#yearly setup

Here is my “cover page” aka the front cover of my journal. This took me forever because my first idea didn’t work out well, but I like it! It’s just a brown paper bag with stickers from Pinterest, and I used my Crayola markers for the “2022″ part. 

The first page in my journal has my name, contact info, and key. Of course there wasn’t already a blank for this with a discbound notebook so I just did it myself. I changed my key a bit from my last journal to something I use more consistently, and I left room to add more bullet points as needed. 

Self explanatory future log. And I only messed up in October! I never needed one before this school year, so it’ll be nice to finally have. I went very plain and simple for all of these spreads, but I might add more decoration as I go. 

I use this period tracker instead of the typical colored dots because I like to track the amount of flow I have by filling up the square to different heights, if that makes sense. I also write the length of my cycles before each period, in the blank space. 

I made this Spotify wrapped page where I’ll also add 2022′s wrapped. I purposefully put my favorite songs spread on the back of this, so they’re on the same sheet of paper. 

The favorite songs spread will be where I write down my current favorite song each week, so it’ll be like a playlist at the end of the year. I’ve never done this before so we will see how it goes!

Books, movies, shows is where I write everything I watch or read, with the starting date and ending date. I did this last year but I often forgot about it and really just didn’t have much time to watch anything, so again we will see how it goes this year. The rating column is new for me, but I figured it would be fun. 

And finally(almost) we have this “then vs now” spread I took from JashiiCorrin on Youtube! I used a lot of her prompts from a couple different videos and made some of my own. The idea is on January 1 I’ll write down something for each prompt on the left, and at the end of the year, I’ll do the same on the right. Again, never done this before, so I’m interested to see how similar or different my answers are at the end of the year. (And now that I’m thinking about it, I could even add a “where I live” because that will probably change!)

Okay now finally (made this one the day after I wrote the post!) is a non-zero days year in pixels type page. I put washi tape on the side and made it smaller so I can put it with my trackers spread every month. I think that’ll make it easier to actually update it every day. I’m pretty sure this idea came from an old Reddit post that gained a lot of popularity. If anyone has questions it’s easy to find on Google or I can link it for you.