I’ve been fighting for my life with Norovirus this week, but in between being sick, feeling awful and trying to clean up the mess my house has become I got inspired by looking through my old bullet journals.

That girl had it together.

So my first thought was oh I’ll just start up my bullet journal again, even going so far as to start making an April spread in my mostly empty one I had started in 2019.

But as I got looking at it and thinking about it, as well as the platforms I post on now, I realized that my old “spread” wasn’t going to work.

I’ve really loved just using plain old college rule notebooks in the past, but the organizing and mapping out abilities just isn’t there.

So this is where I ended up for the week that I’m happy with.

I printed off blank calendars for each month through the end of 2024. I wrote my batch content creation schedule at the top and bottom of the month. And then I filled in with highlighters each piece of content I needed each day throughout the month.

All of this so I could visually see how many pieces of content for the various platforms I wanted to post to.

An example of a monthly spread where I have all my content laid out for me to visually see.

I was on Planoly at this point and saw they had on the calendar view all of the different “National Donut Day” and “Women’s History Month” so I went through and wrote down all relevant special days, weeks, and months.

(Sometimes you need some extra help to come up with content or you want to be able to commemorate an important day or month).

Laying it all out like this has been so helpful for me because I am such a visual person. I can see how many pieces of content I need for the month. Not only that I can spread out one piece of content over the various platforms to get more bang for my buck.

Just going through my old bullet journals gave me enough content ideas to finish out March and get through April. Now when Sunday rolls around I can look at my calendar print-offs and make sure I have a plan for the week ahead when it comes to making content.

Between that and a tiny little brain dump notebook I’m feeling much more organized.

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