PlannerCRUSH - February

We are so excited to share our latest “#PlannerCRUSH” with you! In this series we share the planning style of someone in our community that we just can’t get enough of. We are talking about saving all the IG posts, scrolling the reels feed and binge watching all the PWMs. Each time, we will feature a clue along with a few planner pics to see if you can recognize our #plannercrush?  Here goes:

CLUE: Decorative but functional…

ANSWER: Emma @planwithemm

Emma started her planner journey during grad school while trying to juggle classes, study groups, teaching and being out on her own for the first time.  Keeping track of so many things was a bit overwhelming.  A year later, she found the planner community and decorative planning, through Belinda Seline and Planning with Bumble. Ofcourse, she immediately bought as many planners and stickers as possible. 

As someone that struggles with anxiety and depression, planning and being creative in her planners helps calm her mind. It also gives her something bright and colorful to create and look at all week, while also organizing all the plans and to do lists. She doesn’t worry as much about forgetting appointments and time sensitive tasks now. She likes to use weekly planners when she craves more structure, dates and times and a bullet journal when she wants to unleash her creativity more. 

Her current planner stack includes a Hemlock and Oak weekly and an Archer & Olive 8 x 8 for her book journal, along with her Google Calendar. She feels that using the online digital calendar is helpful for tracking recurring events and for long term planning of trips and appointments. She has even set up a Notion for social media growth tracking, meal planning and organizing recipes.  But paper planning is where her heart lives. For her goal planning, Emma uses the goal pages in her Hemlock & Oak planner to help set boundaries, intentions and habits along with the framework she learned in ClubMäksē and the MäksēLife system. 

Sticker, stickers and more stickers are her favorite planning accessory. But if she is sticking to the basic essentials, Emma likes to use a Zebra SARASA MarkON in 0.38, a hard tip Tombow Fudenosuke, and a white out tape runner.  Her style is decorative but functional, there is no “before the pen”. She incorporates the stickers, washi and decorative elements as she is planning in her events, appointments and tasks. This helps make sure she has enough space to actually use her planner to stay organized.

For more inspiration, be sure to follow Emma on Instagram, visit her blog or find her in our book section where she shares quarterly favorites.