For the love of grids!

I've fallen in love with stationery the past couple years, and use notebooks for planning and journaling. I prefer to make my own layouts in undated notebooks printed with a 5mm grid. As I'm looking to the new year and getting my books in a row, I started sketching out how to divide the grids for various layouts, and I'm happy to share them here. You'll find a big collection of designs you can copy into your A6, B6 Slim, or A5 notebook.

They're modeled on the exact grids of MD Notebooks, which are inset with a bit of padding and dots every 10 boxes to help line things up. (You can actually download those grids on this article.) That padding ensures the designs should fit in most 5mm grid notebooks of the corresponding size.

MD Notebooks

My favorite notebooks that perfectly match the layouts.

Shop MD Notebooks - Grid

If you're not already in this world, take a look and maybe you'll be inspired. They'll never be as efficient, but analog tools spark joy and fit the grooves of my brain more harmoniously.

I'll update this article as I create more, and circle back to share some of my own spreads using these. Check out my other stories on stationery here. (When you see codes like "W2," that refers to my system of numbering weeks.)

Thanks for stopping by! 👋

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