{"id":167,"date":"2025-01-03T19:10:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T08:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2025-11-24T08:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:50:11","slug":"planner-set-up-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/03\/planner-set-up-for-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Planner set up for 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Going back through the drafts folder and I realised I never finished my 2024 set up post but it&#8217;s up now and you can go check it out <a href=\"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/planner-set-up-for-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-1-1-1024x1024.webp\" alt=\"2025 Planner Series\n2025 Planner Set up\nPlanning your planner for the year. What worked in previous years and what you want for the year ahead.\" class=\"wp-image-168\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For the past few years I&#8217;ve made no real plans for what I wanted in my planner apart from the basics &#8211; a year in pixels, monthly and weekly spreads and a few other bits and pieces.<br>I do think I&#8217;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&#8217;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 &#8211; like Christmas &#8211; I do like a good pre-done insert. Lights Planner Action Christmas inserts, I&#8217;m looking at you *heart eyes*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been following Jess at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@JashiiCorrin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">JashiiCorrin<\/a> (&amp; part of her Patreon then YouTube subscription) for a while and recently binge watching all of her new year planner set up videos &#8211; which you can find <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLFmDbK4-NLnkU3S3UDdLbQoHu3s_d4ME4&amp;si=NjjUn6dTSr3MHO4S\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>. One of the things she does is a WANT analysis of her past year&#8217;s planner. What is a WANT analysis? Its looking at the following areas and brainstorming. WINS (things you enjoy &amp; work well), AVERSIONS (what didn&#8217;t work or you didn&#8217;t enjoy), NEEDS (what is necessary for the year ahead) and TRY(new or old things you want to try out). It&#8217;s also explained in the video I&#8217;ve linked below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After lots of thinking and brainstorming, here&#8217;s my list<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WINS<\/strong> (worked well, liked, keep doing)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ring planner with printed dot grid pages<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pre-designed month spread on 2 pages from Lovely Planner<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yearly collections book. Something new I started last year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>AVERSIONS <\/strong>(didn&#8217;t work, didn&#8217;t like, stop doing, change)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Trying to do too much in a month. I&#8217;m ditching a bunch of extra pages I had at the end of each month that I&#8217;d fill in at the start of the month but would drop off as the month went on.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Not making planner time. And then when I do feeling overwhelmed when I need to create the layout then fill it in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NEEDS <\/strong>(plans, events, challenges, pain points)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Monthly spreads<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Weekly spreads<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TRY <\/strong>(have a go, test run, curious about)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Planner Day once a month to set up the upcoming month&#8217;s layouts. Just setting up the layouts to make my weekly planner time easier. See point two in Aversions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R&amp;D binder<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Long Term Collection journal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Media Journal in my A5 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I also looked at some other questions Jess has in her resource library (which you can check out for yourself by signing up at <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.jashii.com\/resources?utm_medium=product_shelf\">https:\/\/mail.jashii.com\/resources?utm_medium=product_shelf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My current planning system<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What journals, planners and apps did I use in your planning system this year?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A5 ring bound planner with a mix of dot grid inserts and planner printables<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Artful Agenda digital planner app on my phone and laptop<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A5 bound book for yearly collections<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A5 bound book for long term collections<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>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)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A5 ring bound planner &#8211; keep but with a few changes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Artful Agenda digital planner app on my phone and laptop &#8211; keeping as this is super useful when I&#8217;m out and about or at my laptop<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A5 bound book for yearly collections &#8211; loving this, so keeping but making it more accessible so I update it more &amp; adding reminders to actually do updates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>How easy was it to keep up with my planning system this year? What made it this easy \/ difficult to keep up with?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I pointed out under aversions I struggled with motivation to set up my weekly spreads each week. Sometimes I just wasn&#8217;t in the mood, other times I was just busy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My next planning system<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What journals, planners and apps are you going to use in your new planning system?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Journal \/ planner \/ app<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Purpose<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;Everyday planner (A5 Planners Anon ring bound)<\/td><td>&nbsp;My everyday, go-to planner. Yearly, monthly\/Weekly, Media journal, Uni stuff.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Artful Agenda (on phone and laptop)<\/td><td>For noting appointments when out &amp; about so I don&#8217;t double book myself<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Yearly Collection (bound book planner)<\/td><td>Housing my yearly collections &#8211; yearly goals, 25 in 2025, Then &amp; Again, Monthly favourites, Goober Readathon and my Year in review<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Long term collections<\/td><td>For all the long term collection I want to keep. Things that will last more than 6 months.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mental Health journal<\/td><td>Not 100% sure what I&#8217;ll put in here as yet.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to see this all in action &#8211; Jess has a video for you &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JwZw1GeYH2s\">How I Planned My 2025 Bullet Journal Setup \ud83d\udc9c<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Going back through the drafts folder and I realised I never finished my 2024 set up post but it&#8217;s up now and you can go check it out here.) For the past few years I&#8217;ve made no real plans for what I wanted in my planner apart from the basics &#8211; a year in pixels, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/03\/planner-set-up-for-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Planner set up for 2025&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[87,89],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planner","tag-planner-set-up","tag-planner-spreads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12149,"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/12149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}