2020 Planner

In my previous blogpost, I had mentioned that this particular post would be about my 2020 planner. As you already know I am a big fan of stationery. I did look around for some planners online and also at the stores but could not find one which fit my requirement or my budget. So, I decided to print one for myself. One might think, I had a lot of special needs but when I share my planner with you, you will realise that mine is very basic. Many planners had things like Books to read, TV shows to watch, Movies to watch, mood tracker, inspirational quotes etc. I really did not want to track these at all and wanted the planner to be simple enough for me to use it everyday. I also did not want to carry around a lot of pages around with when I know already, that I would not use them immediately. Usually, I use a one day a page dated diaries but this year, I thought of trying something different.

When looking for free printables, I found this site (click here). I just fell in love with their printables. They have them in 2 sizes A4 and A5 and in so many varieties that you would definitely find the one you love. Also, I got to mix and match from a variety of options from what they had to offer. While this was the website where I found most of my material, I also printed out a few from other websites. I will also leave a link to them in case you are interested. Now, moving on to the planner I created for myself:

Front and Back Cover:
I like florals so I chose these and printed them out on 300 gsm watercolour paper. For front cover, I chose the multi floral and for the back, I chose fall flower. Both were from the amazing website linked above.

The next thing I did was choose separators, which I selected again from this site. I chose the sea creature swirl. These were also printed on 300 gsm watercolour paper.

I then printed out the Birthdays and Anniversaries sheet, again from the same website. I chose the blank one. I printed these on Paperone 100gsm regular paper.

I then printed out my monthly spread from the same website using a random different theme every month. I am not posting pictures of those here. Again, these were printed on 100 gsm regular paper.

The next thing I printed out was the year at a glance from this website (click here). Printed on 100 gsm regular paper.

This was followed by the printable goals planner/worksheet. I printed this out from this website (click here). Printed on 100 gsm regular paper.

The next thing I printed out was a habit tracker from this website (click here). Printed on 100 gsm regular paper.

As mentioned previously, I did not want to use one day a page for planning my work. I decided to use a weekly spread again from the initial website (click here). Printed on 100 gsm regular paper. So, far, this has lasted me the whole month. I noticed that I was not really using up the entire column, so I divided it into several parts horizontally and add a new date each time and write my to-do for the day. Has been working well so far.

I printed my entire planner of A4 sheet, even though I prefer A5 size. I started by looking for soft binders to keep my planner pages in but could not find any. However, A4 sized soft binders were easily available. So, decided to print my planner in A4 size paper. I did not want to punch the beautiful pages, so I chose a transparent slide grip binder. The printing work and the binder put together must have cost about Rs.100 (USD 1.40). My planner looks like this now (sorry for the poor quality picture- It looks much more vibrant and colourful than on the picture).

In the binder, I have placed a year at a glance page, birthdays and anniversaries, goals pages, habit tracker, a monthly spread for the first quarter and the weekly spread for 4 weeks alone. Actually, each weekly spread is lasting me for a month, so I assume I have enough for 4 months :). All the extras for the coming quarters and weeks is placed in this folder and I pick out the papers from this as and when I need.

The website I have been mentioning  has a lot of other ideas that you could include in your planner as well as different binding ideas. Do spend sometime is visiting it- it is a fantastic website.

I have just mentioned added snapshots to show you what I exactly used. Since it is a free download at all these websites, request you to not print anything from here (they would anyway not comply to any size), and visit the websites mentioned in the links and download/print from these websites. All of them have put in a lot of hard work for our sake and giving these wonderful tools to us for free- I appreciate their efforts and I am really grateful to them.