my 2026 planner

[summerstorm]

Hi! I'm new to this community, here from a sixbeforelunch post. I've been using planners on and off for many years now, the main difference year to year being whether I found a planner I could afford and liked enough, because I'm shallow as hell. Having an actual planner works much better for me than setting up weekly spreads; I still get the Monday ritual of decorating the week's pages, but I don't have to fuck around with a ruler (for the most part).

Last year I found and began using a weekly spread planner from Kokonote, and got really into stickers.


















This year I swapped to a page-a-day model, and I'm still learning what does and doesn't work for me in terms of decoration. Each page has a checklist on the side and a portion that's dotted. This is what I've done so far:






This has been my favorite so far; I'm probably going to stick with this format for a while at least.





EDIT to say two things: most of my stickers are from TEDi, who have a veritable fucking mess of a corner that I often just crouch and make my way through trying to drop as few things as possible off their hooks; and I am also on Finch, if anyone else uses that? It's been a really nice companion to the planner this year. My friend code is LWQMXDV9J56. I think you get a ghostie micropet if you sign up and tell them I sent you, and I get app currency or something I think.

Comments

[lunabee34]

Welcome!

I love all your stickers. I am not an artist at all, and I love using stickers to add decoration since I can't draw anything.

[summerstorm]

Same. I like to draw but I'm terrible at it and kinda have to force myself to; that would not be sustainable as a form of decoration. The bujo bits in the new journal do give me a chance to fuck with print layout, though, which I have worked with digitally. I have learned a lot about all the markers in my room this month, specifically which of them bleed and which of them bleed so much they get the next page too.

[sixbeforelunch]

These are awesome! I love the stickers and how creatively you used the notes section.

[summerstorm]

Thank you! I just did a running to-do list and reminders of things I wanted to do/watch last year. I have a separate general to-do list this year (set up in a similar style) so I'm still figuring out what to write on the planner other than grocery lists and tables to roll dice on, lol. Also figuring out which of the colors I have that don't bleed or sparkle I like best. The green and the orange here are definitely winners.