Oh this is lovely! I love that word of the day idea!
I have several planners that I keep - a daily planner/bujo, a reading journal, a garden planner, a junk journal/art planner, and a book I write book quotes in.
What a great collection you have - thank you for sharing! I'd love to know if your garden planner is a pre-designed one or something you've created for yourself? I have been thinking for quite some time about adding a garden/plant/nature journal into the mix, but for now I just add some planty stickers (as shown above) here and there! :-)
It's one I've done myself. I kept minimal garden journals in the past that basically included garden layouts and then just pictures of progress in the garden with harvest number. But with my new garden setup, I'm starting a fresh one this year. It has bed layouts, then pages for each garden plant, then I plan to have a timeline in there for germinating, planting, blooms, harvest, etc. I also want to include notes on the weather and just general overall garden happening notes.
Thanks for showing us inside your Sterling Ink - I was curious since reading your last post and I liked your system so much that I bought the same planner for myself for 2026! Do you use the goal pages in your Sterling Ink and track them in the quarterly sections?
Curious to know more about your CEO Fridays - do share!
That's so fun that you got the Sterling Ink planner, too - I hope you love it! I have some different tools I've used for years for my goals, but I am playing with those pages in the front of the planner a bit more this year as well. Are you using them/finding them helpful?
Thank you for indicating interest in CEO Friday - which is actually where more of my goal-related tools come into play, too!
I am using the goal pages as a rough guide for my vision based on the book The 12 Week Year. Interested to learn more about your CEO Fridays and how you structure your goals. Thanks for sharing!
Lots of food for thought here! I have one journal/planner (from Silk & Sonder), a commonplace book, a study book, and a small reading journal (just the month/year and title/author). Sometimes the best self things or the deadline things get lost in the daily planner - I’ll be exploring how I can better organize or add to my system now. 🙂 (And yes, absolutely ecstatic about new notebooks, fresh starts, and setting everything up. I practically vibrate my own current of electricity in a stationery or office supply store, or any shop containing these things.😊)
Oh gosh, I can sure relate to the delight of being in a stationery or office supply store! :-) Your system sounds so great! It seems like the detailed aspects are often trial-and-error - I used to keep the best self things in my everyday planner and use a different ink color for those items, which worked for a while. Then a few years ago when one of my top three goals was best-self-related, I decided to separate it out to its own planner, and it has really helped me keep it a priority ever since. I'm happy to hear you've got tools that are working for you! Happy Stationery'ing! :-)
Great question, and I'm happy to share! After deciding to do this, I discovered there were actually several apps and websites with a word of the day feature - I mostly used the Vocabulary and Merriam-Webster sites. I'm tempted to go *really* analog with this and open to a random word in my physical dictionary... :-) I hope this helps!
Oh this is lovely! I love that word of the day idea!
I have several planners that I keep - a daily planner/bujo, a reading journal, a garden planner, a junk journal/art planner, and a book I write book quotes in.
What a great collection you have - thank you for sharing! I'd love to know if your garden planner is a pre-designed one or something you've created for yourself? I have been thinking for quite some time about adding a garden/plant/nature journal into the mix, but for now I just add some planty stickers (as shown above) here and there! :-)
It's one I've done myself. I kept minimal garden journals in the past that basically included garden layouts and then just pictures of progress in the garden with harvest number. But with my new garden setup, I'm starting a fresh one this year. It has bed layouts, then pages for each garden plant, then I plan to have a timeline in there for germinating, planting, blooms, harvest, etc. I also want to include notes on the weather and just general overall garden happening notes.
Oh gosh, now I am wanting to do this sooner rather than later! Thank you for sharing, Laura - this all sounds wonderful.
Thanks for showing us inside your Sterling Ink - I was curious since reading your last post and I liked your system so much that I bought the same planner for myself for 2026! Do you use the goal pages in your Sterling Ink and track them in the quarterly sections?
Curious to know more about your CEO Fridays - do share!
That's so fun that you got the Sterling Ink planner, too - I hope you love it! I have some different tools I've used for years for my goals, but I am playing with those pages in the front of the planner a bit more this year as well. Are you using them/finding them helpful?
Thank you for indicating interest in CEO Friday - which is actually where more of my goal-related tools come into play, too!
I am using the goal pages as a rough guide for my vision based on the book The 12 Week Year. Interested to learn more about your CEO Fridays and how you structure your goals. Thanks for sharing!
Lots of food for thought here! I have one journal/planner (from Silk & Sonder), a commonplace book, a study book, and a small reading journal (just the month/year and title/author). Sometimes the best self things or the deadline things get lost in the daily planner - I’ll be exploring how I can better organize or add to my system now. 🙂 (And yes, absolutely ecstatic about new notebooks, fresh starts, and setting everything up. I practically vibrate my own current of electricity in a stationery or office supply store, or any shop containing these things.😊)
Oh gosh, I can sure relate to the delight of being in a stationery or office supply store! :-) Your system sounds so great! It seems like the detailed aspects are often trial-and-error - I used to keep the best self things in my everyday planner and use a different ink color for those items, which worked for a while. Then a few years ago when one of my top three goals was best-self-related, I decided to separate it out to its own planner, and it has really helped me keep it a priority ever since. I'm happy to hear you've got tools that are working for you! Happy Stationery'ing! :-)
Curious as to how you select your word of the day -- can you talk a little bit about that?
Great question, and I'm happy to share! After deciding to do this, I discovered there were actually several apps and websites with a word of the day feature - I mostly used the Vocabulary and Merriam-Webster sites. I'm tempted to go *really* analog with this and open to a random word in my physical dictionary... :-) I hope this helps!