Making My Own Planner Pages

For calendars and weekly pages, I am a fan of pre-made inserts. (Specifically, I like Franklin Covey Compact undated Flourish inserts. Colorful, with lots of writing space and a great horizontal weekly layout.)

But for a while now, I've been using graph paper, two-sided, as my dashboard and scratch paper. It's cheap to print and easy to measure and cut.

Yesterday, I decided on a simple tweak that makes the pages look less busy, but still gives me the elegant lines of graph paper to work with.

Basically, I only print the graph paper on the back of the page.

The result? Perfectly straight, orderly writing, clean pages, and a happy planner. In this picture, you can see how the graph lines are viewable through the page, but faded since they are on the opposite side from the writing.

Etcetera.