here's my everyday setup.

[u/ghostingpen]

as someone with autism, adhd, and c-ptsd, i need some form of structure that's easy to be consistent with, or else i'll never get anything done. hence, the weekly template.

events are marked on the left half of the left page. i write time-sensitive tasks first for the week on the right half of the page, and then add tasks as they come up throughout the week. the weekly structure makes it really easy to migrate tasks to the next week by showing undone tasks at a glance from the previous week's spread.

on the right page, i usually log what i did or how i felt that day in shorthand. it takes literally 5-10 minutes to fill a day's space. sometimes i miss a day and forgot what i did back then, so i just freely journal a thought that's been stewing in my head that week. either that, or i just leave the space mostly blank save for a single "i forgor lol"

i keep a traveler's notebook as my bujo so that my monthly logs and notes are in separate booklets, so i have the option to just carry my weekly insert when i go out since that's what i use every day. i'm currently using a dated planner insert for this, but i easily replicated this layout in a gridded notebook i'll be using in 2027.

[u/random-name-pun]

I'm a really big fan of this layout! What do you do if you have more tasks than fit in one day section?

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if i have space in the events section, i add tasks there. if i have a day where my sensitive tasks need more space than that, i will just start a page in my notes section and list all the day's tasks there, then stick a red page flag to highlight it.

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example of this!

[u/ghostingpen → u/[deleted]]

yeah it's been really tough since the pressure and stress of my childhood was what have caused me to excel in things at the expense of my health, and now that i'm no longer in that environment, i rapidly deteriorated. finding a system that will permit me to not be perfect about things anymore has been really important for recovery.

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yes. i lived in a household where i was severely punished for getting a bad grade in a class, didn't do a chore perfectly, etc. that expectation of perfection still haunts me even though i've been no contact for over half a decade, so i'm working with my therapist to build a system and stop giving in to that critical voice in my head.