Wow, this was great. I think my problem is trying to do both planning and memory keeping in the same book then. It gets too overwhelming

I used only my planner to take the quiz and came out as the minimalist, but in my writer's journal I am the artist; I'm decorating around a core bunch of layouts that doesn't change a whole lot from month to month.

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

Ah yeah the tediousness got me as well!

Ahh, yes! Love this, as always, Rachelle! I think the Z-axis helps bring the planner matrix full circle or, um, cube? 😂 My planners need to be minimal or else it distracts me from the purpose of efficient planning and looking forward. But my memory keeping Hobonichi A5 is full of drawings, ephemera, collage, pictures, stickers, stamps, etc. It's truly the safe space where I can look back fondly (or not so fondly -- also important) and embellish to my creative maximalist heart's content✨

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

CHESKA thank you so much for your comment. Yes, bringing it all full cube 😂

I really love that you added this part, it makes so much sense! It reminded me of a blog that I found a while back that talked about the different types of journaling which was super helpful in figuring how I wanted to use my journals/planners and when. So that blog (by a spiritual creator guy called MindThatEgo) plus your video playlist and I am set, lol! Sharing a partial summary of it for the sake of journaling/planning nerdiness + purpose, basically this is what resonated with your video for me as you were talking: Main purposes of journaling: Inner (self-exploration) vs Outer (analytical, practical) Retrospective (looking back) journaling: Outer: Analyzing & Problem solving (think of like CBT or therapy-style, so this would be more minimal for me, just writing to get things out, identify patterns and solve the issue or get clarity) Inner: Reflection & Contemplation (could just be writing but also very much more creative, think Record-keeping, memories, trying to express and attune to emotional states) Forward-thinking (Looking ahead) journaling: Inner: Visioning & Setting Intentions (totally could be where Maximalist deco and creativity come in beautifully, because you can just vision board a whole journal potentially, makes for good art magick) Outer: Planning & Goal setting (breaking things down into actionable steps, which being more minimalist and consistent lends itself well for that)

Love your work for opening my mind to the different purposes and uses of my journals and planners

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

Devi!!! Thank you so much 🥺 you are so sweet and I’m so glad that you got something out of my vids!!

such a fun way to look at planners and notebooks! My notebooks tend to be a little more decorative because I draw/doodle for my planning and lists for books and zines. But I’m still pretty minimalist in both.

Omg I Looove this approach! 😍

This is amazing information - super helpful!!

I had wondered about a Z-axis. Your take is brilliant.

I absolutely loved the original matrix and this even more so. I have different notebooks that I use for different purposes and they are all in different places in the matrix and that’s why I love them so much. Thanks for this Rachelle ❤

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

Your channel appeals to my funcional/minimalist/planning style. Useful information and you get to the point quickly.

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching & commenting!

This is fun! I like your diplomatic word choice of “changing” functionality. I think I can best be described as a chaotic minimalist planner with a random side of memory keeping. 😂 Thinking about it this way instead of just feeling indecisive and unartistic might help me turn off the negative internal voice and just embrace what works. After all, no one sees my planner but me.

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

YES exactly. Let that negative spiral goooo. There's no reason that your planner and journal system has to be anything but what works for you.

Oh, this definitely hits on something I was thinking about but couldn't articulate! I don't have a ton of variation between planners/journals because I go through phases of doing a lot or doing a little, so I can pretty much identify any notebook by time period depending on the style. But adding this dimension makes a lot of those changes make more sense to me.

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

Yay I'm so glad it helped!

Love this!!❤

omg catching up on youtube vids and love this one, its def a much needed axis! .....but also im here to just uh scream a little over seeing your alleyman's tarot spread as thats the project my friend made and i even created a card for it (the uh nine of wands? its got a ghost on it... im not actually into tarot nor know a lot abt it haha) so just ah im so glad u like it! my set lives in the beautiful wooden box on my book shelf :3c

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

No way!! That is so awesome. Thank you for watching and commenting I'm such a fan of that deck!!!!

I love the quiz so much fun! Haha I'm The Artist in my bujo but I'm definitely a Scientist or Minimalist in my other journals. I was plotting my journals on the Z axis while I watched the video. Great content!

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Nakia!

This is fun! So when I took the planner matrix quiz the second time I got a pretty equal distribution of Scientist, Maximalist, and Artist (I feel like I kinda broke it lol). But! That's because I do multiple things in the same notebook. So I'm in a hobonichi cousin, and I do artsy/memory keeping in the weeks pages, actual pen-to-paper journaling (morning pages) in part of the dailies, bullet journaling in the dailies, and some bullet journaling in the back pages. So I don't know what that makes me! But that's ok. I like this framework and way of thinking about it

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

There is always a way to break the system and you have apparently found it 😂 I'm glad that you got something out of this little addition!

Your video got me thinking. You could replace the PDCA (plan do check act cycle) with a PDCR cycle (plan do check reflect). Plan = goals, time management (tasks, events etc) Do = logging, tracking, memory keeping Check -= metrics Reflect = journaling

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

OOH i will have to look into this more, I like it!

Great video!!

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Soo interesting!! I like my planners to be 75% functional and 25% creative, and vice Versa for my memory keeper. I’m in this space where i really want my memory keeper to be dated. I have tried to do it all in one book, but figuring out that I need one planner and one memory keeper is really helping me figure out what i need.

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

DATED JOURNALS/MEMORY KEEPERS ARE SO UNDERRATED. Sometimes you just need that little date on the page to hold you accountable!

Yes! When I take notes, all I use are highlighters. For memory keeping, I use A LOT of deco, but I'm consistent. My planning style is the scientist 😊

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

Different techniques work for different things! Thanks for commenting.

And now I want to use an undated planer to combine planning and journaling in one book again, thanks Rachelle 😅

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

HAHA oh no 🥲

I wish I could afford a spiritual deck. The one I want, I did have, but lost, costs so much now. Like 100 dollars, I think it is kind of out of print. It is the medicine wheel deck, that ties spirit animals and Native American spirituality. I am registered member of a federally reconginized tribe in the US. Though there are many that were adopted out, stolen, or their tribe is still terminated, that cannot get this recognition back 😢. If you want to learn about it, i can talk a bit about it, else I will just ramble into thin air.

Love! What a fun way to understand our own tendencies. As a personal preference (consistency in calculus engrained in my mind) the xy plane should be on the “floor” and the z-axis is the vertical distance away from the floor. Of course a 3D cube can be rotated around, but this orientation was…disorienting😂

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

Aaaaand this is where I admit to you that I don't know anything about calculus 😂 thank you for this perspective and for watching and commenting!

@taniayh-s48

Жыл бұрын

@@RachelleinTheory 🤣 no worries! It really doesn’t matter, it was just an artifact of different experiences. Regardless, I love your take on journaling💕

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

@@taniayh-s48 Thank you so much!

Alleyman’s Tarot is 🔥🔥🔥

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

YES

After careful consideration of the X, Y, and Z of things, I'm an aesthetic scientific minimalist (LOL). I'm quite consistent in having a functional system and the information that I record but I play around with different layouts and sometimes planner combos (although I really am a one-planner woman). That said, I'll say again how much I enjoy your fresh approach in these videos; trivial as it may seem to non-planners, this zodiac of planning styles does tell us something about ourselves. (And who knows, maybe MmAS will be added to the Briggs-Myers personalities some day, hehehe...)

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

HAHA I love that. Yes, get me in the Myers-Briggs system!

Okay, great. Love the expansion. Now - what do we do with this information? Why is it useful to know where you are on the cube?

@eadra

Жыл бұрын

For me, this information is helping me have defined boundaries around the types of notebooks and so my creativity is more free flowing! My planner, for instance, I can now more easily let go of making it decorative and focuss of what helps me see what I need to do. My Journaling is now turning into the place for my ephemera and washi tapes. Prior to these videos I had a weird mindset that ONLY my planner was for washi tapes and pretty things, and my journal was for single pens and just thoughts..... now I feel silly that for my whole life I have been in my own way for using ALL of my notebooks. I feel like these videos have helped me take the pressure off of myself and really just enjoy seeing where each one shines. (The boxes have helped me stop living inside of the boxes maybe?) Now my notebooks luve in boxes rather than ME living in the boxes.

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

Eadra, I am SO happy that this is the effect that these videos have had on your planning. Thank you so much for sharing.

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

I had hoped that it would be useful especially to the people who were taking the quiz and getting multiple conflicting results!

What is the name of the tarot cards in your journal?

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

You might be referring to the Alleyman's Tarot, which I have a few pics of in the journal.

Quick question, what is the pen you use?

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

I am using regular Sharpies in most of this vid!

I got 50% minimalist, 50% artist, 42% maximalist and 17% scientist. 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 Sweet Jesus, this is just wonderful. 🤩 🥳 🤩 🥳 🤩

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you think so 😂

I legit got almost 50% on all of them. 😭😭

What is the purpose for all of this categorization

@Higgler16

Жыл бұрын

I don't think it needs to have a purpose 😉. It's interesting information about why we do what we do. I liked it a lot!

@TheKatsMeow113

Жыл бұрын

Having different planner styles can help address the gap between the people who are super decorative in their planners that sometimes makes the bullet journal "purists" cranky af. The categories help remind people that there are different styles of this thing and people don't have to get all snooty or up in arms about it.

@grlufear

Жыл бұрын

It’s an interesting thought exercise to make a mental model for the patterns that they notice.

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

Echoing all the replies that are already in this thread :) Thanks for watching and commenting!

It wasn't hidden or invisible though, right? I mean, you created it and then you changed it, right? It sounded like you meant you discovered it, like a new continent or fire! LOL!!!

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

Ah yes it is I, Prometheus, bringer of the Z axis!!

But record keeping/backlogging is not "planning" , it shouldn't even belong in the planner matrix. I know loads of people use planners for memory, but that can be done in simply any notebook...tbh A pre-made planners' intended purpose is always future planning. It's basically in the name 😐

@booksinbed

Жыл бұрын

I think the world of planners has expanded. The way I use my planner isn't to future plan, but what you said about doing it just as easily in a plain notebook isn't true, either. I backlog for health in a way that's focused on tracking actions and intakes and seeing them across daily, weekly, and monthly views. I understand why you might not want to call it "planning", but at the same time I would have to do the same amount of extra work to make it happen in a plain notebook as I would to plan for the week or month ahead in a plain notebook. The planner I use, the Hobonichi Weeks, even advertises itself using examples of logging, memory keeping, and just plain drawing, in addition to future planning!

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

Definitely is in the name, but things are flexible! Plus, once you buy something, it's yours to use as you wish and back planning, memory keeping, etc. can all be done in pre-printed stuff. Thanks for watching and commenting!

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

Hobonichi is a GREAT example of this, all their branding really encourages their customers to experiment and use their planners for all kinds of purposes!

@ntara7362

Жыл бұрын

@@RachelleinTheory Yeah . I kinda understand that it's purpose can be defined by us. I was taking the planner matrix too literally there. Thanks for explaining! 😊

@RachelleinTheory

Жыл бұрын

@@ntara7362 Thank you so much for asking and commenting!

This is the same quiz as before, nothing new here. Use your planner and show it. This is nonsense.