Debate: is a $60 month-at-a-glance spread worth it or just a waste of pages?

I dropped $60 on a full month layout with a dashboard for each week, complete with habit trackers and a notes section. It looked amazing but I found myself ignoring half the boxes after day 10. On the other hand, a friend in Portland swears by her $15 minimalist setup and says she gets more done. Which side are you on - do you go all out on monthly spreads or keep it cheap and simple?

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riley_schmidt1d ago

$60 for a notebook is wild to me honestly. People act like the layout is gonna magically make them organized but really you just need a pen and a blank page to track what matters. I've tried both fancy and bare bones setups and the expensive ones always end up with half the boxes empty by week two. It's a piece of paper not a life coach, you know? If your friend gets more done with a $15 setup then the price clearly isn't the thing holding you back. People spend too much time designing spreads and not enough time actually doing the stuff they're tracking.

aaron8841d ago

@riley_schmidt The other angle here is that $60 notebooks are basically a hobby in disguise. Nobody buys an expensive journal because they need it, they buy it because decorating and planning the layout is the fun part. It's just scrapbooking with deadlines. The people who actually fill those things up are the ones treating the notebook as the activity itself, not the tool for the activity.