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melliciousMy goal today is to write something coherent and with slightly fewer parentheses than yesterday. Realistic goals, that's the ticket.
I have been really planner-obsessed this year, so maybe I will talk about that. I've used some kind of planner off and on for years. I still have a couple of little coil-bound books that I used in college around somewhere, and after that I used actual planners sometimes and other times I just kept a little calendar in my purse and scribbled on that. When I used to be a secretary, we used Franklin Planners, so that's probably where my current planner obsession started.
The last five years or so I've used an Erin Condren planner. I used the Lifeplanner, the big coil-bound weekly planner. (With much nicer coils than those old ones!) And I liked it, but somewhere along the line I started looking at Happy Planners. I bought a Lifeplanner for 2020 late in 2019, but somewhere around the beginning of this year, I started experimenting around with things that were marked down on Happy Planner's website.
And boy, did I experiment. I won't say I tried every format HP has, because they have a bunch, but I tried several. The first thing I bought was a horizontal planner, which I really liked - but I use it as a journal, not as a planner. I ended up with more than one of these because I use one for talking about books and one for everything else.
Then I tried a mini planner. It turned out to be entirely TOO mini for my taste, as a planner, but it's okay for just, like, note-taking. That one was a vertical planner, so later I tried the bigger vertical one (they call it "classic") which is almost the same size as a regular Erin Condren, and so, unsurprisingly, I liked that one fine. I was determined to use up my Lifeplanner for this year, because they're expensive, so I'm kind of in the middle of transitioning between brands.
Not entirely, though. I bought a little EC "Petite Planner" just to try it out - it's a daily planner, and it turned out I really like using it to scribble in at work. So I'm still buying those, for now. Before that I tried the HP "skinny classic" - so called because the pages are the size of a regular classic page cut in half vertically - and it worked ok for work, but I always ran out of room and ended up taking notes on random pieces of paper that I then promptly lost.
So the experimenting paid off in the end, and hopefully I'm set for planners for a good while, now. What I do really love about Happy Planners is that they're loose-leaf. Very versatile. And when I'm not trying every format they produce, they're cheaper.
People look at planners and say, "Oh, you must be so organized!" But really I'm massively DISorganized and that's why I need a planner so much. That's my theory, that if you're really a naturally organized person you can do without a planner. My planner is just my brain on paper.
(And don't tell me I should go digital. I like the act of writing it down, it seems to help somehow.)
I have been really planner-obsessed this year, so maybe I will talk about that. I've used some kind of planner off and on for years. I still have a couple of little coil-bound books that I used in college around somewhere, and after that I used actual planners sometimes and other times I just kept a little calendar in my purse and scribbled on that. When I used to be a secretary, we used Franklin Planners, so that's probably where my current planner obsession started.
The last five years or so I've used an Erin Condren planner. I used the Lifeplanner, the big coil-bound weekly planner. (With much nicer coils than those old ones!) And I liked it, but somewhere along the line I started looking at Happy Planners. I bought a Lifeplanner for 2020 late in 2019, but somewhere around the beginning of this year, I started experimenting around with things that were marked down on Happy Planner's website.
And boy, did I experiment. I won't say I tried every format HP has, because they have a bunch, but I tried several. The first thing I bought was a horizontal planner, which I really liked - but I use it as a journal, not as a planner. I ended up with more than one of these because I use one for talking about books and one for everything else.
Then I tried a mini planner. It turned out to be entirely TOO mini for my taste, as a planner, but it's okay for just, like, note-taking. That one was a vertical planner, so later I tried the bigger vertical one (they call it "classic") which is almost the same size as a regular Erin Condren, and so, unsurprisingly, I liked that one fine. I was determined to use up my Lifeplanner for this year, because they're expensive, so I'm kind of in the middle of transitioning between brands.
Not entirely, though. I bought a little EC "Petite Planner" just to try it out - it's a daily planner, and it turned out I really like using it to scribble in at work. So I'm still buying those, for now. Before that I tried the HP "skinny classic" - so called because the pages are the size of a regular classic page cut in half vertically - and it worked ok for work, but I always ran out of room and ended up taking notes on random pieces of paper that I then promptly lost.
So the experimenting paid off in the end, and hopefully I'm set for planners for a good while, now. What I do really love about Happy Planners is that they're loose-leaf. Very versatile. And when I'm not trying every format they produce, they're cheaper.
People look at planners and say, "Oh, you must be so organized!" But really I'm massively DISorganized and that's why I need a planner so much. That's my theory, that if you're really a naturally organized person you can do without a planner. My planner is just my brain on paper.
(And don't tell me I should go digital. I like the act of writing it down, it seems to help somehow.)
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