Stuck between a minimalist spread and a full art page, chose the middle path
My January setup was a disaster because I kept flip flopping. I finally drew a simple weekly grid on the left page and a small mood tracker with washi tape on the right, no doodles. It took me like 15 minutes each Sunday now, down from an hour before. Anyone else find that mixing super plain and slightly decorated pages works better than going all in? I'm in Portland if that matters for how I handle winter layouts.
Wait, the Portland thing, that's actually backwards lol. Winter here is all about the gray and rain, so people usually add MORE color and light to their pages, not less. I know a bunch of folks who switch to brighter washi and warm tones come November just to fight off the gloom. If anything the mix you landed on makes sense for a different reason, which is that you actually stick with it instead of burning out. The weather isn't really the factor there, it's just that an hour every Sunday was too much for anyone to keep up.