Why does everyone treat their weekly spread like a work of art?

Last week my buddy showed me his new journal and it took him 3 hours to make a fancy mood tracker with watercolors. Meanwhile he missed two appointments and forgot to log a bill payment. I run a crew of 5 guys and my weekly spread is just a column of days with a few lines each, and it takes me 10 minutes flat. The point is to capture stuff fast, not to make a museum piece. Why are we spending more time decorating than actually tracking our lives?

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keithyoung15d ago

Wait, three hours on a mood tracker? That's like a whole movie's worth of time just to color in some squares. I get wanting your journal to look nice, but if you're missing actual appointments while you're painting watercolors, you've completely missed the point of having a planner in the first place. lol, my "spread" is a yellow legal pad and a pen that works, and I haven't missed a deadline since I started it.