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How do you plan out a week?

I just use post-it notes and move them around. I've seen those planner pages and they seemed like a good idea at first. But for me, the less steps in the process, the better. I don't want to feel like this Project Life stuff is a big ordeal for me every week. I just want it to be fun and document some things. It doesn't need to be comprehensive. If there are too many steps involved, I will likely get behind and stop doing it. That defeats the purpose for me. So I just go with whatever and not worry too much about it.

ETA: having said that, I did create some Lightroom presets that have the Design A configuration and I sometimes use it to drag my photos around the different slots to see how everything looks.
 
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I'm a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants kind of girl :giggle I will make notes of things that happen during the week, or put some things on my desk as they come home (report cards, papers, etc.), but I usually don't know what I'm going to have until Saturday or Sunday. I use my Facebook status updates to help remember some of the sillier things in my life (like my comment about iTunes shuffle and the songs I heard in a row that prompted the comment). As far as design goes, I kind of move from left to right...stuff on the left hand side of the spread are for the beginning of the week and stuff on the right is for later in the week. But, I'm sure there will be weeks where it doesn't work like that. :giggle

I'm sure that was less than helpful. :hehe
 
Brandi said:
I just sit and start working on it. No planning here! Earlier this week I was able to get Mon-thurs complete for week 4. Now I just need to finish it. I did find some templates that you can print out and use to help you in advance. Let me go find them!
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i do this too! I feel as if I plan I'll start to over complicate it. I tend to do that and I'll drop the project if Im not careful. I love it too much to put to much pressure on myself.
 
I am doing mine digitally. I am using So I never forget pocket page protectors found here in the store
https://the-lilypad.com/store/product.php?productid=5037&cat=0&page=1

I made templates for each pocket. As I make my pages I am adding photos to each pocket and if I see that I need a bigger photo I will just make the photo go into 2 slots instead of one. Normally I only have 7 photos for the week as I take photos every day for project 365. This week I actually had 8 photos as I had 2 photos that I wanted for Saturday. You can see what I mean here in my week 4 layout.

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mom2triplets04 said:
I am doing mine digitally. I am using So I never forget pocket page protectors found here in the store
https://the-lilypad.com/store/product.php?productid=5037&cat=0&page=1

I made templates for each pocket. As I make my pages I am adding photos to each pocket and if I see that I need a bigger photo I will just make the photo go into 2 slots instead of one. Normally I only have 7 photos for the week as I take photos every day for project 365. This week I actually had 8 photos as I had 2 photos that I wanted for Saturday. You can see what I mean here in my week 4 layout.
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I love that! I really like the journaling cards down the side. :) I haven't paper scrapped anything in a number of years and for the last 6 years or so have been totally digital. I am loving this format b/c I get to "touch" all the supplies yet it's not the kind of pressure that paper scrapping a full layout always was for me. BUT, I totally feel the pull towards doing it digitally. LOL
 
Suze said:
i do this too! I feel as if I plan I'll start to over complicate it. I tend to do that and I'll drop the project if Im not careful. I love it too much to put to much pressure on myself.
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If I don't have a plan I freeze up and put too much pressure on myself. The trick is to find the balance between appeasing my AR side with some kind of plan but also keep it easy & fun. I think I found that by having a plan for photo placement but once that's done being more spontaneous with the decorative stuff. It helps that I already did P365 in 2010. Although that was all digital, I've proven to myself that I can stick with it so that boosts my confidence.
 
You guys are so organized and efficient... wowza. I can't plan my pages out to save my life. I downloaded all of Marcy Penner's templates, and haven't used them yet. LOL. I did, however, print out a bunch of the planner pages and have been jotting down things that happen during the week. I don't go so far as to write down pictures and add-ins, but at least I'm trying to keep track of everything. I've only gotten week one done so far (it was hard because we didn't have a lot going on, so I was kinda stuck). So I am behind as usual and just loving the fact that I'm not freaking out about it yet.

But the thing I did realize is that I really can't do a physical page unless I do a digi page first. In fact, for my cover page, I just used a 12 x 12 square and printed my digi page to go into it. My daughter just rolls her eyes at me because she's very methodical for sketching things out in boxes and being very organized, and I can't seem to get it together for anything. She'd uploaded her pictures to Costco and actually set a timer for me to get mine uploaded so we could go and pick them up. I only got that 12 x 12 uploaded. LOL. When pushed to be organized, I just get all whiny. :giggle
 
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