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Ash -he/they- 24 - sideblog to share my journals and planners with the world

[ash-journals]

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I'm ash. I'm an art student majoring in printmaking and teaching that loves planners, journals and stationary.

I made this blog to share my spreads with the world and finally satisfy my need to show my planner at all times lol.

I love asks/dms so feel free to send something and we can talk about journals and stuff. Be aware I take my time answering cause I have notifications turned off.

Let's connect!

[ash-journals]

Bullet journal review/what im going to use in 2026

so, it'a been a while since i posted. in that time i used a bullet journal the whole year! the pros of it was that, i could use it for days to plan and when i didn't had stuff going on i just left it, very open ended.

the cons was that although i liked the system i still need the structure of a planner, i ended up using a lot of google calendar this year to organize the month and then print it, stick it to the journal and then organize weekly stuff there.

It was super practical. no decorations or other stuff, sometimes i drew on it but nothing too fancy. I also took notes for some classes when i forgot my notebook.

This next year i'll use two planners. My filofax in personal size (which i started using this year but ended up dropping it) to carry around. And a normal A5 planner with a weekly view that i'll leave on my desk at all times to put events from the filofax and other stuff.

What i'm trying to say is that i'll use the filofax to write down things quickly and the other one to actually plan stuff. Anyway merry christmas and happy new year.

[ash-journals]

Starting a bullet journal

When the method became popular i was... 15? maybe? And I saw all the cute and aesthetic spreads and thought ohhhh this is for me! Turns out It wasn't for me and watching cute journals all the time kinda made this impossible standard for me as a teen and I quit shortly after. Now im 24 and obviously I have a different outlook in life so I decided to have two planners, a filofax for personal use and keeping track of movies and! a bullet journal for university. NO pretty spreads and decorating. just plain bullet time babey

[ash-journals]

My 2025 filofax setup

So, the year's ending and I made up my mind on how I will organize my filofax! It's divided in 5 sections.

Planner

Media (writing down movies, and books)

Personal notes

College notes

Misc. (Just plain white paper to draw stuff if I don't have my sketchbook on hand)

And I couldn't buy a refill (sad) but I made my own one! Inspired by the hobonichi weeks layout that I really like

I only made 3 months because I got tired of using the hole punch. I really need to get a 3 hole cause using this for 52 pages will be the death of my hand

[imanbenerrabeh]

dec. 1st

[ash-journals]

decide to post on r/journaling asking if people ever get overwhelmed with stationary and get FOMO (there were similar posts in the past so i figured it would be ok) and MY POST GOT DELETED FOR NO REASON this is what i get for posting on reddit

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the shop where i bought my filofax still hasnt brought in the refills for next year and when someone comments asking about in on their instagram they just reply "🔜🔜🔜"

COME ONNN IT'S ALMOST NOVEMBER MAN

[ash-journals]

well they're getting kinda active on instagram again AND the filofax part of their website says coming soon so.... please please bring refills and not just new organizers

[ash-journals]

Silly things I bought today (yeah those are post it notes)

[ash-journals]

the shop where i bought my filofax still hasnt brought in the refills for next year and when someone comments asking about in on their instagram they just reply "🔜🔜🔜"

COME ONNN IT'S ALMOST NOVEMBER MAN

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Starting a digital commonplace journal

From what I gathered, commonplace books are the equivalent of your saved tab in social media I guess. So I'm going to give it a shot tbh. Since I work with art and other digital mediums I decided to make it digital so I can save stuff easier and so I can actually use onenote since my dad gifted me a subscription and I can keep it in the cloud and add entires from my phone.

Right now I'll be using onenote and pocket to save all my links

[life-in-scribbles]

04/05/24 saturday

Some journal pages from april in my pocket ring binder.

[arcticsilence]

excited about my journal / commonplace binder getting bulky-ish <3 ive done about 30 pages of commonplacing in there so far and swiftly had a crisis about potentially actually hating having it in there, but ive decided to wait until i bind the pages into a little book for archiving to see what i think. it'll be fine👍🏻

[arcticsilence]

just realized how many different page layouts for my commonplace pages ive tested over the last month. the last one is literally from today and i think im finally happy with it. it's literally how my previous commonplace book was set up, no idea what kept me from simply copying that until now. im half tempted to redo all pages, so they'll be uniformly one layout, however it's also kind of fun to be able to track the changes throughout the pages as i get settled in the ring planner. smile

[neurotic-needles]

Packed up my bag today to carry my A5 ring planner along with some self regulation tools in a small drawstring pouch.

[mnwgnr]

my poor savings... again 🥲 but hey I got my long-term planner grail on sale for almost half the price 🤩 and plan to make monthly tabbed covers with my photos this year - so much color feels so great after I spent years in black, white & gold

[ash-journals]

Thinking about my filofax layout. I already took out the to do's section. And I'm thinking of taking out the months that pass and just keeping the weeks of the month, a page that has the full month and then blank pages. Idk... Anyway I'm saving up for a 6 hole paper punch cause I'm sick of doing each hole one by one

[alascirce]