My 2023 Planners

It's been awhile since I posted anything here or my VM blog. Even on my art and photography blogs to. The past fue years have been a bit messy, I’m hoping that this year will be different and I can be more focussed on every thing.

So lets begin with my planners and journals for this year.

This year I will be using 3 planners. All are Hobonichi weeks mega. I got the mega weeks as at the time I got them the mega ones were the only ones that the journal shop had in stock.

Im not overly one for bright note books but for some reason I was drawn to these three bight colours.

The first on is the Tropical Yellow.

This one is my work planner. It's going to have my to do lists, job due dates meeting notes. I work in a film lab so in the back it's going to have chemical mix's. 

The yearly overview I will be using as a tracker, I'll only be taking two things days that I have a red ball and when spend my lunch time drawing - I have a A4 sketchbook at work that Ive started using, so I can spend my break drawing after I've eat rather then going for walk which then ends up with me buying stuff.  I want to stop drinking red ball and other energy drinks. So seeing this on the yearly spread will be encouraging.

As you can see so far I haven't been that good

On the yearly pages I'm write down when I've changed chemicals and when I need to re-make them, when any jobs are due.

The weekly pages I use to list any orders I need to place, jobs Ive taken in and there dead line things I need to do or done. 

This one I possible won't post too many photos of but it may post some a lot later in the year.

Next up is my personal planner which is the Fresh Green.

This will have todos for my home, things I've done, brought, and  journaling in the back.

The yearly overview will be used as a no spend tracker,  each day high lighting wen I don't buy anything (food and drink dose not count) if I do buy anything then how much.

The monthly overview I mark when I've watered my plants, days off appointments.

I have a tracker in the back for when I water and feed my plants

I'm using the Stalogy Forest dots to mark on my weekly and monthly pages when i have watered plants. 

The weekly pages I list what I need to do and anything that I or we have done

Again possible not one I will be sharing a lot of.

Last year I kept my weeks in side one of my traverlers notebooks, I may do the same thing this year.

The last one is my social media planner in the lagoon blue. 

I have it all tabbed up with the Kokuyo Jibun Tech Index Tabs From the journal shop. I like that these are nice and slim, I have found that as they are made so they can be repositioned easily that on occasions the thin toemoe river paper has court the corner of the tab and I've had pages stuck together.

Let's start at the front.

The yearly is going to be tracker each think that I want to track is on the top & bottom, each habit has a letter to represent it. At the end of each month I aim to count up how many days I spent on a habit and put it at the top.

The monthly views, at the bottom I'm putting goals - no more then 3 as I find that over whelming. On the calendar I'll be putting the post posted, if I've drafted one.

On the weekly pages I have things I need to to for a post, and when it's done, &things I've done. I'm not overly one for decorating my planners but this one I want to. To make it more encouraging to do more. - As of yet I have not done that much but I want to.

In the back pages I've got three sections.  The first one is to mark the stat of the note pages -the tab from the set is my news. The second is my goals, the tab - there wasn't a tab for goals so I'm using life plan.

The third I have a marked for the long reads that I have and am writing. - I may abandon some of these, so here I can write down the current word counts weather I am close to finishing so I can see if it's worth finishing.

The forth and final section is the last 26 pages. Space for me to look reflect on each month and finally the year. So I can see how and what I've done.

So...  These are my 3 planners for the year of 2023, I'm also going to be using sketchbooks and a travelers notebook as a creative journal through out the year as well as I have planners for some other journals / study journals, which I well post about as I start them.

As well as quite a bit of creative writing that I have been doing but have just not typed up and posted.

So happy new year - yes it maybe almost at the end of January, but still happy new year. xxx

Check out my Instagram to see more photos of planners and journals @ myconfusedworld