basics of a weekly spread
hello!! and welcome to a quick guide on how to set up a weekly spread in your bujo, à la aurie style (that’s me!)
weekly spreads are hella handy for planning your week out, keeping track of your day-to-day to-dos, AND having space to fill up with other information you’d like to keep!
although there are many variations of what a weekly spread can entail, i’ve found this format to be useful to me as a student with lots of projects, homework and after-school events. it’s helped me to keep up with my workload, as well as pick out days where i can fit in a study session or a day out with my friends :)
so without further ado, *drumroll please* let me breakdown each part of this spread to you!
a very simple header that tells me the month and dates of this week! some people prefer having a mini calendar next to this so they can tell which week of the month it is, but i use my school terms instead. in this case, i’ve written T2W2 as a short form for term 2 week 2!
this is used in conjunction with your daily spaces! i stick to a simple legend for events, special days and tasks, but you can create your own version.
in the table i’ll write down events like my training schedules, consultations with teachers, project submissions etc. note that you shouldn’t be writing specific tasks like “finish chemistry report” in this table, but rather under a daily space.
so this is where your individual tasks go! to make it easy on your eyes, i’d recommend having the headers - which are really just the name and/or date of the day - a different colour from what the colour you’ll be writing your tasks in.
with daily spaces, you can allocate tasks to whichever day you’d like to do it on, and easily migrate it over to another day if needed.
tbh this is something i don’t always add but i do like the idea of trackers. I tend to use mine to note down how much i sleep each day, but of course, you can track other things such as the number of hours you study or spend on ig.
trackers act as a good motivator because it can make you more aware of how much time you are doing a particular activity, and subsequently, you can adjust your time spent for the better!
like the tracker, i don’t add this to every weekly spread but it keeps me in check when i know i have a lot of events or submissions due next week.
also, if you do your spreads way in advance then you most likely won’t need this because you can simply write events on your next spread! unfortunately, i have a proclivity to procrastinate setting up my spreads so i need a space to write next week’s significant days down.
the look of your weekly spread will vary depending on your preferences. personally, i love having some colour while keeping the spread to a more minimalistic style.
some ways you can vary your design:
⬩ colour scheme
⬩ font (of header & daily spaces)
⬩ design of weekly overview table
⬩ rearrange format of spread!! switch things up here and there
⬩ doodles
⬩ add stickers or pictures in
and that’s it! hopefully for those who are struggling to find a suitable system they like using this may help you. do drop me an ask if there’s any other aspect of this that you’d like me to explain, or you have other questions about my bujo and weekly spreads! thank you ˙˚ʚ(´◡`)ɞ˚˙
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