As someone with ADHD, I always scrunch up my brow when I read this and think, not me.
To be fair, I tried a variety of planners that did not work. I cannot use a weekly vertical to save my life. I look at it and all I see is a jumbled mess which gets worse when I see someone use a lot of stickers on it, especially boxes.
What I've discovered works for me best is a daily planner. I write everything I want to get done that day on the planner even if it's something I do every single day like fill in my Five-Year Diary or write. Even if it's a simple chore like wash towels. It's on the list. If I run out of time that day, I add a little > mark and then move it to the next available day that I can accomplish it.
I've tried bullet journaling. Not for me because I want the pretty but lack artistic talent.
I've tried a variety of weekly planners. Horizontal works best for me, but I prefer it with a daily set of pages for my lists. I've failed at every weekly layout I've tried except for my day job. For some reason, vertical weekly worked perfectly there. Go figure.
My current planner setup is nearly perfect for me. So close. I'm using the vertical weekly spread it comes with to track weather, words written that day, menu planning, sleep hours, water, what I'm reading, etc. You can see the nearly final layout on this blog post.
This planner also has room for a monthly overview page. Perfect! And I've added a weekly overview page in front of the vertical weekly spread. What would make this planner the absolute Patti-Perfect version would be two weekly spreads for every week. One horizontal for how I actually keep track of my weekly things and one vertical so I can have my layout with all the information. I'd also like this planner not to be hardcover because I love using stickers and washi tape through it and I'm not sure the hardcover is going to handle it well.
Actually, there are three planners that if I smashed them into ONE planner, would make my perfect planner. Sadly, they are from three different planner companies, so it isn't happening.
Which is my super long way of saying that just because I have ADHD doesn't mean I'm incapable of managing my life with a planner. It just means I needed to try a bunch of systems until I found one that worked for me.
I've been struggling with weekly tasks for a long time, but the overview page seems to be working now. More on Thursday about this.
