The Louis Vuitton Piece I Use Every Single Day
The one thing I love to do everyday is crack open my favorite agenda of all time, the Louis Vuitton Agenda large ring agenda (fits A5 inserts), & write all of the tasks I need to get done for the day/week. As I mentioned in my IG post, I enjoy using a physical planner because I'm such a fan of writing everything down as it gives me a break from my phone/computer; I just love how my writing looks on the inserts which makes me want to use it even MORE; & the fact that it allows me to be creative in a different way. I recently posted a sneak peak of the inside on my Instagram as I get DMs all the time asking about the inserts & accessories I use, so in this blog post I'll definitely be showing you & listing everything I use from inserts to pens/highlighters to sticky notes & more!
So now let's get into everything I use for my agenda... first thing I definitely needed were planner inserts. The original ones I started with were these dailies from STARTplanner that came with a full set of inserts that covered goals, budgeting, vacation, holiday planning, daily tasks, & more. I loved this set when I first started planning, but recently made the transition over to Cloth & Paper after I purchased my LV agenda. I started to notice my style changing a bit as I was preferring much more muted & nude shades as well as a more simplistic & clean aesthetic in terms of my planning.
The inserts that I use now are the Cloth & Paper vertical dated weeklies. The new ones that are available on the site right now are for 2021 & they come in different forms (click here to see what's available). I was only able to get August & September in the 'vertical dated weekly' format because I'm a monthly sub-box subscriber & these inserts were included in the July box. I would highly recommend looking into this subscription service (Penspiration OR Planning + Stationery OR both) because they give you a ton of different pens, planner accessories, &/or both depending on what you choose. Other inserts that I have are dashboards. These are such a fun way to dress up your planner & give you inspiration as well as divide different sections of your planner. The ones that I have are the inbox, 5th Edition, "life becomes rich", Christian Dior quote, & monthly dashboards. I would love to add more, but I know I shouldn't lol!
As for accessories, I've been loving using stickers, sticky notes, sticky tabs, transparent page flags, & paper/binder/oli clips. For stickers, I have the transparent sticker set in several colors. Each color is dedicated to different tasks, like campaign due dates & appts, which make it useful for using in both the monthly calendar & weekly setup. For sticky notes, these are great for quick reminders that I don't have time to write in my actual planner. I usually stick this either on my inbox dashboard or in my weekly overview as reminders. For sticky tabs & transparent page flags, these are new additions to my planner that I'm still trying to figure out how to use. As of right now, I'm using my sticky tabs as reminders for my 'Blog Posts' & 'Newsletters'. The transparent flags are a little more tricky as I don't know what I want to use them for just yet. Some options I have include highlighting important tasks or using them to highlight the current week in the mini monthly calendar in my weekly overview. The paper/binder & oli clips are another great accessory to add a sort of luxeness to a planner. I use them to mark pages, hold photos or cardstock together, or even add them to journal cards.
Now let's talk about pens & highlighters! Since I started using a planner, I quickly realized how much I love gel pens. I used to always be a ballpoint pen kind of girl, but that changed fast. The ones I use now are the Kokuyo ME (sold out) & Sarasa dry gel pens, which write so incredibly smooth on my inserts. For highlighters, my favorites are these Tombow dual brush pens, which are perfect for creating boxes for me to check off different tasks & for highlighting. They're also water-based so they don't bleed through paper!
Before I end this post, I want to share some links to some pre-loved agendas. Currently, the exact agenda I have is out of stock. If you think this size may be too large for you, I would recommend looking into the medium & small sizes, which are more readily available. Here's a few that I've found:
LV medium ring agenda in monogram (Fashionphile)
LV medium ring agenda in damier ebene (Fashionphile)
LV small ring agenda in monogram (TheRealReal)
LV small ring agenda in tan epi leather (TheRealReal)
Do you have a preference for planning your daily or weekly tasks? Would love to hear about your planning systems!
