Design a Digital Planner for Goodnotes in Affinity Designer V1 + Keynote

1. Course Intro: Hi everyone and welcome to Meletus sculpture class. I'm John was on and I will be your teacher for this course. I'm a freelance graphic designer, illustrator and educator based out of the Midwest and I run Bella and Sophia Creative Studio. You may know me from my previous courses right here and skill share or from my YouTube channel to freelance life. Whereas share behind the scenes of running my creative business as well as creative design and art tutorials. Aside from my work in graphic design and illustration, I really enjoy planning. I've shared previous classes on how to create your own digital stickers for digital planning, as well as how to create your own digital planner using affinity publisher. But for this class, I wanted to share another way that you can create your own digital planner using Affinity Designer and keynote on your desktop. I wanted to share some of my tips, my knowledge and help you build a digital planner that you can customize to your own needs. I also find that digital planners are less intimidating as you don't feel so much pressure when you're creating spreads in them because you can always just undo. And finally, digital planners, a bit more eco-friendly than your traditional paper players as you can reuse them over and over and over again. And they really make planning on the ghost super-simple as you really don't need anything else other than your iPad and a stylus. So what is this class about? In this class, you will learn how to create a digital planner and Affinity Designer. I like using Affinity Designer for creating planners and principles because it's really easy to create with it. 0s engraved precise shapes, spaces evenly as vector aspects to the shapes and export them super simply. While Affinity Designer doesn't have the linking function that affinity publisher does, you can still link your pages in an applet keynote and then export that final file, a PDF for use in something like good notes. It's also really easy to add dates to the planner and keep the numbers and shapes properly aligned using the align tool that we're gonna go over this in the class, you can choose to create either a dated or an undated planner as your class project. I'm going to outline options for both, but we're basically going to be creating an undated version just so that it's easier for people to update as they work through it. And this course is really a fantastic class to really hone in on your layout design skills and get more comfortable with Affinity Designer as you're going to be going through the whole basic process of creating in the program. And then you get a nice tangible product at the end that you can use. 2. What You Will Learn: So what are some of the skills students will learn? You will learn how to create your own digital planner in Affinity Designer, we will start with the basics of understanding the toolbars and the functions and the Affinity Designer workspace. Then we're going to start to build out our digital planner. You're going to learn how to design basic layouts, create pages, get an understanding of the layers function in the program. Learn how to create tabs, and that of course, we're going to learn how to link those tabs to pages in your layout within keynote. We will also go over how to use the shape tools, that line tool, and how to use the Move and align functions. In Affinity Designer, you're gonna get a better understanding of the layer effects tools and how to add things like embarassing and shadows just to make items spill a little bit more realistic in 3D, we will learn how to create basic buttons and icons. And then we will get your file linked up in Keynote. Then we'll go over how to export your file for use in note-taking apps like good notes. I'll show you how to load it into the app on your iPad and show you a few basic things in there. And then you'll be ready to use your digital planner. So to make things a little easier, I will be including the class project Affinity Designer template that you can edit and get acquainted with before you start your own in the resources section of this class. I'm also going to include a PDF that you can use. And if you want to check out some of my other digital planner products, make sure you check out my shop on Etsy, it's called Bella and Sophia creative. You can also check out the Pinterest board, lengthen it created with tons of digital planner inspiration. 3. Your Course Project : For our class project, we are going to be creating a digital planner. You're essentially going to create a sixth spread layout featuring a cover page, a goal planning spread, a weekly spread amongst the spread, a daily spread, and a meeting and note spread. I also throw in some actions like how to create your own note pages in the class project as well. Essentially, you're going to be duplicating your monthly spread 12 times for each month of the year. What we're gonna do all that in Affinity Designer and I'm gonna show you how quick and simply you can do it with the Copy and Paste Function. And then finally, we're going to be linking your file using Keynote to prep it for export and use in your digital note-taking app. Specifically in our case, we're going to be using good notes in this class. But as long as you have PDF reading capabilities in the digital note-taking app you use, whether it's something like zoom notes or one note or something like that, then you should be able to utilize and open up your PDF planner. So who is this class geared towards? Essentially, this class is geared towards anyone who's interested in digital planning from beginners to more advance. Basically, you don't need any prior knowledge or experience using the Affinity Designer software as i'm gonna be showing you the basics to help you get comfortable with using the software and working with the apps. I do think that some very basic technical abilities will be needed. So for your class, deliverables will make sure you share the following. So your planner file might be too big to share in the class gallery. If that's the case, I would suggest taking screenshots of your favorite planner spreads and upload those as jpegs to the class Gallery. You'll probably want to share about two to four spreads and then maybe a screenshot of your covers spread. And then as an optional thing, you can also share a link if you uploaded your final digital planner to something like Dropbox or maybe Google Drive, you can share a link to the file if you're willing to share it with your classmates. 4. The Basics of Affinity Designer: We're going to start off just getting comfortable and use to the basics of the menu bar and the toolbars and Affinity Designer. And the first thing we're gonna wanna do is basically set up our files. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna go into the top menu and we're going to click on file. And we're going to select new. And then we are going to change our document in it, whatever it is in your system right now, I have millimeters and then change it to pixels. And we are going to be designing this for use in an iPad. So it doesn't have to be super, super huge, but they do want it to be high-quality. So we'll keep our dpi at 300. But we're going to change our width to 1600 pixels. And we're going to change our height to 2 thousand pixels. We want to make sure we click on create art board or orientation is going to be portrait. We're gonna keep our color format at RGB 32. I like to have more high-def, just so that I get a good variety of colors. I am going to create a transparent background. And then we can just hit create. And before we do anything, I'm going to create an additional art board, one for each spread that we're gonna be working on, we're going to have a total of six, but if you want to have additional, that's fine as well. So what I'm gonna do is on the left-hand side of our toolbar, right underneath our black arrow tool, which is our selection tool or move tool. That will be the heart port tool. If you click on it, it allows you to add additional art boards. You'll see a little pop-up right underneath your top menu. And right next to the word art board, you'll be able to change the size and then you can select insert art board. So what I'm gonna do is just keep it as document, which means it's basically going to just copy the exact dimensions of my main document. And then I'm gonna hit Insert. I'm gonna do this for the number of spreads I have. So six art boards total. You might want to add an extra because this first art board, I'm going to have a, she's kind of play around with getting used to the different elements and the toolbars. So I would say create seven our boards. And this first one will be the R word that we use at the very beginning here, just to kind of get used to working with the different tool sets. So let's look at our menu bars and our Toolbars on each side of our screen. The very top is your basic menu. If you click file, you'd be able to save open export files, review your documents, setups, and print at it. You'll be able to do your typical copy and paste. That's mostly what we'll be working with, as well as duplicate. Our text options will be next. And if you don't see any of your character tools in your right-hand side, you can click on the Show character and it'll pull up those options for revising and editing your text. You'll also be able to adjust character traits like bold, italic, underline. You can increase the size. Play around with the spacing, adjusts your alignment, and your different types of letting. We'll play around too much with that, but we might use it just a bit. The next option is your layer options. This is where you'll be able to group layers, add new layers. You can arrange layers in terms of the placement of them. So just like what you might be used to in Affinity Photo or if you work in InDesign or affinity publisher or Adobe Photoshop. Same kind of concepts of layers, whatever you place on top that's going to cover what's on the bottom. Unless you edit things like opacity. Alignment is something that we'll be using a lat, You can use the align tools here, as well as the online tools in this middle menu bar here. But if we go back to layer, you'll also be able to utilize the geometry functions which allows you to add and subtract and intersect shapes, transform. You can adjust your layer effects as well. And I think that Gaussian blurs, shadows, drop shadows, colour overlays, ingredient overlays. But typically you'll also see those actions on the right-hand side here. And we'll go through that in a moment. You'll be able to also select and select all within the Select Menu. And then view allows you to see things like margined bleeds if you want to show your grid. And it also updates, you're snapping manager. And then basically the Studio, which is a toolbar on the right hand side, do your studio section and allows you to select the different elements that you want to have in that area. So being able to edit the stroke your character, the same kind of stuff that you see in that top menu. You should be able to access the actual visual aspects of those on the right-hand side in your studio. And that of course, within your window you can zoom in, zoom out, toggle your full screen. And then what's really nice is the help functions. You can search for different things. Within the affinity helped there's tons of different tutorials and supports, things like that. They have a great set of resources for people who are just getting started with Affinity Designer for desktop. So I would highly suggest after this video, if there's other things you want to learn, definitely check out some of the tutorials on the affinity website. Alright, so now that we've looked at our main menu, I'll want to head over to the left-hand side to look at our tools. And then we'll jump into our studio sections. So if we're looking at this, we're likely to be using the most is the Move tool, our tool, our pen tool, and that are shaped tools in our text tool. The rest of this stuff, if you're interested in creating things like digital stickers, I have a fantastic class called how to make digital planner stickers work and notes in Affinity Designer for desktop. I highly suggest that because they go a lot more into depth and detail with some of these additional tools like the paintbrush tool, the vector brush tool, things like that. So first is our moved tool on this basically allows us to move. We can move our art board around, but we could also move the elements within our board. So let's go all the way down to our Shape tool. If you click on the Rectangle tool, circle tool. A rounded rectangle tool and then you can see a triangle tool for me, but it might be something different for huge depending on whatever was the last item you used. But we hold down on that. You'll see the option to create tons of other shapes as well. But we're just gonna go to the rectangle tool to start. And we're going to use your mouse, click on our art board and drag out. And that's going to create a rectangle for us. Depending on if you have your color swatches turned on or if you have a fill, if you go over to the right-hand side and you click on your swatches, you can actually change the fill color to any of the colors that you have in your swatches. It might just be your system colors if you're just doing this for the first time or whatever you used most recently. So I'm just gonna turn this orange so you can see what I'm doing. And then we're gonna go back to our toolbar and click on that little black arrow tool to move tool. And we're going to click on our rectangle that we just created and we're going to move it around. You can also adjust the size, the width of it as well by pulling on these little nodes that you see on each of the planes. And I'm just going to move this to the upper left hand side. I'm going to then go down to the circle tool and I'm going to create a circle. What's nice is if you hold Shift while you're doing this, it will keep everything in proportion and give you a perfect circle. And then you can let go of shift after you're done creating the shape, you can go to your rounded rectangle and do the same thing. And what's really nice is that you could actually adjust the roundness of the shape. We're going to click on our black girl told the Move tool and we're going to double-click on our shape. And what you'll notice is if you zoom in really closely and your upper left hand corner, you'll get this little red dot, which is basically a note adjustment. And if you click on that data and you drag your mouse or your pet out, it will decrease how wide your rounded corners are. So you couldn't have them rally around or you can drag them out, have just slightly rounded. So we're likely going to be using that a lot today as well. And then underneath that is our toolbar that allows us to pick kinds of different shapes. So if we click on it, in this case, I can create a triangle. And then I can actually adjust the angle of the triangle again by clicking on that little red dot, which is the node. And that if I hold down on the shape menu, it'll give me my pop up with all the different other shapes that are included. So let's look at a few of these that are interesting that allow you to kind of play around with and all that. So I'm gonna select the cod tool. With this one, you can adjust all the different areas. So like the center, the shape of the path, how wide or how far in it comes. So what you'll do to do that is just Click on the little red dots. And so we're gonna do the center. I'm gonna pull this center out of it so that it's thinner. And then I'm going to adjust the width of the cod. And then I'm going to adjust the curve of that insight section of the COG. And then I'm going to adjust the width of the flat part of the outside of that. And then it allows you just to basically edit rises to work for what your needs are. And like using these shapes often for logo design in different elements. It's just very simple, easy to use. And you can still Latin multiple elements. So like in this case, I'm going to select all of the COG and a circle inside. So I'm gonna select the Move tool and I'm gonna drag over both. And it's going to select both and themselves able to move them together. And then I can also group these. So I can right-click and I can select group. And it's going to group these elements together within my layers. And basically grouping just allows me to have these two elements together at all times. And I'm not raster arising them or anything like that. But stuff we go into layers on the right-hand side and your studio, what you'll notice is that these two elements are now in a group, but they're not flattened or anything. You can still separate them out. This just makes it a lot easier to move the elements together if you want to keep them together. So again, let's just select another shape and then we're going to review how to add color. We're going to just select this star and that'll hold shift so I can create a perfect star. And then with the star too, you can adjust the nodes as needed. You can address how far in or out your angles go. Whether or not you want your points to be rounded. And how far out you want your angles within the inset points to go it. So in order to change the color of this now image to make sure it's selected. You'll note selected because it has this ramp or it has this blue frame around it. And then I'm gonna go over to my studios. And if you don't have this, you can click on color. I'm entry you don't have this. You can just go to your view and then go to your studio and then just make sure color is checkmarked. And then you'll see your color options. You can either work within your color options or you can select swatches and nice watches that are saved or that you have preloaded into your computer. Like I have Pantone colors preloaded to, I can utilize those. Well for now, we're just going to use the colour wheel. What you can do is play around with the color within the fill. Fill is the full circle and the outline is basically like the donut shape. So anything that goes in to the donut shape, it's going to create a stroke around here. Element. And then anything that isn't here and the full circle is going to be your color fill. So you can have outlined if you want, or you can choose not to have an outline just depends. But you can update colors and fill within this colour wheel and it just makes it really simple. And then you can always save colors as well into your splashes. So you'll see if you click on your swatches, your most recent color options will pop up in your recent colors. And then what you can do is just hit the little plus icon here that's next to your color drop-down and it will add that color to your color swatches so you always have access to them and you can kind of create a color library that you can go ways that you can always reference back to as you're working. Alright, so now what I wanna do is look at our pen tool really quickly. Basically, the pen tool is just like what the pen tool is in something like Adobe Illustrator. It allows you to create shapes with points. And often it's used when vectorizing illustrations. So you can make any type of shape, you can make curves. It's a fun tool to work with, but it does take some practice. So we're most likely going to be utilizing it to create lines and line segments. So you don't have to worry too much about the busier curves and things like that, but I do want to show you how that works. So I want to make sure that my swatch is filled with a color and I'm gonna change it from a fill to a stroke. And I'm going to make sure that I'm not, I don't have my previous shapes elected so that it doesn't affect that shape itself. I'm going to select the Pen tool. And what you'll see is because we're working with a stroke up in the upper left hand corner underneath our main menu bar, you'll see fill and stroke. And then next that you'll have a drop-down menu. This is where you can edit and adjust the stroke width of your element that you are creating. So I'm going to increase this to about 0.9. You can change it from just a straight line to a dashed line. You can add textures, things like that. That's a change, that cap style. And we'll go over that in a moment, but I just want to keep it a straight line. And then what we'll do is you'll click on one section of your board hold shifts so that you create a straight line and then click on another section. And it's going to create a line segment for you. And what you'll notice is I have kind of like a curved and what's nice is you can go into this stroke element, stroke editor here, and you can change your capsule right now my cap is rounded, but if I click on about cap, it's going up right to whatever it is. And there's also a square cap which kind of goes beyond the end of the point. Then you could also create curves with these lines as well. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna create another segment. We're going to create a curve written, make sure Pen tool selected. We're going to go to our mode that's right next to our stroke options here. And we are going to select Smart mode. This basically helps the The Pen tool know that we're gonna be working with curves. So we're going to click on one end towards the middle and then run a click and Gad and kind of like curve it downwards. And you'll see that it helps create this curve. And what we get is this little box here that allows us to adjust the curvature of that line. So you can just pull it out. It'll just the curve to one side. You can pull it in and create more of like a zigzaggy style curve. But this is just, again, it's an option that once you get more comfortable with it, you can actually outline artwork, trying things like that. You can adjust the curve at the end as well. And these are just called Beziers curves and allows you to Lake create shapes that are a little bit more organic versus just linear. Alright, so now that we played around with curves, so we're going to create a different line type now. So we're gonna go back to our pen tool. We're going to go into our stroke options and then we're gonna change it from just the plane line to a dashed line so we can see what the data looks like and you'll be able to adjust the dash segments as well. So right now says 1100, I'm going to keep it as it is like that. Then we're gonna go back and edit them so you can see what these dashed lines look like with different lists and sizes. So I'm just going to take one of my board hold shift to another end and I'm going to then go into my dashed line. So once I've adjusted my width, I've selected dash. I'm gonna go into my dashed functions and I'm going to change it from 10 or 110021212. This should give us a nice dashed line. So pick on one end of your board will shift and then click on the next time. And then you'll see you've created a dashed line. We don't have to make up this big and thick, but I just wanted to be able to have you see as I'm working on this screen. But we will likely be using these in our layouts as well. Now I want to play around with the layer effects. So what we're gonna do is we're going to select one of the shapes that you've created. You can hit command c to copy it or you can go up into edit and you can duplicate it. And then you can just drag it down or go away from the main shape. I'm going to bring this over to the left. And what we're gonna do is we're gonna play with the layer of fat. So basically this is where you can add shading. You can add colour overlays, you can add drop shadows, inner shadows, things like that. So we saw that up in the layers functions and then you can scroll down to layer effects. But you should also be able to see them in your layer studio over here on the right-hand side. So if you go all the way down to the bottom, you'll see something that looks like an F and an ax. That's your layer effects and that you'll get this popup. And basically, you can add different options like a drop shadow, Babylon boss, color overlay, gradient overlay, things like that. So let's just do an outer shadow for right now. These are really great to use an elements that you want them to seem like they're popping off the page. Uses a lot with digital stickers just to kind of add a bit of a 3D element. So what we'll do is we're going to keep our blood mode on multiply. We're going to keep our opacity at 50% for now. And we're going to change is the radius, the offset, and our intensity. And we can adjust the angle as well, just keep the color black for now. You can make it gray brown whenever you want to make it that as I'm not as extreme, but for now I'm not going to be able to see it, so I'm gonna keep it as black color. So let's first adjusts our radius. So basically this is how far out it goes from the original shape. And you can already see that you have this kind of blurred out effect. And then you can adjust your offset, which basically kind of offsets it at an angle. So if you want it to look like lighting is coming from a certain direction, you would want to keep in mind your offset and the angle that you're using. And then of course, the intensity is how dark it is. So the higher the intensity is, the darker your shadow is going to be. Finally the angle. You can adjust the angle by rotating this little purple mine. Of course, an angle at 0 is going to give you kind of like hiding from the left and your shell to the right. You can angle it a bit more down to the lower right-hand side. You can angle it up, down whichever option you want. I'm gonna keep minds at 315 degrees, and then I'm gonna hit close. So this kinda gives us a really interesting effect. We can also add a color overlay. So let's duplicate this again and then pull it over. And I'm going to go back into my layer effects and I'm going to do a color overlay. So if you ever overcome with something like a PNG or a file that you, you don't maybe have the original four and you want it to be recolored, you can end it is like a PNG or SVG kind of file where there's no background. This is a great option to recover something so you can click on color overlay and whatever the color is in the color picker as what you're out for your overlay is going to be, but you can change it to whatever you want it to be. That you can even do things like add noise to it. It looks a little bit more textured. And then the last thing I wanted to keep everything so whacked it, I want to do a bevel and embossed. This basically gives kind of dimension. If we click on this, kind of makes it look more like a button. So if you select emboss, it's going to be more, more like oh, raised item. Whereas if you do pill load, it's going to look more like it's kind of like indented into something. So if you're going to add something like thread elements to your, to your book or to your journal. Or if you're gonna add thread elements to something like the outside or the cover of your planner. Utilizing the pillow type would be great because it makes it look as if it's like a thread being pushed through leather or whatever. The cover is supposed to be on your on your planner cover. So this is just another option again. Can it gives like a 3D effect, things like that. And then you can get close. I'm gonna copy that original star that I made and I'm gonna pull it over. The last effect I'm going to look at is a Ghazi him Bueller. Basically this just kinda blurs out your, your element and its shape. So Gaussian blur is really great for image manipulation. It can also help in terms of digital painting as well. If you're blurring out elements and try to combine and smudge colors together. That works really well to shadow effects as well, because you can blur something out underneath and then we'll layer that shape on top. And it will create an even more kind of illuminated but shadowed effect. So it's just another option to work with and play around with as you're designing these things. Now the next thing I want to look at is adding tax. That's going to be the basis of what we're going to be working on today. We'd be working with shapes, text, and lines. So if you scroll all the way down to the bottom of your toolbar, you'll see something that looks like an a. You might see a letter a or you might see a letter T. A is basically the Artistic Text tool. And then the T is the frame text tool. If you click on the a, basically, it gives you the option to create text without any limitations. Whereas the text frame, it requires you to keep the text within that frame shape. So if you select the a, you can click on your art board and drag out. We'll give you the option to type text. So I'm just going to type hello. And then you can actually select this by double-clicking with your cursor. And then up here in the menu bar, you'll be able to see within your drop-down, you have options for changing the type of text that you are, the type of font that you use for this text. So I'm just going to use this allele o for now. And then you can change the font type. So if the font that you've selected has different typefaces within its type family. You can change out from light to regular to tell it to bold. And then you can also change the height of it as well. And then just like you can do with the shapes, you can add things like drop shadows as well to the type. So keep this selected, go back to your Layers panel, select effects, and then click on outer shadow. And then again play around with your radius and your offset, and your intensity. And you can give yourself a nice little drop shadow within your texts, which gives just like a fun little effect of 3D kind of styling to it. So now we're gonna change it from the Artistic Text Tool Tour Frame Text tool. And what you'll see is you're going to create a frame. And then the type will basically fit within that frame. And you'll see it won't go beyond that frame. So if you want to increase how much it's gonna go across, you'll need to adjust the frame if you want to decrease it from an increase how long it is in terms of the length that you're giving your body type. You can basically adjust the frame for all of this. And then same as with the artistic tech tool, you can just selected, double-click everything to select. And then you can go into your font and you can select a different font. And then you can change the size of it as well. Decrease, increase. And then same as with the artistic textual. You can do things like adding a fax, like drop shadows and like. You just want to keep in mind readability when working with these effects. And then you can enclose. The next thing that you might want to work with is perhaps adding some sort of visual element like a picture to your layouts. This is a really simple function. One year working in Affinity Designer. What you'll do is you're gonna go into file and you're going to select Place. And then you're gonna go to your downloads and whatever image you have, you can select it open and then you'll get this little pop-up with a downward facing arrow click and it will place your image. This is an image of my absolutely adorable, pity Ellie. What you'll wanna do, my picture is quite large, so I'm gonna have to scale it down. So to scale it down, I'm going to select command and then just pull in from my edges with commands, they'll select it and that's kinda resize my image in proportion to its original size, but allow me to fit it within the constraints of my art board. You can also crop images if you want. So if you go back to your toolbar right underneath the place image tool. So I did file place, but he could also do place image and basically bypasses the old additional clicks that you need to do. And you can click on your image and hit open. It's the same kind of concept, but underneath that is your crop tool. And basically the crop tool allows you to crop an image within your art boards. So what you'll see is that you get these kind of like edge markers. And what you'll do is you can pull in and crop your image to whatever size you need it. So I'm going to keep this, I'm going to kind of deal flow scrap. So it's more of like a square. And this is LA, looking at me every morning. Look, while I'm eating my breakfast. This is the face she gives v. Alright, so there you go. So we've added a picture. My process was File Place, then select your image and hit open. But you can also just select the place image tool here. And then you can find your picture, hit open click instead of your art board, and it'll place the image for you. So this works really well tooth you'd have like little icons that you want to use for your layouts and things like that. Alright, so now I kinda wanna get into the right-hand side little studio panel. We're likely going to be using most courses, the layers, the effects, your character, which is where you can edit your fonts. You can edit it under texts as well. But you can also edit within that character layer two. So I'm gonna go back to my hello. I'm just going to click on it and I'm going to select it. And what you'll see here is that you can change your funds here and the characters Studio. You can also do things like add underlines and then you can play around with the letting in the Kerning and your baseline, which in Europe as well. So if we click on this, we click on this little section here. This is your tracking, basically is how I depart. Your letters are. If you click on this little eight here to suit your baseline and allows you to adjust where the base bottom portion of your font is. You can raise it up or decrease it. And then this function here is you're letting override. You can adjust the lettering by hand as well. And then this is your horizontal scale. In your vertical scale, you can also do things like strikethrough. You could add like your, make sure you have not just your standard ligatures, but any additional elements that you need, like ordinals, fractions, superscript all caps or small cap. So it can, it can change it for you so that it's all caps or that it is all caps but in a smaller version. So I'm going to remove some of these just so that it's easier to read. Then you could also change the color as well. So if you go back up to your swatches or your color wheel, you didn't change the color. When it's everything that's still selected, you can adjust your stroke as well if you have a stroke on your text or you can remove the stroke here by selecting that whenever you want to remove a color in your stroke or in your bill, you just click on that little white circle with a red strikethrough and that's going to remove elements so it'll remove color from your stroke. Or in this case, it can remove color from you have to fill. You can also work with the brush tool. We're not gonna do a lot with this, but it is here in the layer. So if you go back to your toolbar here, you click on factor brush tool. You'll have all these different options of brush strokes to play around with. And there's tons of different types of brushes to work from. Pencil brushes, markers, washes, acrylics, dry media, oils. And then you can actually create kind of like a vector-based stroke width. This is, can be really fun if you're adding some creative artistic elements are satellites, elements to your layout designs. But the big area that I really want us to look at Aside from layers is actually our Align panel. And this is going to be under our center area here. What I'm gonna do is I'm going to copy this rectangle once more and drag it down. And then I'm going to copy this triangle once more, paste it and copy it down. And say you want it, this triangle and this rectangle to match exactly at the bottom, you want it to be aligned right at the bottom. What we can do is utilize our line functions for this. So I'm going to select my black arrow or most tool. I'm gonna lacked books, the rectangle and the triangle. And if you're having issues doing this, I suggest working from outside of the airport and dragging over or you can just click the first one, hold Shift and then click on the second one and it's going to select both of them. No, it's selected is the both be outlined in blue? And then what we'll do is we can go to these Alliance function so we can align left, we can align centers, we can align right. We can align top. We can align to the middle and it can align to the bottom. So if we click here and if you don't see these, but you do see this up here, it's the same kind of, same kind of function. So we can just align horizontally or we can align vertically. And usually with vertically aligned to the top or the bottom. In this case it's, we want to align bottom. We're gonna click on a line bottom. And it'll basically align these shapes exactly to where we want them to be. And this is really helpful when we're setting up spreads and we have to have numbers or text all aligned in the same place every single time. We can also lock different sections of our layer. So in case we don't want this to be able to be moved, we can select both of them just as I showed earlier, click one will shift, click another or you can just drag over both. And then what we can do is that we can group them together as we did before, go to layer and select group. And then we can lack this layer itself by selecting the little lack in our Layers icon area. And this will lack this group so that we can move it and it can't be moved. So this is really helpful too as we're working through designing spreads and layouts. Sometimes we have a section that's perfect. We don't want to be able to touch it and, you know, if you're working sometimes things can get moved. It just makes sense TO lock it in place. You can always unlock it by clicking the unlock button. And you'll see the slack because it has this little lock on the layer itself. So you can just double-click it to unpack it. For just click the little lock icon to lock it again. And it just makes sure that it doesn't get moved. Alright, so the last bit that I want to look at is how to save the file. And then we'll actually go through exporting it completely at the end of the whole project. So first, what we'll do is I like to save continuously as I work. It's just a rule of thumb because technology can sometimes be unpredictable. Sometimes programs crash on you and you don't want to lose a ton of work because of a program crashing. So I always suggest saving every five minutes if possible. I know that seems like overkill. But you'd understand if you've ever been watching a student working on a project for an entire quarter and then lose all their work. So at least you know, if you're saving every five to ten minutes, every 15 minutes, then you have the most recent work that you're that you're working on. So to save your file, you're gonna go to file at the very top menu. Save As. And then you can name it whatever you want. You can name it your name. And then the project name. So Affinity Designer, planner, and then the month and year a year. And you can save it wherever you need to. I'm gonna save it in my external drive for now. Because I want to be able to give you guys this tablet. And I have a section are already set up for the project sample. So I'm gonna save it here. And that saves our file. And then we'll go through the export in more detail. But to export the file as a PDF, all you do is you'll go to file as well and then export. And then you'll select PDF. And then you wanna do PDF, digital high-quality so that our links and things like that work. And then we're going to basically export each individual art board on its own because that'll be placing it into Keynote to create our links. All right, now we're going to jump into setting up the file for our planner and beginning the whole design process. Now that we're more comfortable with the different tools and toolbars within Affinity Designer. 5. Designing Your Planner Cover: Now that we're done with our board one, let's jump on over to our port two, we can begin to design our planner cover. The first thing you're gonna wanna do is update the color. You can just select your flack Move tool, click on the board, and then goatee or colors or your swatches, and then update the color. I'm gonna go for a grey color so that I can keep it neutral and it can be used by a wide variety of different kinds of people or anyone who likes this color set. And then a one I'm done with that. I want to actually create kind of like stitches around the covers, the similar to what you might see in a leather bound type cover. I want to have stitches that look like they're going into the page. So I'm gonna utilize my pen tool. And then I'm gonna change my stroke to a dotted line with a 1-to-1 to measurement. And then I'm just going to follow, giving myself some space. The actual art board around. I'm gonna zoom in just so that you can see what this looks like. And then we're gonna go to the layer effects. I'm gonna select the bevel and emboss. And then I'm going to update my radius and going to soften this a bit. And what you'll see is this kind of makes it seem as if the stitches are kind of going into the page. And I'm a play around with the direction of the light because it just kinda gives it a different view, whether you have it angled up and to the right or down into the left. And then I am going to soften my blend mode and adjust my screen just so that it's a little less opaque. You think I like how this looks. I do wanna adjust the width of this lake so that it's a little bit closer to the edge. So I'm just going to use my black arrow tool, my move tool. I'm going to drag the handles of the nodes out just a bit so that it's closer to the edge of my cover. Once I'm done with this, I want to give my planner cover kind of like a title. So I'm just gonna say planner. I'm going to use my Artistic Text tool and I'll go back through and adjust the font in a bit, but I'm just going to type out planner and all caps. And I want to make sure that my character doesn't have any special declaration. So I think from the prior practice we had an underlying So just make sure you turn that off. And then I'm gonna type in planner and then I'm going to adjust the color and the type as well. So I'm gonna change my color too late. And then I'm going to go to my font selection. And I'm just going to kind of browse through, See what I like. I wanna go for something a little bit more clean and modern. So I'm likely going to choose a Sans Serif font. And then I might pull in some scripty font just to kind of offset it. I think I'm gonna go with this glyphs core Gothic. And then all I have to do is just resize it a bit so that it's not too big, but it's not so, that's so small. And I've decided to call this the inspired planner. So the idea is just to use it for inspiration this year, this upcoming year. And I just want it to feel like it's something that I can open up and get inspired by daily, whether I'm creating, spreads in it or just writing down my inspired ideas. And then I'm going to add a divider line underneath. I'm gonna go to my pen tool. I'm gonna make sure I change my stroke from a dotted line, just a plain, basic straight line. And then I'm going to increase my width abet to about 1.51 points. Now I want to add a decorative element. So I'm gonna go to my shape tool and I think I'm going to use a star-shaped, but I'm going to adjust it so that it kinda looks like a flower. So I'm going to create my shape by taking my move tool, dragging it out. And then I'm going to adjust the nodes. And I'm gonna take the top node and bring it down so that it rounds out the tips of my star. I like this shape, move it closer to the inspired a planar title. And then I'm going to use my Artistic Text tool to add tax for the year 2021. And then I'm going to play around with the type of the type of font and I'm going to use for this and want something a little bit script here. So I think I'm gonna go with this woman Tuesday. But first I'm going to add a little inspiring message and then I'll type 2021 at the end of it. And I think I'm gonna write great days ahead and then 2021. And then I'm going to drag this down and to the left so that it goes under my texts that says inspired planner. I don't want it to go fully across the length of my planner, I think is just a great way to pull the eyes over to the upper left hand side and draw tangent to where you would typically start reading something. I'm going to zoom out and just make sure everything looks good and then I'm happy before I move on to anything else. All right, so I like the way this looks. Now I'm gonna jump over to our board three so we can begin working on our first layout spread. So basically this is going to be the index page. 6. Designing Your Index Page: What I wanna do is start with creating the base, and this is going to be the base of all of my pages. So unlike what we did with the first cover page, we can't just color the art board because we need to be able to copy it and paste it among all the different art boards. So I'm gonna use the square tool. I'm going to create a square kind of rectangle shape, leaving some space on the right hand edge because that's where our tabs are going to be. And then I'm gonna go to the swatches and update the color so that it's this nice. Wait. I'm then we're going to begin to build this page out and keep in mind this is going to be the basis of all of the rest of the pages of our actual planner. So now the next thing we're gonna do is start to create our tabs. I'm going to select the rounded rectangle tool and I'm gonna select this gray color that I have from my cover. And then I'm gonna create my first tab and make sure it goes all the way to the edge of the board. And that is what I wanna do is adjust the roundness of my corners. So I'm gonna zoom in a bit so that we can get to that little red dot. And I can pull it out so that it's not such a rounded corner. You could also go up to the corner option in the middle of your menu board here to where it says corner, then you see twenty-five percent, you could adjust the corner shaped that way as well. Once I get the shape I lake, I'm gonna copy it and then I'm going to drag it down and then I'm going to recolor it and I'm gonna change it to kinda lighter gray here. And then I'm going to copy that again and then paste it. And then I'm going to drag it down and I'm going to recolor it to kind of like a, like an off-white color. And then basically I'm going to utilize this set of three as a repeating set of tabs. So I don't have to keep doing this one but one. I can just group them all together and copy them and paste them. So I'll click and select my first, uh, hold Shift, select by second, and then select my third and then just edit copy at it piece and then drag them down. And I'll do this to create 12 tabs total, one for each of the months in the year, you may have to adjust the width and the length in order for it to fill out your page. There's just play around with it. I kind of adjust as a go. And what I need to do next is I can go in and add in the shadow of facts so that I can make this field a little bit more 3D. So I'm, I need to add shuttle effects to the white paper and then to the edges of the tabs so that they bounce off one another. So we will click on paper first and then we'll go into our layer effect. And I'm going to add a outer shadow. And then I'm going to adjust the radius so that it goes out more to about 12.4, just my offset, so that it's around 6.5 and my intensity a bit so that it's around 38% and a mixture of angles at about 332 degrees. And then as we zoom in, you'll see it kind of gives us a nice little shadow of the paper kinda sitting on top of these tabs it now that we've added the shadow to the paper, we can go in and start adding the text to our page. We're going to create this kind of like an index page will also have an area for like notes and quotes. And basically this index page will be all linked. So while this is the basis of all the other pages, we won't be copying the text on top of it. We're just going to be copying. Home buttons as well as the tabs and that white paper. So what I like to do is just copy and paste a lot of the beginning pieces in terms of text from the cover. So we're going to use that same discord Gothic for the 2021 Planner title. And then we're going to do the same thing with the index. And we're just going to edit and revise the size of the word index. And then we're just going to kind of play around with placement of everything. We're going to use the square-shaped tool to create the area of our planner where we'll be writing quotes and notes. So I'm just going to create a rectangle that fills a majority of the length of the page, but is only about half the size of the width of the page. Now I'm just going to adjust the color so it's a little bit lighter and easier to when you write on it. It'll be easier for you to view the text that you put on top of him. Next, I'm gonna create a text frame box so that I can begin writing the information for the index underneath the index label, I'm going to update my font so that it all matches that Glasgow Gothic. And then I'm going to update the text size and a logo back through and update all of the texts so that it's the same kind of black colour as what I have here for the tux. And then I'm gonna update the text size to 11 points. And then I'm just gonna write in everything. So 20-20, one calendar by 2021. At a glance, my weekly daily plan. And then the additional pages I'm including within my index. And I'm going to keep in mind spacing because I do want to include shorten months of the year underneath my monthly plan and underneath my daily spreads so that I can at least get to the month even if I'm not dating these. And I'm going to include another line break here. So I'll add goal planning, meeting notes and then an extra slash Note Pages section because it will have an extra page for us to include kind of like a note page outline. And then I'm going to go back in and add some details. So I'm just going to zoom in closely and I want to create kind of like a call to action arrow bars so people know that they can click on these little elements. So I'm just creating a triangle and I'm passing it to the right so that people know this is kind of like something that can be clicked on and we'll take them specifically to that section. And it's just a bit of design father suddenly some interesting shapes that we can add to an overall kind of plain page. So to do this, all you have to do is click on your shape tool and then scroll down to your triangle. And then you can just zoom in so that you can see how big this triangle is going to be in terms of the size of your text. Once I'm done with that, I'm going to add a little area underneath the index for just some additional notes. And then I'm going to update the color to this off-white. I'm gonna go back to my my cover and I'm going to copy that great days ahead header. And then I'm going to paste it over onto art board three. And I'm going to update it to say great quotes. So this is like a little area where you can add quotes. And then I'm gonna do this same thing and copy the great quotes and then paste it and update the color. And then I'm going to add that on top of that off white sticky note and I'll update the text to say something like notes or reminders. Before we move any further, I want to make sure we have enough art boards for all of our pages. Since we will have 12 tabs, we need to make sure we have 12 art boards. One our bird for each of the months of the year, and then an additional couple of our boards for our weekly spread, which we can just copy once we get it into good notes or into Keynote and any additional extra. So I'd say about 20 spreads total will be good. So what we can do is just using our Move tool, select all of the art boards that are blank currently. And then we're gonna copy them and paste them and then just slide them down. Or you can just go into Edit, Duplicate or layer duplicate, and then you can just drag them down and then start to reorder them using the Move tool. You just wanted to make sure that the entire board is selected. You'll know that it's selected because there'll be kind of like a blue line around it. And then you can move them anywhere on your screen. Once I have the amount of our birds I need, then I can just go back in and we can fine tune our index page. So I just want to make sure all of the tabs are basically kind of showing the same amount of color in space. So I just want to make sure everything's spread evenly. And then I wanna go through and add some additional realistic measures. So using that layer effects tool as well to add shadows, to add a shadow effect to these tabs. So once the tabs are aligned, how a see fit can go into your Layers panel and just click on your first tab and then hold Shift and then click on the last tab in your layers. And it will select everything in the middle as well. To select a, the tabs, You're gonna go back to our layer studio and we are going to select layer of facts. And then we are going to select out or shadow. And then we are going to change our radius, our offset and our intensity. R radius should be about an 8.8 are offset 4.3 and our intensity at about 27%. And then we want to change our angle to 90 degrees towards the taps so that our shadow effect will show on the in-between sections between each of the tabs. Once we have all these final details added, then I want to go into our index and start adding in our months. Underneath our monthly, daily and weekly spreads, we're going to have these little mini months laid out so that we can click on those months and that'll take us to that month spread along with the actual tabs on the side. So what we wanna do is just use the Artistic Text Tool. Utilize that same font that we've been using throughout. Its the gill, the gill score Gothic. And then I just want to resize it so that it's smaller so that we can fit the text in between each of these. Sections. And I'm just gonna type in January, February, March, April, May, June. And then for the rest of the months, I'm just going to create little individual text boxes so that I can actually line up perfectly those months beneath the top months that we've created. If I try to do it in one text box, it's going to be complicated and it won't line up perfectly because of the spacing. So I'm just going to basically create a whole textbox for each of the remaining months and then line them up with a month's above it. And then I'm going to just create kind of like a division or divider with a straight line to kinda like highlight the fees are ones that can be clicked. And then I can group this whole selection to gather and just copy it and paste it for the daily spreads and for the weekly spreads. And once I'm happy with that, I can then just copy and paste that. And if I want to find tune things that can just use the up and down right and left arrows on my keyboard just to kind of adjust everything fine tune the rest of the elements. And now I'm just fine tuning the rest of the text on the index. It just kinda have to decrease the amount of space between my daily spreads and the goal planning and the meeting notes and things like that. So I'm just again, just fine tuning the leading spaces that I don't need. And then adjusting these arrows so that they are aligned with the text. I'm also going to copy the great quotes. And I'm also going to adjust this little lake post-it paper so I can drag it up to make it taller. And then I'm going to copy the great quotes and I'm gonna paste it. And because it is the same color, I need to adjust that so I'll go to my swatches, a change it to that gray. And then I'm going to retype it out so that it says notes. So I have an area for notes and an area for quotes. And then I think I want to add a little to-do lists to this longer area on the index page, just like us, but something like at a glance, what you're looking at. We're going to have an at-a-glance for our calendar. But I like having just something simple that I could always just go back to my home button and I know I have these things to do during the month. So again, I'm just copying the great quotes and I'm revising it to be to-do. And then I'm going to use my square shape tool to create little boxes that could be like checkmark boxes for my to-do list. And I just need to change the color. And I'm gonna go into my swatches and utilize that off-white kind of eggshell white color. And then if you're noticing that that boxes and join up, it could be because it's layered underneath the gray box. So you will have to go to your layers and drag it towards the top so that it's on top of this layer. So you could go to layer, move to front, or you can just go to your Layers panel and manually move it from the bottom to on top of that gray boxes I'm doing now. And then I'm just gonna copy this and paste it a few more times to make a checklist. And then I always make it a habit to group like items. So it will take all of these different elements all go to the same thing. So I'm going to end up grouping it altogether. So I'm going to have eight checkboxes and then I'm going to select all of them. Then I'm gonna go into my align functions and I'm a line vertically and distribute them among the centers so that they are all distributed evenly. The same amount of space. And then I'm going to select everything and group all of those elements. Now I want to add my top icons, basically the icons at the very top as well as the white page and the tabs on the side are going to be the base of all of our pages. So we'll copy that and reuse it over all of the pages that recreating. They're just going to take us to key pages that will help us to navigate our planner a little bit easier. So I'm adding some specific icons that I have downloaded. You can use a website like icons eight. I'm gonna go to File and then I'm going to select Place. And then I'm going to find my icon. And then I'm going to click into my page. And then I'm gonna drag and resize that icon and then place it wherever I'd like it. What's nice is that if you hold Shift or command, and then you drag your, those like the corners of your icon in. It'll help to either resize it. You can bring it in to make taller or pull it out to make it bigger. Once I have all the icons that I want on this page, I can then group everything together and then I can copy this whole entire section and start pasting it for the additional pages that I'm going to be utilizing. I'm also adding just another little line to kind of create, again, pull the eye to the specific areas. And then I'm going to go into my stroke menu and I'm going to adjust the width so it's not so thick. And then I'm also going to adjust the cap so that it sits flush with the end of the page. And before we start pasting these pages, I really quickly want to add my months to my tabs as well. So I'm just going to copy some of the texts that I already have, specifically the index and then I'm going to resize it down to about anywhere between six to 8 should be fine. And I'm just going to retype I'm gonna change the text to say Jan for January. And then I'm going to reposition this and use my move tool. If you noticed there's a little node that is white and it sticks out from the rest of the tux box. You can utilize this to rotate. So I'm going to rotate it 90 degrees to the right. And then I'm gonna move it up to the first tab. And then I'm just going to copy it 11 more times and then go back through and update the text on the rust and bees tabs to be the additional months of the year. So January through December. And what's nice is you'll notice as you move elements with the move tool, you get these kind of guidelines that kind of help you see where something is placed to make sure things are centered within different shapes. After I've updated all of the tax, now I can go through and finish grouping all of the different elements for this base page together. So I wanna make sure I select all the text for the months of the year, the tabs, the white page, all of the little icons at the top and that little line. I'm going to select all of those different elements. And you can use, use your Move Tool. Click on the first element you're trying to select hold shift and keep holding Shift while you select all the additional elements. And then select layer group. And then I can copy it and then I can paste it. So now I'm pasting it to the rest of the art boards that I'll be creating for the rest of this tutorial. 7. Your Year at a Glance Page: Now that we're done with our index, we can jump to our port four, which will be our year at a glance. So we're just going to create little mini calendars for the entire year of 2021. And you don't have to do this if you don't want to have any dates in your calendar. But since I am making an undated calendar, I want people to have something to reference dates back to. So I find that having just a year at a glance is very helpful. So I'm basically just going to do what I was doing before. Take taking the different elements of texts from other pages and copying and pasting it onto the page that I need. And then I'm going to update it. I will have a three by four grid basically of calendars. So we'll start with January, February, and March. And then I'm going to get those space than aligned how I want. And then I'm going to select them all, and then I'm going to copy them and paste them tumor times. And then I'm just gonna go back and again, just update the text to change it to the rest of the months. Just make sure everything looks aligned funny to do any fine tuning or moving. I'll do that as I go. And then what we're gonna do next is create a text. Use the text frame tool to create a frame to add. In the days of the week, we're just doing simple letters just because this is such a small space. So we'll do a Monday, sir. I just I find that people like having a Monday stir so that they can keep their weekends together. So I'm just gonna do a Monday start for the recipes. I'm going to update the size of my font to about a seven. That's going to be that same form we've been using throughout the glyphs, core Gothic. So I'll give myself two spaces between each day and then if I Nieto widen that, I can go back in and fine tune. Again, just as I had been doing throughout this whole thing. Now what we're gonna do is go in and individually add each of the numbers. I know this is a little bit of a pain, but once we do the calendar for one month, we can go and just copy all of those numbers and paste them under the additional months and just add in action numbers as we need. And the reason for doing this is just so that we can align the numbers and the letters appropriately. I find that I have trouble aligning and spacing things evenly and enlightening things a perfectly if I just, I'm typing it in one full chunk of text. So I just use the Artistic Text tool and I can just create the numbers individually and align them as a need for each of the different months. And then I can utilize the aligned tools to actually align them by selecting all the elements using the line tool. So I can line them up top. And then I can go back in and I can edit and update and revise the numbers. And then I'll just utilize my move arrow as well as my keyboard arrows to just kind of fine tune each of the numbers so that they're all basically aligned throughout their centers. And then I'll go back in and I'll select all of them and group them together. And then I can copy that entire group and paste it and drag it over to the additional months. And then like I said, I just have to basically add in any additional numbers that we need and update the numbers based on when the first of the month is for each of these months. And I can use the align tools to kind of align things along the center so everything fills that get spaced out nicely. And then I just want to make sure all of the months are basically towards the center and not offset a bit. I want to make sure that there's an even amount of whitespace on each side of these calendars. Once I've done that, then the time consuming part starts. I have to go through and update each of these individual calendars so that the numbers and the dates are actually correct. This just gives me the skeleton of it, but then I'm going to go back in and update each of these individually so that the dates are correct. Once I'm done with this, then I can move on to our next section. 8. Designing Your Monthly Page: To create this roughly calendar, what we're gonna do is essentially designed a table. Unfortunately, unlike an affinity publisher, you utilize the tables function. So we're just going to be using a combination of shapes and line segments to create this. So to make things a bit easier, my suggestion is to turn on the grid or your guide so you can go off into your upper main menu and then go to view, and then show grid. And then depending on how big you want your table to be, you can adjust as needed for now, I'm just going to actually use these gridlock guidelines as my base. I'm going to do seven across by, by five squares down. So what I'm gonna do first is I'm gonna take my Shape tool. I'm going to select the square. I'm gonna take my square. I'm going to go into my color palette. I want to make sure in my swatches that I have a black outline and then I'm going to decrease the size of that outline for 1.5, just down to about 0.8 for now. And then I'm going to make basically the shape B, the number of scores across. And the number of squares sounds so similar across five down. So that I can then create the line segments in between. And I'm actually going to have this be seven by six because I want to create this calendar with a Monday start. So it's just gonna make it a bit easier to habit. B sub-1 by 67 by five, which works in accommodates Well for us. So they start but I want this to start on a Monday so that my weekends can be next to each other. And don't worry, we're not going to keep this right here. We're going to move it, but we're just using the guide right now to help us with setting up the, the size of the squares and making sure everything fits nicely within this page. So now what we wanna do is go to the left-hand side and select our pen tool. And we are going to zoom in a bit so you can see we're going to use the vertical lines as our separators and guide for making sure the calendars divided up equally. So I'm going to click on one end. I'm going to hold Shift and then I'm going to click on the bottom. And then once told me that I don't have to do that over again, I can just copy and paste it. So we hit self-selected, denote selected because you'll see it's outlined in blue. You can go to edit copy and then edit paste or you can do command copy, command pace and that whole shift. Click on it. And then you can drag it over to the right. And we can just repeat this process for the rest of the lines going across vertically. And then we'll do the same thing for the lines going across horizontally. So once that is done, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna select all of these line segments and my square. And I'm going to group everything together. So just remember to do that. You'll click on your first, your first line segment, hold Shift, and then click on the next ones. Once you're done selecting all of your line segments, you can then some lack the outside square, and then you can right-click and select Group. And then we'll do the same process for the lines that go across. So Mr at one end will shift so that I get a straight line and then click on the with the other end. And what's nice is that you get these little popups that kinda show you are perfectly aligned. So I'm going to copy this one and I'm going to paste it and I'm going to drag it down holding shift. So I stay in proportion to what I was doing and it just drag that down in a straight line. And then just as I did before, I'm going to select all of these line segments. And this block, my freshman hold Shift, select my X1. And then once you've selected all of them, I can then select the rest of the shape. And then we can group the whole, entire set together, minimum or right-click, and then select group. I'm gonna go to View and I'm going to turn off my grid. And then we'll see we have a nice, perfectly proportioned and shaped a little calendar. So now what we wanna do is figure out where on our page we want this to be. And then we're going to walk in and want to make sure I have enough space on both sides. And then I want to have enough space for the days of the week and then the month somewhere up in the upper left-hand corner. And then I want to have space at the bottom for kind of like a little note section. So I think this is a good placement. So once I have it placed where I want it to be, I'm going to go back to my layers, my Layers panel. I'm going to rename this group two calendar grid, and then I'm going to lock it. So this ensures that doesn't get moved or anything and my design process. To now I'm gonna go into my previous page and I'm going to just basically take the texts that I already created, copy it, and then paste it on this page. And then I will update the month. I'm going to paste it where I would like it and I'm just going to update it to see January. So I'm gonna take that January, I'm gonna copy it as well, bring it down and then I'm going to resize it so that it's smaller and I'll use that to outline my days of the week. Now once you've done that, I'm just going to copy it and paste it six more times. And then I'll go back in and revise each one and update it to the proper day oblique. Now what you'll wanna do is go back in and just adjust each of your days so that they're centered within your square. And then we'll be able to actually group them together with this grid and lock them in place as well. So I want to have everything where I'd like it to be. Miniscule, laughed it off, and then do a little bit more fine tuning. And then I'm going to go into my layers would have group it. And then I'm gonna select by holding shift, I'm then going to select the additional section of my. Calendar predominant on market first though, a man I'm going to select my days of the week. And then I'm going to right-click and group those together as well. And then I'm going to walk it once more so that it can't be changed. So everything is where I'd like it to be. And now I'm going to add my little notes section below. And you can keep it as simple as just adding texts that scene that says Notes and you can add notes to the bottom, but I'm going to add an additional grid with just some typical like paper lines. So I'm going to use the rectangle shape again and then our pen tool to create laden segments. So similar to what we did with the grid only it's not gonna be a grid is just going to have lines going across. So I'm going to try and match up my edges to the size of this calendar grid. And you'll see kind of like a little green line pop up. That means you are in line with it. I'm gonna do the same thing with the other side and then I'm going to drag this down so that I have kind of a nice even space around the top, bottom and sides. And like that looks good. I'm going to lock it so it doesn't move. And then I'm gonna go back to the pen tool and I'm going to create some lines across the Shape. Click on one animal shift, so it keeps a straight line and then click on land there and exactly where it ends and you'll see a little green line pop up. And then all I have to do is copy that line segment and paste it, and then drag it down. Right now I'm just kind of eyeballing the space, but I'm gonna use my alignment tool to make sure that they're all spaced evenly. So once I've created my last line, I'm going to go back through. I'm going to go back through and select everything holding Shift and then clicking on the additional lines. And then I'm gonna go up to my alignment functions and I'm going to space my lines vertically. And then I'm going to go back in. And I'm going to space. I'm going to also distribute it vertically as well, so everything is evenly spaced. Once that's done, I'm going to unlock my square here and then I'm gonna select the line segments and that's fair. And I'm gonna relax everything. It's a place. I'm going to actually go back into my layers just so that it's easier to find things. I'm going to rename this rectangle to note sectioned so I know what it is. And then I'm gonna select all of my line segments by clicking on the first one holding Shift and then clicking on the rest. And then I'm going to select my rectangle. And then I'm going to right-click and I'm gonna group it. And then I'm going to rename that group again to note section. You want to get into the habit of organizing your files as it just makes the design process a bit easier. I know I need to practice what they preach. But as we move further and we're going to start renaming, some of these are boards and each of these sections so we know what we're working on, where it all belongs at that everything can be organised together for when we export our files. So we're done with our monthly layout. What we want to do that it's just basically take all of those sections underneath our current carport or 45. We're gonna rename this rpart by clicking on where it says R port five. And you'll see everything surrounding and blew the tiny No, it's selected. Then I'm gonna go to our perfect double-clicking. I'm gonna rename it January. And then I'm going to take all of the different segments inside of it that aren't the actual tabs or the main Blink page. So in this section, the note section, the little calendar. I'm gonna rename that calendar. I'm going to select those two layers. I'm gonna copy them and then we're just going to paste them into 11 more sheets for each of the different months. And this way it makes it easier. You don't have to go through each month and design this layout over and over. So that's the beauty of it being tech. You can copy and paste. So I'm gonna go to our birth six, going to paste this end. Make sure I paste the text. It says January as well. I'm going to select everything and I'm going to group it together. I'm gonna make sure I update this to February. And then I'm going to click on the entire airport. And I'm gonna rename it from airport six to February. And then I'm just going to repeat this process for each of the additional ones. Once I've pasted all of these and I can go back through and update the names of the month as well. 9. Updating Your Monthly Tabs: Now before we move on to creating our daily spread, we need to quickly go back through each of our monthly layout and utilize our tabs and pull up the tab for that month so that it sits on top of the page versus behind it. So the idea is that you click on that tab, tab pops up, it's on top of the page in your arm, that specific page. So we're going to start with January and then we'll go through each month and do the same thing to-do list. We're going to have to open up her layers. And we're going to have to bring that first layer, that's January. We can double-click, Triple-click to get to that tab. Or we can just go into the layers and select the month and that great colored tab in order to pull, to have everything selected. So we'll zoom in and we're going to just double, triple quadruple. Click on these tabs till we get to the one that we need. So we have that one selected. But we also want to make sure that January is selected as well. So we're going to select both of them by clicking on shift and then selecting January. And then you'll see both elements are selected and blue. And then really quickly what we're just going to go to the layer. And then we're going to group them. And then what we're gonna do is we're going to go back to layer again. And we're going to select our range and we want to select move to front. So this tab, depending on how your tabs we're setup, they could be bigger than you want it to be. If that's the case, just double-click so that you have the rounded rectangle selected and then just resize it. And then you want to make sure this selected group January and a rounded rectangle are then moved up to the front once more, go to layer, arrange, move to front. You may need to do this a few times in order to get to the get to the layer that is above this white page. Or you can just find it. And your Layers panel and just move it in your Layers panel so that it is on top of the white page, just like this. Now you want to go through each month and do this one by one. So I'll show you February and then we'll fast forward through the rest. So just like we did before, we need to double-click, triple click on the layer. And it may be longer than it should be, and that's fine. And then you want to hold Shift and then click on the word of fab and then go to layer group. And we want to take that group player and move it in front of the white page and our Layers group. And then again, you may need to resizes gray item, which is fine. And then we just want to do this one by one for each of the additional pages. 10. Designing Your Daily Page: Okay, now we're gonna jump into creating our daily calendar. So the idea is that we're just going to create one page and then we can duplicate that page as many times as we need in our planner. In good notes. This just helps to keep our files small and concise. And that way doesn't slow down the good note to AP. Alright, so the idea is to give us space for a to-do list, space for our appointments ranging in time from 06:00 AM to 05:00 PM. Maybe some areas really inspirational quotes, any type of notes. And then maybe a section for kind of like a meal planning kind of section. So we're mostly going to be using lines and shapes to create this along with text, would have grab our pen tool and just create a line to separate the top section of the page from the rest of it. So I'm going to click on one end of the page. And I'm gonna hold shift and click on the other end of the page to create a straight line. And you'll notice this little yellow line kind of pop up as our guide. I think a point H B, actually point a is a little big, so we're going to bring this down to about 0.5. Looks good. So at the top one to give ourselves space for a date. And then I'm gonna just list out the days of the week at the top. So you can kind of just like circle whichever day it is when you're creating your spread. So I'm gonna take the Monday, Tuesday. I'm gonna take the days of the week from our last monthly calendar here and then I'm going to paste them over here. Remembering him up top. I'm actually probably get a little big. So I can just select the whole thing, hold Command or Shift, and then just pull in from the corners and I'll automatically resize it and proportion. And then I'm going to drag it to view left. And then I want to give myself some space to create a date. So I'm just gonna do another line, hold Shift. And then I'm going to create some slanted lines so that you can write this in a date format. I want to make sure that this line and the days of the week are aligned and I'm going to select my digital week hold Shift, select my line. Then I'm gonna go into my align function, and I'm going to select a line at the bottom here under vertically. I'm not, I'm just going to use my Artistic Text Tool to create a textbox. And that I'm going to change this to my, to my Glasgow or Gothic. And then I'm going to create a dash or a slanted dash. I'm gonna make sure to change the color from whatever color it is currently to just a simple black so that it matches and I'm going to increase the size just a bit, a Fink 60-inch work. And then I'm gonna just copy that and paste it and then drag it over. And this should give us space. For our date. Now I want to create kind of like a running to-do lists on the left-hand side. So I'm going to use our line tool again, as well as our Shape tool again to create the to-do list. I'm also gonna copy some of this text and paste it and then I can update it to say to-do list is just a bit, probably about ten points. And then I'm going to pull it over to the left of it. And then I'm going to start creating my to-do list right underneath this. So I'm going to use my school, my square tool or my rectangle shape tool. And I'm going to hold shift to create a perfect square. I don't want it too big, but I also don't want it too small that I'm going to grab my pen tool and I'm going to create a line coming from that square root. Give myself just enough space to write. Think this looks good, and keep it at that point at five. And then I just want to make sure that the line and the square are aligned at the bottom. So I'm going to click on the line hold Shift, Click on the square, go to my align tools and then align it vertically at the bottom. And then I'm going to group these. So the idea is to copy this and then paste it a bunch of times this way it'll basically give me a running to-do list. I'm going to do this ten more times, I think will work. Do you probably don't want to do more than ten items in a day. And I'm going to use the align tool or misuse the little pop-up guides to help ensure that everything is aligned properly. Once I get a group of them, I can just copy them. Control or Command C, Control or Command V. And then hold shift and drag it down and I'll keep everything aligned. And then we'll just have to go back through and basically make sure everything is spread out evenly. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna select all of these items here. And then I'm gonna go to layer alignment, Distribute Vertically. And it should give me even spacing between all of the, the lines in the to-do list. And then I'm gonna go to layer in group. And I'm going to take the word to-do lists and I'm gonna move it over the center of this and again, utilizing those guidelines. So you'll see like a green light will popup showing that I'm in the center of that space. Now, I'm going to copy my to-do list, move it to the right. I'm going to update it to say appointments. And I'm going to basically copy this entire. To-do list. And I'm going to drag it over, but I'm gonna delete the squares and instead I'm going to change it to specific times. You can do whatever you want here. I'm just going to give myself a range of times hourly from six AM to six PM or 05:00 PM. Whatever works best for you. I'm going to copy the days of the week here, paste it, and then I'm going to break it. I'm gonna keep the same size they think just works well for my times. And then I'm just going to update it from 6AM down. And then I'm just going to copy it and paste it and then just repeat the same process and update it for each of the updated hours. Once I'm done with that, I'm just going to go back through and select all of the times and all the lines and group them all together. So I'll click on the first one. Hold Shift, and then start clicking on the rest of everything else. So click the actual lines should be grouped together and then go back and click on each of the individual times. Once I've selected everything, I'm gonna go to layer group. And once I've grouped everything, I can move it all together. And I'm going to just drag the appointments over a bit towards the center. I'm going to hold shift those so that it just keeps it on a straight plane. And then I'm gonna do the same thing with the to-do list. And we'll make sure that it's all grouped as well. And we'll hold Shift and I'm going to move it towards the center. And this just makes sure that everything's spread out evenly towards the center, not too close to any adages. Towards the bottom, I want to give myself speeds for quote, notes and just meal planning ideas. So you could just add text here, but I think adding some shapes and just boxes to differentiate from each area will be a nice effect. So let's go to our rectangle tool and let's make sure that we have a stroke. I'm going to select the color black. And then we want to make sure that the stroke is about 0.5 so that it matches all the other lines. So I also want to make sure that the shapes are the equivalent in terms of width as the to-do list than the appointments to. I'm just gonna make sure I utilize those guidelines. You'll see the green line pop up. And I'm going to give myself space for three of these rectangles. One for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I'm going to bring them down a bit so I can add a little header here. I'm going to copy my to-do list, paste it, and then drag it down and change it and change it to meal prep. And then I'm going to copy that and paste it three more times. And I'm going to resize these down to about seven points. And I'm going to change the text to breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Then I'm gonna give myself space for a quote of the day, some inspiring ideas. So I'm just going to copy the meal prep squares and then I'm going to drag it over underneath appointments. And then I'm going to increase the length of it. And then I want to make sure the stroke is still 0.5. That gets any bigger. Just go back into your stroke options and update it. And then I'm going to take real prop texts and update it to quote of the day and put that over here. This way I have quote of the day above the Mt square. So I can write in whatever is inspiring me. And if I find anything is off, I can just use those alignment tools in. So I'm gonna select the quote of the day Square and the first meal prep square. And then I'm gonna go to my alignment tools. And I'm going to align vertically up top. And then I'm going to copy the meal prep square once more. And I'm just going to increase the length and the width, and that will be space for my notes. Again, if your stroke changes, go back into your stroke functions and then just decrease it down to 0.5. And if you feel like anything is too close, you can just select everything and just adjust as you go. I'm gonna copy that meal prep text again and then paste it and then update my note section so that it says notes. Alright, I think I like this layout. Let's save our file and then we can jump into our weekly spread. 11. Designing Your Weekly Page: Now it can begin working on our weekly spread. I'm gonna keep this very, very simple. I just want to give myself some space for notes. And then I want to give myself a rundown of the days. So we're just going to create two sections here and also give ourselves some space for placing the Date Lake week of men, including the date. So we can actually pull some of the lines in texts that we created on our daily page into our weekly page. First we're gonna take this little line segment for a date and copy and paste it over into our, into our weekly spread. And then we are going to take our to-do lists text and copy it, and paste it and drag it over to our news spread and updated to say week of. And we're just going to align this so that everything is aligned to the bottom. So I'm going to select we gov and MySpace for the date. I'm gonna go up to my align tools. I'm going to align it vertically at the bottom. And it looks like everything is spaced out nicely. And then I'm going to actually copy that week of and then I'm gonna paste it and drag it down. And this is going to be notes. And then I'm going to copy that and paste it. And I'm going to basically use this for the days of the week. I'm actually going to decrease this a bit in size to about eight points. And then I'm just going to type the days of the week. So once I've updated the text, I'm just going to copy it and paste it six more times an updated for the rest of the week. So I'm gonna go to my Rectangle Tool, and I'm going to create a thinner and longer rectangle to the left here. And instead of it being an outline, I'm going to have it be filled, but with a light colour that we can see easily, that we can see text on easily. I think I'm gonna utilize that off-white color that we had been using at the beginning of our design. And then I'm going to go into my week of segment. And then I'm just going to copy that line segment and paste it, and then drag it right on top of this. And then I'm just going to adjust the size so that it goes right across flush with this top segment of the cream colored shape. And then I'm going to bring my notes word down just a bit. And then I'm going to create. Another set of boxes for each of the seven days of the week. So I'm gonna make sure that I'm in, I'm aligned with this little note section. And I'm gonna make this bigger. So it's going to be wider than the notes. I don't want it to have a fill this time, so I'm gonna change it from a filter stroke and then I'm gonna change the color back to black. Make sure it's still 0.5. And then I'm going to go in and utilize my pen tool to basically segment out this longer rectangle into seven sections. So once action for each day of the week. So I'm Anna, utilize my pen tool on one end of the Shape. Click hold Shift, and then click on the other side of the shape. And again you'll see the little Guidelines pop up the yellow and the green line showing that you're right on top of the line segments so that it, it basically shows that you've created the line segment directly in that shape. Once I've done that, I can then just copy it and paste it. However many more times I need. Alright, so now what we're gonna do is arrange these segments so that we have an even distribution between all of the different sections. I click on the first line segment hold Shift, Click on my next one, and continue doing that, not letting go of shift until I click on my last one. And then I'm going to go into my Layers menu alignment. And then I'm gonna select Distribute Vertically. And it should give me even spacing among all of these little sections. And it did that. And then I'm gonna hold shift and select the outset of the rectangle. And then I'm gonna go to layer in group it so that it all stays together. And then I'm gonna go to my days of the week and I'm going to pull them into the upper left-hand corner of each of these segments. And this should give me more than enough space to write whatever's going on during the week. So I can have it kind of like a week at a glance. Once I'm done pulling these n, What I'm gonna do is use my arrow tools, my arrow keys on my keyboard to fine tune the placement. And then I'm going to use the alignment functions to make sure everything is aligned to the left. So I'm going to select Monday with my move tool hold Shift, and then select the rest of the days of the week. And then all of them will be selected when they're outlined in blue. And then I'm going to go to my alignment tools in the layers tools. So I'm gonna go to the Layer menu, go to alignment, and then I'm going to align left. And it'll drag everything to the left so that they're all in line here. And then I'm going to group these. And then I'm going to hold Shift and I'm gonna select the rectangle. And then I'm going to group them once more so that everything that is meant to be together as all grouped together. And you can go and now if you'd like and kind of start organizing your layers. We have our port for here, but this is a copy, so you're likely going to be meeting to change this. So to change our board names, it's really simple. You just click on the art board and then it'll highlight in the Layers panel. And then you just double-click where the text is and then you can update the name. So in this case, I'm going to update it to weekly spread. And then you can go back and do that for each of the other ones just so that you are organized to look for the monthly, you can name it the actual month. And it just kinda keeps things a little bit more organized. All right, and now you can save. 12. Designing Your Meeting Page: Now that we're done with our weekly and our daily spreads, we can jump into the more detail oriented spreads like our goal planner and are meeting planners. And we're going to start with the meeting planner first. And then we'll get into our goal planner and then we'll finish our actions and we are done with our planner design. So the idea for the meeting planner page is just a place re-contract meetings, objectives, action items, attendees, and then just reuse this page over and over again. So what I think I'm going to do is take the grid that we created over on our weekly spread and kind of change it up for use on our meeting spread. So I'm going to select it, I'm going to copy it and paste it, and then I'm going to drag it over. So I'm gonna play around with this layout a bit. I'm going to start working from my left to my right. And then I'm gonna take my days of the week and update them for the tax that I'll need for each of the sections. So things like date, time, objectives. Then I'll just add additional lines wherever I need them to kind of separate this out. So I'm going to start with date. And then I'm going to double-click on this main line here and I'm going to drag it up. I'm going to hold shift so that it doesn't move out of a line it from where it's sitting and I'm just going to drag it up. And then I'm going to change the next word to time. And then I'm going to take that next line segment and drive that up as well. I'm gonna use my move tool hold Shift, and then just pull it upwards. And I'm going to take that first original line and I'm gonna actually decrease the length of it. I'm going to hold Shift while I do this because it'll keep the line width the same. And then I'm gonna go to my pen tool and I'm going to create another line segment to kind of close this section off. So you wanna make sure it's 0.5. And then if that line segment that you resized by some chance changes with, you can just go back into your stroke and update it to be 0.5. And then I'm going to zoom in. I can make sure it connects. And then I'm going to again work with the placement. I want to make sure that these boxes are relatively the same height. So if I need to adjust the lines again, I'll double-click on them so that they're selected and then hold shift to kind of like move them up. And then I need a resize this main line. I can do that as well, just again using the Move tool. And then I can just adjust the width or the length of any of these line segments. So next to this I want to have a section for our attendees. So I'm just going to take Wednesday, pull it up and then change it to say attendees. And then I'm gonna take Thursday, pull it up. And then I'm gonna put it in this larger segment. And I'm gonna name this, I'm gonna name this objectives. And then I'm gonna take this line segment and I'm going to pull it up. And then underneath that I'm going to pull the word Friday and just need a double-click on it to get a direct selected. And I'm going to pull that into the next segment above it. And then I'm gonna name this action steps. Alright, so obviously this section is a little too big from what I'm looking for. So I'm going to go through and delete the sections that I don't need and then resize the overall rectangle. I'm going to copy the notes section again, and then I'm just going to use that as a title and I'm going to pull it to the upper left-hand corner. And I'm going to label this meeting notes. And then over to the right, the area that we just created, I'm just going to utilize my rectangle tool and then I'm going to make sure that my outline is black and my stroke is a 0.5. And I'm going to create a rectangle to the right of this so that I can have a space for meeting notes. And I want to make sure it has a stroke of a 0.5. And then I am going to take some of the texts that I used for the meeting details and pull that over here and just add in a label for notes. And then at the bottom, I'm going to do the same thing, except I'm going to give myself a wider square. And this is just going to be for any type of like diagrams are doodles you might need to make. And I'm just going to copy the notes square and then I'm just going to resize it so that it fits in the space below. And again, if you're stroke with changes, just go back into your stroke formatting section and you can update it so that it is the proper width that you wanted out. I'm just going to update the Texas as notes and change it to that. It says diagrams and doodles. Alright, so that's our midi notes page. Let's save. And then we can move on to our next section, which is our goal planner. 13. Designing Your Goal Planner Page: Now just as we did with the meeting notes section, we're just going to reuse some of these frames for our goal planners section. So I'm going to copy this note section here and then I'm gonna paste it over into our cool planners section. And I'm going to adjust the width of this so that it goes across the page. And I'm gonna shorten it a bit so that it just takes up the top section. And this is going to be for our top goals for the month. And now instead of it being an outline, I'm actually going to have this be and I'm going to utilize some of those grades that we had been using earlier in the planner as well. And we're going to separate this with lines, so line segments using our pen tool. We wanna make sure that we use a stroke and that that stroke is white. And we're going to split this into two, into three sections. So I'm going to click on one end of my shape hold Shift, Click on my other end. And I'm just going to copy that. And then paste it and then hold shift your drag it down so it stays in formation. And then I'm going to split this down the center as well. And then I'm going to select all of these different elements and make sure that they are all grouped together. And then I'm gonna give myself some checkboxes as well. I'm gonna use my rectangle shape tool. I'm not going to have it be outlined. I'm gonna have it be filled. So I'm gonna go into my swatches and change it from outline to fill, copy it, and then paste it and bring it down to the next two sections. And then I'm going to select all of these little items. And once again, group everything together under layer group. Just so that everything stays together. I'm gonna go back into my art board layers and I'm gonna rename this from our poured six to o planners spread. And then I'm gonna go back to meeting notes as well and rename that as well to meeting notes. I'm going to go over to my weekly spread and I'm gonna select the week of and the area would write my d1. And then I'm going to copy that and I'm going to bring that over to my co planner. This again. So I have information on dates to kind of help guide me with deadlines. And then I'm gonna give myself some direction on what I should be writing here. So I'm gonna copy the week of and paste it and then I'm going to update it to say goals for the week. Or it could be month, whatever you'd like. And I'm going to decrease the size on this. I'm just going to double-click inside of the text box. And I bring this down to about an eight. And then again, I want to make sure it's centered in the area that I have it over. And then I'm going to copy it and paste it and drag it over. And I'm going to update it to say why this goal is important. And just as before, but I'm just kind of fine tune things and make sure it's centered. And now we're gonna make kind of like a Goal Grid. The idea is to highlight the different action items that you'll have for each goal over the month or the week. So I'm actually going to end up copying my weekly spread here. And I'm going to bring it over to my goal planner spread. And then again, I'm just going to resize everything and then add in additional line segments as I need them. If you find when you try to re-size, the tax gets worked and things like that, just make sure you're double-clicking and that you're actually resizing the shape and not the entire grouped element. So I know I only need four sections. I'm going to get rid of all of these additional pieces of text. And I know we only need three areas for tech, so I'm gonna keep Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and then I'll update them to say goal one, goal two, and goals three. And then I'm going to remove these additional lines segments. And then I'm just going to resize this so that it fits on the page. I'm gonna go in and adjust my line segments as well. Just click on them. Hold shift to make sure everything stays in proportion amount. I'm going to go in and move my text around. I'm gonna change everything to say equal one, old too, and Goal three. I'm going to select all of my tax. I'm going to click on the first textbox hold Shift and then click on the second, third. And then I'm going to use my online. I'm going to use my align functions so that I can align them vertically at the bottom. And then I'm gonna take this first line segment and I'm going to bump it up. So it gives me kind of like a header and then I'm gonna resize it. You can zoom in really close to make sure that there's no overlap. And then I'm just gonna go in and adjust placement and then copy and paste that last line segment so that I have all four sections. And then I'm going to group it all together. And then I'm gonna make my vertical lines as well. So I'll go to my pen tool. I'm done. I'm just going to create vertical lines separating goal 123. I'm going to click on one end of my shape hold shift. So it gives me a perfectly straight line and then click on the other end of my shape. I'm going to make sure that my swatches show that I have a color in my stroke. And then I'm going to copy this and paste it one more time. And then I'm just going to drag it over to the right. And then I'm just going to finesse everything here and just make sure everything is all centered. And then I'm going to select everything within this little grid and make sure it's all grouped together. And now we're done with the goals spread. Let's save it and then we can jump into our extra page. 14. Designing Your Extra Page: Now we're on our last fraud. The idea is just to create kind of like an extra note, kind of notepad page that you can use for notes and any other ideas, things like that. So I want to kinda have it look like it's a piece of notebook paper. So what I'm thinking will utilize is the little note section from each of the months. And we can use that as a basis of us building this note paper. So I'm just going to go into what amendments double-click until I get the outline shape of all of the lines created together and then I'm gonna paste it. I'm going to drag it down onto my last art board and then I'm going to double-click so that I just get the outlines selected. And then I'm going to increase the size of this so that it's longer and it fills up a majority of the page. I'm gonna go back to my stroke and make sure it's 0.5. And then I'm going to go to these lines here and I'm just going to copy them. I'm going to select them and then copy them. So select your first hold Shift and then you can select the rest so that you get a group selected. And if you'd like to, you to just group these individually and then copy them, and then paste them and drag them down to they fill up your page. And we can always go back through and distribute them so that they are distributed appropriately. And you, you'll wanna drag down the first set a little bit more than you would do the others, so that it gives you that bigger gap at the top, like you would see on a piece of notebook paper. Now I'm just gonna keep copying and pasting the rest of these lines until I fill up my page. And again, you can use those guidelines to kind of help make sure everything is spaced properly. And then also hold Shift as you move these elements down because it'll keep them information from where the top ones were. And if you find you have too many, that's OK. We can just delete as we go. So I have one more line here that I don't need it. I'm just going to delete it. And then I'm going to create my line that kind of goes off to the side here. Click and hold shift on one end and then drag it down to the bottom and make sure it's 0.5. And then just make sure it's place where you'd like it to be. And usually these little sidelines are kind of like a a different color. Usually got the pinkish red. So I'm gonna find something that looks kind of similar to that. And then I'm going to go back through. And for all of my lines here, I'm going to change them to kind of like a blue color. And what's nice is that you can select all of your group layers. And then you can recolor the multi-color. And this kinda gives you a nice little extra retro vibes sheet of paper. And then what I would suggest you do that is just group all of the elements together if they are not already. And this allows you to move everything together. I man, you could rename this art board, extra paper and you are done creating your planner. And now the next step in this process is bringing everything into Keynote and linking it up. 15. Exporting Your Pages as Slices: Now that we're done designing Oliver planner sped too, we need to basically practice file for use in keynote. So rather than just exporting it as a PDF, we're going to export these as individual high-quality PNGs or jpegs that we can then place inside of the keynote file and then we'll be linking on top of that. So to do this, what we're gonna do is utilize the slices export persona. So if you go to your upper area of the, your menu bar, not where you see like the File Edit Text layer kind of thing. It's right below that. You'll see the affinity logo. And then if you hover over that, it'll give you a pop-up that tells you what the persona is. Designer persona that we're currently in. We can switch over to pixel persona, which is like Photoshop. But what we want is export persona. We're going to select export persona. And then basically what it does is that each of these pages becomes a slice that we can export as a PNG. So in order to do that, we are going to go over to our export options. And this will be on the right-hand side. We want to make sure that the preset is P&G ate desert file format should be a PNG. You can pick JPEG if you want a just like choosing PNG because it's a higher-quality and doesn't compress the images as much. And then I just want the highest number of colors so that I get a nice clear File. And then what I'm gonna do is select all of the layers over in the layers panel. Basically, each of these layers is a page, so I'm gonna make sure they're all selected and I wanna make sure that there's no issues with each of these elements. That's why we're grouping everything together. As long as each art board is outlined in blue, we should be okay. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to go over to our slices panel here. So basically it looks like the Layers panel, but it's actually our slices panel. I'm going to click on the first slice. I'm gonna hold shift and click on my list. That way no, everything is selected. And then right at the bottom here you'll see this little export slices. You're gonna be able to export 21 pages, so on export and then in parentheses 21, those are the 21 pages that you're working with. So you're gonna click Export slices. And then you're going to select whatever file setup that you have for this. And my case, I'm going to export these into my project sample. And then I'm gonna select Export. And it's going to export all of the pages individually. For me, this is a quick shortcut. It makes it easier to Batch Export multiple themes at once, rather than having to go through the file system where you go file, you select export and then you go into your drop-down and select something like art board one or two. This allows you to export all of them at one time. It just makes the job that much quicker. Once you're done exporting, you can go into your file setup just to double-check and make sure everything that you need is correct in in there. And it looks like all of the different elements that we need for our pages are in fact in here. And, uh, we can then begin to place these into Keynote and setup the linking function, and then export our frontal PDF for use in good notes. 16. Setting Up Your File in Keynote: Now that we've exported all of our files as PNGs, we can launch keynote. So what we're gonna do is create a basic file. And then we're going to give it the required dimensions that we've created with our planner. So what we're gonna do to update this, we're gonna go to the right-hand side of keynote. We're going to select document. We get this document. Functions pop out here. And then we are going to go down to our slide size and we're going to change it from light screen to accustom slide size. And then what we're gonna do is change it to 1600 for the width and 2 thousand for the height. And then hit OK. And this is going to give us the slide that is the same size as what we've created. What we're gonna do is we're going to change our presentation type from just normal to links only. On that, uh, we are going to remove all of these different elements that we have on here so that we can just place our image in. And before we do that though, we are going to create some additional pages. So we have 21 pages total. So that's what we're going to want to have for this setup within keynote. So to do that, we just have to click at slide and you just want to select blank. And you do this for however many pages you have. In my case it's 21, but also do a little bit quicker by selecting all of these and duplicating them so you can get your first slide, hold Shift, hit your last slide, and you'll see all of them are selected. And then you can right-click these and then you can duplicate these. And you can continue to do that until you get the total number of slides that you need. And once we're done with that, what I'm gonna do is I'm just going to minimize my file here so that we can find the files that we have here in our file system. So I know my first page is going to be my planner cover, so I'm going to find that and I'm just going to drag it in. And it should be the exact same size, so I shouldn't have to resize or anything. Then I know I need my index for May second page. And then I'm going to go in and add all of my months. Once I've added all by months and I can go in and add my daily, weekly and additional threads. I'm gonna add my weekly spread in first. Then I'm going to add in my daily. And I just realized I forgot to add my 2021 at a glance. So I'm just going to add that in now. And then what's really nice with Kino is you can just move your slides around. So I'm going to click on this slide and then just drag it up so that it's right behind my index. And then I can just go back to doing what I was doing before. So I've added my weekly 90 to add in my daily spread and then my additional page, which is the notepaper. I can just drop that in. Alright, so I have some additional pages. I can just delete these. I can click on one and then just hit Delete on my keyboard and it'll get rid of them. And now I have all of my 20 pages for my planner. We can just go through and make sure everything looks good. And as young. And you'll notice that as we scroll through, our months are popping out on the side for our tabs. Creates kind of like this animated effect. 17. Adding Additional Pages in Keynote: So before we go into actually linking out all of our pages, what we wanna do is make sure that any additional pages we need to have in this setup for our template are added in because we are going to be linking to specific slides. So if we go back and after we've linked pages and try to add an additional patients, it's gonna throw our link system ofs. So for this index page, when we're looking at this, we will have links to monthly spreads, weekly spreads and daily spreads. The idea for the weekly in the daily spread is we're going to have one spread behind each month. So for the weekly spread, for January, we'll have a weekly spread and then we'll have a daily spread right after it. And then same for February, we'll have a weekly spread and a daily spread right after it. So we'll wanna do is copy 12 additional weekly spreads that we can move behind each of the months, and 12 additional daily spreads that we can move behind the months so that we have all of the pages we need in our templates. Now, we don't have trade 52 total weeks. Because the idea is that what we wanna do is just create one spread for each month. And then that spread can be copied once you're in good notes. This way it helps to eliminate bulk in the file and it just keeps it more streamlined. So we'll start with the weekly spreads. We're gonna go down to our weekly spread. We're going to right-click it. And we're going to duplicate it 11 times. So we have 12 total weeks, one week for each month. Once we're done duplicating all of them, we can then begin to move them. We want to have one behind each month of the year. So we'll pull this first one and we'll drag it behind January. And we'll go the second one, drag it behind February, traveled a third one behind March. And just repeat this process for all of the other months. When you're done dragging all of your weeks behind each of the months, then we'll wanna go down to our daily spread and we want to copy that URL up more time so that we have 12 total daily spreads. And just as we did with the weekly spread, we wanna pull the daily spread behind each of the months as well. So we'll pull this first one right behind the weekly spread behind January. And then the second one will be behind the weekly spread behind February and then so on and so forth for the rest of the 0s. And then once you're done moving everything, you just want to go to each month and just double-check that it, each of these months has a weekly spread and a daily spread behind it. So now we can go back through and begin to think our hotkeys and our tabs. 18. Linking Your Pages in Keynote: So now the next step in this whole process is actually creating the links on the index page. The links that we're gonna be copy CO will be the tabs and this upper toolbar. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna create a shape. We're just gonna use the Rectangle tool. And we're just going to basically utilize this as the basis for the areas that will be clickable on these pages. So you just want to make it so that it's the approximate shape of whatever element you are working with. So I'm gonna start with actually linking these hotkeys at the top. And then what we're gonna do is format this shape so that it doesn't have a color. So we'll click on our Format button. Right now, this rectangle, it has a black film, but what we wanna do is make sure it has no color. So it will go down a fill and then select the drop-down where he says color fill. And we're going to select No Fill. And this will then allow us to have the shape be clickable, but you won't see it because it doesn't have a felt. And that way we can still see the icons and the tabs in the links that we're trying to create here. I'm gonna copy this just so that I have the shape outlines so that I can then just paste it and then add these to the additional elements. So I'm just going to create the shapes first and then go back and link everything. So all I'm doing is hitting command c for copy and then command v for paste. And then I'm gonna go through and do the same thing with the tabs for the month. I'm just going to make these a little bit bigger though, so that they're a bit wider. I'm going to now copy this specific shape and then paste it and then just move it down to each of the additional months. And I know this seems like a lot, but we're only doing this for this one page because then we're going to copy all of these links and add them to the rest of the pages in the keynote file. Now I'm gonna go back to those smaller squares and I'm gonna copy that. And then I'm going to paste it and I'm going to drag this down who? The monthly spreads and I'm just going to resize it so that it will go over each of the months. And the one I'm happy with the shape, I'm just going to copy that and paste it and put those over the rest of the months. I'm then going to go back through select all of these and just copy them again, and then paste them so that I have one big set. And then I'm going to repeat that process for the rest of the weekly, daily spreads. And then I'm gonna do the same thing for goal planning meeting notes and the action of pages. And while we're working here, I just want to save this just so that I can have it saved. So if anything were to happen, you don't have to worry about it. Now we can begin linking the rest of this page and keep in mind we are going to be copying the main spread. Across the rest of these spreads. So the top hotkeys and then the right side tabs are what we're going to be using and copying to the rest of these pages. So the first thing we're gonna do is click on the hotkeys at the top, the little home button. And we are going to, we're going to right-click it and we're going to select Add Link. And we want to add a link to a slide. So we know that this is supposed to be our homepage. So the idea is to link to the front of the planner. So we're going to select slide in slide one. And then you'll know that it's linked because you'll get this little blue icon that pops up showing like a little arrow. So we're gonna right-click the heart. And that's gonna go to our extras pages. So the little note page. So we're gonna select Add Link, add link, and then select slide. And then we can click off of it. And then we're just going to repeat this process for the rest of the links up top for the little tag, that's going to be our OLS page. So we're going to select Add Link, slide, selector, slide, and then you can click off. And then the little checklist is going to be this page we're currently on. And then our little clock is going to be the hotkey to our meeting document. Now for the rest of these, what we're gonna do is go through and link each of them monthly spreads to the specific slide that month pages on. And then for the weekly spreads we're gonna go through and link each of the weekly spreads that's behind that specific month to these links and same thing with the daily spreads. So let's do a few of these together. So we're going to select January. We're gonna right-click it. We're gonna select Add Link slide. We want to make sure we're linked to a slide and then we're going to select a slide page number in January is, is gonna be slide four. So we're going to update this to be Slide four. And this can get a little tricky as you're working through this. So what you could do is just like on a separate piece of paper, write down your page numbers. And it might make it a little bit easier for you as you work through updating the links to these pages. Or you can just kind of eyeball it. You can make this little section a little bit better. It's easier to see by pulling out your little index. And then it'll give you a bigger thumbnail. Alright, so for February we need a right-click add link. We want to link to a slide. And then February is slide seven. And then we'll just repeat this process for the rest of these. Now that we've created all of our links to our monthly spread, what we wanna do is now jump over to our weekly and daily spreads. So just like what we were doing with the monthly spread, the idea is to link to that first page and the weekly spread behind the month of January. So in this case, the month of January is on page four, and then that first weekly spread is on page five. So we'll link to page five for this first weekly spreads. So we're gonna right-click January, select Add Link like slide, slide, and then change it to page five. We're going to do that whole process again for the rest of these modes. For daily spreads, we're gonna go to that first daily spread behind this, the month of January. And in this case that's going to be page six. So we're going to link to page six. So we're going to right-click January under daily spread as Link slide. And then changes like number to six. And then you can just click off of this and then go to February, right-click it, add link, select slide, and then update this to page nine. And the idea is that when we click on these elements, it's going to take us to that specific slide in early efforts. Now we're going to want to link the rest of these sections or goal planning page or maybe notes and our actions and no pages. I know we have those up top, but those at the top are going to be an Oliver pages, whereas this section is just our index page. Just another place for you to be able to click and easily get to wear. You need to be. So when we look at these pages, these are all the way at the end of our files are goal planning is on page 40 or meeting notes is on page 41, and then our extra note pages is on page 42 or Slide 42. So you might want to write that down somewhere just so that you have it. And it just makes it easier for you to not have to scroll through the whole entire presentation. So we're going to click on goal planning, a click, add link, select slide, and then update the slide number to slide 40, right-click meeting notes, agile link, select slide, update our slide number to slide 41. And then right-click the extra notes as link slug slide and then update our slide number 242. Now just like what we were doing with all of the rest of these links, we're going to link the site taps the exact same way. So we just want to right-click February, select, Add Link, select slide. And then we know that February is on, is on slide seven. So we're going to select slide and update our site number to seven. And then just repeat that process down the way for the rest of these tabs. 19. Copying Your Links to All Pages: Now that we're done adding all of our links and we can begin to copy the main links for each of the base pages. And we can just paste them on to the following pages as we go. So I'm this main first index page. What we're gonna do is basically select the top hot keys. And then, so we're just going to drag our selection arrow across this first set hold shift and make sure you click off of your page if it gets selected. And then keep holding shift in the organ to select all the tabs on the right-hand side. You'll, you'll be able to tell that they're selected because they'll have a selection box around them. It has white squares all around. And again, if you select the page once more, just keep holding Shift. Don't let go. Click on the page and it'll de-select that. We're going to now right-click and we're going to group all of these together. And then we are going to copy these. And then we're gonna go to the rest of our pages are just going to go in and paste them. And they should pace automatically in the same place for each and every slide. 20. Exporting Your Final PDF File: Once you're done pasting all of your tabs at hotkeys to the rest of your pages. We can now export the file. You may want to go through all of your pages and just kind of test out your links. Even test them in keynote by clicking on the arrow. And then select go to slide, and it will show you which side it goes through. So this is just a really good way to kind of test and make sure that there's nothing incorrectly placed and that everything goes to where you'd like it to go. So once you're done testing what we're gonna do, we're just going to save this again. And then we're gonna go to file and we're going to select export to PDF. And we want to make sure our image quality is best. We don't need to play around with any of these additional elements and then we can select next. And then make sure you save it to wherever you plan to have your files setup. I'm just gonna save it in my project sample. And instead of calling it my digital planner template, I'm just going to name it digital planner New. And then I'm going to export this file. And then we can go to our next step of loading this into good notes. 21. Working in Goodnotes: So once you're completely finished with designing your file, you've linked everything and keynotes and you've exported the PDF. Now it's time to send your digital planner over to your ipad. So what I like to do is just AirDrop it directly from my computer to my iPad because I'm working on a Mac. But if you're working on some other type of software, it might just be easier for you to email it to yourself. And then you can just download it to your iPad. Or you can even use something like Dropbox or Google Drive on your iPad. And then just download it directly to your file system and then open it up in your files. What I'm going to be doing though, is showing you how to AirDrop it directly from your desktop computer over to your iPad. So I'm gonna go to where I've export it, my PDF document, which isn't my product sample file. I'm going to right-click this. And then I'm going to select Share, and then I'm a select AirDrop. And then in my AirDrop options, whatever I have opened that is going to be accepting of those files. In this case, my iPad, I'm going to click on it. And then I'm gonna select done. Now on our iPad you'll see that the AirDrop options pop up and it gives you a variety of options to open this file in based on the types of software that you have or the apps that you have on your iPad. And few have good naughts are ready installed. You should select the notes and then it will load it automatically into your good notes file. So what you'll wanna do is import it as a new document and it should automatically open this up for you. Since this is a portrait style on digital planner, you may want to churn and reorient your iPad to fit the requirements of this so that it's easier to see. So once you open this up, you will see your cover and then you can swipe with your finger or you can swipe with your Apple pencil, and then you should be able to access everything on your iPad. What I wanna do is just go through a few little tips and tricks that you can utilize while you are working in this product so that it's easier for you to navigate, especially if you haven't used good notes in the past. So we're just gonna go over some of the menu bar items up top and then just some basic things like how to rate and how to navigate throughout the document. Okay, so the first thing you'll wanna do is figure out your pen mode. So in order for you to be able to click on each of these tabs and get them to work. You need to make sure that your pen mode is turned on. And this upper right-hand corner, you'll see a little document with an ear tab and a plus, which allows you to add items to your file. And then you'll see a little pan with a circle around it. When that circle is around it and means that your pen functions are on. So it allows you to actually tap through all of the different tabs and little sections that are hyperlinked. Now if it was turned off, you'd see a pencil with a line through it. That means you're in writing mode and you won't be able to click your tabs. So you'd have to go through all of your files by hand, swiping left or right. But this allows you to actually write on your document. You'll be able to write on top of any of the areas that you have clear here on your document. To clear your page, you can click that those three little dots in the upper right hand corner. And it will clear the page of anything that you've added on top of it and won't believe anything in the base of the page, but it will delete anything that you've written or added on top like pictures and different elements or stickers if you have those. So what you'll wanna do is if you are finding that you cannot like click on your tabs with your Apple pencil. All you have to do is turn your pen function on and then you should be able to click anything that is hyperlinked here in your index and on your tabs. So if we click to January, it'll take us to January. And then remember behind it, you have your January weekly into January daily. If you click the little home icon at the top of your page, it'll take you back to your cover. And if you were in a different month and you click on a little checklist, it'll take you back to your index. Now while we're on our index, you can click on your monthly spreads. On any of these monthly spreads, we'll take you to that month. And then if you click home, it'll take you back home. And you have the weekly spreads, again, will take you to the first weekly spread in that month. And then click home and I'll take you back comb. And then same thing with the Daily will take you to the first daily spread in that month. So you have one daily and weekly behind each of your months. In this template. The idea was to keep our files small and compact. So if you want to add more weeks, we'll have to do that manually and I'll show you how to do that next. So if we go to January and say we want to have four weeks in January, we go to our first January weekly spread. And then what we can do is if we click on the four little squares in the upper left-hand corner, it'll show you all of our thumbnails and it'll highlight in blue what we are currently on. If you click on the little dropdown menu, it'll allow you to duplicate this page. So if you hit duplicate, it'll duplicate it right next to it. And you can continue to do this until you have the number of pages that you need. And in this case, if you wanted four weeks, you could have four weeks. So if we go if we hit close, we'll go back to our January main page. And you'll see that if we scroll to the right, will have 123 and for weeks total behind this. So this is how you can duplicate an add additional pages into your spreads without having to basically add those into your actual original file. I like working this way because it's easy. But you can also just utilize that spread as is, and just keep repeating it. Just cleared out and reuse it over and over again. If you don't need to save anything from those, are those part weeks. But some people prefer to save. Some people prefer to just start fresh. So it just depends on what your needs are. So same thing for our dailies. If you wanted to create. An additional daily behind this first one, you'll just go to the little Foursquare's in the upper left-hand corner. The daily file is already selected. You'll see it in blue, will click on the little drop-down arrow and then it'll allow you to duplicate that page. You can also delete pages if you wanted. And you can also export individual pages and individual sections as well. If you wanted to search for something within this, you can search as well using the search icon. You can bookmark certain areas that you go to all the time by selecting that little bookmark icon. And it will highlight in red to show you that something is bookmarked. And then you can also export your planner files pages say you're working on meeting notes and you just want to share your notes. You can export that specific page and share it over email with others as well. So if you want to write, we're going to have to turn off our pen function or click function and basically turn on our pen function to remember, in order to write, you'll need to have the pan with a line strike through it. And what you'll see is that you can basically right on top of any of your pages. So say you wanted to fill out your weekly spread and you can adjust the width of your pen nib right here and this little area. You want to make sure you have the pen selected. If you click on the pen, it'll give you different options of types of pens. You can use a fountain pen, a ball pen, or a brush pen. And then next to that is the eraser, which allows you to erase. Next to that is the highlight. You can add shapes, you can lasso elements, you can add in pictures as well. From your iPad. You can also take a photo. You can add text, and some people prefer to just add tax instead of writing if they don't like their handwriting. But let's just practice writing. So if we click on the Pen icon and we're gonna select ball pen, you can adjust the size and width of your line segments. So there's usually a thin, a medium, and a thick line. So if you click on the thin and you hold down, you'll be able to adjust it in millimeters. So I'm just going to go up to 0.25. And we'll zoom in here. I find that the closer you zoom in, the easier it is to write. And we can write today's date. And then if you want it that thicker, you can just select your Erase tool. You erase it. And then you can go back to your Pen icon and select a bigger pen tip. And you can update and write like this. You can add any type of notes. You can also add shapes if you wanted. You can draw shapes and then it'll auto correct itself so that it's a nice version of whatever hand-drawn shape you created. If you click this back button, it will undo the work that you've done. And if you click forward, it will redo. If you click on this little t, you can create a textbox and actually add in text. You can adjust the type of font based on what you have in your system and the size of it as well so you can see it better. And you can also change the color by selecting the text color pop up. And then you can change it to whatever you want. You can highlight it by double-clicking with your Apple pencil or just dragging over with your finger. And then you can go to your text color picker and then you can change the color. And then you can also move it around if you wanted as well, by using that little lasso tool, you can last though it hold your pen down. Select edit, you can edit, you can select edit and edit, and you can just move it around with your pen and place things where ever you'd like it. You can also add stickers as well. We didn't make stickers and this video, because I have a really great tutorial on skill share all about making digital stickers. I have two versions. One that takes you through the process using Affinity Designer on your desktop and it walks you through how to make really nice, clean, professional looking functional stickers. And then I have a newer version that walks you through how to do the whole entire process right on your iPad. And I'll make sure to link those in the class description. So we didn't make stickers in this class. But if you do have stickers from any of the other classes that maybe you've taken with me or stickers, like digital stickers that you've bought, you're able to pull them in. I find the best and easiest way to do this is actually to turn my iPad portrait style. And then I use this side-by-side view and I pull up my file system and I pull it up next to my actual layout here and good notes, and then I'll go and search for my files in my file system. And I can actually pull in sticker PNG files that I've created and I can drag them into my layouts and resize them and move them and place them wherever I'd like. I just find that this is the easiest and most comprehensive way to go about it. Because I can access everything on one side and then just drag in pulling what I want and then I can always just pull it out and then turn it back. If I want to add an image and I can just click on the little image icon so I can just pick an image that I recently created, resize it, and pull it in wherever I'd like to have it. And then if you don't want it in, you can just click the acts and deleted or you can use the clear function as well. So once again, to get to that Claire function, you click on the three dots in the upper right-hand corner and select Clear page and it'll remove everything off of your page. And then one more time if you want to go back to being able to click your tabs churn on your click function, and you'll be able to go to your home and to all of your different tabs that you'd like to use. And that's basically how I utilize my digital planners. They're actually really simple. Once you get the hang of it working in good notes, again, I find that it's just a little bit more eco-friendly, a little simpler. Because I don't have to bring a whole bunch of tools and things like that. I know some people just really enjoy the tactile feel of being able to use pens and papers and markers and stickers and things like that. But this is a really good option for people who want to be able to have some sort of creativity and fun with planning, but without all of the additional items, because you just need your iPad and your pen. And now you can create your own planner. And like I said, I'll make sure to link over those classes on how to make stickers and you are good to go. I think that's it for this section. I'll see you in the outro. 22. Course Outro: I hope you found this course interesting, that you are more comfortable working in Affinity Designer. And now you can begin creating the planner that will bring you planner pis. Remember to load some of the screenshots of your final planners who are class project gallery. I would love to see what you are creating and what you made. And I'd love to give feedback if you need it. If you want to learn more about me and my work, make sure you visit my website, www dot Bella Sophia creative.com. And if you want to shop any of my digital planning products, you can do so. An Etsy a bellows Sophia creative, who finally, if you want to get a behind the scenes view of the work I do as a freelancer and even the prepper edu for these types of classes. Make sure you check out my YouTube channel, youtube.com slash C slash the freelance life. Thank you so much for watching and for creating with me today. I'll see you in the next one by.