Somewhere in January, after my year review post is written, new goals are set and new projects for the new year are selected – comes the time to archive previous year diary inserts. I’ve kept all my inserts from previous years for both sentimental reasons and for references, as I do often have to look some details up.
It’s December of 2024 and the End is Nigh…
So I’m once again going through my planners to evaluate their usage, make adjustments and fine-tune my system in preparation for the new year. Below is an in-depth discussion of changes made throughout the year, reasoning behind them and how changes to one part of my system affected everything else.
My notebooks for language learning | Мои тетради для изучения языка
My birthday falls on the 2nd of June, so beginning of the Summer it’s a traditional time of self-reflection for me. A few weeks before or after my birthday I spend hatching new plans, setting new goals and it’s perfect time to check my planner usage too, as we’re 5 month into year 2024 and I had time to evaluate my current setup.
A start of a new cycle, akin to a New Year, demands review and adjustments to be made for my envisioned future.
Every year around October I start to think about finally printing out inserts for my planner for the coming year. As I’ve printed my own inserts since 2016, I’ve always took this time to review my usage and make adjustments. Thanks to stumbling upon this video with mid-year review of planner usage by team at US stationary shop Yoseka, I’m now aware that this practice has a new trendy, japanese-inspired name of “Techo Kaigi”, thanks to thriving planner culture around Hobonichi Techo and other planners.
So, below are my musings about my planner usage, my experiments with insert layouts and what I’m going to test out in coming month, before I commit to a full year of inserts.
