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Setting Up My Notebooks for April

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30 Mar
A stack of four assorted journals and notebooks on a wooden desk surface.  Behind the notebooks, a black and white patterned plant pot, a brown zippered pencil case and a glass of water on a white macramé coaster. In front of the notebooks is a black binder clip and date stamp.

Before a new month starts, there are a few pages and spreads I try (need?) to set up in advance in my notebooks. Things like calendars will start filling up before the month actually starts. And tracking/logging spreads are easy to fall behind on (for me, anyway) if they’re not ready to go by the first day.

I’ve made a short video flip-through of them. So, in order of appearance, these are some of the pages and spreads I’ve set up so far in my notebooks for April:

Monthly notebook set-up

  • Everyday Planner
    • month calendar, drawn out with a black Muji gel pen and Platinum Preppy fountain pen, and decorated with washi tape, stickers and a Tombow dual brush marker.
    • first weekly spread, same as above.
    • first week of daily pages, decorated with assorted papers, stickers, washi tape and stamps, labelled with day of the week stickers (I make my own) and date stamped.
    • Quality of Life tracker, drawn out with a black Muji gel pen and decorated as above,
  • Family Journal, pages labelled with month stickers (I make my own), and decorated as above.
  • Blogging/Creative Notebook
    • month calendar, done in the same way as the everyday planner, except the month and year are stamped
    • blog post planner, drawn and decorated as above.
  • Reading Journal, one page each for the next three books in my stack set up with a black Muji gel pen and Tombow dual brush markers

Side note to say … I don’t really enjoy setting up a monthly calendar in my everyday planner. But so far I haven’t found a monthly calendar in the A6 size that I like. I’m trialling one which is okay, but only the Sunday – Saturday week style was available, which my brain doesn’t like. Yes, these are details that I obsess about.

Stationery in the photo & video

  • Everyday planner: cover (mine is from 2021, current styles here), notebook
  • Family journal: cover, notebook
  • Blogging/Creative Notebook
  • Reading Journal notebook
  • pencil case
  • skeleton clip

P.S. No plants were harmed in the making of this video.

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