#ella's tips

Hi!! I highly recommend:- the blue campus notebooks by kokuyo i’ve ran through 2 notebooks for my bujo and they’ve been great. I use the notebooks for school too and it’s been amazing, i highly recommend this notebook, it’s my absolute favorite!

- muji’s plastic ring file + dividers + paper with grid/grid dotted paper i love muji’s papers, but i don’t quite like the notebooks because there’s too little pages in my opinion, but the newest ring system that I have is pretty nifty. I don’t recommend a double ringed file though (the pages keep escaping because their double punched holes are abnormally wider than their rings- so i’m using a file fastener to keep them together) so try and get the multiple ringed files. I love this system because I’m very bad at spacing my pages, so with this system I can arrange what goes where very easily, and choose which papers to bring if the file gets too thick (I use A5 for my bujo and B5 for my school notes). i’ve been told that the recycled paper file material splits open very easily so i use the plastic one (which is really good so far- i don’t have much complaints)

- any notebook you can findi actually don’t really bother with what notebook i use. normally because as long as the papers are great (quality and quantity) and they’re small but big enough to travel with, no matter how ugly the cover is (because you can always decorate it), they’re good to go. don’t spend so much money on a branded notebook. notebooks are places where you should be okay with making mistakes, jotting down your feelings, okay with wrecking etc. if you want to invest in a good notebook, i recommend you only do so for a planner/bujo/diary, and only for the sole purpose that this will motivate you/make you happy/add to your emotional attachment - but again, there are many good quality and cheap notebooks out there.

thank you so much, you’re so sweet omg (⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄)<333 and YOU’RE AN ARMY? HI OMG also oh no is it broken? i’ll try and get it fixed as soon as my schedule allows it >< and haha! i’ve actually never been asked that question before so i’ve never listed it in my FAQ (๑˘︶˘๑) 

it takes me about 15 minutes setting it up (and i fill it in as the week progresses)? (i’m used to the current format that i use, but when i first started it took me about 45 minutes to figure out where to dump everything i needed ><)

i don’t know if you can tell, but i list a lot of tasks in each day (and i time how much i orientate around each task to make sure i don’t accidentally pull an all nighter whoops), so i’ve never been able to divide each day like how some of my friends do (but again this depends per person -( ˙꒳ ˙ )-.) 

i organise my spread into 4 columns (through the very traditional form of folding my pages slightly *cackles* ) and i normally place admin related things like weekly checkpoints (essentially things i have to finish by the week or i’m going to pull another all-nighter (ib is so hard don’t ever do it eek)), calendars, schedules, spending, study trackers etc on the 1st and 4th column (i set up these columns first :D), while my tasks and time planning are in the middle (which are done throughout the week)^^

i spend a good 10-20 minutes everyday planning my next day and it’s a stress reliever for me so i don’t really mind spending more time on it planning and decorating (washi tape and highlighters are great for decorating bujos <3) but i also know that this isn’t for everyone and that’s fine too (*´▽`*)

Hello! <3 I do have a lot of stationery, but I get majority of them from either Popular (bookstore) or Art Friend (art store) :)

My black gel pens and Midliners were purchased on a bookstore membership offer, so they were only $0.70 USD and $1.05 USD respectively while my art pens were only $1.10 USD each (you can also get them from Art Friend, but I normally only purchase items from there if there’s a huge sale). My washi tape were gifts from my friends so I’m not particularly sure where they were from while my notebook is from Campus Kokuyo (which has excellent paper quality). My stickers are a long collection that I’ve accumulated over the years so I have forgotten where I got most of them. Sorry for the lack of precise information, I hope this helps!