Jibun Techo Days (the "done book") which tracks how I actually spent my days. Hobonichi Weeks Mega (the "victory book") in which I have resumed putting a highlight and a list of wins for the week. I had a half year B6 Stalogy for catch all long form journaling, which I loved, but it ran out of pages in June and nothing has really replaced it. I've been very sporadically journaling in a Sterling Ink B6 vertical Common Planner (because it was the academic year and vertical was what she had) since I filled the Stalogy, and just yesterday I actually started a traditional bullet journal daily log in there (because I needed to write my way around some executive dysfunction at work and that seemed the way to do it). The bujo was wildly successful at what I needed yesterday, although today I'm reminded of everything I don't get along with in bullet journaling. Nonetheless, I'm going to try to stick with it for the rest of the month just to have something that functions as a comprehensive planner. If it sticks, it might blow up everything else I had planned for 2025, but we'll see. I also have a Hobonichi Day Free that I have only used very half heartedly for meta planning and notes.
Evaluation
I am a little more put together than I was when we last had a general post, but I'm still pretty dissatisfied with how 2024 went and I'm looking forward to fixing some things in 2025. I have pretty much winged it this year with minimal actual planning, just living from list to list. That's not working out tremendously well. I need to get back to a regular monthly and weekly planning session, with attendent reflections on the time past. And the Days, while wonderful in every way, is actually not the best place for me to keep daily planning, because I don't like having many open items on the daily pages. The Weeks works well, but I'm now duplicating that information in about three places, and I don't love that. (The Weeks is also my favorite book to keep at the end of the year, and I really wish I had used it for my catch all instead of a random Stalogy, but that's just the kind of year it's been.) The Common Planner vertical is a spectacularly bad fit for a mostly traditional bujo, at least for me. But I only have to make it a few weeks and then I can move some things around. I do hope that three weeks of daily logs (which I haven't done in a long time) gives me some insight into improvements I can make to reduce friction between me and the things I want to get done.
Looking Ahead
I'm currently thinking of a three book system for my main planner stack, assuming the bujo stays. I want to put most of the bujo system into my Plans by Just Scribble, where I think the monthly and weekly logs and reflections will fit like a glove. Daily logs probably will not fit in that book though; it's only a page per day. (I can try dividing the page and probably have room for some days, but I hate having to try to fit, and it won't work on big days.) So the daily log will either stay in the Common Planner or move to a new notebook on January 1st. I will feed open tasks back into the dailies in the JS Plans, and finished tasks into the JT Days (which also holds my lived schedule). (This will solve my biggest issue with bujo, which is not being able to clearly see what I need to do in the daily log. It's just not a good task system for me.)
I have other books in the works (a meal planner, a health planner, a project book, and several journals and/or art projects), but I think they'll be pretty straight forward (and also are mostly for fun). If I can get the planning system itself to work out, I think I'll be a lot more content next year.
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2024-12-10 08:12 pm (UTC)Jibun Techo Days (the "done book") which tracks how I actually spent my days. Hobonichi Weeks Mega (the "victory book") in which I have resumed putting a highlight and a list of wins for the week. I had a half year B6 Stalogy for catch all long form journaling, which I loved, but it ran out of pages in June and nothing has really replaced it. I've been very sporadically journaling in a Sterling Ink B6 vertical Common Planner (because it was the academic year and vertical was what she had) since I filled the Stalogy, and just yesterday I actually started a traditional bullet journal daily log in there (because I needed to write my way around some executive dysfunction at work and that seemed the way to do it). The bujo was wildly successful at what I needed yesterday, although today I'm reminded of everything I don't get along with in bullet journaling. Nonetheless, I'm going to try to stick with it for the rest of the month just to have something that functions as a comprehensive planner. If it sticks, it might blow up everything else I had planned for 2025, but we'll see. I also have a Hobonichi Day Free that I have only used very half heartedly for meta planning and notes.
Evaluation
I am a little more put together than I was when we last had a general post, but I'm still pretty dissatisfied with how 2024 went and I'm looking forward to fixing some things in 2025. I have pretty much winged it this year with minimal actual planning, just living from list to list. That's not working out tremendously well. I need to get back to a regular monthly and weekly planning session, with attendent reflections on the time past. And the Days, while wonderful in every way, is actually not the best place for me to keep daily planning, because I don't like having many open items on the daily pages. The Weeks works well, but I'm now duplicating that information in about three places, and I don't love that. (The Weeks is also my favorite book to keep at the end of the year, and I really wish I had used it for my catch all instead of a random Stalogy, but that's just the kind of year it's been.) The Common Planner vertical is a spectacularly bad fit for a mostly traditional bujo, at least for me. But I only have to make it a few weeks and then I can move some things around. I do hope that three weeks of daily logs (which I haven't done in a long time) gives me some insight into improvements I can make to reduce friction between me and the things I want to get done.
Looking Ahead
I'm currently thinking of a three book system for my main planner stack, assuming the bujo stays. I want to put most of the bujo system into my Plans by Just Scribble, where I think the monthly and weekly logs and reflections will fit like a glove. Daily logs probably will not fit in that book though; it's only a page per day. (I can try dividing the page and probably have room for some days, but I hate having to try to fit, and it won't work on big days.) So the daily log will either stay in the Common Planner or move to a new notebook on January 1st. I will feed open tasks back into the dailies in the JS Plans, and finished tasks into the JT Days (which also holds my lived schedule). (This will solve my biggest issue with bujo, which is not being able to clearly see what I need to do in the daily log. It's just not a good task system for me.)
I have other books in the works (a meal planner, a health planner, a project book, and several journals and/or art projects), but I think they'll be pretty straight forward (and also are mostly for fun). If I can get the planning system itself to work out, I think I'll be a lot more content next year.