How I found peace from planner hopping this year

[@ghostyplans]

I memory keep in a Travelers Company monthly, and a Hobonichi five year book. Then I planner hopped all year long. But I looked back and saw that wide, standard, and passport sizes are my favorite.

[@journalinthedirt]

I’ve been so tempted by the plotter the last couple of years!!! I definitely need to see your set up in your plotter!

[@paperkae]

In a way the Plotter has become my outlet for the planner hop urges - I just keep resetting it up and playing around with it. I love it though, will def try to make a video on it soon!

[@barrysanaloginsights]

I'd love to find planner peace :) Thank you for the inspiration!

[@inspiringpositiveimpact]

Great video. I've been planner hopping this year too and am also feeling at peace after a similar process 😊

[@paperkae]

That’s great to hear! There’s probably something about all the hopping that made us just more ready to embrace some peace 💛.

[@lindseywestergaard3292]

Ahhh! This was so eye opening ❤ thanks for sharing this. I can’t wait to do a self-audit

[@luyzatrindadee]

I've never related so much with a video! Thanks for this

[@paperkae]

Thank you!! That’s so comforting to hear ☺️.

[@libbym4178]

I started a separate insert for planner ideas too! I write which planners I’m using for the month and my thoughts, what’s working ☺️

[@paperkae]

How have you been liking it? I feel like when my planner rambles are mixed in with everything else they feel very “unimportant” but in its own place it’s felt kinda fun and interesting. I’ve also started using that insert to test out random stuff like date headers so that’s been nice too.

[@inbetweenworlds]

Omg! I so so love this vid! You captured my niggling thoughts and processed it. I love the concept of the BUJO and it worked for the longest time til 2020 pandemic hit. You pinpointed it. It's the whole brain dump and feeling constrained bit that made me feel low key anxious ... 😮 Thank you for this. It'll help me find my planner peace. I still am indebted to Ryder Carroll. I just need a softer planner format that was less about efficiency but more about mental liberation. Appreciate your vlog. Will take notes and process the insights and personalize it 😊

[@paperkae]

This makes me so happy to hear! I was super hesitant about sharing all my unhinged, chaotic planner thoughts lol.

[@wisdomteethsoup]

for me I find that daily works for me because I have so much in my brain pan that I can just write forever so having a place to be able to do that daily is nice for me. But I also don't make it a commitment of mine to daily journal. that would make it too stressful, something I have to do but if I just write whatever the fuck I want before I go to bed it's a nice place to dump my brain as much as I like. sometimes my page is just a string of cuss words about certain events or people lol. I really like your point about size preferences changing. Personally I like A5 for creative writing when I'm doing a story (I think it's because it scratches my brain as a book size) whereas A6 is my favourite journaling book because it isn't too big to where I feel the need on no thoughts days to force myself to put in more to fill more of the page. I kind of despise tall and skinny formats unless it's quick jot notes or doodles in my standard size traveler journal, its like my traveling scratch pad because I feel totally comfortable ripping pages out ad scribbling and putting random bullshit in it. it's pretty much a journal dedicated to being a burn book lmao. I feel people put too much emphasis on aestheticism in journaling rather than the function that they want it to perform for them. I'm not an aesthetic journaler because trying to do that would stress me the fuck out. if that's what makes people enjoy journaling that's awesome but I think most people would benefit from being more flexible with their expectations and use of journals. Most of the time no one but you is going to see the journal so the most important thing about journaling is making it into something functional for you. whether that's a planner, memory keeper, feelings journal, common place book, or a bastardized combination of any number of styles (me lol) you gotta make shit work for you and you alone. I love that you've been able to recognize what's working for you and I love the setup.

[@paperkae]

Sounds like we have a very similar way of “daily dumping” lol. You are so right about A5 being for creative writing - that’s 100% what I’d use it for now. I took a detour from the tall and skinny for a while so I’m fully expecting to changing my mind again someday. I think I’m still finding my way when it comes to function vs aesthetics - on one hand, seeing the messiness of my old inserts just felt sooo comfortable and easy, on the other, there’s something really calming and satisfying seeing my books look “nice” to some extent (like it scratches my brain in a good way). But I’ve been playing around with how both can coexist so I feel like I’m starting to find that balance.

[@PlanIsInHerName]

I'd love a follow up video on your Plotter! I'm essentially in the same boat as you, and have also started task mgmt/prioritization into my Plotter Bible, given its minimal size and beauty, and I've made it my EDC + wallet. I daily log in the Plotter, but don't consider that to be precious. It's just about logging everything as I go and it can be messy if it helps me GSD. It's so compact and beautiful, so it's easy to always use. I'm using my Hobo Cousin for journaling + memory keeping + archive + commonplacing + health and all other tracking. I do tracking, archive, and high-level memory keeping across the monthly and weekly calendars. I use the daily pages for the free-flow brain dump and journaling and commonplacing, pasting ephemera and memory-keeping in more detail , using the index to categorize what is on those pages, so I can reference if needed (I usually don't reference, but rather just enjoy flipping through). I transfer important things from my Plotter that I want to keep into the Cousin. I''m realizing that I can use the structured calendar parts as structure, and then just freeflow in the dailies (generally ignoring the dates other than for indexing purposes). I just date it for the current date. It's allowed me to be creative and have a chronological flow of everything, while being flexible for whatever I need it to be. I'm still working out the kinks in my task prioritization, as it's something I struggle with across the various types of projects/tasks that I have coming in, but so far, I think this is working for me! I don't want a complicated system or too many books. I also have a 5 year for just being able to look back really high level. Between these 3, I'm truly hoping to get to planner peace! Thanks for sharing your planner thoughts. Sorry for the novel!

[@paperkae]

That sounds like a really cool system - I love the idea of how you are using the Plotter and Cousin together. I’ve been super tempted to setup some kind of wallet/journal combo lately, I hadn’t considered putting daily logs there but that makes a lot of sense and is very intriguing... thanks for sharing!

[@johnnybravo609]

for the Month header over the black bar what method / pens were used to get that outcome? 11:38 Thanks in advance!

[@paperkae]

I used a Faber-Castell brush pen for the background and a white Sakura Gelly Roll for the writing. It worked well enough but I found it best to wait at least an hour or two before going back over with the text. I’d recommend the gel pen but the brush pen isn’t perfect for this application bc it was tricky to get clean lines. I just went through all my black markers and picked this one bc it had the least amount of bleed through and minimal ghosting, but I’d love to find something better.

[@audz]

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