One of the most frequently asked questions in the Cocoa Daisy Fans Facebook Group is how to set up your blank Daisy Notebook or Simple Notebook for Planning. While I wish I could answer each one with a definitive answer, I think it all boils down to two things: The page layout and your schedule.

There is no way I can start a week without a weekly task list but since I combined both the Standard Traveler’s Notebooks for the month, I needed a neutral landing place. I added a bookmark from the Big Sky Travelers Notebook Memory Keeping Kit as a base and added my elements on top. Monday on the next page incorporated a time-blocking schedule that I've grown quite fond of. And because the preprinted elements were above the printed line, I had room to play with my schedule using the hex stickers and the clear washi strips.

I worked with two different styles of time-blocking using the Big Sky Journaling Kit velum paper as a base for Thursday’s priority task list. I tend to mirror the element shapes in the time blocking for best use of my space. That means the two column time blocking square-ish shape of the top half of the page mirrors this square feature of the top.

Opposite the printed cactus on my page is a great place to put my time blocking for the day and leaves the upper part for journaling, more lists or more ephemera. I have also come to love using stickers to note a timed events duration. This time I used my yodeling cowgirl from the Big Sky Planner Sticker Kit to remind me to roundup my cowboys after play practice too!

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