Moving From a Franken-Bujo to a Wonderland222 Planner

Planner Peace.

Do those words make you anxious or calm? Up until March, I had planner peace.

I’ve stuck with my franken-bullet journal for 4 years now. It took me many years to figure out a system that worked for me. I have a stack of used A5 Breeze TRP68 notebooks from Taroko Stationery archived. Each notebook lasted me 3 months so I went through 4 a year. My system worked so well for me, I bought the notebooks in bulk!

My main priority for my planner was flexibility. I stopped using dated planners for multiple reasons. I never used the weekend pages so I hated that they went to waste. I also need pages for my monthly goals, weekly reflections, and monthly recaps. If I went with a dated planner, I’d need two notebooks. I didn’t want to juggle multiple planner-ish notebooks so franken-bujo it was.

I loved the process of sitting at my desk on Sunday evenings to reflect on the past week and to set up my bullet journal for the week. I drew a simple weekly spread to map out my schedule and priorities for the week. It was my time to play with my fountain pens, stickers, and washi. (My daily pages were made on the day of and pretty minimalist.)

So what changed? Me. I changed. 

Due to my chronic illness, I’ve had less energy to draw weekly spreads as simple as they were. A good friend suggested tipping in a printed weekly spread. I tried that for a couple of weeks but it took so much effort to do that. I’d rather use the little energy I had on the planning process and not drawing spreads or taping pages into it.

After a bit of research, I settled on the A5 undated version of Wonderland222’s All-in-One Unstacked planner (2025 edition). It uses 52gsm Sanzen Tomoe River Paper. After poking around in some planner groups, I felt confident that it wasn’t part of the bad batch that plagued a lot of planners, including Hobonichi.

The undated version gives me the flexibility I had with my bullet journal. At first I use stamps to set up my April monthly pages but that took too much time and energy. I switched to writing in everything. Because of the planner’s thickness (576 pages), the pages were so cushiony to write on, even with my EF fountain pens.

I’m still adjusting to the new format and system, but I feel good about it. Most importantly, I’ve found joy in my planning process again.

Have you switched planners this year? Tell me more!

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