Yep, I recently jumped on that bandwagon, and found a fauxdori at Michael’s near Thanksgiving last year. It’s a pretty blue, and it’s the traditional tall and narrow size. I had a 50% off coupon, and figured this would be a great, inexpensive (for once!!) way to test out a new planner. 🙂

It came with 2 “books” (each bound insert is called a book) and a craft-holder book that I immediately took out as it tore when I tried to use it. I purchased two more books and now it’s holding 4.

The covers are basic tan cardboard, unadorned.

There’s a blank book…

One with grids…obviously I decided not to include these here. 😉

And an undated calendar. I like the blank page to the right for notes!

I don’t remember who, but someone mentioned covering the staples in each book with washi tape, so I used heart stickers that I had, and it made it pretty. 🙂 I decided to split each book into two, using each half for a different purpose until I figured out exactly how I wanted to use a faudori. This is my healing work section.

This is the front book, which is basically a notepad.

In the calendar section I decided to pull a Sacred Rebels Oracle card once a week and keep track of it to the right of the daily planner. That ended quickly and now it’s notes for the day, as mentioned above.

I’ve been carrying it with me daily, and to be honest, it’s pretty much turning into just another notebook. I’m using the calendar to note appointments and things, but the rest of the books are filling with notes about different things, and none will end up being important enough to keep long-term, I suspect. I even started one section as a BOS (Book of Shadows), but one, I’m really just now starting to see if witchcraft is a direction I want to go in, and two, it just didn’t feel right. I call myself a patchwork pagan, and I don’t really have a lot of rules for what I do. So instead I bought a 5-subject notebook and it’s become my journal-BOS-of-sorts-important-tarot-spreads-(like for the year, not daily ones)-and-other-things-I-will-actually-want-to-keep-long-term book.

I know many LOVE the flexibility of a ‘dori, and I totally get that. I guess I still haven’t found my “perfect planner”, and I’m beginning to suspect that there isn’t one out there for me. I’ve come to the conclusion that planning isn’t my thing…I’m more of a go-with-the-flow kind of person, and I end up with lots of blank pages in any planner I purchase.

I’m keeping and using the Fauxdori, and when the calendar ends at the end of June, I’ll purchase another to get through the year, but next year, honestly?, I may just buy one of those little thin date books for my purse. 5 years of buying planners and inserts has shown me, without a doubt, that all I really need it one of those and a journal.

I’m keeping my Malden, though. 🙂

©Pip Miller – January 2018