This is a series of live conversations with people who create planners specifically for OneNote. The conversations happened in the Fall of 2020, with creators showing their planners for the year 2021. The creators are from 4 different countries – The United States, Austria, England, and Sweden. Read on for a summary of the creators and descriptions of their planners!
For the entire playlist, click here: OneNote Planner Creator Series Playlist
For starters, there was a kickoff event to explain who was going to present and what they were going to show. Click here to watch this first event in the series!
The next creator was Kurt Soeser, the founder of OneNote-Masterclass which is a membership site for people who are passionate about OneNote! Kurt’s planner is really nicely formatted with colorful, useful blocks and a menu of clickable links at the top of every page. Click here to watch Kurt’s video.
Next, was Branden Bodendorfer, creator of the Key2Success planner. This planner is unique in the series because it is designed for Branden’s original planning system. His system is based on starting with your big goals, and then breaking them down into quarterly and then weekly and daily tasks. My favorite part of the system is that you are encouraged to after that quarterly goal in only 12 weeks, which leaves the final week of the quarter for a week off! Click here to watch Brandon’s session.
The third creator was Steph Littlefield, the designer behind the Planner Peace Co. shop on etsy! Steph sells all kinds of digital planner items such as digital stickers, holiday-themed planners and plain pdf planners in addition to her OneNote planners. Her works is beautiful, without being cluttered. Click here to watch Steph’s session.
The fourth creator was Melissa Rothén, who runs the Planner Meadow etsy shop. Her design philosophy is that just like in a meadow full of different flowers we might each pick a different favorite, we might also like different things in planners and digital design. She makes personal and teacher planners, and you can bundle both into one planner. Much of her work has a soft, calm aesthetic which can be very useful when planning your day! Click here to watch Melissa’s video.
The final presentation was from husband and wife team Dan and Rina, the team behind Happy Downloads. They make a huge variety of bright, colorful planners and accessories for digital planner fans who want all the sticker and washi tape fun that paper planner fans have! An added delight is that many of their products are sold in bundles that offer incredible value for the price. Click here to watch this session.
If you are interested in a behind the scenes look at how I managed the event using a OneNote shared notebook, check out this video! It serves not only as a tutorial on how shared notebooks work but also shows a shared notebook being used in a real-life situation! Click here to watch this video!