Planners & Planning
Learn to Plan
& Change your Life!
Welcome to my ultimate guide to planning and planners! I know from experience that the right planner can completely transform how you organize your life, set goals, and stay on track. Whether you’re new to planning or a seasoned pro, I’m here to share everything I’ve learned to help you plan with purpose and joy. In this guide, I’ll walk you through how to use planners effectively, share my top picks for the best planners out there, and give you tips on how to make planning not only productive but also fun. Dive into my posts for practical advice on how to make planning a habit, choose the best planner for your needs, and discover strategies to make planning feel less like a chore and more like a creative ritual.
Planners & Planning
I believe in the power of planning so deeply that I have written several of my own. Check them out here:
A Guide to Planners & Planning
DESCRIPTION:
- 30 weekly spreads with places for photographs, sketches, lists, and planning in any number of ways
- 6 monthly spreads designed for planning or for reflections
- Blank and dotted pages for notes and planning, sketches and photographs
- Printed on 70# paper – thick paper with a good tooth that holds ink well
AVAILABLE IN TWO SIZES:
- Classic (approx. 110 mm x 210 mm or 4.25 in x 8.25 in | same as the Traveler’s Notebook Regular)
- Wide (approx. 127 mm x 210 mm or 5 in x 8.25 in | an A5)
- Notebooks are made and trimmed by hand. Measurements are approximate.
Like all of the Owl & Ember notebooks, Garden Notes is designed to fit in a traveler’s notebook cover and is available in two common TN sizes, but it works independently as well.
MORE ABOUT GARDEN NOTES:
Garden Notes is a simple notebook: a place to make notes about your garden. It looks both forward and backward: both journal and planner. It’s a place to mark the months and the sowing which lies ahead as well as to reflect on the blossoms and harvests as the weeks of your growing season slip past. As you garden, year upon year, it also becomes a record. What flourished? What perished? When did the tulips emerge? The carrots ripen? The dahlias sing?
Whether you are a beginning gardener, a small flower farmer, or a dabbler with pots on a balcony, Garden Notes gives you a place to noodle about your plot of earth. With blank space for sketching, spots for list-making, lines and dots, and lots of freedom, this notebook leaves room for making it your own while providing just enough suggestions to help you get started, too.Garden Notes is the perfect gardening journal – created by Angela, a passionate gardener, and designed by Holly. In creating this journal, Angela looked at the scribbled notes she keeps about her own garden – pasted into a not-perfect journal. She considered the notes she and other gardeners want to keep:
- What is planted where?
- When was it planted?
- When was it harvested?
- How well did it do?
- What should we change next year?
Those big questions are particularly important when a garden is buried in snow, but the gardener like Angela is ordering seeds and plotting for spring. Frustrated by gardening journals that just didn’t quite work, she created her own. The result is Garden Notes – a beautiful, simple notebook with room for everything.
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A NOTE ABOUT RISOGRAPH PRINTING:
Garden Notes is produced using a Japanese Risograph printing duplicator. Imagine an old-fashioned printing press and a fancy copy machine had a baby -- that’s the Risograph. Each color of soy-based ink is laid down separately -- like a printing press -- on rich, toothy paper. Like screen printing, each page must dry completely before the next color is applied -- a process which takes days.The soy inks are applied like paint, and occasionally some smudging may occur. This is to be expected. And as with any handmade product, imperfections are part of the charm! The result is a beautifully printed, handmade product with rich colors and an artistic feel.Owl and Ember produces each printed product in small batch runs at our headquarters in Menlo Park, California. All Owl and Ember products are printed on FSC Certified papers.If for any reason, you are dissatisfied with your purchase, please contact us so that we can make it right.
ABOUT THE CREATORS:
Angela K. Nickerson (@midmodernmama), author, and Holly Kennedy (@messymamaholly), designer, both love office supplies, planners, stickers, and creative living. They have been producing The Nice List, their first journal product, since 2016 and have been collaborating on projects big and small for almost 15 years. Together they are @owlandember and owlandember.com.
All designs © Angela K. Nickerson and Holly Kennedy, 2015-2025
Reproduction rights do not transfer with sale of items.