Every year at new planner launch time (typically May), I get very conflicted about my planner.

I like to keep my previous planners for reference, and even if I’m in school, I prefer to keep to a calendar year schedule. The idea of having all of 2019 in one volume makes me a lot happier than the idea of having July 2019 – June 2020 in a volume.

But, FOMO….

When Launch Day arrives and people begin posting their images of the new planner designs, I really want to use the new style and patterns along with everyone else, but my calendar year planner doesn’t change until 6 months later. What to do?

My friend, Kristin, sympathized with me, but told me that she finally switched to an academic year schedule so she can always have the new patterns as soon as possible. I was nearly convinced to do the same, and a little disappointed that I had already purchased my 2020 planner in an 18 month style and ripped out the duplicate July-December 2019 pages. Now, I’ll have to wait an entire year until next Launch Day to flip over… Right?

Well, I think I’ve come up with a plan that will work for me!

I still had the July-December 2019 pages that I had snipped out of my new 2020 planner sitting on my desk. Since they were snipped, I could just pop them into my 2019 planner and use those pages for July going forward! Now, I can have my planners remain in a calendar year bind up, but have the old style from January-June, and the new style from July-December! I’ll just have to uncoil/recoil my planners when I get the new one every year at Launch – no problem.

This is the current look of my hybrid planner. I could have taken all of the pages out of the new planner, so that I had cohesive monthly spreads, but I had left those in the new planner along with the new goal setting pages. I may decide that this bothers me and transfer those pages over to my 2019 planner as well. For now, I’m not too concerned about it.

The first half of 2019 will be the Woven Wonder pattern:

And the second half of 2019 will be the Kaleidoscope pattern:

As I was writing this post, I realized that there’s about 0% chance of me opening my 2020 planner just for the goal planning pages, so I moved those over to my 2019 Frankenplanner. This is the final look:

I think this is going to be a great solution for me!