Customizing My Erin Condren Content Planners 💖📖 Vertical & Compact Vertical Frankenplanner

It's almost halfway through the year, which means planner and system resets! One of my favorite things to do is customize Erin Condren planners by taking them apart and putting them back together - aka Frankenplanning.

Today, I'm frankenplanning my two main content calendars. I'll be using a vertical, compact vertical, and some notebooks in my Sarra Cannon content calendar. I'm using a vertical teacher planner and a notebook or two for my Heart Breathings content planner.

This process took several hours, but I'm showing you ALL the behind-the-scenes today. Enjoy!

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:27 What I'm Doing
10:35 Teacher Planner
14:58 The Process
18:22 Taking The Notebook Apart
21:49 Uncoiling the Planners
23:25 My Thought Process
38:24 Which Coil
45:38 Recoiling My SC Planner
54:22 Teacher Frankenplanner
1:13:00 Coiling It Up
1:18:00 Final Look

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Heart Breathings, Episode 497

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[HeartBreathings]

For some reason my announcement email went out on Eastern time, so it was an hour early! We are live now! Enjoy!

[elisabethsimmons]

"Because I want to." is the best and totally valid answer to why you would want to franken-plan. I think I will remember that when I am getting questioned on why I spend time decorating my planners every week. There is not always a need to excuse how you want to spend your time. Why did I watch this whole video even though I don't franken-plan? Because it was fun and I wanted to. Great video.

[JeremyCouture]

I loved this video!!! It's funny I got even more excited when I saw how long it was LOL I was like Sarra made a MOVIE!!!! LOLOLOLOL 🤣💜😍 💜🍒💜

[SallySueSaywhatagain]

I can never get enough of planner setup videos. I would probably never do it myself (looks like faaaar to much work, and as much as I i love planners, I'm not busy enough to actually need or use them), but watching others do it is my favorite form of inspirational procrastinating!

[juliegolick]

It's always fascinating to me how differently we approach the tools we use. You often find a tool (planner page, particular spread etc.) and ask "what can I use this for?", whereas I'm often thinking, "I want a very particular thing – let me figure out how to make/find exactly the thing that's in my brain." (Sometimes it doesn't exist, and then I am very sad.) So fun to see how different brains work!

[DianaGalindoAuthor]

Lmao I love Sarra asking, “what do they use in the warehouse??”

[xocoolchickxo]

Please make these videos every year I honestly love the process ❤🎉😊

[BNris]

I don't think I have the patience to do a coil rework like this, but I love seeing how it would work, and gearing your logic/reasoning for what would or wouldn't work for you.

Videos like this are awesome for my own personal productivity, whether I'm at work or at home when I watch/listen, cause I use them as body doubling. Sarra's working, I should be too!

Thanks for sharing, hope you and your family have a great (and safe!!!) 4th of July!

[PartlySunnyToday]

Oh my gosh, I've never tried to frankenplan before, but I did it with you today! I'm pretty excited about the results - I repurposed parts of an EC monthly planner and now I have NINE months for my Writing! Thanks for putting this out!

[k.ande.southworth]

Tool Magic Solution - Rubber Coating Dip for Pliers and Jewelry Tools -- it's at micheals the art store usually. you can coat your pliers

[beccaplans]

Am I the only one who started screaming at my phone bc you went the wrong way with the rainbow coil?! Lol ❤😂

[suzisaintjames]

17:44 I don't have those planners, but I was thinking that instead of a binder clip for your archive volumes, you could "sew" a piece of yarn though the holes.

You wouldn't need a needle. Just dip the first 2-inches or so of the yarn in some school glue and twist into a point (you may have to hold it for a few seconds to keep the tip from untwisting. But as soon as it gets tacky enough you can let go). Place on a piece of wax paper or parchment or even a silicone mat to keep from gluing it to your table whilst the glue dries. Once dried use it like a shoelace to sew a yarn "coil" on your notebook. 💖🌞🌵😷

[melissasnyder]

Love your long videos - would love a planner video too.

[aktarango]

Thank you ! I enjoyed every minute of your process 😊

[jeanneadams]

💜 Love seeing your process and how you think this through. I wouldn't do it - at least not this way and with these coils - but it inspires me to do more customization with my own planner processes!! Would LOVE to see an update of how you're using the pages and if you find that you use them as you intended, or if the process morphed. Thanks!

[KatherineWilkerson]

Looks great, you even cover most of the color from the grey divider. :)

[ShellysCreativeLife]

I enjoyed the video and got some wonderful nuggets of advice to help me with my creative life. The main thing I’m going to do is have a planner for my writing life and a planner for my content creation. I was just wondering why my planner was so cluttered. Bingo! Thank you, Sarra! 💜

[t.a.creech]

I'm a "One Planner to Rule Them All" kind of person, but you're FrankenPlanner videos give me so many ideas on stuff to add to my planner. Keep 'em coming. Would love to see these planners as they get used and, of course, ALL the FrankenPlanners. All day long. They're the best to watch while I'm working on setting up mine. Thank you Sarra!

[SIMulatedSara]

I love this video and it’s length. I just signed up to be an EC insider! I’ve seen you in so many other people use their products, but I’ve never felt tempted myself. But with my birthday coming up, and all of the welcome coupons they send, I may be making a few purchases to use up all my coupon codes 😅 I hope you have fun with this new planner, and I can’t wait to see how it’s going in your notebook challenge videos

[hollychristensen]

This was so helpful to see your step-by-step process! I'm a visual learner, so I very much appreciate seeing you put them together while hearing your thought process! ❤ Thank you Sarra!