#calendar to notebook

[zhalfirin]

Dated calendar/organiser cases to notebooks

Materials used case - re-used from bought calendars/ organisers inner book - copy paper endbands - woven endpapers - bugra bütten (grey and antique pink)

See more about the process here

[genericpuff]

I've been griping about the normalization of identity outing via social media for a while now. To put it simply, it's become almost some weird societal requirement that if you don't have every detail listed about yourself in your Twitter/FB/etc. bio, then it means you have "something to hide" or that you're not as "verifiable" because your account looks indistinct from that of a bot.

But that societal norm has really only benefited the people who profit off of that information in some way, whether it's through selling user data or through weaponizing details about a person against them.

I know that a lot of us love to use the fun little labels and acronyms in our bio that help others like us identify us as a 'safe person' or as someone who's in the same social/racial/identity groups as them. We're humans, we love to categorize things, it's in our nature (and it's fun!)

But if there's any time to start regulating that habit and challenging the norm that you're obligated to include all your personal info online - it's now.

There was a time when sock puppet accounts were expected and typical, not "suspicious".

There was a time when even age-sex-location was considered "too much information", but once it became the norm, we only EVER gave our personal information beyond generic ASL to people who we knew both online and in real life, or at the very least, people who we had known online for a significant enough amount of time that they had proved to be trustworthy (and even then, we didn't owe that information to anyone, ever; there are forum friends who I made online 10+ years ago and still talk to who do not know my personal information beyond broad strokes).

There was a time when simply being an avatar with a funny username was enough. And it still is enough, but massive platforms like Facebook and Twitter have been brainwashing us for years to believe that's not the case, under the guise of, "You wouldn't want to be dishonest, would you?" Through these same norms, we were led to believe that anime profile pictures are cringe, that having a fake online name is stupid, that the photos of you having fun at social events have to be taken JUST right otherwise you might imply to others that you're not actually having fun.

And considering how long these platforms have been around now, we have entire generations of children now who have been born and raised on that version of the ZuckMusk web, who have been taught that it "protects them" to express to everyone publicly their age, their school, their workplace, their family members, everything about themselves, because to not do so would be disingenuous.

None of this is to imply that the Internet was "safer" back in the day. I definitely should not have been on the Internet as much as I was when I was 13 in the late 2000's, it definitely did not benefit my brain development or my social skills. But the version of the Internet we currently exist in now is one that's been predicated on the false sense of security - the belief that if you're honest, everyone else has to be, too.

We've always had ways of identifying our safe people - by participating in the communities that we know are designed around our hobbies, our interests, our people. They might be small, they might not be as "cool" as the idea of netting yourself a big following of thousands of people, but they're also a lot safer and more genuine than that idealized following ever could be.

Don't feel pressured to include every bit of information about yourself in your bio. Even on Facebook, there's no rule that says you have to list your workplace, your school, your family members. There's no rule that says you have to list your personality type, queer labels, and neurodivergent disorders in your Twitter bio. There's no rule that you have to "prove" your life is real and fulfilled through the verification of photos, location tagging, and open-book sharing. If you share those photos, it should be because you genuinely want to share them, not because you feel some societal pressure to live up to others' expectations.

And I guarantee you, even your local mutuals on Facebook - your former classmates, family friends, distant relatives, coworkers, etc. - do not actually give that much of a damn about your personal life that they should be owed that much of a look into it on a daily basis. They've got their own shit going on, they literally do not need to know every detail about you.

I know it sounds scary. It also sounds kind of boring, when we've been used to a certain "way" of browsing and participating for years, that if we don't do so, it feels like being in the "out group" and that we're "breaking the rules". But I promise you, after spending over half my life online, those rules do not exist or benefit anyone who wouldn't profit off that information.

If you're wanting to learn how to branch off from major platforms like Facebook and Twitter and/or become more self-sufficient online, here are some guides to navigating the Internet like an old schooler that may help you!

FREE SITE BUILDER:

DIGITAL PIRACY 101:

(also in addition to everything mentioned here ^^^ they neglect to also mention Tor Browser which is a light and free-to-use browser software that allows you to browse anonymously; note that it's similar to a VPN in that it helps hide your identity online, HOWEVER it won't mask you from your ISP quite as effectively as a VPN, and if you sign into personal accounts with Tor, that's still going to obviously out you online lmao but I love using Tor for the odd time when I need to make a sock puppet for something and don't want it linked to my IP! and unlike a VPN, it's free to use!)

LEARN HOW TO USE RSS FEEDS:

People still use these! They're especially helpful for getting updates from your favorite pages and sites directly to your browser WITHOUT having to worry about stupid algorithm bullshit picking and choosing what you see. And many sites DO have RSS support once you know how to find it! (like adding in /rss at the end of a URL! Like this!)

FAKE EMAIL SERVICES:

LEARN HOW TO CODE IN HTML/CSS/JAVASCRIPT (AND MORE!):

DECENTRALIZED SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS:

I hope this helps arm you with some new knowledge in how to navigate the Internet like a Certified Old Person™️(like meeee!) Make your secret alt blogs for besties! Make your formal Facebook accounts that are clean of personal information and present the most neutral, safe-for-work version of yourself and keep the fun stuff to the secret profiles and chat groups that are just for you and friends/family/etc!! It might be "inconvenient" to have multiple accounts for the same purpose, but it's also INCREDIBLY freeing and can make your online experience both safer and more enjoyable.

Being "less" of yourself online does not make you any less you. It is your identity - you do not owe any amount of it to anyone beyond yourself. And in times like these, your identity is your greatest asset. Protect it.

[crimson-kas]

I know I’m very late with this post, but…goodbye, May. You were a whirlwind!

Printable stickers are by @petite-gloom .

[canon-in-too-deep]

Free 2025 Calendar/Planner Typesets

So I realized that I was running out of time to make a calendar/planner for 2025. Thus I tried to make these fairly quickly. And thus, I realized I had, uh, forgotten what year it was. (2025???? Already????). Anyway, that all should be fixed! (Any errors, feel free to let me know!)

*Cough* Ahem! Presenting my 2025 calendar notebook planner journals! You can find all versions for FREE here (personal use only). Sized for half letter (letter folio). They come with both lined and dotted grid sections in the back for additional notes. There are 4 different font versions, and 1 shorter version without all the extra pages for notes. The calendars are all unmarked, except for the full moon and new moon days, and they cover December 2024-March 2026. If you have any requests for different fonts or colors, you can let me know and I see if I can add more versions! I've set up the file so it's pretty easy to switch things up. I also used gray for the lines and dots of the notes section, and can do a version with black lines and dots, or another color, if there's interest.

You can see examples of each version below the break:

[sarah-thundercaller]

A little bit of the desk glow up! Not really wizzy related but I think I might break out of that shell a bit more? Don’t worry tho. I am wizzy and will always be wizzy!

Putting out what I want to be able to keep/hold on to for the year. So I might add in some desk stuff. It’s very gaming oriented tho because my desk is my gaming desk. As you can see the sub woofer

[rattics]

Finished my February dashboard and naturally had to use some Halloween stickers to decorate 🕯️

[kloversworld]

happy new year!!

💌 -

fingers crossed the good outweighs the bad this year

[yekkiz]

I know a calendar and a planner hate to see me coming

[cetoddle]

life is hard and the horrors are unrelenting but i have this really tiny notebook at least so the girls and i can like idk solve some crimes and do detective work on the go or something

[sotiriabellou]

hehehe i waited for everyone else to fall asleep and put my gifts under the tree

[crimson-kas]

I like that my layout is already completed for me, and yet I get to change things up each quarter. Here is the weekly horizontal layout in the planners I designed.

Stickers are by @petite-gloom .

[fresh-san]

Jiraiya

[readingloveswounds]

Hi!! What do u use to plan ur weeks/days? A planner, bullet journal, notion...?

I use something between a bullet journal and a planner! What has worked best for me is a blank notebook that I turn into a planner - a task that can be low effort or high effort, depending on how much time I have on my hands. I fully set up the one I'm currently using in the summer, so it looks pretty. I have also just written 4 dates per spread in a lined journal and kept it simple as that.

Short plug for a planner I have liked: field notes - the basic write the dates in type; I got a small one and it was great, but they're more expensive.

I also loved the NYPL school year planner, but it's been discontinued for years now as far as I can tell.

I have used notion in the past and still have a set up for it, but I find it a lot easier to remember to write things down in a physical book. Still, since you mentioned it, I can show you what I have used in the past.

Here's what is on my home page for notion:

And a weekly calendar that I have on my academics page - it's from last summer when I was house-sitting and is extremely unrealistic for how I work best, but I was trying things out:

As for what I actually do, here's a filled out page from May and a blank one for October. Trying to format them properly in the post is annoying, so they'll come at the end.

I love a checklist. big fan. that's mostly what I do, and then I'll write various other things to remember or do that day on the side as needed. The arrow (-> on May 1) doesn't mean what I think it means in the traditional bullet journal set up, it just means something to do but doesn't need to be done that day, not that I'm moving it.

As you can also see from the May page, I'll put tickets in for things I've been to. Having this is not just a memory aid in the moment, but because I have a really bad memory, it helps me remember what I did over the course of the year in general.

I also use sticky notes a lot to write things down, and I'll stick those in on the relevant day/week.

And note that this is separate from the notebook I keep dissertation notes in (peeking out in the background of the May picture haha). I tend to keep those deadlines in that deadline, though I'll put 'send pages' in the planner.

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

the hazard of being a night owl during nano is that Calendar Days and Writing Days aren't actually perfect equivalents, so i end up with asinine timekeeping like "november 18, technically," and "november 18, actually," scribbled in my margins to keep track of nighttime vs daytime writing

[untitledpaintings]

new commonplace journal!!