Hey guys, it's Amanda, welcome back to my channel and today's video is going to be my monthly plan with me video
And I'm going to be showing you my April bullet journal setup
so while I make my little title page for April by the way, this is the new pen that I've been using it's the
Lepen
Fineliner and it's supposed to be smudge proof and all that and so far
I love it so so much, but as I was saying while you watch me set up my title page for April
I just wanted to say thank you guys so so much for all of your support on these bullet journal videos
I'm so happy you guys have been enjoying them and I have been loving seeing all of your recreations of my spreads
Bunch of you guys have sent me pictures on Instagram and Twitter and I save all of them
And I do do like monthly features where I?
Repost your recreations on my bullet journal and Dual Instagram account
So if you ever recreate any of my spreads be sure to send me a picture and you might be featured on my instagram
So go check it out, but here's my title page for the month of April
I decided to go with the [star] theme
Just cuz I wanted to use the color yellow I feel like since its spring
I wanted to do yellow since it's too bright and fun color
And I thought stars would be perfect for [that] the two yellow markers that you see me switching between are the Zebra and wild [liner]
in the dull yellow as well as the
Tombow dual tip marker in 0 to 6 which is more of a golden ochre color
But I actually really [do] love the way [that] this page turned out with the constellations and everything
It's definitely a little bit different from what [I] normally go for so [onto] my monthly spread
Which [is] the spread that changed the most from the previous month?
I mentioned in my march plan with me that I didn't like how every single day in the monthly spread
I only had one line
So if you had more than one event you can really squish it in
So this month I decide to double space it and do two columns as you see here
So now I have more space per day to
Plan ahead for the month of April basically instead of seeing one page between personal and Youtube planning I'm going to be giving
One whole page to personal and then one whole page to Youtube so I'm giving myself more space
[for] both which I think is going to work out a lot better
The difference though is that the personal side I used that vertical
Numbered layout and then for the youtube side I did sort of more of a traditional
Grid style calendar layout and my plan is for this to use
Little sticky notes and cut them up so that [I] can move around my video schedule a lot of times
I'll switch up a video idea or I want to do it on a different day and in previous months when I wanted to do
This I would [have] to cross [it] out, and it would [just] make it look a lot more messy in the vertical layout
So I think using the sticky notes will be a lot better because I'll be able to easily move things around if I want to
Allen do now is finishing up the rest of my calendar layout as well as setting up my monthly [YouTube] Growth tracker
So while I do that, I did want to quickly talk about something else which is on my previous videos
I got a couple of comments saying that this is too much work
Or there's no point in doing this and if the bullet journal system is not for you
I totally understand or if you prefer more of a minimalistic look that is fine as well
I always say that the only thing you need the bullet journal is a pen and a notebook and that's it
But at the same time there's nothing wrong with wanting to get creative with it and using colors and doodles and pictures you
do you whatever works the best for you, but
[as] you can see right now
I'm just setting up all of my lifestyle trackers, so I'm doing my habit checker as well as my mood tracker
This is something that hasn't really changed throughout the [month]
I pretty much like the way that it's set up the only thing that I've been
Changing is the color and the [design] layout and so far after three months of doing these checkers
I really do find that it has helped me keep myself accountable for all of these things that [I] [normally] would procrastinate on I
Added these gold shooting stars as well as these little smiling and frowning face stars for the [mood] tracker. Which I thought was so cute
Of course on the other side of the spread I'm setting up my expense checker and find out
I [don't] know if you have noticed but I've been really getting into calligraphy
Especially since I've gotten a bunch of the tombow dual tip markers as well as the tombow who [de] [sweetened] [Azuki]
[I] still don't know how to pronounce it but b black brush pen so I've been practicing a lot and I think I've been getting
Better [I'm] definitely not a professional yet, but it's something that I enjoy and I've been incorporating it more into my bullet journal
[all] right, so now on to my video ideas and brain duck page
[I] kind of went for a different look with this spread
but I did like the way that it turned out I kind of made a star wreath as well as
hanging Star Christmas lights if that makes sense
But I think it does match the brain dump page which you'll see very soon
Again, I just used the zebra Mod liner for the yellow which is more of a true yellow instead of a golden yellow
But I don't know let me know what you guys think I feel like this whole month was a little bit more
experimental for me because I wanted to try [out] new
designs and
Do something a little bit different because I don't want to keep doing the same like floral and lease thing over and over again
so that was kind of my thought process so now I'm moving on to my
weekly spread for the first week of April and
This is another thing that I actually changed up Midway through March
Before I was doing a full weekly set up with a tiny little weekly overview for events
But now I've adopted sort of like a weekly overview
Sidebar so it gives me more space to plan out the future events for the weeks and have a
Nice visual of what my week looks like while still leaving the daily rapid logs for my everyday to-do list
Having this weekly overview is of course a personal preference of mine
But I know a lot of people who don't like have a a weekly [overview] because they find it repetitive
I just really like to see the events that are happening for that week
Also, if you are confused as to how all of these different sections work together
I definitely recommend checking out my very very first bullet journal video. I kind of [explained] in more detail
[how] the system works so if you're confused go check that video out?
Hopefully, it'll answer any questions that you might have
Anyways, I kind of went a little overboard with the stars and I used it all over the spreads
But it's my theme for this month so I had to go all in guys other things that I added to
Decorate this spread was a little sticky note
Doodle that had the big dipper in it as well as a calligraphy quote that says look how they shine [for] you
Which is a lyric from Coldplay's?
Iconic song yellow which I thought was very very fitting for this month
Okay on to the next spread um usually I don't actually do my weekly spreads this ahead of time
But you guys really like seeing spread inspiration, so I decided to do two [week] for this video
Just to show you guys different
Ideas as well as show you guys that I kind of switch up the layout of my weekly spreads
Depending on the week that I have so if I know I have a busy week
I'll do a full week like this
Or it gives me more space
to write out any
tasks that I have to do and it's also a lot more fun for me to just constantly be switching things up and
Evolving the style of my bullet journal because I don't want to get stuck in a rut and just keep doing the exact same
spreads over and over again
But this spread is
Complete let me just show you guys the final look and flip through at my april Bullet journal spread setup
I hope you guys enjoyed this video
If you did [be] sure to give it a thumbs up and don't [forget] to follow my bullet journal Instagram account for more spread
Inspiration throughout the month, but I hope you guys have an awesome day, [and] I will talk to you in the next video. Bye guys