My old weekly spread was a total mess until I saw a setup in a cafe in Austin

I used to cram everything into a single page with no real system, just a bunch of messy lists. Then I saw this person's journal at a coffee shop there, and they had a clear two-page layout with a time tracker on the left and a priority grid on the right. I switched to that method six months ago and it finally stopped my weekly overwhelm. Has anyone else tried a similar grid system for their weekly planning?

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clairem472d ago

Disagree, those rigid grids just box you in. @robin_bennett78 has it right, a little pretty chaos is more honest.

robin_bennett782d ago

Oh man, that sounds like a game changer! I never got into the grid thing myself, but seeing someone else's journal in public is how I learned to use washi tape. I was on a train and the woman next to me had these perfect little color-coded tabs for different projects. Totally stole that idea. It makes my pages look way less chaotic even if my lists are still a mess.

the_angela2d ago

My cousin spent like eighty dollars on washi tape last month trying to get that look. Her journal is beautiful but she hasn't actually finished a single project she color coded. It just moved the chaos from the page to her wallet. Sometimes I wonder if we're just decorating our to do lists instead of doing them.