How to use a digital planner
Have you wondered what the hype is surrounding digital planners? Are you curious about digital planners and how they work? At first glance, digital planners may seem really overwhelming and super techy, but they’re actually simple and user friendly. In this blog post, i will go over all things digital planning and what you need to be able to use them. I will cover:
What is a digital planner?
What do you need to be able to use a digital planner?
Which annotation app is best (in my opinion)?
How to navigate through AIW digital planner?
What planners are included?
What else is included in this bundle? Stickers & Covers, Oh my!
What is a digital planner?
Digital planners are basically a PDF document with hyperlinks throughout that allow you to easily navigate through the planner. Most planners that have many options, daily, monthly, and weekly layouts will have hundreds or thousands of hyperlinks. The hyperlinks are invisible links to other pages. For example, from any page you can click on a monthly tab and it will take you to whichever month you selected.
Hyperlinks are invisible links that bring you to other pages of the planner. For example, if you click on the area in the red circle, it will take you to that week, month, day, home, notebooks, or life planners.
What do you need to be able to use a digital planner?
In order to use a digital planner, you will have to have an Ipad or Android device and compatible stylist for writing. I use an iPad pro and 2nd generation Apple pencil. You will also have to download an annotation app such as Goodnotes, Notability, Noteful, or Xodo (android users). The Goodnotes app has a one time charge of $29.99 or you can choose to pay annually $9.99. (Important note: Goodnotes will not enable hyperlinks on Android, it will not work properly.) Notability is around $14.99 annually for the paid version. Noteful is $4.99 to unlock Noteful pro for lifetime. Xodo is $107.99 for the year or $11.99 a month to unlock Xodo Pro features.
Which annotation app is best?
Now which one should you choose? They each have a free version that you can download and try out. I would definitely recommend checking them out and seeing which features you enjoy and will use the most. I personally have used them all and while I did find that Noteful and Notability did have a feature that Goodnotes did not, I still prefer and recommend Goodnotes to my friends and my customers. Here’s why: Goodnotes is overall the best and most user friendly application for digital planning.
How to navigate through AIW digital planner?
The All is Well Collective digital planner has a year at a glance home screen which you can get to by selecting the HOME tab at the top of the planner. From the Year at a glance screen you can get to any week or daily layout that you’d like with just one tap. There is a monthly page for each month, weekly page for each week, and daily page for each day. From each you can go back to the weekly layout and you can always go to a month from any page. Below you can see how to navigate from the Monthly view, weekly view, the daily layout, Year at a glance (home) and the Notebooks. You can see the hyperlinks are circled in red or gray to show you how easy it is to navigate around the planner.
What planners are included?
The AIW digital planner has monthly, weekly, and daily layouts for each month, week, and day of the year. In addition to the “usual” pages that come in a planner; we’ve created 54 optional planners inside that you can use for total customization for your life. There are six different categories for the lifestyle planners. The Lifestyle planners are the first section and are labeled with the house icon.
Grocery List | Meal Planning | Meal Ideas | Kitchen Inventory | Cleaning Log | Birthdays | Save the Dates | Contacts | Movie Log & Book Log
The Health & Wellness planners are the second section and they are labeled with the Heart Icon.
Habit Tracker | Mood Tracker | Sleep Tracker | Gratitude Journal | Pain/Symptom Tracker | Period Tracker | NFP log | Wheel of Life | Health Log | Dr. Appointment Log
The Fitness & Training planners are third and are labeled with the dumbbell weight icon. I bet you can guess what’s housed here, yep, you got it. Housed here are trackers and logs that show your journey and progress along your fitness journey!
Workout Log | Progress Tracker | Progress Page | Hydration Tracker | Steps Tracker | Pain Tracker | IF (Intermittent Fasting) Tracker | Supplement Tracker | Running Log | Fitness Journey
The Finances & Budget planners are the fourth yet of planners and are labeled with a sack of money icon. Here you can find trackers that will help you save money or help you track where your money is going.
Yearly Finances | Order Tracker | Subscriptions | Debt Tracker | Savings Tracker | Monthly Expenses | Bill Tracker | Wish List
The largest section of our planner is our productivity section. Its the fifth set of planners and is labeled by a chart that’s showing and upward increase. There are 12 planners here since our entire purpose is to help you meet your goals.
Password Tracker | To Do Lists | Goal Tracker | Goal Progress | Study Session | Project Analysis | Daily Routine | Quarterly Goals | 75 hard tracker | Challenge Tracker | Meeting Minutes | Project Management
Last but not least, we have a travel section where you can plan trips, map out vacation days, or just start planning financially for the trip of your dreams
Bucket List| Vacation Days | Trip Planner | Itinerary | Outfit Planner | Family Packing | Must See/Must Do | Travel Budget
What else is included in this bundle? Stickers & Covers, Oh my!
Yes, of course, stickers and covers are included in my digital bundle so that you can customize your planner. There are over 300 stickers and 25 hand drawn covers (made by me) for you to use in your digital planning. The covers were so fun to make and many of them have gold foiling laid into their designs. There are 20 affirmation stickers and some fun household stickers, too! I plan on periodically releasing new sticker packs and I am currently working on sports collection pack. Don’t forget to sign up for our newsletter to be the first to know!
Now you can see that Digital Planning is absolutely worth the hype that’s surrounding it. They’re really easy to navigate and even if you aren’t the most technologically savvy person, you can still use a digital planner to crush your goals this year. This is your year. I believe it and I hope you do too. For a limited time only, click here to get your 2024 All is Well Collective digital planner. Still unsure? Sign up below for a free sample of our planner so you can see exactly how it works and how we can work for you!