SAVE THE DATE! 2026 Planner Bootcamp
Get ready for 5 days of guided, tactical tips to set up your new planner.
Before the planners get opened and the pages get filled, it’s time for something we look forward to all summer long.
Planner Bootcamp is back! Five days of focused, practical planning — the kind that takes you from blank pages to YOUR system that actually holds. Our team has spent eighteen years figuring out what works, and this week is where we hand all of it to you.
It starts July 28, right here on Substack. We can’t wait.
Here's our schedule:
Tuesday, July 28: Envision Your Year
The power of goals and how to set ones you’ll actually keep
Team Simplified’s goals for the year
You’ll get: Pre-made vision board materials
Together we’ll: Make a vision board inside your planner
Wednesday, July 29: Prepare for New Routines
Why routines work and what they actually look like in real life
How to build rhythms that fit yours
You’ll get: Cleaning routine and home maintenance checklist
Together we’ll: Build better rhythms for the year
Thursday, July 30: Fill In Dates
Color-coding 101 and 10 ways to use your notes section + monthly spreads
Inside Team Simplified’s Planners this year
You’ll get: Perpetual calendar template and community inspo for your planner pages
Together we’ll: Fill out important dates and set up a new system for your year
Friday, July 31: Solve Pain Points
Liz and Lindsey from Team Simplified go LIVE to answer your planning questions!
They’ll tackle FAQs like planning digitally and on paper, tracking long-term to-dos, and actually sticking with it
You’ll get: Collective answers from our Team and our community
Together we’ll: Chat through your biggest planning hurdles
Saturday, August 1: Start a Great Year
How to actually use your Planner
Other systems to help you throughout the year
You’ll get: 10 things to make planning easier and a celebration for completing your week at bootcamp!
Together we’ll: Find confidence to continue planning with intention
In the meantime, we’ve got your packing list! Here are the supplies you’ll need:
Your Simplified Planner
A fresh set of your favorite pens
You’ll also want to start cutting out inspirational words and images from your favorite magazines or newspapers, even your Pinterest board. Think vision board ... 👀
Before we kick off, we want to hear from you. Where do you usually get stuck?
Is it setting goals that feel realistic? Creating routines that don’t fall apart by week two? Figuring out how to schedule a full, unpredictable life with some sense of order? Or is it the follow-through — keeping your planner open and useful past the first few weeks?
Drop your questions, struggles, or best planning practices in the comments. We’re reading every single one.
We can’t wait to kick things off with you. So pack your pouches, and meet us back here July 28. It’s going to be good!
xo, Team Simplified
P.S. If you’re not already a paid subscriber, now is the time.
I swear we just did planner Bootcamp for August 2025-2026 😵💫 how are we here already???
My pain point: is it realistic to keep everything in one planner? Brain dumps, to-do lists, future projects?? For work, I do not use my planner for scheduling, strictly that day’s to-do list. I just get a little overwhelmed when going to planner to notebook to a random sticky note to forgetting where I put the first item. 🤦🏾♀️ Overwhelmed = giving up. Can we talk about building a system or routine to gather this all together in one place?