My Personal Planner with Free Templates! (Part 1)

In the beginning of April I was strolling around Pinterest and I absolutely fell in love with leather planners. I said to myself, "I need one!" But the problem was, I had tried planning before, and it never quite worked out.

I went onto Amazon and Ebay the following day and started searching for leather personal organizers, I gave in to the temptation and I bought myself a nice, sturdy leather planner (and a hole puncher to go with it).

So, I bought myself a planner, now what? I told myself I would plan, whether I liked it or not.

Figuring that I would hate the pages that came with the planner (and I did), I started designed my own pages with InDesign. I made them simple with no colors (because I have the worst printer in the world). I made tons of templates that would work for me, fitting around what I need, discarding what I don't.

When my planner finally came, I printed all of my pages and BAM! I got right to it (disregarding that fact that the hole puncher hadn't come yet and I couldn't actually put any of the pages into it).

How I Use My Planner

I have six main sections: Daily Planner, Things to Do/Dailies, Blog Planner, Misc. Lists, Photography Planner, and Notes.

In my daily planner I have it divided by months, with a year view at the beginning.

My week views are 1 page each, so they total to 2 weeks per page, which saves paper and space. And I have 3 different week views; the traditional week view, a food log, and then a daily journal. They are one after another, not separated by type.

The food log isn't a huge complicated one that tracks calories and such (which I tried once, and it was too much work) it is simple, just write down generally what I eat and how many glasses of water I have per day.

Then the daily journal just highlights the good and bad points in my day, to remember (because I have horrible memory, and I have been wanting to do this for a very long time).

My things to do/dailies section I have then divided as such; I also have my project planner pages in this section, and a divider that goes along with it.

I have a general master to do list, which holds all of the things that need to be done, but not for a specific day (sometimes I'll write when something should be done by next to it). 

Then there is a daily to do list page, where I have a priorities side, and a general. Putting things that absolutely need to be done under the priorities section.

The dailies page is where I track things that need to be done on a daily basis, from Sunday to Saturday, and I check things off as they are finished (I handwrite all of them in, adding new ones occasionally).

Wait for Part 2 where I will discuss my blog planner and my section with miscellaneous lists!

I have also provided you with my monthly and weekly planner, along with my dailies page! Click on the links below for the ones you wish to download! (Sorry you guys, I had to change the original font because the one I was using is only for personal use; if you want the font it's called CK Jot from Creating Keepsakes).

Monthly Planner

Weekly Planner

Dailies Page