My sister said my spreads were too rigid, she was right about that

She looked at my June spread and said 'this looks like a spreadsheet that learned to color.' I was pretty offended at first. I mean, I spent like 2 hours making sure every line was straight and my weekly boxes were exactly 1.8 inches wide. But then I thought about it and she had a point. I was so worried about the layout being perfect that I barely wrote anything in it. I'd spend more time decorating than actually using it. So I stripped it way down, left some blank space, and let my daily stuff flow across pages however it wants. It's messy now but I actually flip back through it. Has anyone else gotten feedback that made them totally redo their whole system? What did you change?

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alexk6025d ago

My old layout had every page mapped down to the millimeter and I still wound up with half-empty spreads by the end of the month. Once I let myself doodle in the margins and stopped measuring things, I actually started using the dang thing every day instead of just on Sundays.