Sterling Ink Common Planner | Review After 3 Months of Use
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
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In this video I share my opinion on Common Planner by Sterling Ink and show how I use it.
Hope you find it useful!
00:00 Intro
00:18 Why I bought Common Planner?
00:57 How I use the planner
07:50 Advantages
09:30 Disadvantages
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Sterling Ink has fixed the cover for the Common Planner.
Here are some ideas for those daily pages:
1. Keep track of anything related to your apartment or rental home (ex: maintenance requests, purchases, replacing smoke detector batteries, etc.)
2. Pictures for memory keeping
3. Recipes for your favorite foods or pantry inventory
4. Your favorite shops and any discount codes
5. News (world or local)
6. Use it for content planning for social media
7. Swatch pages for pens and markers
8. Lists for Christmas or birthday gifts
9. Lists of monthly, quarterly or yearly tasks
10. A 2024 preview... because sometimes things come up for next year!
Thanks for the comment!
I love your ideas for the daily pages, I already use some of them for my 5-year Hobonichi Teach, that I will make a video about soon.
I have this planner and I use the back blank pages as my reading journal. If you find yourself reading quite a bit maybe you can utilize those back pages in that way.
I use my monthly for my and my husband’s dr appointments and fun events but I love your use of collections to decorate them. I personally prefer the common planner and am happy that I went with the B6 compact. I don’t use daily pages but sometimes need the extra pages for notes, memory keeping etc. Note: my first Sterling Common planner is 2024 and she has addressed the cover. I purchased an A6 Hobonichi Hon for journaling not realizing that it has monthly calendars and goes straight into dailies- it’s ok for journaling but not as a planner in my opinion. I agree
Thanks for sharing! I also feel like I need weekly spreads in my planner, otherwise I can not get the overview of tasks that I need.
Very helpful! Trying to decide between the Cousin and the Common Planner for next year. Love how you did the collections.
Thank you! Hope you make a choice that is right for you
I’m too hooked on A5 Slim. Thanks for the video.
I love what you did with the monthlies
Thank you!
Good luck on your masters!
Thank you so much!
I’ve not had any issues with my cover. SterlingInk changed the cover based on customer feedback. It’s been changed for all their notebooks and undated planners they’ve launched and even the 1/2 year dated preorder (for the 2nd half 2023 books). I personally prefer the original cover by far. But I know I’m in the minority.
I’m using the dated B6 CP for my personal/EDC and the A5 undated CP for work. Love and adore both. This planner is close to perfection for me. I wish the months and weeks were together but that’s not a deal breaker for me just a preference.
I’ve never seen a planner as a place to set my goals - I’ve added this to a planner before but to me that’s not it’s purpose - it’s purpose is to keep me organized and on track with my daily life. That can incorporate goals but often it’s just the day to day. But I appreciate that Catherine included goal setting in the planner but in a way that it can easily be used for other things. Just like the quarterly it can be used for so many different things and doesn’t have to be tied into your goals or even tracking. It’s so flexible.
That’s a good use of your monthly if you don’t need it for actual scheduling. There’s so many ways to use your monthly - I’m planning a video on it - such a long list of different ways.
Same with dailies - so many ways to use those blank pages. I don’t use them for daily pages pretty much ever. It’s a common place section for me ❤
Where you live definitely makes cover shopping different. We can’t go into a store here and buy an A5 or A6 cover. We’d have to go to specialty shop you searched out or order online. And I’ve never had any issues finding B6 covers online - I’ve got tons just as I have in other sizes.
Thanks for your comment! I have similar feelings about the Common Planner - it is amazing to have so much space for goal setting.
I have never used these types of planners. I love the way you enhance your planner. I am uncertain if I would utilize this with all the blank space. I may try it for one year. I would love to plan along with you and will continue to watch your channel.
Thank you so much for your comment!
I love the of monthly collections
I love what you did for the monthly. Also….She updated most of the cons you have for this planner for 2024.
Yes! I am so excited to buy the new planner from her!
I honestly don't use any of the daily pages either. I would love a few pages a month, but nothing more than that. Also I wish that the months/weeks went together, like jan monthly, then the jan weeks, and so on.
Yes, yes! Monthly and weekly spreads together would be great. This is the reason I am thinking about bullet journal format from time to time, even though I was happy to give it up for ready-to-use planners
Maybe you’d like the AE that’s coming out. They just announced it on IG. It’s undated but easy enough to date it.
Where do you take the notes from meetings?
@@arubafanatic in Notion, as I often have to share them with someone else
The new release for 2024 has an option for fewer daily pages. It’s the compact version. @chickybro_
Have you ever thought about trying the Aura Estelle sewnbound planners? They have some that have weekly spreads, only. They contain TRP too, with a very light grid.
Yes, I have been looking into them for a while. I am not a fan of changing planners in the middle of the year, so maybe next year I will buy one of those.
AE has new ones coming out too they just shared on IG.
@@JustScribble thanks! I will check it out
I use mine as a journal, doing a memory a day in the monthly, affirmations in the weekly, then just stream of conscious writing in the blank pages! I also didn’t enjoy the cover but I’m glad it was been (supposedly) as I hope to use this notebook for journaling again next year!
That's a great idea, thanks for sharing
It’s been changed already - she’s launched the new cover in all the notebooks and undated planners and the 2nd half of the year dated book preorder too. I shared the new cover on a few videos already.
@@JustScribble OH that's amazing! And good to know. I'm worried about my current one holding up through the rest of the year and if it's better for the next one, I am SO stoked!
@@elenamfit You can see the difference on my recent unboxings if you want to check it out :) I have a playlist with all my SI videos (more to come soon).
Your planner is full of life! ❤ Love it!
Thank you!
The purpose of having a planner is not to set goals, it's to keep track of appointments and tasks. This is why so few planners include goal-setting in any meaningful way, and why a lot of people add something like the MakseLife or PowerSheets offerings. I was happy to see the Common Planner includes goal setting, although I still do my goal management in a separate notebook. I only list the goals in the Common Planner. And I really struggle with the daily pages. I don't need a full page for every day, so I do a lot of lists and brain dumps instead. That'll eat up some pages!
Thanks for the comment! I agree with you on daily pages, I am now trying to use them for a reading journal, will make a video if it goes well. As for purpose of planners, I see your point, but personally planning my daily tasks is meaningless for me if I don't align them to my big goals. This is something I started doing a few years ago and now I feel like my days are more productive.
I think I would like this plantar if it didn't have the goal setting part in it. I like that the daily section is not dated. Because it's better for things like meeting notes and working out your ideas that spread multiple pages.
Also I live on the monthly spread. My job is project oriented and so I need to get the global view of what is due when and I need to be able to see them in a monthly format that is easy to read and then I'm able to break my week down accordingly.
@@arubafanatic Monthly spreads are indeed great for project work, they really help to see big picture. I guess I might start using them properly when I start my studies and have projects to track.
Do you do goal setting? I am wondering what you use for this.
I bought this planner too but couldn’t make it work for me. I don’t do good with vertical planning.
Sorry it didn’t work. I love vertical planning, but last year I used Hobonichi weeks with horizontal weekly spreads and I loved it
One benefit of this planner is that it’s easy to adjust. Lots of folks aren’t using it in vertical style - the creator is one of them. She has videos sharing her planner and she rarely uses it as a vertical. Planner Mumsy and others don’t either. It’s very flexible.
Curious. You used the dailies in the Cousin so why don’t you need/use them here? They are the same as the cousin - just without the dates and it would be easy to date if you needed them dated to force yourself to use them.
You should look at the new AE undated coming out. It might be a good fit for you. Same weekly layout. Less blank pages.
There are some brands with thicker covers. Like the TAS B6. But it’s undated.
Thanks for the suggestions! As for the dailies, yes, I used them in Cousin for about two months, but I stopped because it felt forced and I had to come up with an idea every day.
Thanks for the AE suggestions, I am looking into it.
I was so excited to order the Sterling Ink last year, but sadly I never used it.
I believe you can still use it, if you want, just cover the dates with some tape or stickers😊
I wish Hobonichi came out with a B6 version.
Yes, that would be great. However, the quotes on every page would still bother me
For me that wouldn’t fix any of these Cousin issues - it would still have color and wasted functional space. Whereas the CP has all the same aspects but clean and in B6. And if you need dated pages it’s super easy to do that yourself or with stickers from Randi.Plans. You can even predate the blank pages for the whole year.
But you can also cut it down. Many have done it.
Where do you get your stickers from?
Etsy, Aliexpress, small sticker shops. The majority of them were bought ages ago.