(Crickets) love visual simplicity and organizational abundance (micro solutions). You prefer your everyday used items hidden out of sight, but you do tend to pile items until you can put them away properly. You are a classic organizer in every way. As a classic organizer, Crickets are the people for which planners were often designed…
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Jesi: The Bee Planner
Ana spoke in her post about a lightbulb coming on for her once she saw her results from the clutter bug quiz. When I took the quiz, I felt like my past organizational efforts and failures made sense. The result of my quiz was, unsurprisingly, a bee. BEE: You love visual abundance along with organizational abundance…
What’s Your Planner Style?
August is the start of planner season so we thought we’d spend this week figuring out what planner style best suits you. We’ll be using the Clutterbug organizational categories to help figure out which planner style suits you. If you’re not familiar with Clutterbug and her organizational system is quite an internet sensation. She has a…

A (Draft) Notebook Set-up for 2021: Planners, Journals, and Blank Pages
It’s December (…how?) and after a year that deviated from plans more than anyone could have anticipated, apparently I still feel compelled to “plan” for the upcoming year. I say apparently because it wasn’t until earlier this week that I realized I had five different notebooks that I intended to continue using in the new…

Ask The Desk: Planner for Medical Editor, Waterproof inks and Cross Porous Point Pen Options
Angela asks: Hello–I’m a freelance medical editor. I have to keep track of jobs for ±6 clients each day. For years, I’ve used a spiral notebook and pencil. I’ve been upgrading my notebooks, and now I think I’d like to use a daily planner so I have a more orderly view of finished projects. I…
Planners: Where are they now?
Review by Laura Cameron At this point we’re more than halfway through the year and we’re on the precipice of ordering 2020 planners, so I thought I’d take a quick look back at the planners and organizers I’ve reviewed in the last year or so and which ones are working for me, and which ones…
Ask the Desk: Danish Time Manager & Water Erasable Fountain Pen Ink
I have had several people ask me about the Danish Time Manager planners recently. It’s been brought to my attention that they will no longer going to be manufacturing their inserts for their A5-sized planners. Hello For 30 years I have used an A5 Time Manager shipped from Denmark for my diary. I am devastated…