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    Create Your Own DIY Planner
    Create Your Own DIY Planner
    Create Your Own DIY Planner
    Ebook27 pages20 minutes

    Create Your Own DIY Planner

    By Jen Nipps

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    About this ebook

    Have you been searching for the perfect planner for you? Do you doubt you will ever find planner peace? For that matter, what is planner peace?

    Jen Nipps tried to find planner peace for years before finally deciding to try and develop her own system. Using a combination of systems, and elements from her own, she finally discovered a planner that works well for her and found planner peace.

    Create Your Own DIY Planner will help you develop your own planner that works best for you. It is a flexible system that allows for forgetting. Just turn to the next blank page and start again. You will learn the key components to your planner, common styles, and other elements you can include, such as collections, lists, and trackers. Ideas for making your planner fun (like challenges) are also included.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJen Nipps
    Release dateMay 23, 2017
    ISBN9781370718733
    Create Your Own DIY Planner
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    Jen Nipps

    Jen Nipps currently lives and writes in south-central Oklahoma. She is past Publicity Director for the Oklahoma Writers’ Federation, Inc. (OWFI). Her writing has appeared in WRITERS Journal; the OWFI Report, which is the newsletter for OWFI; WritingForDollars; 4HEALTH Magazine; and on TutorialBlog.org. She is the author of Devoted to Creating, a book of devotions centered around creativity, and is currently working on another book of devotions about crocheting as well as a writer’s guide to Twitter. She has been called the Twitter Queen on several occasions and has decided to claim that crown for herself. She launched the Twitter Queen Facebook page earlier this year and is at work on a book about how writers can best use Twitter. In her public speaking, Jen has talked about updating and maintaining a blog, how to tap into your creativity, promoting yourself, social media, and living with a disability. She is legally blind and has used her experiences with that to fuel her motivation. Awards Jen has received multiple awards from the Oklahoma Writers' Federation, Inc., and the Ozark Creative Writers for her work in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.

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      An easy read, very detailed and gets you the basics of making a journal/planner. Great for those who want to bullet journal, but don't know how to start.

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    Create Your Own DIY Planner - Jen Nipps

    Introduction

    For years, I struggled to find a planner that worked for me. I tried the DayTimer system several times. I tried academic planners. I even tried several apps on my phone, computer, and tablet. It finally got to the point where I was trying to make my own.

    I actually made some progress on it. I had a title for it. I called it the KNOWS - Keep a Notebook Organizational Working (or Writing) System. I started researching DIY planners.

    One day, I happened across this thing called a Bullet Journal created by Ryder Carroll. In his video and on his web page, he describes it as The analog system for the digital age.

    Someone else had been having the same kind of issues I had and already did the work to create a flexible planning system that would do everything I wanted -- and needed -- a planner to do. I set the KNOWS aside and became a Bullet Journal convert. I used it consistently for a few months. For various reasons, I quit.

    Once again, I struggled. I knew I needed to get back to the bullet journal system. But it

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