers. I’m going to try to do the 12 week year in a way that makes sense for me. I’m also budgeting in a hybrid system with the app YNAB and a printable version of the budget mom in a Big HP. One thing I realized this year is that I love to use apps for tracking and budgeting, but I don’t look back and reflect on the data to make changes. My brain just can’t process it. Same with YNAB, I love to keep track of my balances and allocate my income but I don’t look at my grocery or other categories before I spend to make sure I’m not overspending…so what’s the point. I’m 52 and looking to make some major habit changes in 2025.

❤❤❤yay! Video❤ really great breakdown - thank you for sharing. I’m looking forward to see your planner with the system. I like how set up your strings! My planning system is pretty set - has been holding up strong- but I’m still developing a goals system ~ so studying a lot of content including your channel and others for inspiration.😊

I'm also using a combination of makselife and cultivate what matters - also figuring out my own system that works for me - in my case I find it more helpful to vision and plan goals for six month periods rather than the entire year - good luck!

Where are the vertical month headers with the stars from? They're so cute!

What is the leather insert with the pen loops? Where did you get it?

I love this setup coach Elena. Instead of slimming down the 1/2 year stalogy even more, have you considered using a wider cover? A5slim/wide?

Great set up. I love seeing other people’s TNs and getting inspiration and new ideas for mine 😀

As a hybrid girl, this made my brain way too happy (tech is where I dump stuff that are on my brain and ask to be reminded of stuff, analog is where I actually try to use my brain to organise 😅)

I’m gonna use a pretty similar system next year, got myself a common planner full year TN. Because I love to be able to bullet journal for dailies and collections, but I do not want to draw my own planning layouts 😂. Love having monthlies and weeklies that are already there and then I can go crazy in the notes pages

So glad to see you’re well. Was getting nervous not seeing a live or much content from you. I knew you were hard at work figuring something, plus the holiday. I’ll need to follow you on other socials. 🙂 Anyhow, I was going to suggest something similar. I could see you were struggling even though book-bound is your jam. Fun fact, I went into travelers after leaving Happy Planner. I did everything quarterly. Had several monthlies to track data but had a weekly and then a journaling/notes/to do insert. Then I had a junk journaling insert for creativity. Loved it. Sometimes I entertain going back. But I love just one large chunky book, no matter the chunk. There’s something about just throwing in my bag, just in a vinyl cover, when I’m the go, that’s satisfying. I could see why anything smaller than an A5, the chunk would get difficult to work with. Especially a standard with how narrow it is. All you can do is try it out. ❤ I love your vds. You motivated me to bring mine back out that I purchased second hand. The outside leather is undyed and had some water stains marks. So, I pick it up for a fair price. I used a conditioner/cleaner to even it out and picked one to be “too safe” (darkening the undyed). It did darkened it a little. But not much and now I don’t like it, as it looks a bit orange. I’m going to strictly condition it with mink oil, to hopefully get to go to a chestnut color. Has a beautiful Tiffany blue leather inside. I think the stark contrast will be beautiful. Wish me luck! 🍀

Your setup is so perfect and tailored for you which is so fun to hear about!!

Team strings 🫶 stalogy is love! Gosh, that cover is pretty, and I'm loving your setup!

I have heard nothing but bad things about Naya Paperie, especially her customer service... It's like she can't stand to hear that she is human and makes mistakes... That's not how you run a business... ESPECIALLY when her items are $100+... She has just been plain out rude and as much as I think her covers are beautiful - I would never deal with an owner who doesn't handle their mistakes professionally. Glad you finally got a cover you love ❤

Ah! So cute! I love love the closure design. I definitely prefer a snap closure for my rings but if I used a regular book as a planner in the future, I think I would prefer a closure like yours. I have 2 custom VDS and I have one on the way for Christmas from my boyfriend, and for all three, I had excellent customer service. The one my boyfriend recently ordered me had an extra pen loop. The same day it was ordered, Petra emailed us asking which pen loop I wanted as the bigger one. We responded and she responded back the same day! They are so quick and the quality is just amazing. I am excited for you and excited to get my new cover in January :)

It's so pretty! I've been eyeing one for my weeks since it's clear she's never leaving my life. I want to make it my wallet as well. I really love that closure. Wonder if it could be an option for my weeks cover if I take the plunge.