How I’m Curating the Perfect Journal & Planner System: A Check-In

[@julia-here]

*Thanks for watching!* Let me know what you are up to with your own planning/journaling system! Want to know _all_ your business 😅💕

[@mandir5615]

I have an N2 sterling ink common planner as my regular planner, i have a b6 slim sterling ink for daily journaling/ journal prompts, a happy planner classic notebook as a junk journal, a random hardcover journal for a book journal, and a sterling ink passport booklet as a commonplace journal and a goulet pens notebook as a swatch book

[@julia-here]

🤗 Love it! Seems like a solid lineup! A commonplace is something I feel more and more like I’m missing in my life.✨

[@anicame2]

I have a few happy planner inserts and notebooks that i am no loner using, so thank u for the idea. Love the junk journal idea, or even a gluebook!

[@marachristian8726]

Yay, New Mexico! I am now in AZ, but spent most of my life in NM, and it will always be "home" to me (17 years in Los Alamos, 30-ish years in Albuquerque/Rio Rancho.) I have been an A5 rings/discs planner forever, but I am trying to downsize into something more portable, and I like creating my own layouts, so I have a bunch of blank notebooks in all different sizes to figure out what will work for me. I love getting ideas from KZbin! Currently using a B6 Sterling Ink half-year blank notebook. Tried the Standard size TNs last year, and will try out an A6 in 2025. Trying to get away from having a separate "purse planner." I am more of a functional planner than a decorative planner, but I am trying to use stickers and washi more just to make opening up my planner something I look forward to doing.

[@julia-here]

Oh awesome! Los Alamos is fun and of course Albuquerque is always an adventure :))- super curious how the A6 works out for you! And I’m with you- unsure of the idea of a “purse planner” if your one planner can ideally fit in your purse 🤔☺️

[@wildlyimaginable]

Love your lineup of notebooks. Last year I used Hobonichi A5 as an everything pen$&ink notebook. Ended up not liking at all. I was kinda like Goldilocks….A5 was too large, A6 was too small and B6 was/is just right. Bought a Sterling Ink B6 Common Planner (the undated daily one) for 2024 and absolutely love it. Altho I do also like my Oasis A6 that I got for the series swatching (e.g. Vlogmas & 30inks) I’m doing this year. And I’m with you on the using single sheets for pen & ink pairings instead of putting in a section of a notebook and running out of room to record new pairings when I get a new pen. Exactly why I created my PIPs (Pen & Ink Pairings sheets), A5 single sheets made to fit into a binder. It’s one sheet I print out for each pen I own and fill it out every time I ink it up for each Currently Inked. Love seeing how that pen writes over time with the different inks.

[@julia-here]

Thanks Grace! 💕 I love your PIPs so much and I’m sure that’s the way forward for me as well! Aren’t we all just Goldilocks out here? 😅 - I was SURE at one point B5 was the size for me (huge I know!) but not a B5 in sight these days 😊 - thanks for watching and for the insight!!

[@curiositystoryer]

Your journals make me happy and feel inspired. XO

[@julia-here]

How kind of you to say!! 🥹🥰- thanks so much.

[@caits2963]

Love,love, love your ink journals 😀 it’s so much fun to ❤😀😀😀

[@julia-here]

thank you!! DEFINITELY my faves to look through and work in. ☺️

[@allisonmartin8577]

Love watching your videos. MU just came out with a clear sticker transfer that can help protect your flower in your ink journal. Keep producing helpful content.❤

[@julia-here]

Ooooo!! I will absolutely have to look into that, thanks so much! 💕

[@tinacampbell2610]

New subscriber here. I really enjoy your videos. I like hearing people's processes of planning and of how they record their lives... At the beginning of year, I was using a Sterling ink A5 Common Planner; I liked it (loved the empty pages in the back of the SICP) but I had to change my planner in April do to seeing some bad memories going on in a job I left. I didn't want to flip back through it all so I decided to have a start fresh with a new planner after leaving that job in March. I started back using a April start Hobonichi Cousin for my main planner (I use it for work and tasks) I try to use the dailies and those pages are the hardest for me to keep up with. I sometimes go back to another date for notes or just to play with my fountain pens and inks on my empty daily pages... I have a pretty large fountain pen ink (over 170 inks) and pen collection (50-60 pens currently). Many of my fountain pens are inked all the time, some pens have dedicated inks that don't change. I track all the pen stuff in a B5 Sterling Ink 520 page Notebook. I would maybe suggest using a B5 notebook (Sterling Ink had some a while ago with TRP) for you to help with tracking all the fountain pen, inks, currently inked pens, and the dates I make purchases. I also track items in my purchases and wish lists in the B5 notebook. B5 is a great size and I have plenty of room to track many things for my Fountain pen hobby. I started using the B5 notebook in February this year and have cataloged everything from 2016, when I started collecting fountain pens and inks... I also track ink swatches and stationery collections in a Hobonichi A5 Notebook for the different FB groups I belong to, and so I can post to the different media sites I follow. I also have 2 Take A Note planners that I use. I use one for my personal journaling. The other Take a Note Planner I use for my astronomy/telescope learning and imaging journal and when I'm not writing about that I use the empty spaces/pages to transcribe a book by Carl Sagan "Cosmos."

[@julia-here]

Thanks so much for subscribing! Super happy to have ya on board. Also, wow! Loved hearing about what you've got going on with your planners. B5 is definitely a candidate for lots of room. My main planner was in a B5 size for, gosh, maybe 3 years or so? Also love your idea of having a notebook just for your stationery collection and keeping up with all of the groups and media sites (because whew, that gets crazy! lol) - fabulous insight and feedback and I appreciate you so much ✨

[@VioletToadstool]

Maybe move the pen and ink swatches into the Filofax? That way you can add/remove/relocate pages. My personal Bujo and work pre-printed weekly have been pretty successful so far, but I want to start a reading/media (like movies and music too) journal for July.

[@julia-here]

Thank you!! I’ve been thinking about a combined media situation like that as well - you’ll absolutely have to check back in; want to know how that goes for you. What are you thinking about putting it in??

[@RG-yf3uj]

My Filofax, discbound & bookbound are all still working. I need to get back to reflecrions more but don't want to stress about it since it defeats the purpose... Nice 🙂 NM.

[@julia-here]

Never stress about it! You’re so right. Love that you also have a variety of binding types in use. I find that super refreshing ☺️💕

[@RG-yf3uj]

@@julia-here Thanks 🙂

[@honnony]

Will you be doing any sessions at Stationery Fest?

[@julia-here]

Yes! I’m attending the nib tuning, monoline, and inky messes workshops. Verrrryyy excited 🤗