How you can customize your weekly planner inserts

There are a couple of ways I spoke about in the post So you would like to be able to customize your day planner page? So, instead of going over those points again, I will be going over how I make my inserts in Publisher 2016. If you don’t have Publisher you can use Word or Open office. Open Office is a free program that I used before I bought the Microsoft office. Openoffice Website
If you are using a Apple computer you could use Pages, its just like Word for Mac user.

When I make my inserts I make them for a A5 or half a letter. I do make my own inserts for personal size planner, but for today I will be talking about the A5 or half a letter size inserts. If you would like to know how I make my personal size please send me a email or just leave a commit below.

So lets jump in to how I make my weekly inserts. When starting to make a new insert I will start with a blank page that is vertical. This way I can just half the page to the first part of my week and second part of my week on the same page. I adjust the margins to Zero, this way I can print on the whole sheet of paper.

At this point I do use Guides, then move one line to the five inch line and the second line to the six inch line. This way I have marked out that my hole punch will be in these area. I will also draw a straight line down the center of this area so that I know where I should cut the paper to make two inserts. I will also draw a line across the bottom of the page to mark where to cut, its half an inch from the bottom.

This is what it will look like when I am done setting everything up to start my planner inserts. When I go to print the two black line will show up, but the blue lines will not. The black line are where I will be making the cuts on the paper after printing. I find doing it this way I do not waste as much paper.

At this point I will start to add columns in, I do you tables to make my columns. I start with column width 1.5, this way if I want to add stickers in later it the with of most sticker you can buy for the Erin Condren life planner. This stander height for the box boxes is 1.9, but this is up to you if you want your planner page that look like the Erin Condren life planner. If you want one large box just grab the bottom of the box and drag it down.

Don’t forget you don’t want the bottom of the box to go past the black line at the bottom or you will be cutting it off. This is your planner insert play with how you want them to layout and how it would best fit you. I don’t use a lot of stickers so when I am making my I will add in different shape to make it more eye pleasing to me.

When I am done this is how my weekly planner page inserts looks, I will change the color of the shapes for each month so that I can have some color in my planner. Again its your planner layout your weekly how you like it.

I hope this help you customize your weekly planner. Please feel free to email me or leave comments down below with any questions you may have.

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10 Inserts I Must Have in My Planner!

When I began setting up my planner I went to Pinterest to find free printable inserts and was quickly become overwhelmed with how many I could find. Also, I was not completely sure what kind of inserts I wanted and needed in my planner. So, I download what I thought I need, I did download many different kinds of the same inserts to try out to see if they fit what I was looking for.

I end up with a lot of inserts, but I did not have a system down to how I want to use my planner with the insert I had saved. So, I print the inserts and put them in to my planner, but found at the end of the week that I did not use them completely. So, then I decided each morning for one month to make sure to set down and fill out or just look over what I had planned for the week.  With doing this is it become a habit for me to do so each morning. Then I started the long process of using an insert for a month to see if it fit what I liked and need.

So, in this process I did find that there were always 5 different inserts I would place back into my planner for the next month. Here is my list of inserts that I used Monthly Calendar, Weekly Overview, Weekly To Do’s list, Meal Plan, Bill Log. I used these kinds of inserts for Six months now, but you can see by the title there is 5 more that I have not mentioned. So, as I used these inserts I found that I need a little bit more So then I started on the hunt for one with more details in them to help me with my planning.

The 10 inserts that I use every month are

·        Monthly Calendar

·        Monthly Overview

·        Weekly Overview

·        Monthly Master List

·        Daily Tracker

·        Meal Plan

·        Bill Log

·        Monthly Goals Log

·        Weekly Goals Log

·        Wish List

These 10 are a must have in my planner. Yes, I use them all!

The process of finding them was long but I find that I can’t wait to set down and fill them out, guess that make me a planner nerd. In the process of using the free printable I found that I need a flow from one insert to another. So, what someone else was using in they planner may have flowed for them but did not flow for me. So, when you are picking out your planner inserts make sure that they flow for you. That you get that feeling that you need to turn the page to fill out or just look over what you wrote on that page.

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