Hi! Just came across your video, just wanted to say that I AM SO GLAD YOU MADE THIS! I've been trying to make Notion work for me and I've realised that it's honestly too much hassle and like you said if I can't physically see it then it doesn't feel like it's there. So now I only use Notion to track my studies and am finally using my Notebooks and other resources properly. I thought that if I tried hard enough then Notion would work for me but now I realise that by sticking with my gut and in turn paper I've never felt more productive! Thanks for this video for making me feel seen.
yess I totally relate to this! I saw people using notion and I wanted to make it work so bad but it just didn’t work out. physical planner gal for life!!! sticking with what works ❤❤❤ i’m so glad you relate too! 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
I like your way of planning. The only issue that I have is that it is a lot of notebooks. I just purchased a Erin Condren A5 ring planner and I got the budgeting and project inserts as well. I feel like it does everything you are describing, but in one place and I find it to be small enough that I can carry it with me. I also created my own inserts for the important things in my life like routines and my running. I also have an inbox where I write down things that I need to do. I like your system a lot, but as someone who gets distracted easily I find the many notebooks difficult to keep track of and use
@@Moonlite1230 oh I love this! I used erin condren back in college and I must admit, I completely for about them 10 years later! thank you so much for reminding me of this brand and that’s such a great idea for your inserts! 🫶🏼🫶🏼 it’s all about trial and error - maybe next year I give this brand a try❤️ tysm for watching!
@@daytodaykat There is a brand called The Traveler’s Company that produces the “original”, but other brands (and individuals) make their own in different sizes. It’s basically a reusable soft cover that you can string multiple soft notebooks in.
Thanks for sharing. I'm in my early 50s and the last few years (as technology has progressed) I've been grappling with my planning system. I must have some form of paper planner for sure but I've definitely gone down the rabbit hole of digital products, I've tried Notion, all of the apps, etc. The ones I do like are Google Keep, Google Calendar, Any Do, and Day One Journal app. However, after watching this, and so I stop running in circles (I've changed my planning system at least 6 times since January), I plan to return to using mostly notebooks and planners (because I love a calendar). And back in the day, I also used mostly colored notebooks so I'm definitely going to explore that again. Thanks again for all of the great ideas.
yes!! do what feels right for you and what works. thats the best planning system honestly, the one that just WORKS for us. I love me a good colored notebook! they make me so happy. Thank you for your comment and I am wishing you all the best in your planning journey
@@darianajaimeblanco thank you so much for watching! it’s definitely a trial and error type of thing but i’m positive there’s one out there for you! 🫶🏼🫶🏼
Happy planner, half sized CLASSIC size ❤ fits in all my purses and I fold over standard CLASSIC sized paper to hide private information.❤split into sections for work, checklists, brainstorming, prioritizing, monthly overview, medical, finances. Discs let me add or subtract after there is a change but I have everything I would forget.
@@lorettachan8065 literally ran to happy planner after a few comments and i’m shook at this!!! wow I have to try it!! seems like it might be the answer to my prayers!!! 😂😂 thank you so much for recommending a size too - it’s very overwhelming in the site I feel lost lol TOO MANY OPTIONS
Ahhhh I’ve never resonated with a planning video more than I have now. Notion doesn’t work for me either! I also love keeping different A6 sized notebooks for different things and the sticky notes? Chef’s kiss 😂 For my monthly spread though, I still use google calendar just so my bills and birthdays are recurring. Easy for me to also add quick events as needed and have them as a widget on my homescreen. For the day to day, nothing beats pen and paper. Totally agree. Thanks so much for sharing your system!
Esse vídeo foi incrível! Muito obrigada por compartilhar sua experiência. Estou próxima de realizar uma prova importante pra minha carreira e estou muito ansiosa e desorganizada. Me dá a sensação que estou falhando, mas sei que só preciso das ferramentas corretas. Um beijo! Vou adaptar algumas dicas suas
I love how you made this video. I’m thrilled to be one of your first 300 subscribers and I can follow you while you’re creating videos for thousands of people ❤ Good luck 🤞
Notion too complicated 😂😂😂 I put all of my todo, checklist, reminders, everything on paper. Using different planners can be exhausting too. I keep small Japanese version of Franklin Planner then realised that I can not put everything there. So I tried Hobonichi, Jibun Techo, Happy Planner, Flying Tiger Planner, Kikki, Kakeibo for Finance, and some digital planners 😂😂😂. Finally I am using Franklin Planner Japanese for reminder and todo, Filofax Pocket for notes, reading summary, and Filofax A5 for social media planner. You are right, and thanks for sharing
preach!! lol notion is doing too much!! and omg ive been so curious about Hobonichi planners and now you got me second guessing! thank you so much for these recommendations - it sounds to me that we are very similar.
I’m thinking about reducing my notion to just goals, goal updates, maybe reflections and general notes. But then use a paper planner for monthly and weekly and daily planning
I feel this so much. I've tried going digital many times yet always find myself returning to analog formats. Truly is such an ADHD problem, if I don't see it, I don't remember/think about it. I carry at least 1 notebook with me at all times, even from room to room in the house.
I have been debating carrying a small pocket sized notepad for my thoughts bc the same thing happens to my notes app and screenshots lol. they go away and I never think of them again. every couple of months I have to go and clean up my phone bc its filled with junk thoughts and screenshots I never referred back to lol. literal adhd problems!!
I VERY recently came to the conclusion that i need monthly and daily views for my planning system😄 Weekly is somehow both too long and too short of a timeline. For my daily to-dos i just use the 97 cent pen and gear pocket notebook (monthly items are still in the monthly/weekly planner i bought at the beginning of the year).
@@daytodaykat it MUST have to do with time blindness! Combined with "work expands to the time allotted". So...a day, a week, a month, and a quarter...ALL look the same!😂
Hi! Thanks for the insight. I was recently diagnosed with ADHD and I’m struggling a little bit with how to cope. May I ask where you got the first monthly layout planner? I think something simple like this is what I need to get started.
@@miri8025 welcome to the club! happy to have you hahaha ❤️❤️ best of luck with your journey! and yes I grabbed it at barnes at noble but I recently went to TJ Maxx and they had a ton of options. the brand is “orange circle studio” or “paper source”. hugs!!
The only system that has ever worked for me is the ryder carroll bullet Journaling method (very minalimist). Then for goals makselife companion notebooks. And now I use the finch app.
Thank you for watching!! It did take me a few weeks of it but with my ADHD, I realized that where I was messing up was not having the planners in front of me where I sat down daily to do work, so by switching them to be in front of me, it helped a lot. Then I started writing more and more on them until I became dependent on checking that to go about my day and after a few weeks, it stuck!
@@daytodaykat very enlightening qnd I appreciate you taking the time to respond. I need to take a lot of notes and misplace the folded papers I grab from the printer a lot. Thank you
I have tried bullet journaling - but the thing about me is that if I make a design mistake on the page, I can't rip out the page without the rips showing or the other page on the other end coming apart... and then my perfectionist brain can't handle that mistake not he page. It honestly gives me more grief than I can handle lol! I'm also not super artistic and the final product I see on pinterest is never the one I can create and it just makes me frustrated lol. my god I sound like a nightmare but im just being real 🥲 haha
You mentioned that you don't use budget templates and went on to mention digital budget templates only... have you checked other types of budget templates? There are paper kinds you know, like the budget mom!!!!
I do it all old school on my but notepad, tracking debts and what's left, money coming in, etc. No specific way tbh, just straight up tracking it in a way that I can keep tabs on it. Thank you so much for suggesting budget mom! im going to check it out
i have adhd and i have been trying to find a system that works! i also love writing stuff down so i will definitely give this a try! thanks for making this video!🫶🏻🫶🏻
Hi! Just came across your video, just wanted to say that I AM SO GLAD YOU MADE THIS! I've been trying to make Notion work for me and I've realised that it's honestly too much hassle and like you said if I can't physically see it then it doesn't feel like it's there. So now I only use Notion to track my studies and am finally using my Notebooks and other resources properly. I thought that if I tried hard enough then Notion would work for me but now I realise that by sticking with my gut and in turn paper I've never felt more productive! Thanks for this video for making me feel seen.
yess I totally relate to this! I saw people using notion and I wanted to make it work so bad but it just didn’t work out. physical planner gal for life!!! sticking with what works ❤❤❤ i’m so glad you relate too! 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
Yes! I use a discbound system and keep it all in one planner but different sections. I have to write it down or I’ll forget!
im learning so much from the comments! what’s your favorite brand?? any you can recommend to me?
Happy Planners and arc planners are my favs cuz you can rearrange the pages/replenish them with new pages.
oooooo thank you so much for this recommendation! I have so many brands to check out
I like your way of planning. The only issue that I have is that it is a lot of notebooks. I just purchased a Erin Condren A5 ring planner and I got the budgeting and project inserts as well. I feel like it does everything you are describing, but in one place and I find it to be small enough that I can carry it with me. I also created my own inserts for the important things in my life like routines and my running. I also have an inbox where I write down things that I need to do. I like your system a lot, but as someone who gets distracted easily I find the many notebooks difficult to keep track of and use
@@Moonlite1230 oh I love this! I used erin condren back in college and I must admit, I completely for about them 10 years later! thank you so much for reminding me of this brand and that’s such a great idea for your inserts! 🫶🏼🫶🏼 it’s all about trial and error - maybe next year I give this brand a try❤️ tysm for watching!
That’s awesome! Fellow ADHD-er here! I use happy planner and bullet journals for mine and am obsessed
@@justlaura7177 omg I MUST check out happy planners!! tysm for the rec ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I like to use Traveler’s Notebooks so that I can have multiple inserts with their own purpose inside a single book.
oh great idea! is this a specific brand or a specific type of notebook category?
@@daytodaykat There is a brand called The Traveler’s Company that produces the “original”, but other brands (and individuals) make their own in different sizes. It’s basically a reusable soft cover that you can string multiple soft notebooks in.
I love this video! I’m a small biz owned with ADHD…physical planners are a must
yes!!!! they keep me in check! if it isn't in front of me, it doesn't exist! lol
Thanks for sharing. I'm in my early 50s and the last few years (as technology has progressed) I've been grappling with my planning system. I must have some form of paper planner for sure but I've definitely gone down the rabbit hole of digital products, I've tried Notion, all of the apps, etc. The ones I do like are Google Keep, Google Calendar, Any Do, and Day One Journal app. However, after watching this, and so I stop running in circles (I've changed my planning system at least 6 times since January), I plan to return to using mostly notebooks and planners (because I love a calendar). And back in the day, I also used mostly colored notebooks so I'm definitely going to explore that again. Thanks again for all of the great ideas.
yes!! do what feels right for you and what works. thats the best planning system honestly, the one that just WORKS for us. I love me a good colored notebook! they make me so happy.
Thank you for your comment and I am wishing you all the best in your planning journey
This video is awesome!! Thank you for sharing your experiences with us, I gotta look into traditional planners!
@@darianajaimeblanco thank you so much for watching! it’s definitely a trial and error type of thing but i’m positive there’s one out there for you! 🫶🏼🫶🏼
Happy planner, half sized CLASSIC size ❤ fits in all my purses and I fold over standard CLASSIC sized paper to hide private information.❤split into sections for work, checklists, brainstorming, prioritizing, monthly overview, medical, finances. Discs let me add or subtract after there is a change but I have everything I would forget.
@@lorettachan8065 literally ran to happy planner after a few comments and i’m shook at this!!! wow I have to try it!! seems like it might be the answer to my prayers!!! 😂😂 thank you so much for recommending a size too - it’s very overwhelming in the site I feel lost lol TOO MANY OPTIONS
@@daytodaykat ADHD, when you find what works for us…you share.
Ahhhh I’ve never resonated with a planning video more than I have now. Notion doesn’t work for me either! I also love keeping different A6 sized notebooks for different things and the sticky notes? Chef’s kiss 😂 For my monthly spread though, I still use google calendar just so my bills and birthdays are recurring. Easy for me to also add quick events as needed and have them as a widget on my homescreen. For the day to day, nothing beats pen and paper. Totally agree. Thanks so much for sharing your system!
yes!!! you get me!! haha notion never stuck! good ol’ pen and paper works so perfect!❤❤ thank you for watching! 🫶🏼
i will try this 📒 ✏️ so simple, thanks for sharing great idea
Esse vídeo foi incrível! Muito obrigada por compartilhar sua experiência. Estou próxima de realizar uma prova importante pra minha carreira e estou muito ansiosa e desorganizada. Me dá a sensação que estou falhando, mas sei que só preciso das ferramentas corretas. Um beijo! Vou adaptar algumas dicas suas
thank you so much for watching! best of luck on your journey and good luck on your test!!
I love how you made this video. I’m thrilled to be one of your first 300 subscribers and I can follow you while you’re creating videos for thousands of people ❤ Good luck 🤞
thank you SO MUCH for your comment it made me so happy. you've just about made my day
Notion too complicated 😂😂😂 I put all of my todo, checklist, reminders, everything on paper. Using different planners can be exhausting too. I keep small Japanese version of Franklin Planner then realised that I can not put everything there. So I tried Hobonichi, Jibun Techo, Happy Planner, Flying Tiger Planner, Kikki, Kakeibo for Finance, and some digital planners 😂😂😂. Finally I am using Franklin Planner Japanese for reminder and todo, Filofax Pocket for notes, reading summary, and Filofax A5 for social media planner. You are right, and thanks for sharing
preach!! lol notion is doing too much!!
and omg ive been so curious about Hobonichi planners and now you got me second guessing! thank you so much for these recommendations - it sounds to me that we are very similar.
Hi. I agree with you Notion is too complicated for me. What is the difference between the American Franklin and the Japanese Franklin?
I’m thinking about reducing my notion to just goals, goal updates, maybe reflections and general notes. But then use a paper planner for monthly and weekly and daily planning
You described me, perfectly.
you get me!! lol
Just came across this video and i love it! Love your content, Kat! New subbie here 🤗
aw thank you so much for watching and subscribing
I feel this so much. I've tried going digital many times yet always find myself returning to analog formats. Truly is such an ADHD problem, if I don't see it, I don't remember/think about it. I carry at least 1 notebook with me at all times, even from room to room in the house.
I have been debating carrying a small pocket sized notepad for my thoughts bc the same thing happens to my notes app and screenshots lol. they go away and I never think of them again. every couple of months I have to go and clean up my phone bc its filled with junk thoughts and screenshots I never referred back to lol. literal adhd problems!!
I VERY recently came to the conclusion that i need monthly and daily views for my planning system😄 Weekly is somehow both too long and too short of a timeline. For my daily to-dos i just use the 97 cent pen and gear pocket notebook (monthly items are still in the monthly/weekly planner i bought at the beginning of the year).
@@hindenburg2006 yes!!!! you get me hahahah. weekly just does not work out for me. this is exactly how my brain works too!
@@daytodaykat it MUST have to do with time blindness! Combined with "work expands to the time allotted". So...a day, a week, a month, and a quarter...ALL look the same!😂
@@hindenburg2006 HAHAHAHAAHAH sooo freaking true!!
Hi! Thanks for the insight. I was recently diagnosed with ADHD and I’m struggling a little bit with how to cope. May I ask where you got the first monthly layout planner? I think something simple like this is what I need to get started.
@@miri8025 welcome to the club! happy to have you hahaha ❤️❤️ best of luck with your journey! and yes I grabbed it at barnes at noble but I recently went to TJ Maxx and they had a ton of options. the brand is “orange circle studio” or “paper source”. hugs!!
The only system that has ever worked for me is the ryder carroll bullet Journaling method (very minalimist). Then for goals makselife companion notebooks. And now I use the finch app.
In an lt1917 bc I love the paper.
ooooo thanks for the recs! never heard of finch! im going to check it out now!
❤❤ thanks for posting. It rewlltnspoke to me when you said you buy a bunch and never use them. Me too! How'd you ger your system to become a habit?
Thank you for watching!! It did take me a few weeks of it but with my ADHD, I realized that where I was messing up was not having the planners in front of me where I sat down daily to do work, so by switching them to be in front of me, it helped a lot. Then I started writing more and more on them until I became dependent on checking that to go about my day and after a few weeks, it stuck!
@@daytodaykat very enlightening qnd I appreciate you taking the time to respond. I need to take a lot of notes and misplace the folded papers I grab from the printer a lot. Thank you
@@marybaker8061 wishing luck on this journey! hugs!!!
I just come across your channel i love your planning system. Im stuggling with my planning system
it makes me feel so normal to know that other people relate to this!!
@@daytodaykat so how do find what works for you? And how do you keep up to date with everything?
Have you tried a Bullet journal to help keep things in organized in one journal?
I have tried bullet journaling - but the thing about me is that if I make a design mistake on the page, I can't rip out the page without the rips showing or the other page on the other end coming apart... and then my perfectionist brain can't handle that mistake not he page. It honestly gives me more grief than I can handle lol! I'm also not super artistic and the final product I see on pinterest is never the one I can create and it just makes me frustrated lol.
my god I sound like a nightmare but im just being real 🥲 haha
Amazing video
@@nerdybruiser14 thank you for watching. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
You mentioned that you don't use budget templates and went on to mention digital budget templates only... have you checked other types of budget templates? There are paper kinds you know, like the budget mom!!!!
I do it all old school on my but notepad, tracking debts and what's left, money coming in, etc. No specific way tbh, just straight up tracking it in a way that I can keep tabs on it. Thank you so much for suggesting budget mom! im going to check it out
@@daytodaykat Glad to be of help ^^
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4:45 hahahaha 😝😝
hahahaha - I haven't seen the show either, its on my to watch list!
i have adhd and i have been trying to find a system that works! i also love writing stuff down so i will definitely give this a try! thanks for making this video!🫶🏻🫶🏻
@@jennakaten yayyy I hope this works out for you! it did take me a few weeks to build that habit but after that - it’s been a game changer!! ❤️❤️❤️