Journal Assembly - Day 1

I've been looking for a day-book/journal for the past month and a half.  I want to use it to record events that happened or what I did on a particular, not to keep to-dos or appointments.  Yes, I'm looking for a memory enhancer.  Of course, I could drop out of the human rat race, find a hammock on a thinly populated island in a warm climate, and be relatively sure my memory would be better for lack of stressors.  BUT, I think that approach may be a bit extreme.  For now.  Also, I want to see how I use my time and maybe make a few changes.  It is the most valuable thing I have and I know I'm not efficient.  I don't want to be nuts about being active all the time but I would like to be able to show I did more than look at Pinterest all day. 

My search found a wide range of planners.  One key focus was to have the same amount of writing space for each day of the week.  I don't know about you, but my Saturdays and Sundays are just as full as the other five days of my week.  Apparently, a lot of planner designers must have pretty dull weekends.  I also wanted the actual calendar day to be reflected without me having to record it.  Yes, lazy-are-me.  Finally, I wanted my daily journal to be relatively attractive.  

Today, being almost one-twenty-fourth of the year past, required a decision.  With the help of Bill at office supply store, I purchased a few items for a quasi-doitmyself planner.  I am using a Day-Timer 1-Page-Per-Day Planner insert.  It allows an a full day of space for each day and has some pretty colors.  However, I didn't want all the bulk of the binders available.  I am going to make a cover for my journal myself.  I'll let you know what I come up with.

 

Comments

[Cookie]

Good for you!

After doing a lot of looking, I realized that I would never find exactly what I wanted and I ended up settling because I'm too lazy to make what I really wanted. I can't wait to see how this works for you.

xo

[Vicki]

That sounds like a fun project and I'm looking forward to seeing what you do. Cloth, paper, scissors, yarn??
; )

[LoriAngela]

I enjoyed making custom pages for my schedule with diyplanner.com. I have been a journaller for al out all my years. Now my schedule is in my iPad and my writing is done in a hard covered sketchbook (nice heavy paper). I also have an Oberon leather cover for it.
Good luck with the imaginings.

[Leigh]

What a neat idea. I think being able to organize one's information is a MUST. And why shouldn't it be done creatively? :)

[Carrie#K]

If only there was some way to record things electronically.....

But I do love the idea of a journal! Although I'm pretty sure I don't want to know how much I sit on my butt.