I have bought planners in the wrong size more than once. One was gorgeous but too big to carry, so it lived on my desk and I stopped writing in it by week three. If you are standing in front of a shelf of A5, A6, B6 and “personal” planners wondering which one is yours,…

Somewhere between a plain dotted notebook full of task lists and a fully illustrated, Pinterest-worthy spread sits a question most bullet journallers eventually ask themselves: am I doing this right? The honest answer is that there isn’t one right way to keep a bullet journal. There is, though, a version of it that will actually…

I’ve made an autumn junk journal before, all warm oranges and pressed leaves, and I loved it. But somewhere around the start of October I always find myself wanting something a bit more specific: a journal that says “Halloween” the second you open it, not just “cosy season.” This is my attempt at building exactly…

Some weeks, an elaborate spread just isn’t happening, and that’s okay. When time is tight, “functional over fancy” isn’t a compromise, it’s honestly the better approach, since a spread you can actually finish setting up is worth more than one that stays half-drawn in your planner for three days. These five are built for exactly…

I’ll be honest, I set up my first digital planner completely wrong for the academic year. I dropped it in on a January-to-December calendar, tried to force my term dates into it after the fact, and spent the first month fighting the layout instead of using it. If you’re setting one up for school or…

If you have ever stared at a blank weekly spread and felt torn between wanting it to look good and needing it to actually work, FUNctional sticker spreads were built for you. They sit in the middle ground between decorative bullet journaling and no-frills functional planning, using sticker kits to do the heavy lifting so…