Planners – Nightwolf's Den

Planner setup for 2025

(Going back through the drafts folder and I realised I never finished my 2024 set up post but it’s up now and you can go check it out here.)

For the past few years I’ve made no real plans for what I wanted in my planner apart from the basics – a year in pixels, monthly and weekly spreads and a few other bits and pieces.
I do think I’ve found my planner piece in a ring bound planner and just printing dot grid paper so I can create my weekly spreads to my heart’s content. I prefer being able to design my own spreads and not being stuck using a pre-printed inserts. That said for certain things – like Christmas – I do like a good pre-done insert. Lights Planner Action Christmas inserts, I’m looking at you *heart eyes*

I’ve been following Jess at JashiiCorrin (& part of her Patreon then YouTube subscription) for a while and recently binge watching all of her new year planner set up videos – which you can find here. One of the things she does is a WANT analysis of her past year’s planner. What is a WANT analysis? Its looking at the following areas and brainstorming. WINS (things you enjoy & work well), AVERSIONS (what didn’t work or you didn’t enjoy), NEEDS (what is necessary for the year ahead) and TRY(new or old things you want to try out). It’s also explained in the video I’ve linked below.

After lots of thinking and brainstorming, here’s my list

WINS (worked well, liked, keep doing)

Ring planner with printed dot grid pages
Pre-designed month spread on 2 pages from Lovely Planner
Yearly collections book. Something new I started last year.

AVERSIONS (didn’t work, didn’t like, stop doing, change)

Trying to do too much in a month. I’m ditching a bunch of extra pages I had at the end of each month that I’d fill in at the start of the month but would drop off as the month went on.
Not making planner time. And then when I do feeling overwhelmed when I need to create the layout then fill it in.

NEEDS (plans, events, challenges, pain points)

Monthly spreads
Weekly spreads

TRY (have a go, test run, curious about)

Planner Day once a month to set up the upcoming month’s layouts. Just setting up the layouts to make my weekly planner time easier. See point two in Aversions
R&D binder
Long Term Collection journal
Media Journal in my A5

I also looked at some other questions Jess has in her resource library (which you can check out for yourself by signing up at https://mail.jashii.com/resources?utm_medium=product_shelf)

My current planning system

What journals, planners and apps did I use in your planning system this year?

A5 ring bound planner with a mix of dot grid inserts and planner printables
Artful Agenda digital planner app on my phone and laptop
A5 bound book for yearly collections
A5 bound book for long term collections

What is the status of each of my planner system elements? (i.e. are you keeping them as part of your system, retiring them, or setting up new versions of them)

A5 ring bound planner – keep but with a few changes
Artful Agenda digital planner app on my phone and laptop – keeping as this is super useful when I’m out and about or at my laptop
A5 bound book for yearly collections – loving this, so keeping but making it more accessible so I update it more & adding reminders to actually do updates

How easy was it to keep up with my planning system this year? What made it this easy / difficult to keep up with?

As I pointed out under aversions I struggled with motivation to set up my weekly spreads each week. Sometimes I just wasn’t in the mood, other times I was just busy.

My next planning system

What journals, planners and apps are you going to use in your new planning system?

Journal / planner / app	Purpose
Everyday planner (A5 Planners Anon ring bound)	My everyday, go-to planner. Yearly, monthly/Weekly, Media journal, Uni stuff.
Artful Agenda (on phone and laptop)	For noting appointments when out & about so I don’t double book myself
Yearly Collection (bound book planner)	Housing my yearly collections – yearly goals, 25 in 2025, Then & Again, Monthly favourites, Goober Readathon and my Year in review
Long term collections	For all the long term collection I want to keep. Things that will last more than 6 months.
Mental Health journal	Not 100% sure what I’ll put in here as yet.

If you want to see this all in action – Jess has a video for you – How I Planned My 2025 Bullet Journal Setup 💜

Planner setup – November and December 2024

Planned to make a new YouTube series of my planning each month but November & December didn’t go as planned.

November ended up a little pre-done as I had the idea to record stuff half way through the month and I’d already done my planning and created the pages.

Then the stickers I wanted to use didn’t arrive in time so I set up the weeks and then just ended up decorating them with stuff I already had. I ended up just taking a bunch of photos of the complete pages and made them into a video.

So here’s the video – no voice over, just the video and some tunes.

What I used:

Bullet journal spread planner from JashiiCorrin
Planner – Planners Anonymous Chapter: New Dawn A5 Melody planner cover & rings
Paper for inserts – J. Burrows Premium 160gsm A4 Digital Copy Paper
Christmas inserts – Lights Planner Action (link to each insert)
Washi tape (November) – PET from Temu
Washi & Stickers (December) are Planners Anonymous -Heartfelt Home, Christmas at Home and Deck the Halls
Other stickers are from Luscious Labels
Other bits and pieces from my scrapbook stash

Planner Set Up for 2024

Note – some links are affiliate

(And the changes over at Planners Anonymous)

2024 is a whole new setup at Planners Anonymous. At the end of 2023 they introduced Chapters and a massive change to how their subscription kits work. Chapters is going to be more than just a subscription though. To quote the website

Welcome to ‘Chapters’, a fresh beginning in our journey together. We’re so beyond excited to bring you an innovative approach to our range of goodies. ‘Chapters’ is more than a product; it’s a journey and a narrative, a series of moments crafted to enrich your planning and journaling experience. Join us as we turn each page in this new chapter of creativity, self-expression and self-exploration.
Sami and Team PA

Anyway the subscription line up used to be: standard sub box, extra sticker book and extra paper pack. Chapters now gives you 3 options – Planner lover, Paper lover and Sticker lover.

Planner Lover is for those who love to focus mainly on their planners and aren’t interested in all the extras. Think planner stickers, washi, note pads & sticky notes.
Paper Lover is the papers, journaling cards, stamps and die cuts.
Sticker Lover is for those who just want stickers.

Then each quarter there will be a special release – a bigger sticker book or the Bundle – sticker bundle, locket refresh, charm builder, plastic pockets, stencil bookmark/ruler and special item. SPOILERS
Q1 -Washi cutter
Q3 – Desktop Easel
Q4 – Script Headers Stamp Set

Anywho, along with all of that Sami designed and released an A5 Melody planner cover. Now I started as an A5 planner girl so my heart was getting pulled towards grabbing that for my 2024 setup. Then the kiddos bought it for me for Christmas so 2024 is me going back to my A5 love.

I’ve gone purely rings for my set up as I found I didn’t use the string inserts after a couple of months. Set up is in 4 sections – Yearly, Monthly/Weekly, Misc and Chapters.

Section 1 – Yearly
It’s my birthday and anniversary list, Fun Days calendar, Rate my Day (it’s like a Year in Pixels), Health log, Dream log and some witchy stuff (full moons, sabbats etc)

Section 2 – Monthly/Weekly
A monthly themed cover, my monthly spread, weeklies, songs (& playlists) for the month, sleep log, One line a day and a monthly reflection

Section 3 – Miscellaneous
Lots of lists – Movies to watch, To Be Read list, Books read, shows to watch, what we’ve watched, podcasts, future me problems (things I want future me to do or would like to do), present idea lists

Section 4 – Chapters
This is going to be a bit of a work in progress. It’ll be the Chapters extras and some of my own journaling.
No spoilers though for this one. I may share my own journaling pages at a later date though.

So there you have it. What’s your planner lineup for 2024?

In my planner – Jan & Feb 2023

Another two months in the planner.
Mostly Planners Anonymous kits each week and finally putting some of the kit papers to work as month dividers.

Kits used –
January cover -Rejuvenate
Weeklies – Masquerade, Rejuvenate, Barista Brunch, By the River digital (available at Etsy)
February cover – PAU
Weeklies – PAU, Sweet Art, Shop til You Drop

Planner Setup for 2023

Another year in my Planners Anon Melodies. Hopefully I might add a third to the line-up this year and have a dedicated Christmas planner (hello Christmas at Home). Maybe even splurge and buy myself a Melody for Spring or Autumn – possibly Sakura for Spring and All for Fall for Autumn. It depends on what Sami brings out this year.

This year I’m shaking things up a bit. I’m using both the strings and rings in the Melody. On the front string I’ve got a B6 TN Undated Monthly Glance from Lights Planner Action for all my monthlies, monthly goals, important dates
On the rings I have 4 dividers set up. The first is Yearly which contains my Master Birthday & Anniversary list and my 23 goals for 2023. I’ll be adding moon phases, yearly oracle reading, yearly numerology & corresponding Tarot in here too.
Next is my weeklies. I printed a bunch of dot grid paper which I downloaded. There is a blank page and the front and back of each month so I can decorate the front and do a monthly roundup on the back.
Third divider houses my trackers – mood, sleep and period. I have a master habit tracker on my Google Drive that I purchased from Thyme is Honey. I’m thinking I’ll add a paper habit tracker to this section and just transfer the data at the end of each month.
The forth, and last divider, is my Misc section. Movies to watch & have watched. Books to read and have read. TV shows and Podcasts
On the back string I have a planner pocket from Planners Anon I’m using to store the stickers I use every week (like my rubbish bin stickers from Luscious Labels)

Here’s a quick flick through (& sneak peak of some of my January pages)

You can see my previous setups in these posts – 2022 | 2021

Catching up – the rest of 2022 in my planner

September sees me move into my Spring/Summer planner which is a Planners Anonymous B6 melody from the Note to Self range.
I changed up my planner inserts a bit for the remainder of the year – a mix of boxed, bullet journal and even had a go at designing my own.

September was the boxed Masquerade insert from Planners Anonymous, October was the insert I designed using the Planners Anon For the Boos digital creative kit, November was Planners Anon Dream Chaser luxe bujo insert and December was another bujo insert from Planners Anon (I can’t remember which one). I have to admit I am really loving playing with bullet journal spreads again.

Catching up – My Winter planner 2022

July and August were still in my Planner Anonymous Northern Lights melody cover. Inserts are from Planners Anonymous as well with
July being a bujo insert (I can’t remember which one) and August was Dream Chaser.

September sees me move back into my Spring/Summer planner – the Planners Anonymous Note to Self melody.

In my planner – May & June 2022

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Back into my planner for the next two months – May & June.

May was the Planners Anonymous Chapter 3 Luxe B6 wide insert. June was the new Bujo layout of inserts for Planners Anonymous, this one is for Planner Love. It’s been fun playing with bujo layouts again.

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Stickers used come from Planners Anonymous, Luscious Labels, The Printable Collection, Victoria Thatcher, KHD Stickers and my personal junk journal supplies

In my planner – March & April 2022

I’ve moved into my Planners Anonymous Northern Lights melody for the Autumn/Winter period. I love the watercolour images and the purples in this planner.

Inserts are from Planners Anonymous. March was Tropicanna luxe (holding on to summer as long as I can) and April was Hygge Life luxe.
Stickers and washi from Planners Anonymous, Luscious Labels, KHD Studios, Min Van Dreams, The Printable Collection, Victoria Thatcher & Pink Pixel Graphics

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In my planner–January & February 2022

This year I thought I’d share my planner spreads each quarter. Hopefully it might give someone some inspiration for how they can use planner kits – the majority of my pages are created using the subscription boxes from Planners Anonymous.

January and February rounded out Summer in my Note to Self melody. January I used the Planners Anonymous Masquerade luxe B6 wide insert and February I used an older luxe B6 insert from the Planners Anonymous kit Love Bug.

Stickers are from Planners Anonymous, Luscious Labels, Mom Envy and Pink Pixel Graphics.

For Autumn & Winter (March through August) I’m moving into my Northern Lights melody from Planners Anon.

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