There’s a plenty of tools in the internet. Sometimes I find it extremely hard to find what I am really looking for, and, by reading various websites, I get sometimes to the most weird, strange points of the infinite space called internet. This is the moment I usually think to myslef: ‘it’s definitely all I’d like to see for today’.
The same thing happened to me when I was searching for the most comprehensive planner that would be the perfect response to my needs. I’ve seen thousand of printable planners available online: better, worse, free, cheap and expensive ones, more and less eye-pleasing, but none of them really contained what I expected – and some of the planners-contained website links took me to the most absurd sites You would believe. That moment I realized I’m finished with searching and decided to design the planner which would not only give the space to plan the Future, particular months, weeks and days, but its structure would naturally support people in organizing their lives, setting the goals, executing their ideas and make them more concentrated on the little things that really matter in life.
This is how the idea for ‘the Highlights – life planner’ was born.
During the month of designing I asked people (mainly women) about what types of pages they would like to have in their perfect life-planner, I managed to order the suggestions logically and filled some pages with the doses of inspirational quotes, life hints and thoughtful tips, but also with the life and personal coaching tools to give to ‘the Highlights’ Life planner’s Users the possibility to self-analyse weekly and monthly their unique Way of Life and to decide what, how and for what they want to change.
I had a lot of fun, designing the planner. Plenty of ideas buzzing in my head had to explode somehow, so I chose that planner will be the great space to give You additional place to make Your life not only planned, organized and analyzed, but also extremely reflective and funny – because that’s the main point of why we are here, on this planet. To put our little sparkle into other people’s lives, to make this place better than it was, when we came here and to experience our unique and only one life happily and with plenty of fun.
I also took care about its look, paying attention to the littlest details to make the Organizer the real piece of tresure – the additional space in Your life, designed and dedicated for You and in order to Your needs.
WHAT DOES IT CONTAIN?
FEATURES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF USE
The full title of the planner is ‘The Highlights – the most important moments life – planner. Take the quantum leap in living the life You love’, which actually emphasizes what it’s been designed for and suggests how its pages’ structure might look like.
‘The Highlights’ life planner has been created with love and good vibes just for You - to help You find, organize and/or create Your very own space in this World. Its pages are here to help You find the time just for Yourself in the tangle of everyday life. It’s been designed to support You in setting various goals, coming up with creative ideas, executing Your plans. Also, to keep You always inspired and up to date with Your exciting, New Year’s Life Journey.
Its pages are enriched with self-asking questions to let You wonder regularly, self-coaching tools to improve Your life and keep it balanced, funny instruments and parts to let You enjoy daily issues and change your points of view, discovering something new about yourself and the world around all the time. What’s more, You will find there the secret page corners You can bend to hide the written thought or simply to indicate finished week or month.
Also, bending the last page according to the of each month You can turn it into the bookmark which introduces new month from the outside and hides Your last months’ reflective thoughts inside.
It lets You create Your own legend of symbols to mark Your various activities done for each day and control their regularity. You can treat it not only as any year planner, but with ‘creative side of me’ pages as an art journal to let Your creativity explode.
The pages contain the ‘day happiness scale’ and each day of a week is visually divided at three columns to let You fill it with three different categories You like (e.g. ‘to buy’, ‘appointments’, ‘to do’) or divide the day at three parts (‘morning’, ‘afternoon’, ‘evening’). You will find also the shopping list, with 6 squares, where You can put the name of product categories You are about to buy and put in each category sticky note to cross it out and keep it fresh or write down straight away the shopping list, not caring much about the sticky notes. Each month You can start with the 4 basic goals to achieve and arrange the 4 square fields for each with the little steps – 1 per each week.
With the ‘Monthly summary’ page You can evaluate Your monthly goals and plans, analyse Your life-balance and decide what You would like to change, to make Your life better and more fulfilled. Also, You can use the miniature of ‘Wheel of Life’ – popular coaching tool, to mark the level of Your self-satisfaction in each of life’s fields to visualize and analyze it.
‘The Highlights’ planner isn’t only the yearly organizer. Its pages are dedicated for You to discover what the real sources of Your life happiness are, what makes You feel grateful and what are the things that really matter to You. Moreover, the ‘Monthly highlights’ page lets You take some of the last month’s conclusions and lessons learnt to the next month, modify your current goals, set completely new ones, discover Your inner-life needs and evolve Your life overall. Most of all though, it creates a space to manage the ‘worth-to-remember’ memories and lets Us highlight these most beautiful - to save them in our hearts and for them to be a reminder of our actions in the near or distant future.
Draw it, bend it, highlight the phrases, divide with additional lines its parts, and fill it with anything You like and the way You want to – Your imagination’s the only limit.
THE CONTAINED PAGES:
1. MENTAL REMOTE PAGE – play with buttons to control Your life: press PAUSE to think before You act, push the REWIND button to return for what You’ve left behind, PLAY to start new life chapter, or RECORD to save the special moments in Your memory.
2. YEARLY GOALS – set Your yearly goals in 6 categories: career, mind, money, body, travels and personal.
3. PLANS BY MONTH – set the most important events of the year in particular months’ fields.
4. MONTHLY GOALS – set the 4 most important goals for this month and write down the little steps to get it!
5. MONTH DIVISION – divide the month at six parts, writing down what should be done or what is going to take place before 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th, 25th, 30th day of the month or write down whatever You need.
6. MONTHLY CALENDAR – 35 squares with inspiring quotes for the different days and a personalized symbols legend to mark with them particular days.
7. WEEKLY PAGES – pages to help You organize each day of the week.
8. CREATIVE SIDE OF ME – page ready to be changed into what You feel, You art journal page You can torture with the colours, notes, quotes, own ornamental shape designs based on the suggested one.
9. SHOPPING LIST – set the 6 categories of shoppings You do and fill them with Your lists – always freshed with the changeable sticky notes or written down directly on the page. Just as You like!
10. MONTHLY SUMMARY – sum up the month, evaluating Your monthly goals and plans executions and considering Your life-balance, based on the Wheel of Life coaching tool.
11. MONTHLY HIGHLIGHTS – page to help You remind Yourself the best moments of the month, important whiles that brought something worth to learn from, things You are grateful for, and … check for the rest! ;)
12. YEAR’S HIGHLIGHTS – All Your year in a nutshell! You can also describe it, using the page with YEAR-END REFLECTIONS.
ADDITIONAL PAGES:
- LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE THAT MAKE ME HAPPY – write down the little things that let You wonder, dream, forget about the whole world or simply make You aware of the fact the life’s here and now.
- MY BUCKET LIST
- CREATIVE IDEAS
- THINGS I’D LIKE TO DO
- THINGS I’D LIKE TO HAVE
- PLACES I’D LIKE TO SEE
- QUOTES I LOVE
- BOOKS TO READ
- MOVIES TO WATCH
- WEBSITES and BLOGS I FIND INTERESTING
- ONLINE TOOLS I FIND USEFUL
- PAGES FOR YOUR OWN, PERSONALIZED PURPOSES
- NOTES
‘The Highlights’ printable Life Planner vel Organizer is designed in A5 format, which matches almost all women standard purses’ and bags’ sizes and gives You enough space to plan everything You want. Additional feature is that it is not dated, and You put the number of the days and highlight the month names by yourself, so You can print and use the yearly planner for any year You wish!
It’s been designed to let You print it directly on Your own printer. All You have to do is to:
1) download and print it in colour
2) cut the A4 pages in half and make sure the already numbered pages have the appropriate sequence in Your piece
3) comb bind it with the plastic spring to create a notebook-parameters companion.
That’s all You have to do, to get it for Your personal use. Easy as pie.
If You owe the metal ring binder / organizer / planner already, instead of comb binding the pages, You can put the planner’s pages on the metal rings – it’s up to You how You would like to use it.
For cutting the printed A4 pages in the half and comb binding processes I would strongly recommend to purchase the services of any xero / copy / office accessories points in the place You live.
Printing on Your own in colour would be much cheaper than in such places.
HOW TO PRINT IT?
1. Please make sure You want to print in colour. The black-colour only prints might give You the fuzzy results, overfilling the pages with ugly and unaesthetic background blurries and, depending on the black ink Your printer uses, may cause the horribly dirty stains on Your hands, when You try to write on Your copy of planner. Make sure You print it in colour for the best results, for the light and gentle colours of the background graphics and for the highest level of usability.
2. Make sure You print it in A4 sheet format, both sides of the paper, along the short edge, printing actual size of the file, in landscape orientation (or automatic – the file’s electronic pages are already in landscape orientation and the printers automatically recognize it)
It is absolutely essential to make sure that on one sheet of A4 paper You have 4 pages of A5 format planner (always 2 pages of A5 format per one side of the A4 sheet of paper).
The pages are already numbered and designed the way to fold it after cut in half into a complete, brand new, personalized planner, not engaging You into the processes of counting anything or thinking how to print which pages.
All You have to care about is to make sure You print it in A4 sheet format and to set the printing setup to print both sides of the paper, along the short edge of paper and print the actual size of the file (please DO NOT choose the option ‘scale to fit’, ‘crop to fit’, or ‘fit to page’).
If some of Your devices don’t necessary listen to You (my electronic devices sometimes don’t work for me, it always break down somehow for no reason and refuse to do something for me, even if I am asking them politely – I think it’s just because the electronic devices don’t like me in general) and if Your printer might not want to print both sides of A4 paper, try to print all the odd numbered pages only and after the printer’s finished to print all odd numbered pages, change the sheets’ pile sequence manually - shuffle the sequence as You were counting the printed A4 sheets, so the first page of Your pile will be at the bottom and the bottom page will be at the top of the pile. Then put the shuffled pages’ pile this way to the printer and choose to print ‘even numbered pages only’ to make the printer print the even pages automatically on the plain side of the paper sheets for You. Make sure the bottoms of the A5 pages are always printed according both sides to the same edge of A4 sheet (so the side 'A' of the A4 sheet isn’t upside down according to the 'B' side). Done! :)
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?
WHERE TO GET IT?
A basic version of ‘The Highlights’ life planner I was sharing with You for over three months was absolutely for free. During this time You downloaded it
over seven thousand times from almost all the countries of the World I could only imagine. You sent me hundreds of beautiful emails, gave me constructive feedback, shared plenty of ideas and this way let me improve the free version to the greatest, fully enriched one - available to purchase online
for $7,99 only! Obviously,
once You buy it, You can use it for ANY YEAR or
give its printed copy as a beautiful gift to Your beloved ones.
But this is not over... For those who helped me to hit the tops and for those who
want to buy it online...
I HAVE PREPARED A FEW NICE SURPRISES!
1. What I am grateful for - I prepared
the analytistics of Your downloads, comments summary, word of thanks page to let You
see everything in a glance – Your downloads, chosen opinions, comments and shares – it was
a pure craziness I fell in love with! You can see it HERE.
2. FOREVER FREE 'Weekly Pages' of 'The Highlights' life-planner -
I decided to let You download weekly pages of 'The Highlights' planner for free - forever!
I think it might be especially useful for those who use existing, ring-binding planners - this page will be perfect as an printable insert.
It will be also great for those of You who had downloaded very first free version of a planner before 18th of November 2015 - and thus have a version of 4-weeks system (28 days). I am sure You will find it useful to print and put those pages additionally to have version of 31-days monthly structure - just as it is in complete versions downloaded after 18th of November.
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eparate weekly pages are HERE.
3. Complete, ultimate and buyable version of 'The Highlights', that includes additional pages, and awesome, brand-new features!
You can read about them
HERE or directly purchase full version of a planner below:
SHARING AND EXCHANGING THE POINTS OF VIEW
Please share with me Your personal and constructive opinions about the planner in comments section – I look forward to see what You liked about it most, what would You suggest to add or change. If You’d like to show me the way You use it, You can send the pictures on email or on my personal Facebook profile (I read the ‘other’ messages folder). I will write a post about it, including Your pictures, names and preparing some nice surprises for those, whose pictures will be included in blog post :)
Sending a lot of positive Energy to All of You, Guys! :)
Enjoy the little life moments and keep Your new Yearly companion with You! :)
GALLERY
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Beautiful planner. The pages are relevant and helpful. I love the reflection pages. A bit too much bling on the pages but I will still use the planner!
ReplyDeleteThank You, Karen for a really nice comment and for a good feedback! Hope You will enjoy it! Happy planning, Karen! :)
DeleteP.S. Please make sure if You downloaded and printed the very new, revised version of planner. I uploaded it today. Sending a lot of good thoughts!
Just downloaded the planner. Beautiful and looks really functional. I am excited to start using it. Thank you for making this available!
ReplyDeleteYou are very welcome, Jennifer! Enjoy it! :)
DeleteThis is absolutely beautiful! Thank you so much for what obviously had to have been a LOT of work! :-)
ReplyDeleteIt was a lot of work, indeed, but what really repays is the feeling that there are people outside who can perceive it and appreciate it! Thank You for these nice words, Nikki and enjoy the planner! :)
DeleteJust to think how much work it is to put something like this together, there is no way to thank you enough!
DeleteDear ‘the Highlights - life planner’ Downloaders!
ReplyDeleteIt turned out that in the previous version of the planner, there was a lack of two pages per each month. I made 4 'weekly pages' per each month and there should be 5 'weekly pages' per each month, as far as each month has got more than 28 days, obviously.
Since today it is revised and modified. It doesn't have any mistakes. Corrected and modified version is already uploaded, so You can download it again, clicking at the same link above and print it, instead of the previous one.
Also, I'd like to apologise for any inconveniences. If You have downloaded the planner before 18th of November 2015 and already printed the previous version, I decided to upload two additional weekly pages separately for You to download, so anyone can put it between the pages of the first version of printed planner and avoid printing all the planner again.
Sending You a lot of positive energy and enjoy Your copy of planner!
Thanks a lot for a wonderful and useful planner. I think the inserts are very practical.
ReplyDeleteA bit too much bling on the pages, since I like to decorate with washi tape and stickers but very useful. Thanks again
I'm completely in love with this planner. I'm only thinking if there is no chance of a version with one page per A4 sheet.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to print it without the daily pages, that don't fit my needs (sundays and saturdays have little space and these are my most busy working days, by example), so I will probably print it and don't use a large part of the pages. (but I loved so much the complete structure of it that I'm read to do it if needed...)
Thank you for the amazing planner!
Hi, Filhote!
DeleteI am happy and soooo glad to hear You enjoy the planner!
Unfortunately, the pages of the Highlights planner are designed to be used in A5 format, which is half smaller than A4 - therefore, pages designed in A5 format separately printed on A4 paper will be blurred and will not give You the effect it should have.
However, this is a great feedback for me! It's good to know that maybe designing the next or additional pages in bigger, A4 format, to let You print the particular, single pages of the planner You need, may be a wonderful and useful idea! For this moment I will not be able to resize the Highlights' pages or to publish its pages separately, but for the next, similar projects - why not! You can subsribe the newsletter (I never sent any rubbish - only valuable posts) to know if there will come out anything new or similar as a nice gift for my blog and jewellery fans! Thank You for sharing this idea!
Enjoy 'The Highlights', filling its pages with what You find beautiful, worth memorizing, helpful and truly Yours - and have a happy and wonderful 2016!
Sending You lots of love!
Nina
I agree! I'm very particular about my planners, & this one seems to be PERFECT minus the size. I'll make sure to keep an eye on your site for A4 formats!!!
DeleteThank you so much for making sharing this. How generous. Good thoughts to you!!!
ReplyDeleteOMG!! As a mother with ADHD this was a blessing!!! THANK YOU!!! It is absolutely perfect :)
ReplyDeleteHaha, me too!!
DeleteI haven't printed it out yet but the pages are beautifully done and cant wait to start using it. Thank you for making something that wonderful. It was definitely a beauty to look at and it looks very functional. Thank you for all your hard work.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely gorgeous!! Love love love!! Thank you so much for he FREE copy!! <3
ReplyDeleteThis looks like a beautiful planner! I can only imagine how much time went into making it. You're so sweet to offer it free!! I am not tech savvy so I apologize if this is a stupid question...is it possible to print these to fit a regular binder (I want to use regular full size copy paper sized paper 8.5 x 11 inches to fit into a regular 3 ring binder). I hope that made sense! Thanks!! xo
ReplyDeleteHey, Mel!
DeleteThank You for these words filled with such a wonderful gratitude! I appreciate it very much! I strongly believe that there are no stupid questions – thanks for asking!
If You already owe the metal ring binder, You should check its length and width parameters first. The thing is – there’s no ‘regular binder’ - You can find thousand types of metal ring binders in very different formats – from A4 to the ones smaller than a hand; and each of different format organizers can be 3, 6, 9 metal ring binder. Luckily - the quantity of metal rings in Your organizer doesn’t make any difference in printing. It does, when You prepare the already printed and cut in a half to the A5 format planner sheets, to match them to the metal ring organizer You already owe – for it, You have to measure the distance between the metal rings of Your binder and note down their size to cut the appropriate number and size of holes in Your printed copy of the planner sheets.
If it is about printing, You just have to make sure Your metal binder is at least A5 or bigger format to fit the A5 format pages parameters (5,3 x 8,3 inches). The Highlights planner is designed to print it on typical A4 pages format You probably meant (8,3 x 11,7 inches precisely – so similar to the measurements You mentioned). Printed in this format pages and cut in a half, give You complete planner in A5 format, in which You cut the holes fitting to the metal ring binder You already have. Hope my response was helpful and You will have the opportunity to use it just as You need! :)
Sending You a lot of positive sparkles, as the one You are! :)
Nina
thank you so much. looking forward to using it in 2016.
ReplyDeleteCreative and impressive!I really love the colour and designs.
ReplyDeleteThis planner is exquisite! The page designs are feminine and creative. I love the color palate and am excited to use this beautiful life planning tool.
ReplyDeleteThis is so beautiful and I cannot wait to use it! Thank you so much!
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for sharing!
ReplyDeleteFirstly, purple is my fave colour... so thank you for that! Secondly, I love the monthly highlights section, monthly goals, monthly summary and goal/plan evaluation sections. These are exactly what I was after! Then the year end reflection are also fantastic. I love seeing it all come together like that. Brilliant job. Many thanks.
ReplyDeleteI found this while searching for a "New Year's Resolution" page to add to my 2016 planner. This planner is lovely enough that, had I not already put a substantial amount of information in the purchased planner, I would use this one! Oh well... at least I know what my 2017 planner will be!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for sharing this jewel!
Love this! Can't believe how great this is and for free -- loooove the life balance and goal setting sheets.
ReplyDeleteThank you!!
So amazed by your planner! Thank you so much!
ReplyDeleteI never leave a comment, but this time I thought about how much of your time you spent making tis one so I thought that leaving a comment was a nice idea! Lots of Love from Peru and have a nice year!
Thank you for sharing. Really loved your work and enjoying these pages.
ReplyDeleteHave a great 2016! :)
Would I have the necessary permissions to have this printed at a copy shop? I'm so in love with it, I just don't have the necessary things to print it at home.
ReplyDeleteHi, Trinity!
DeleteThank You for Your words of appreciation! It always makes me so happy and warmed up from the inside when I can read such comments: it shows me that You have liked planner so much that You want to put an additional effort to print it in a copy shop! Thank You!
Answering Your question:
This version of downloadable planner is designed for personal purposes - to help its copy owners improve their lives in the cheapest possible way, any year. As far as I know, printing over 100 pages in colour at a copy shop or at a xero point might be quite expensive - this is why I suggested to print it at home/ at a personal printer or at any of Your closest friends' printers - but if You can afford to print it at a copy shop (for Your personal purposes only) - go on! I can not see any obstacles! I would only suggest You to ask first at a copy shop about their total price for printing it.
Enjoy Your very own copy of "The Highlights" life-planner and have a lovely 2016, Trinity! :)
Catch my hugs for You: xoxo! :)
I love the planner that you have made up! One thing that I would like to know, maybe I just haven't figured it out yet, is if you can print the pages back to back so that they come out in order for a 5x7 notebook.
ReplyDeleteI love the colors, but would also like a little less bling, but I like them as they are also. The other colors that I like are more like the nature colors that are cool colors.
The other sheets that I really like:
One is a one page per day planner: It has a time blocking block, a "to do" list, a "to contact" block,and a "to buy" block.
Another is a meal plan. A one month plan (I just plan for dinner, but others probably do more) like a calendar page - an overview, then a one week plan that just has 7 days at the top of the page and the rest of the page is for a grocery shopping list.
The other thing I like to have is a budget plan, a page similar to a checkbook register to keep track of expenditures and a budget page.
The other thing may be a birthday list and address pages. You have made a wonderful planner. Thank you for letting me download it. I hope you have much success in your future endeavors!
Hello! I just came across this by chance and I'm absolutely in love with the design! Thanks every so much for sharing! :)
ReplyDeleteI will definitely be using this instead of buying ready made ones as this is just so much more beautiful!!!
Happy New Year Nina!
I've been looking to get back into using a paper planner now that I'm wanting to make some creative dreams tangible, and your planner popped up into my feed on Pinterest. It looks marvellous. I've been toying with purchasing one (several), but wasn't sure I was ready for that level of commitment. Thank you, thank you, thank you for creating this and offering it for free. This is a fantastic way for me to get my toes wet and see if journalling/paper planning is really for me or not.
ReplyDeleteI agree with one of the above comments - I would love to have a little more space on weekend days, but that is easy to remedy with some blank pages of my own.
Wonderful work - thank you!!
In the middle of creating my 2016 planner so this is a big help, thank you :)
ReplyDeleteI have wasted so much time obsessing over how to set up my planner with all of these different fantastic reasons how to organize myself and make life better. Thankyou for the fantastic head start, you have helped so much <3
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