My favourite planner from Muji
14th January 2016
At the beginning of a new year my inner organisation freak comes out and I start planning for the year ahead. Ever since starting university, a diary has been a must have item for me and I use them religiously to plan out my life. While I use a digital calendar at work, I just can’t bring myself to using one in my personal life and so it is paper and pen all the way for me.
As sad as this might sound, selecting a diary is a pretty important process for me, and this year I have fallen in love with the one I have chosen. So much so, I started using it at the beginning of December when the diary actually starts.
You may have heard of Muji in the blogging world because of their famous beauty storage solutions. I certainly had, being the organisation freak that I am, so when I discovered that Birmingham had a Muji store when I visited the city back in November, I had to pay a visit. And yes, it was organisation heaven!
While I resisted purchasing any storage items (only because it would have meant carrying it home on the train) I did end up purchasing this 2016 diary/planner (similar here). I’d been eyeing up a diary with a very similar page layout from Moleskine for sometime, so when I found this one in Muji for a fraction of the price I knew I had to have it.
This is what a weekly view looks like in the diary. One half of the spread is a weekly diary and the other half is blank square paper. The reason why I wanted a diary in this format is because I write and use to-do lists all of the time. However, in previous years I had used a separate notebook for to-do list, and obviously having two separate books for organisation was a bit of a pain. I wanted a way of combining my diary and my to-do list book into one, and this page layout allows me to this perfectly.
I also love the fact it has squared paper so I can easily draw tick-boxes for that extra satisfaction!
As well as the weekly view, there is also a monthly planner for each month of the year in the front of the diary. I really love being able to see my plans this way.
Are you a fellow organisation freak? Do you prefer a digital or a paper-based diary/planner?
My fiancee has a paper based planner, I use Google Calendar at times, but I can’t get used to going into it, I need to find something I can set alerts to.
I quite like the built in one on my iPhone but it still doesn’t beat paper. 🙂
I love organisers. I have a Paperchase one that I get refills for every year and I love it. I have note pages in the back of the diary but the individual days are large enough to write almost in anyway.
Yours is so lovely! I love the idea of having the note pages next to the week – that’s so useful!
I usually buy my diary from Paperchase but Muji has won me over. That note page is so very useful!
I become an organising freak too in the month of January. I cannot maintain a planner so I stick to a notebook to help me keep a track of the work to be done!
Notebooks can also be super useful for planning. I used to use notebooks for bullet journals.
I want to learn the art of Bullet Journal. Got any tips for me?
My friend Emma has wrote a post on bullet journals: http://misspond.com/tips-and-reviews/bullet-journal-review-and-catch-up/
That’s a nice planner. I like it simple and neat, because I tend to complicate things. It may sound weird, but planning and adding stuff into the calendar makes me feel good – it allows me to look forward to the good things and seem more productive than I am. But when it comes to things I really don’t care about, my friends know I’m the messiest person around. I use my phone for all the organising I do because it’s almost always with me.
That doesn’t sound weird to me at all! I love looking at my monthly planner knowing I have lots to keep me busy.