2020 Planner Setup: An Update

It has been an interesting year. It’s safe to say it hasn’t gone as planned for pretty much anyone. Schools have been shut down, people are working from home, and many have even lost their jobs. With lockdowns going on worldwide, people’s plans have been postponed or cancelled.

As far as planning goes, I know many of us even stopped using our planners. I had several planners I was using at the beginning of the year that I no longer even look at. What’s the point of using a planner when I’ll just be home all day?

Despite not keeping up with my 2020 planners, I wanted to be consistent with my digital bullet journals. This lead me back to the Passion Planner. The first time I used a Passion Planner was back in 2017, I used the small size. I remember liking the layout but at the time I felt that the planner was too small so I didn’t end up sticking with it. But what pulled me back into the Passion Planner fold, was their new Daily planner. I wanted to try out their daily layout because it combined their hourly timeline on the left page, as well as organized to-do lists, with a blank, bullet journal-esque style page on the right.

The cool thing about the Passion Planner is that they offer free PDF versions of all their planners. They believe that everyone should be able to plan regardless of their financial situation. This includes the dated, undated, and daily planners. With the PDFs you can print out as many copies as you need, at whatever size you need.

My July monthly spread in my Daily Passion Planner PDF

Since I started digital planning earlier this year, I decided to continue the paperless route and use their PDFs to my iPad. I uploaded them to goodnotes and slowly started planning again. In July, I applied and became a Passion Planner Brand Ambassador. I have a discount code (DAHLIA829) that you can use on your next order! After months of using their PDFs on my iPad, a Passion Planner employee reached out to me in September about becoming a beta tester for some new products. I was able to test their new digital planners! Now I use their digital weekly and daily planners. They’re just like the PDFs but more polished and the tabs are hyperlinked.

Here is a sample spread I made during beta testing. It was also featured (along with a few of my others) in this blog post on the Passion Planner website.

The Passion Planner has been a real game changer for me. It’s helped me get back into planning, and been keeping me on track for grad school.