Honestly, I tried a weekly spread with just a pen versus one with a ruler and some mildliners.

Tbh, my first attempt last month was just a black pen and it felt messy and I kept skipping days. Ngl, adding a ruler for lines and a single light blue highlighter for headers made the whole thing feel like an actual system I wanted to open. Has anyone else found that one tiny bit of structure totally changes their follow-through?

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linda_mason822mo ago

Yeah, a little color coding was the only thing that finally got me to use my planner consistently.

tyler3682mo ago

Right? The color coding thing is so real. I mean, I had this planner for months and it just felt like a blank chore. But once I got a pack of those mildliner highlighters and gave each type of task its own color, it totally clicked. My brain just needs that visual split to see what's going on. Now if it's not color coded, I feel like my whole day is just a messy wall of text.

emery181mo ago

Oh, the "blank chore" feeling is way too real. My own planner looks like a kindergartener got hold of a highlighter pack and just went nuts. I have so many colors going that sometimes the code is more work to remember than the tasks themselves. I guess my brain needs the mess to feel organized, which is a special kind of problem.