I received no compensation of any kind for this post and everything I talk about was purchased at full price with my own money.
I didn't buy extra notes pages at the back of my Erin Condren dashboard planner and I ended up really regretting it because I ran out of space. Fast.
PlanSarahPlan on Etsy sells a blank notes page that can be put down over pages that have things on there you don't need, so I bought that and printed it out on sticker paper and laid it down over the monthly calendars I wasn't using at the front of the planner.
Because this planner is covering more than one year, I decided to put a list of Works In Progress at the front. If I'd realized how tight I was on notes pages, I would have combined this page with the next page, Future Projects. I really didn't need a full page for both of these, but the sticker paper I own is not repositionable, so two pages it is!
If this planner works like I hope, I'll know to 1) order an extra section of notes pages and 2) put these two sections on one page.
Every month, I want to set writing goals. There's a blank page next to the monthly notes page, so I added a sticker there.
I know this is something I need to figure out how to use. This is definitely a work in progress for me.
And if I'm going to set monthly goals, I should hold myself accountable, right? I need to come up with some review questions for myself.
The final page I have setup and ready to go is Blog Post Brainstorm.
Too often, I come up with ideas for the blog, and forget them because I have nowhere to write them down. Or, even better, I do write them down and then can't figure out where I wrote it. After I took the picture, I drew a line down the center to give myself more space. I'd originally planned to make this a double-page spread, but ran out of notes pages, so I used the second page for something else. There are more brainstorming pages in here for other things, but I didn't take pictures of those.
Honestly, I don't know if this is going to work or not. I'm hopeful because there's something about this layout that gives me structure, but allows me to make it what I want it to be. I hope it does work. I hope I'm excited every time I use this planner.
From next week until the end of 2025 will be all about experimenting, about finding what I need to keep track of beyond word count. I'm going to look through the abandoned author planners I bought and see if there's anything in those that I need to bring into this planner to make it work for me. I need to finish setting everything up this week. It doesn't need to be perfect, I just need to start the test run.
You know I'm going to update. :-)
