Another Effin’ Planner: Effin’ Birds 2023 Monthly/Weekly Planner Calendar

Now is generally the time of year when I start thinking about next year’s planner. For the past few years I’ve been using my friend Nikol’s Year of the Planner, and before that I loved Ruff House Print Shop’s Weekly Planners. I find having weekly spreads where I can make to do list and note…

A Deep Dive into Elastic Planner Systems (AKA Traveler’s Notebooks/Fauxdori)

A Deep Dive into Elastic Planner Systems (AKA Traveler’s Notebooks/Fauxdori)

Following our previous posts about Ring-Bound Planner Systems and Discbound Planner Systems its time to tackle the “elastic planner” AKA the Traveler’s Notebook (TN) or, when not made by the Traveler’s Notebook Company, the “Fauxdori”. The name Fauxdori arose several years ago when Traveler’s Notebook was still under the Midori branding and was refer to…

A Deep Dive into Discbound Planners

A Deep Dive into Discbound Planners

This is a follow-up to a series of posts created several years ago that dove deep into classic ringbound planners. To follow-up, we are going to going to investigate the ringbound planner’s closest cousin, the discbound planner. What’s a Discbound Planner: Discbound planner systems are built on a similar principle to a standard ringbound planner…

Product Review: Ryan McGinness 2023 Calendar To-Do List Pad

Product Review: Ryan McGinness 2023 Calendar To-Do List Pad

I confess that when I was contacted to review the 2023 Calendar To-Do List by Ryan McGinness ($40 available on Amazon),  I squeed just a little bit. Over the years, I’ve accumulated several of McGinness’ art and design books (the most well-known is FLATNESSISGOD).  I did my best to play it cool in our email…

Journaling with Clear Stamps

Journaling with Clear Stamps

As I’ve mentioned earlier this year, I am doing a very slack, modified bullet journal system that combines a lot of the elements of a commonplace book and a log book as well as the standard to-do lists. It’s not the prettiest (i.e. Instagram-worthy) planner system but I like it and it works for me.…

2022 Calendar and Planning Goals: Where are they now?

In the fall, we pen and stationery and planning nerds get excited about the prospect of a brand new year and shiny new notebooks, calendars and planners. But when the rubber meets the road, what do we actually use? Since it’s June already (eeek!), I thought I’d take a quick look at my plans for…