The Secret to Using a Paper Planner! How to Use a Planner Step 1
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- With all the pretty planners out there, and the explosion of inspiration on social media, how exactly are we supposed to USE a paper planner? There's a simple secret to sticking with a paper planner and it's so easy, check out my video to find out the details!!
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The concept of planner doesn’t equal calendar really hit home for me. Thanks Annie!
I like that you kept saying, "Write It Down!" ~ Because, I write in spiral notebooks, on spare paper, post it notes, EVERYTHING that one could write notes on, but it never occurred to me that I was doing it wrong!!! I'd rather have all of what I write down in ONE planner than the calendar thing AND ???? with planners. Thank you!
I'm exactly the same. I have so many little notebooks at work, at home, in my bag and pieces of paper and I forget so many things 🤦♀️It makes so much sense to have it all in one place. 😊
I’m so glad it’s helping you keep all those things together and more organized ❤️
This is the first planner video I've seen that wasn't all about decoration. Thank you so much for talking about getting organized!
I’m so glad you enjoyed ❤️ Happy Planning!
Love your videos. The only ones I have found that are actually planning videos and not decorating/sticker videos. Thank you so much.
Great video! I would love to see more videos of functional ways to use your planner. So many videos show how to make your planner cute, but I need some functionality inspiration!!! I hope you consider making a part 2 to this video. 🙏
Already filmed and it will post next week ☺️
Annie Smith AWESOME!!!! I can't wait to see it!!! Thank you!
She has many of them. Look at past videos!
Great video, Annie. Thank you for reminding us to write everything down. That’s the way my brain feels most at peace. I had fallen into the trap of having to have different sections and lists, which seemed overwhelming to me because of the way my brain works. Thank you!
Same for me; it was so “organized” I could never find anything 😂
This has been the most helpful planner video for me. I incorporated your tips and it transformed my day. Thank you!!!!
Wow! This was really helpful. I've worked for many years running a salon and styling coloring and perming hair so I've lived by a schedule calendar. Now I'm a full time stay at home grandma who babysits 4 grandlittles and I love it. I could never get the hang of planning because I feel like nothing important besides the littles. Now I got it! Thank you💕
You are so welcome ☺️ Congrats on your four precious blessings.
Annie... one thing I saw on your planner ''will I ever sleep again?!?!'' my answer. Yup you will!! I love this video
Hahaha, bless you! Yes, since I made this video my kids have grown and now sleep through the night 😆
thank you. This was very helpful. I don't want to see how to make the planner "cute". The only reason I might do that is if it makes me use (open) the planner more. This was very helpful in ideas to USE my planner. I carry it with me but don't even open it. Would love more helpful videos like this. Thanks.
I agree with writing everything down. Thanks for the reminder, it's so important. I used to have a small note pad that I kept next to my planner at home for notes and quick brain dumps and then I would process those notes into my planner at the end of the day (gtd) and it worked so well for me. I'm going back to that.
I forgot that idea, having a separate notebook. But it’s so useful!
@@AnnieSmithawifenmother I've been using the Target Dollar Spot note pads I got from years ago. Awesome to get use out of them again
Thank you for sharing! I have been using planners for a while now, but I appreciate the reminder to write everything in the planner. You are right, I struggle with what I “should” write in the planner and what ideas and thoughts deserve space in my planner. Thank you for the reminder to keep it simple and put everything in there.
Annie, thank you so much. I've watched countless videos on planners, how to decorate them, where to buy things, so I finally ordered one and when I opened it yesterday I thought what the heck do I do now. This Step 1 video has been extremely helpful. Please make a Step 2!!!
I’m so glad this was helpful! Planning can be so fun, but it definitely needs to be functional!!! I have created several more videos and you can find the rest of the steps in my How To Plan playlist 😘
I never thought planner would be something of cretivity nowdays. Well I always had a monthly calendar and jot everything (as you said and I found this video) jot everything down. I did everything was jot down on my monthly (I don't even know how I got stuff in it). Well I also did journaling so most of my more detailed was probably in them. Than I got into BOJO (I never even knew that even existed), bullet journing. I always put things down on paper, I still do to this day. I use post it notes, note paper to put things down and stuck it on that month/or day. I useto have a desk calendar with all appt. goes on it. I do daily, weekly, journal, I think I do everything in my planner/journal. The only thing is I don't do much decorating (most of my planning style is functional). I do small kind sticker for special occasions but not over do it. Writing everthing down is a good thing. That's how I function anyhow and I guess I'm not the only one who does it. Thanks for sharing your video.
I love hearing about your planner journey and style, thank you for sharing ❤️
I really,really enjoyed this video. I would appreciate more of this type of planning ideas. I need a lot of help to keep myself organized.
Thank you! This is just what I needed. The how to make your planner pretty videos are interesting but rarely useful for me.
Love this!! Sometimes I struggle with how much I should write down! Love these types of videos showing how you use your planner/system! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you Annie for a great video on “How to Use A Planner”. I really needed to see this because I’ve been wanting to make the most of my planner each day!
I loved this video. I am a seasoned planner and I love hearing about HOW other planners use their planners to manage and organize various aspects of their lives.
I'm new to planning and purchased an A5 Agenda 52 planner and am thing of getting a TN to keep in my purse. Thanks for the tips! Hoping you have a gloriously beautiful and blessed day!
Thank you for the reminder. I see how I have changed from a planner person to being more of a sticker person. Keep this type of videos come. Great wake up call.
I really enjoyed your video and as a newbie to using a planner, your ideas were really helpful. I’ve watched many videos and some were a little intimidating but your video was simple and easy. Thank you.
I love your videos...You gave some good advice about writing it down. I'm going to try this!
Great video Annie. Have the planner but so afraid to mess it up. Thanks for the reality check which says to write it all down. Looking forward to video 2.
Great video Annie! Can't wait to see more.
I really needed the reminder to write everything down😊! So much can happen in one day, if I don’t write down things I won’t remember. Thank you for sharing a much needed simple reminder😁! Take care and have fun🤗💗!
Good to see the basics explained. I've been using a planner for 30 yrs+, but I learn new things all the time. Write all the things down is so true!
I love learning new tips and being reminded of the basics, too ☺️
So freeing! Write down everything! Could be thought 💭 of as a planner journal 📓! Thanks for sharing 🌸
Ahhhh love hearing your baby girl 👧! So cute! Thanks for this video. I am a planner nerd but it helped to remind me of some fundamentals.
what a great video !!!! this was awesome ive been planning for years off and on but needed a refresher and yep … did the trick !!! THANK YOU ANNIE!!! Way to go !
Great video! I really like the idea of writing notes on sticky notes. So simple and functional! Thanks.
Thank you! This is exactly what I needed right now to get out of my planner funk. Just changing my system up messed me up a bit and this helped me get back on track.
This was great! I even took notes while I listen!🙌🙌🙌very helpful for setting up my 2020 planner!
Oh my! Another person who uses their planner like I do. I write everything down and use sticky notes. Great video, thank you! 😄
Planner twins 👯♀️❤️
This is perfect Annie! Thank you for sharing this. There definately isn't enough videos out there showing us how to effectively use our planners. I hope in the next vids you can show us how to effectively use the monthly, weekly and daily pages. But this intro on note taking was spot on! Thank you! 😊
Thank you! This was such a good video! I truly hope this becomes a series!
Stay tuned for part 2 next week ☺️
Love it. I hope this becomes a series !
Exactly the kind of planner video I needed. Thank you!
Of the 1000 planner videos I’ve watched, this has been the most helpful. Thank you.
This means a lot to me, thank you ☺️
You remind me how much I love using my planners
Awww thank you. That warmed my heart ❤️
Absolutely loved this. It’s the first bujo video that I’ve watched which hasn’t made me feel overwhelmed 🥰
Oh thank you ☺️ I’m glad it’s relatable
Awesome ideas. A lot of food for thought.❤️
Great video. Thank you for sharing.
Wonderful video and very helpful. Thank you look for the next one
Some great ideas. Thanks for sharing.
I love your ideas and the way you did your planner.
Hi Annie. I like your pointers on “planning” in your calendar. Getting started etc. Can you continue to do more videos. Ty
For sure I’ll keep doing videos. You may have already found a bunch more on my channel. I do have a lot of helpful topics ❤️
As a newbie in the planner community. This was the most and only helpful video I found and I watched a lot! I was close to giving up watching any more but glad I watched this one. I know exactly how to go about using my beautiful new planner.
I’m so glad! Thank you 😘
Thank you for this!
I'm new to planning-ish and you've made me feel so much better about writing everything down. I thought I was being silly but I've gotten so much done because of it. So thank you for the fun video!
“Writing it down” is a motto I live by 😆
@@AnnieSmithawifenmother Great Motto!
I even wrote it down on a sticky note and slapped it on my dashboard lol
I have my daily pages too. But if I need a place to strategize, I keep a notes section as well. It's blank pages and every time I make a note, I do two things. I start the note with today's date. And I make a small entry on my daily page: grocery ads notated on notes 10/30/19. That way when I go to look for it I start on my daily page and can be directed to my notes section. Like Annie said there's not a note for every day, but it is in chronological order for easy access. For important notes like Southwest Airlines baggage rules... I notate the note + date on an index page. 💝☀🌵
That’s a good idea, the dating on the notes and the notation in your week/daily. ❤️❤️
This video is awesome! Thank you, it was a great way to remember what a planner is vs a calendar.
I’m so glad it helped! Happy planning ☺️
Awesome video Annie!!! Excellent reminder to write everything down. I have joined the planner community about a year ago. I am really learning a lot from everyone and enjoy watching the videos that are filmed. It is such an awesome community!! I call my planner, "My Brain" Lol. I can't leave home without it! 😀 Take care and look forward to your videos!
Yes! Haha, I’ve called mine my brain too 😊
LOVE this video. Subscribed!!
Excellent video, very helpful advice. And yes, I picked up my planner and added notes pages to each section. Thanks for that reminder 🌺
I’m glad that it inspired you to perfect your system even more 😊
At work mine is open all the time and everything for the day goes in it. At home depending on the day it's opened. I totally agree I need to have it open and with me at home. Thanks and looking forward to more.
THANK YOU FOR THIS AMAZING VIDEO, I really needed it
Fab and helpful video thanks Annie x
Very helpful. Thank you for sharing.
This video was so helpful, thank you!
Thank you for this video, it is extremely helpful.
Finally! Someone explained it in a way that I can understand it! Thank you!
Yay! I'm so glad it makes sense!!!
Love this. Please do more of these
This is fabulous!
Thank you so much this help a lot and will probly change my year!!
Loved the video, never have seen one like this. Where did you get it? I have a Happy Planner right now. I have had a planner of some kind ever since I was 8-9 years old,and am almost 76 now. 😉
I have a link in the description to exactly where I purchased the planner. It’s from a brand called Foxy Fix and this is one of their travelers notebooks 😊
Great video! lots of good advice. I like how you broke it all down. I like to think I am a very organized person but I get started and then I fall back and don’t complete my tasks or lose focus. Your video has been very helpful and I am excited about giving this a try. Thank you, I have subscribed so I’m looking forward to your other video. Don’t stop, you have great ideas!
Thank you so much for subscribing! I hear ya about the follow-through. I am much better at writing it all down than I am at completing things. But I'm slowly growing in that area and I hope you do too!!
Very well explained. Definitely helpful :-)
Great advice! I needed this reminder. TFS :)
I love your planning videos. They have always helped me from when I started to now that I am more on track. I am glad you are doing another series on how to plan. Thanks so much,:-) Plus you are so pleasant to listen to your voice is very easy on the ears. hehehe
Haha, thank you ☺️
Wow, you explain things well
Love your videos
I love this channel! Thank you!
Thank you so much!!!
Thank you soooooo much! This is so good. Just what I needed. I've gone through so many videos and thought I'd never find out how to use my planner. I have an at a glance weekly planner, the week is on the left page and to-dos, weekly focus and note section on left. Another video said first thing you should do is a brain dump then kind of left it there. Do you have a video on that? Thanks so much for this one!
A brain dump for me is a scrap of paper that I can scribble all my thoughts onto. Then once everything is captured I can look at it critically and organize it by task type or deadline and so on. I don’t believe I have a video on this at the moment, so I’ll add it to my list of ideas for future content ❤️
This was so helpful- thank you!
My pleasure!!
Annie u are great at explaining how to use a planner ! Im great at setting it up looking all cute!!
And then i never look at !! But Iv been going though some stuff and
Havent been keeping up with MY planner!! I want to start doing more things! For my self etc..
So watching your vadio helped me a lot!! Thank u again!👍
It warms my heart to hear this ❤️ Now that your planner is pretty, I hope you’re motivated to dig in and see what functional use it had for you.
I needed some basics like this. I am just thinking about starting a planner as I have a CZcams channel too and need somewhere to put all my ideas down for videos in one section, what I all want to talk about in another section, as well as what videos to record on each Saturday/Sunday. Currently I just have a notebook which I divided in half but I wanted to incorporate the rest of my daily life into some semblance of order and thought a planner would fit the bill. But I really have no idea how to really use one regarding daily vs weekly vs monthly. Do we just “move” things from one area to another? Still really confused on the whole idea, as you can tell. LOL.
It does take time to find a way to write things that makes sense for your brain. I watch a LOT of videos and copy anything that seems to fit my style. Over time I tweak things to my style and then I have my own system. ❤️
I love this!
Great video! Very helpful.
I’m so glad it was helpful!
Best video ever ♥️♥️♥️🥰
Hi Annie
Thanks for this video. It is so helpful. Just started planning due to new business. So now I have much more to deal with, but this video has motivated me. Thanks again. Love your videos. If you or anyone knows of any videos that can be helpful please recommend. Thanks
Oh that’s great, congratulations on your new business. Definitely keep searching for planner set up videos and many will lead you to great channels to follow. ☺️
Thank you Annie. Now I have more of an idea of how to do this. I wish I could afford the planners you have. But too expensive to have them shipped to Australia. Thank you again x
My pleasure! I wish shipping didn’t have to be so much 😫
Good info thanks!
Great video, BTW, I love your content!😁💛✌🙏
Thank you so much 😊
Love this I don’t have one but going this weekend to get one ,never been to michaels before so going to hit them up and maybe hobby lobby and target been told they have a dollar isle
Have fun shopping and figuring it out, it's a fun journey!
Someone here on CZcams shared to just fill the last page of your planner with one layer of sticky notes. It is a great idea I use all the time.
Brilliant video thank you so much 💯💃
Thank you ☺️
Great video
Love your videos I am just having lots of trouble in my planner. It's to big to carry with me
Yikes! That’s always hard. You could either downsize and get a more portable planner. Or carry a notebook to keep notes and then transfer to you planner at home later.
Very helpful video. One problem I have is changing planners frequently! Then I have to leave my notes and ideas behind and start over. I am really going to try to stay in the original books. I also use a Travelers Notebook.
So true! If you move the notes can get lost if you don’t write them. Been there, done that 😆
Exactly what I have been looking for
I’m so glad! Thanks for watching ❤️
Fantastic x
I love this video! I wished I came across it three years ago :D
Question what do you do once its done thank you like if i did grocery pickup do i cross out or just leave as is
You can do whatever you’d like. That’s the beauty of planning, make it fit how you think. Either way is completely fine ☺️
Love informative planner videos like yours! Keep making more! Wanted to ask u what leather your foxy was? I saw the link for the boss babe kate so wanted to see if that was it? I have a boss babe Madison but my leather is not as shiny as yours!!
Oops, I didn’t even realize I had not updated my leather information. Thanks for mentioning so that I could update it. It is the pepper spice leather. Still the same size as before, the #6 ☺️
Hi! I love the creativity of decorating a planner but this was a great reminder that planners also need to be functional. Lol. Thank you for your great ideas...you explained everything beautifully💗
Thank you, I appreciate that feedback. Sometimes it seems like I muddle up my explanations so it helps to hear if things are clear or not 😂
Annie, I love the way you plan. I was wondering what you do when you have to write in an Appointment that is a few months away if you are planning month to month... Do you use your phone planner for those and enter them at the beginning of the month? Just wondering if this method would work for me...I like it and I want to try it.
I use a forward log in my planner. I linked the insert in the description box and refer to the insert in my Stalogy set up as well. I record future appointments on that so I can keep them organized until the monthly insert is in my planner ☺️
I saw that it said "my birthday" in there well happy belated birthday! 😊
Thank you so much ☺️
Fantastic video 👍🏼
Thank you so much!
Great video. This totally reminds me of Jenny from planner perfect. She does this exact thing with daily planning. I see you have her inserts but if you havent already definitely check her out on IG. I think shes here in YT too. She also has a lot of helpful tips on how to plan your day out and use a blank TN insert. Tfs
I have seen her videos, yes ❤️ Love her ideas!
Brilliant video! Super helpful! Thank you! Ugh! How did I never figure that out 😮 A planner is not a calendar 🤓
Glad it was helpful!