#moterm

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Scraps from my day trip yesterday.

[waggermama]

Playing with my planners. My Maldens are calling me.

[eggbunni]

All done planning for Tuesday. ✒️📖

[tsukiyono]

I’ve got another set of binder covers up for sale on Gumroad today. These fit the personal size 6 ring binder style like Filofax, Moterm and others. The artwork features a stationery flat lay for the stationery lovers out there.

[lofi-ghosts]

Finally started setting up and using my new Hobonichi Weeks planner! Love the lilac color, goes perfectly with my Lilac Moterm cover.

[kristinaloshkareva]

Время писанины 📝

[lizasplanner]

New addition to my planner collection. A beautiful Moterm Luxe 2.0 . . . #motermpocketluxe #moterm #motermplanner #motermluxe #planner #plannercommunity #planneraddict https://www.instagram.com/p/CnxctWBJqkQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[spocksfurby]

if i dont win the ebay auction for this filofax mini ive been looking at im going to join a whaling crew and explode and kill myself as well.

[spilledcoffeeclub]

Filofax update!

Got a metropol Filofax cover! Like it enough, it’s not the super luxurious feeling of a moterm but it’s black and smooth and stays flat on the table and I’m not dealing with as much of an overhang as I did previously!

Am much more comfortable in this size at this point, and I think it all just came down to me accepting that 1. My Filofax does not have to be perfect 2. It doesn’t need to be unique, it just needs to be functional 3. Every page doesn’t have to be pretty and beautiful and it’s okay not to decorate if that makes me nervous. It’s the text that matters anyway.

As such I’ve stepped back from making inserts and such at the moment because honestly what works best for me right now most of the time is just grids on a paper. I don’t need more and I trying to fit myself into a template that doesn’t work for me is just exhausting and takes away a lot of the joy of journaling/commonplacing. It becomes so much about making a pretty thing that I forget about the actual content inside.

Sometimes I use a margin, I find that helpful if I’m reading fiction because I often wanna have some comments on the text, but I’ve also started making pages with two columns. The two columns take care of a couple of issues I’ve had with larger insets: when reading text books or non fiction I don’t always have a lot of input as it’s just sort of pure knowledge. Making those types of notes on a page with a margin makes me a bit anxious because I’m not using the whole page. However, I don’t really like the look of just a broad sheet of text covering the entire page, I find it a bit messy and very difficult to find individual passages later on. Creating two columns looks much neater in my eyes, even if there’s no real difference, and I can find passages much more easily.

I’ve also started measuring my energy and productivity levels. Not really productivity because it’s not so much how much I get done in a day as how often I get stuck and/or if this has anything to do with my energy levels. I deal with quite a lot of autistic inertia (difficulty starting tasks, maintaining tasks if interrupted and ending tasks) and I don’t know if measuring when this happens will have any real importance in managing it but I thought I’d give it a try. The measuring energy thing I got from a post by @darkmacademia I believe, where they suggested measuring your energy levels for two weeks and scheduling your life and tasks around that. Sounded like a good idea so I’m gonna give it a try. Made some fun inserts just for that!

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Life lately

[1-800-hohsis]

nobody understands the struggle of having to choose between lilac and pink, nobody

[waggermama]

Planners, gleaming gently

[eggbunni]

Morning planning. Always so relaxing to get my day straightened out. 🤍

[purple-ant]

I have Feelings for Dooku somehow having his post-moterm scars and I'm gonna make it everyone's problem

[pagesand]

mid-day ramble about stationery and current reads below:

I’ve been wanting to journal in my abandoned a6 Techo. It’s more of a junk journal hybrid and lighthearted entries/media logging, but I love it. As I’m typing this, I’ve been using it for about a month consistently. My Hobonichi Weeks has been neglected, I won’t lie. It makes me wonder whether it would even make sense to purchase one next year. There is still plenty of time to think that out, though. I have my cover in something temporary right now, but I have something more permanent in mind. It doesn't need a cover, but I'm prone to mistakes and like to carry around ephemera and little paper bits to collage on the go in the pockets.

As for the pocket rings cover update…I’m definitely still using it and I still haven’t decided on a new cover. I’ve been taking sneaky looks at the VDS website because I want something without a back pocket, a long strap, decent pocket configuration, and 25mm minimum mechanism (I’m a maximalist and like to write, so all my thoughts go into my organizer). I’m just a teensy bit hesitant because they botched my last custom :p The Norfolk and Moterm Luxe both meet 2/3 of my requirements so maybe I should settle between the two?

For the actual components of my organizer, I'm pretty content. I tweak things every now and then, but I think it has been genuinely helping me these past 6 months. I've been working on a section for school since I’ll be taking pre-reqs for grad school & prepping my applications. PeanutsPlannerCo shared a flip through and I loved their method for organizing sub-sections, so that is an update I would like to add to my system soon.

[re: Strange Hotel// in the DNF pile temporarily because I just wasn’t in the mood for a slow read at the time. I'm gonna try and get into fantasy a bit more next month because I think that's my least read genre (alongside horror). Assassin's Apprentice and Masquerade are on my TBR for August. I think this month will be Parable of the Sower/Talents, Freshwater, and the latest installments of Apothecary Diaries. ]

[kristinaloshkareva]

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