Design a Linked Digital Planner in the Affinity Designer V1 app + Keynote app on the iPad

1. Course Intro: [MUSIC] Digital planning has taken the Internet by storm. From printables, to bullet journal style trackers, to full-blown digital agenda. Apps range from traditional Google Calendar to the Kanban style Trello. But some of the most popular apps include GoodNotes, ZoomNotes, and other PDF reader style apps because of their flexibility and the ability to customize your journals, notebooks, and planners. People have truly taken to the style of organization in such a fun, creative, and innovative way. It's an organizational format that I personally enjoy and use. This month I'm coming back with another digital planning course that will help you create your own customized digital planner right on your iPad. Hello everyone, if this is your first class with me, welcome. If you are a returning student, welcome back. I'm Jen and I will be guiding you through this creative course. I'm a freelance graphic designer, illustrator, and educator based out of the Midwest and I run Bella and Sophia creative studio. If you want to learn more about me, you can visit me online at www.bellasophiacreative.com, and you can check out my YouTube channel, the freelance life. There, you'll get a behind the scenes view of the work that I do as a creative freelancer and educator, as well as access to a huge library of additional free tutorials relating to art, design, and illustration. I'm a huge advocate for sharing knowledge in accessible ways. I've found that online courses in places like YouTube are great places for this. They help me to connect to a diverse group of people who are looking to learn and grow. Digital planning continues to be a popular organizational system. Absolute GoodNotes have taken app stores by storm. This month, I wanted to do an update to my previous digital planning design courses. In the past, I walked you through designing digital planners on the affinity desktop apps. But this time around, I wanted to share how you can create a linked digital planner completely on your iPad using the Affinity Designer app and the Keynote app. Often people get iPads in order to digitally plan. I wanted to streamline the digital planning process by keeping the design work all on your iPad. In this class, I will share some tips, my knowledge and help you build a digital planner that you can customize to your own needs. What is this class about? In this class, you will learn how to create a link, digital planner in the Affinity Designer app and the Keynote app right on your iPad. I like using Affinity Designer for creating digital planners and principles because it's so easy to create multiple pages in one file using art boards. You can also create precise shapes, ad tech space items evenly add vector effects and export the file really, really simply. While the Affinity Designer app does not have the linking function as something like Affinity Publisher might, you can link all of your pages in the Keynote app and export that final file as a digital PDF for use in your digital note-taking apps. For the ease of use, I'm going to walk you through how to design an undated planner, but if you prefer, you can always add your own dates in. This course is also a fantastic class to really hone in on your layout design skills and get more comfortable with the Affinity Designer iPad app. This is because we're basically going through the process of creating in the program. Then you get a tangible product at the end that you can use after you're done. When it comes to the skills that you will learn, you will learn how to create your own digital planner in the Affinity Designer app, right on your iPad and you will learn how to link that file within the Keynote app on your iPad. We will start with the basics of understanding the toolbars and functions in the Affinity Designer workspace and then we'll start to build out our digital planner. You will learn how to design basic layouts, create pages, customize those pages, and get an understanding of the layers function in the program. We will also learn how to create tabs and how to animate them, and how to link those tabs to your pages within your layout writing in Keynote. As we are creating our planner, we will also go over how to use some of the most commonly used tools, including the shape tools, align tool, and how to use the movement align functions in Affinity Designer. You will get a better understanding of the layer effects tools and how to add things like embossing and shadows to make your planner feel more 3D. We will also learn how to create basic buttons and icons. Then we will go over how to export a file keeping in mind size limitations. Then we will get your file loaded into and linked up in Keynote. Finally, we will go over how to export your file for use in note-taking apps like GoodNotes. I'll show you how to load it into the GoodNotes app on your iPad and then you'll be ready to use your digital planner. To make things a little easier, I'm going to be including the class project as an Affinity Designer template that you can edit and get acquainted with before you start your own. I will also include a PDF of the planner that you can use. Please keep in mind that the planner I design though, is for personal use only, but whatever you create in the class is yours to use as you see fit, whether you want to launch a shop and sell your product or give it away or just use it for yourself. If you want to check out some of my other digital planner products, make sure you check out my shop on Etsy, Bella and Sophia creative. You could also find me over on creative market with the same shop name. I'm also going to include some links to Pinterest boards that I created with tons of digital planner inspiration. 2. Tools + Project Overview: When it comes to tools that you will need, all you need to take this class is your iPad, the Affinity Designer app, the Keynote app, and the GoodNotes app, or any other note-taking app that you prefer. I'm going to be walking you through how to use the file in GoodNotes, but you are welcome to export that file and use it in whatever note-taking app that you choose. For your class project, we will be creating our very own digital planner. We're going to create an eighth spread layout featuring a cover page an index page, a quick menu, a journaling layout, a habit tracker page, a weekly spread, a monthly spread, and a daily spread, and finally, we will be linking the file using Keynote to prep it for export for use in a digital note-taking app, like the notes. Make sure you share your final planner with the class in the class project gallery, if you so choose to, you can opt to share the full digital planner file via a file sharing app like Dropbox. Or you can just share JPEGs of your layout too in the class gallery. So who is this class for? This class is geared towards beginners. You don't need any prior experience using the Affinity Designer app or the Keynote app as I'm going to be going over the basics to help you get comfortable using the app. I'm looking forward to seeing what you create. Let's get started. 3. Setting Up Your File: [MUSIC] Before we even begin designing our layouts, and our cover, and all of that jazz within our planner, I want to get you used to and acclimated to the interface in Affinity Designer on your iPad. If you worked in Affinity Designer on the desktop before, it's similar, but there are some quirks here in there so I just want to give you a lay of the launch. Let's launch Affinity Designer. Then when we get to our main interface depending on if you've used the app before, you may have projects or you may have nothing in here. I have a ton of projects in the gallery because I use this for my daily life, for work, and for freelance projects. In the upper right-hand corner, we're going to select little plus icon. Once we are in our new document setup here what we want to do is update our measurements from 0.2 inches, and then we're going to update our dimensions. There's different places you can find the GoodNotes standardized sizing. I would suggest just check it up on the GoodNotes website. There's a GoodNote standard and then a GoodNotes landscape. We're going to go with the GoodNotes standard because we are going to be creating a vertical planner that goes up and down. Basically, we'll be designing each page by itself. What we'll do is set up our file; the GoodNotes standard dimensions which are 6.32 by 8.17 inches. We're going to update our width and our height here. We'll select "Width" and we're going to change that to 6.32 inches and hit "Okay," and then we're going to hit "Height" here and we are going to update that to 8.17 inches and then hit "Okay". We're going to keep our DPI at 144. If you were to print this, you might want to increase that to 300, but because we're going to be using this strictly on GoodNotes or in a digital format it makes sense to just keep it at a smaller size because that will help to cause less lagging to happen within the app. We want to make sure our orientation is portrait. We don't want to check mark Transparent Background, but we do want check mark Create Artboard because that's what's going to allow us to add multiple pages into one file versus having to create a file for each page and then we can hit "Okay". What you'll see is we get this nice portrait style page, and because we've created artboard we're able to add additional artboards into our layouts which allows us to keep everything in one file. Before we jump into the tools, I'll show you how to do that really quickly. In our upper left-hand side here, we'll have these two icons. One looks like a sheet of paper that's dog-eared with three dots on it, and if you click on that and you scroll down you'll see something that says Artboards. When you click on that you'll see your artboard be highlighted in blue with an outline, and then you'll see this little pop-up at the bottom. You can adjust your presets. I'm just going to keep it at my Document settings because that's what I want all of my pages to be, and then I can just click "Insert Artboard" to add additional artboards. 4. The AD Interface - The Tools: What you'll see is that we're able to add additional pages to the same file and they're all going to be the same sizes of our original layout. I would suggest adding in eight total. Once I've added four, I'm just going to go to my left-hand toolbar here, and I'm going to select that arrow tool and then I'm going to just drag my Apple Pencil over my options. Then I'm going to go back into my upper left-hand menu here and I'm going to select that three dot menu and I'm going to select "Duplicate". What this does is duplicate everything that I've selected and then I can just take my Apple Pencil and drag it down and I will have four additional pages for my layouts. What I like to do is just zoom in as I'm working. If you take your fingers and you place them on the screen and you pinch in, you'll zoom out and then if you pinch out, you will zoom in. When we're working on this first page here just to get a feel for some of these tools and the different studios. On the left-hand side is your main toolbar, and on the right-hand side are our studios. We'll be working with quite a few of these different tools so I just wanted to give you an overview of what they are and then give you some ideas on how the studio work over here on the right-hand side. What's really nice those at the very bottom in the lower right-hand corner, there's a little question mark. If you tap on that, it will give you the name of all of the different tools and all of the different studios, as well as your menus up top. You have your document menu, which is where we were in originally, this menu allows you to save, export your files. It'll allow you to place images and then what we did originally, it allows you to add additional artboards. You can also add your grid and select "Snapping". I like to have snapping turned on. You could also just turn it on in the lower left-hand corner here, there is a little magnetic icon and that allows you to snap things in place. It just makes layout much easier. Then right next to that is there Edit menu. We'll be working with some of these options, especially the geometry options, which allow it to add, subtract, and blend shapes together. Then of course, over copy paste functions are here as well. Then next to that you'll see these three icons. These icons are our persona's. We're currently in the designer persona, which is the Affinity Designer interface. But if we tap the one in the middle, this is our pixel persona, which allows us to utilize some of the tools that you might have access to an Affinity Photo, which is fantastic. They are pixel-based tools. Then this third option here is our export persona. This allows you to export all of your pages at once as slices. I use this a lot when I'm making stickers and if you are interested in something like that, I'll include a link in the description box to some of my other digital planning classes specifically one like how to make digital stickers and things like that on your iPad using Affinity Designer. But I use this a lot when I'm working with multiple artboards and files that I want to export really speedily in one go and this allows me to do that. I'm going to select my designer persona so that we're back in the designer options. On the left-hand side, we're going to scroll down to our shape tool. Right now, I have the rectangle option, but if you hold that shape tool down, you'll get a pop-up and you'll see all the different options of shapes that you can create that are like presets. Let's just select the shape and then on the right-hand side in our studio, we're going to select our color studio and you'll be able to update your color fill, which is the inside of the shape, and then the color stroke, which is the stroke on the outside. You can choose to not have a stroke by tapping on that stroke color and going down into your quick colors here and selecting the white circle with a blue line through it, it will remove a color from your stroke or your fill. Then I'm going to click on my fill again and I'm just going to update the color so it's something that's easy to see. I'm going to take my Apple Pencil and I'm just going to drag across my artboard here to make a shape and then what's nice is if you add your finger to the screen, it'll help you create a perfect shape so it's all in proportion. Then I'll resize this by just pulling in the corners and then I can tap on it and move it by selecting my move tool, which is that white arrow there. I can just move it around. Then what's nice, I'm going to zoom in. What you'll see is if we select this little node arrow underneath our move tool, you'll be able to get the options to adjust your nodes within your shape so it'll allow me to decrease or increase the angle of the petals here. We'll also be utilizing the pen tool a lot. The pen tool takes some time to get used to. But once you get used to it, you can do a lot with it. I suggest we do is update our color here. We're going to tap out of this shape by just selecting our move tool, tapping on it, and then tapping outside of it. Then what we'll do is we'll go into our color studio here again and we're going to turn off the color in our fill by selecting the white circle with the blue line through it and then we're going to tap on our stroke and we're going to select a color from our color wheel, or you can just select our most recent colors so that it matches what you already have on your artboard. Then we're going to select our pen tool. With the pen tool you're working with a Bezier curves and lines segments. If you tap on one point and then you tap on another, it's going to create a line for you. Then what you'll notice is at the very bottom, you'll have these options for different modes. Currently we have it as a pen mode, but you can change it to line, to smart to polygon. I'm just going to keep it at pen and then you can also adjust your width so it's not so thick. Then you can select "Edit Mode" and it'll allow you to edit the shape and then if we continue to tap and add additional lines, we'll tap on our last point and then add an additional line and without lifting your pen, we can just drag and we can start creating some of those Bezier curves. You'll notice that there's these like-arms that shoot out of our curve here and we can select our node tool and adjust those arms and adjust that curve. A good way to do that is just to play around with it so you can get used to the placement of your curves and your shapes over all. But it gives you a lot of ability especially if you like to do artwork, and you like the idea of vectorizing. Basically you'll utilize your pen tool to vectorize any digital artwork that you might have created. You can utilize the node tools to adjust those lines. Then you could also utilize some of these additional tools within the node tool to smooth things out, and just like go in and be more detailed with what you're doing and creating. But that's really like the flexibility of the pen tool because I'm able to go in and really fine tune things to get it exactly the way I would want it. That is the pen tool. Next, I want to highlight how we can add text, which is probably one of the main things that we'll be utilizing within our layout is adding text to these pages. If you go to the bottom on the left-hand side in our tools here, you'll see our text tool. There are two types. There's the art text tool, which is what is popping up for me first. And then there's also the frame text tool. The art text tool just allows you to add text without any parameters. If I kept typing, if I click on the area, I select that little a and then hit my keyboard. I can just type and it will continue typing until infinity. Unless I re-size this, and adjust it or we can select our frame text tool. This basically allows us to create a frame. Then whatever text we put in will be bound to the size of that frame. I'm going to increase the size of my font here. Then I'm just going to type in here as well. What you see is that the text stays within this bounding box instead of just going on for infinity. This is a really helpful tool if you have a specific parameters that you want to keep your text to. I always prefer using the frame text tool, especially when I'm working in layouts like this, just so that everything has it's own little place. While we're working with texts, what's nice is that we can also undo things. I'm going to highlight something by taking my Apple pencil and dragging across it. Then I can delete it, but say I wanted that back, I can just take two fingers tap, and it will undo it and bring back what I was working on. But I'm just going to delete all of this because we don't need all of it. I'll use my gibberish. What we're going to do is re-size our frame as well so that it fits around the word hello. Then I'm going to highlight it by double tapping it. You could also triple tap if you need to. This will allow me to re-size if I need it to, and then also I can adjust my colors. Once it's highlighted, I'm going to tap my keyboard to move it out of the way. Then I'm going to go to my color studio over here on the right-hand side. Currently the color is black, but I'm going to turn it to that pink by just clicking on my reset. But you can also utilize your color wheel, and adjust it as you'd like to find a color that you like, or you can tap where it says color wheel. You can utilize your sliders or we can go back into our color swatches all the way at the bottom, you'll see it says swatches. We click on that. We can select from the swatches that are pre-loaded in the system. If you have pantone, I have the pantone systems here as well, and we can select from that as well. Basically, any of the Pantone colors that I have in my coated or uncoated options, I'll have access to those colors here as well. I'm going to select my pantone coated because that is the color guide that I have with me right now. I can find a color in my guide here. Then I can go into my color system here. Right now, I have it as just the color grid, but if you tap on that little foursquare there and it'll give you your Pantone color coats. It just makes things really easy for color matching and things like that, especially if you're working on client work. You can also utilize the pencil tool. This I use a lot when I'm working on digital art. You can just select the pencil tool, and you can draw with it. But what's nice is that the pencil tool is basically a vector tool and you're able to edit your nodes just like what you were able to do with the pencil tool, and it just makes things really simple and easy. I like to use this again, if I add in artwork, I can trace over it, and then revise. Then you could also select sculpt while you're working with this, and this allows you to add additional segments to the work that you're already doing. I'm drawing something and I stop, but I wanted to keep adding to this piece. It doesn't create a brand new line segment, it just adds to the segment that we're already working within. Then we also have the vector brush tool. Again, it's similar to the pen tool and the vector tool because you are creating with lines segments in Bezier curves. But what's nice with the vector brush tool is once you select it, and then you go to the right-hand side and select our brush studio, we have tons of options that give us a more traditional fill to our brushes. If we select acrylics and select dry basic acrylic, you'll get these acrylic shapes and a fax with the brush. You can also re-size it on the very bottom here. You can adjust the width, you can adjust the opacity. You can also add a controller, which basically is like a stabilizer. Then if we tap where it says acrylics, we have a pop-up that gives you all the other options that we have here. You could select ink squashes, dry media, pens, pencils. We can select the classic HB pencil, and it gives you that nice grainy texture effect that you would get with a traditional pencil. Only you're creating a vector line that you can go in with your node tool and edit. 5. The AD Interface - The Studios: [MUSIC] The next thing I want to highlight in our studio over here on the right-hand side aside from the brushes is our layers. We are going to be working with layers a lot. Basically, when we look at our artboard, each artboard almost acts like a folder. If we look on the right-hand side here, with Artboard one selected, you'll see there's a little drop-down and basically everything that is on artboard one is housed within the artboard one folder. This just keeps everything organized and everything that you put on one artboard will stay within that artboard and that will be helpful when we're exporting. What's nice is that we can also select all of these elements and group them. We can click on that first curve and then drag our Apple pencil to the right over the next one and the next one, all the way down until we have all of them selected here, or we can just go over with our move tool and select everything on that artboard. If we go back into our layers here, we'll see everything's all selected and then if we select this little icon that looks like a puzzle piece, it will group everything together so that we can move and keep all those elements together. We'll be working with that a lot as we are finalizing our placement of our layouts. We can also adjust the layer settings, or layer options, if we select an element within our artboard and we select that three dot menu in our studios here you will see these are the layer options. We can adjust whether or not it's visible, we can also adjust the opacity, we can make it lighter or darker, more see-through or more opaque by dragging left or right on our opacity slider. We can also change the layer effects, we can go in and select different options like multiply, darken, all of this is really helpful when you're working within digital art to add things like shadows and highlights and stuff like that, but we'll utilize it today to add some more 3D feel to the overall layout so it doesn't feel so flat in 2D. Then if we tap that back arrow, it'll bring us back out to our original layers. We can also add layers by selecting that little plus icon, we can add a vector layer, pixel layer, a masking layer. Then of course we can throw things away by hitting that trash can if we don't want something on our artboard or if we don't want a specific artboard or layer, you can select the item, and then select the trash can and it will delete it. But if you wanted to keep that, just double-tap or just use two fingers to tap to undo. I'm going to tap the layers again to bring it in, and then we're also going to check out our FX tools, by selecting the little fx icon. I like to utilize the FX tool to add things like Gaussian blurs, shadows, overlays to give things some dimension. I'm going to select this scribble that I created here and I'm going to go into my layer effects and I'm going to select outer shadow. I'm going to tap on it and you'll see the little icon turns blue and moves to the right, that's how you know it's on. Once I've done that, I'm going to actually tap where the word outer shadow is and at the bottom you'll see these options pop up. What you're able to do is adjust your opacity, your radius, your offset, and the intensity of the shadow. If I increase the opacity, it's going to darken it. I'm going to increase the radius by going to the right. If you want to decrease, you just have to tap on it and drag your pencil to the left and you'll see this bit of shadow starting to form and then we'll select offset, the direction of it goes off to the lower right. Then you can increase or decrease your intensity so it gives it a little bit more of a 3D effect, so it looks like it's popping off of the page versus just being a flat 2D element in the vector space. You can also adjust your angles. This really depends on where you're assuming light is coming from, and you can adjust the blend mode if you want it to be multiplied, darken, linear burn, lighten, I just multiply for something like this. I may also like to utilize bevel and emboss, I'm going to tap off of that scribbled line, I must select this circle here. I'm going to go into my layers, make sure I select that circle, then go back into my FX tools and I'm going to turn on my bevel and emboss options. Already you can see it popping up. I like to use this, because sometimes how on journals you have stitching and what I like to do is if I add any type of stitching element I like to utilize the bevel and emboss. I'm going to select bevel and emboss and I'm going to make sure I click on the word and I'll get the actual options at the bottom and you can change the type. Let's zoom in a bit, this is pillow, this is an inner emboss, outer emboss, a plane emboss. I'm going to do this pillow so it feels like it's almost stamped, and then you can adjust your radius again by dragging your Apple pencil left or right, or you can just tap on it and actually write a radius in. Then you can adjust the depth if you want it inverted, or if you want it to be more of a soft curve, and then you can tap that arrow to go back out and then you can adjust your softness or hardness. I like to soften it a bit so it's not so harsh on the eye, and you can adjust your azimuth so that it has a little bit more of highlights and then the elevation as well to make it look deeper or taller. Then again, this just adds that nice 3D effect to your overall view. Those are a few techniques to utilize when you're working with the layer FX options in this layer FX studio. Now we're down to the last two studios I want to highlight first, let's select our character studio. This will allow you to revise and edit your text, I'm just going to double-click the hello that I've created. I'm going to zoom in a bit and on this side, you'll get options to change the style of your text. You can select bold options, you can add an underline, you can do strike throughs, You can adjust the paragraph settings, whether it's left aligned, centered, or right aligned, could also adjust your positioning and your tracking, you can go in and revise your typefaces as well, you can revise your leading within your spacing, and then you can also select the different traits of the font that you're using. If you want it to be italic, versus regular, versus bold italic, things like that. You'll be able to edit and revise your text here, but you're also able to do that when you double-click and highlight the text, you'll get your font options at the very bottom as well. It's just you get a lot more detail like kerning and leading and adjusting your baseline and positioning within the studio here, but any of the basic stuff will pop up at the bottom. Then finally, what I want to highlight is the transform studio. We'll be using this a lot because we'll be utilizing the order functions as well as the alignment functions. You can resize your dimensions here as well, you'll see if I increase the size of this, my dimensions will update here in terms of the width and the height of that specific word or shape that I'm working with, and then we can also duplicate this, I'm going to go up to the Edit menu I'm going to select Duplicate and then I'm going to move the duplicated version out of the way, then what I want to do is perhaps have both of these aligned to the left-hand side, what I'll do is take my Apple pencil, drag across both of the hellos so that they're selected and if you have trouble with that, you can just go into your layers studio, and then just select each one there, and then you'll go back to your transform studio and we'll go down to our alignment options here and we're going to select a line horizontally to the left and it will line everything up to the left for me here. I like to use this a lot with shapes and words to make sure everything is aligned and everything is spaced nice and evenly. We can even space them vertically, this stuff is really helpful when we're working within layouts making sure everything is lined up nicely. Again, one of the reasons why I really enjoy working in affinity just because you get into the nitty-gritty details, and for those of you who really like the small details, like being able to line things up really easily and simply, this is a great app for that. Now finally, I want to show you a couple more tips when it comes to working with your line segment, I'm going to select my pen tool, and I'm going to change my mode from pen to line and I'm going to create some lines. What's nice is I have my magnetics turned on, it will snap into place to create a straight line for me, and then what we can do is revise these lines as well. I'm going to bring this over here. I'm just going to rotate it, and then I'm going to zoom in a bit and if you notice that the studios and your tools went away, don't fret. If you select that little icon in the upper right-hand corner, it'll bring everything back. What we're going to do is select this line I'm going to click on it with my move tool. I'm going to go into my stroke studio. Basically it looks like a paint stroke, it's right underneath your color studio. You can edit and adjust the size of your line here, the width of your line. You could also select the type of lines, say you want a dash line, this is where you can do that. You can select the dash option and then you can revise the size of the dash in your gaps. Then if you click on Advance, you can even adjust the cap, your join options and your align, if you want things to be like a butt cap so that it's more square, you can do that or you can keep the curve options, and this just gives you a different style of line. Depending on what your needs are you could also select Scale with Object so when you make something bigger, the line is going to get thicker. I like to keep it turned off though so that it has the same size and style, even if I'm making it longer, it really just depends on your needs. Now, the last thing that I want to highlight is how to place an image within your layout. I'm going to move some of this around so that we have some space. You can go into your document menu here, and then we're going to go down to place image. You can select from the Cloud, you can select from your photos. I'm just going to select a pattern I worked on and then once you place it, it'll load it and then what you do is you take your Apple pencil and you drag wherever you want that image placed, and it will place it for you. Then you can resize it as needed, move it around, what's also neat, you can create masking effects with this, say we wanted this pattern to be in this shape, what I can do is go to my right-hand side, select my layers, go to where that layer is, I'm going to drag it so that it is within the group that I've created by just dragging it on top of that layer group and now it'll be in it and then what we want to do is take that and drag it so that it is on top of that shape that we want it to be masked into and then we're going to take the photo and we're literally going to drop it right onto that shape. You'll see a blue line that goes across the layer, and then it will go into that shape. I'm going to go into that curve, I'm going to remove my stroke, and then if we click on this, you'll see that pattern is now within that shape. It's a nice fun way to play around with clipping masks and adding special touches here and there. Now that we're done with getting used to and playing around with some of the tools and studios in affinity designer, I'm going to clear this page by selecting everything and then, 6. Creating Your Cover: [MUSIC] The first thing I'm going to do is get us started on designing our cover. I have some elements that I started working on that I think I want to utilize for this. I have these flowers. They're actually quite simple to make. I'll show you how to make them really quickly, and then we can bring some of those elements into our original file. I'm going to select some of this here and just delete them so I have some space to draw. These are really simple. I just utilized my pencil tool to create some organic-looking shapes that are in the shape of a flower. I'm going to select my color studio here. I'm going to update my color, and I'm going to make sure I have no stroke. I'm going to select the stroke, select that little white circle with a blue line through it to remove the stroke, and then select my fill, and update the color of my fill. I'm going to select my pencil, and then in the lower hand area here you'll see a pop-up. Make sure you have use fill selected and then you can tap on your fill and you can select that yellow, and then you can begin to work on creating your shape. I'm going to create just like groovy 60s inspired floral shape. If you notice there's a little white element here. We just want to make sure our shape is closed so we can select that node tool and we can revise where that shape ends, where that point ends and connected so that it's closed. [NOISE] We can go in and select our no tools again and we can smooth things out if we want to. We can adjust line placement, delete, or any additional points that are not necessary to make this a little bit cleaner. You can adjust the curves as well. Then it creates this fun 60s inspired floral element. You can do the same thing with the leaves, again select your pencil tool, and then you can update your fill color to green if you wanted to. Tap out of your original shape, and then zoom in, and then select your pencil tool will update the color. Then you can just create a leaf shape. Just make sure that your final nodes connect. You can just adjust them. You can zoom in, and adjust them, and connect any final points. You can also utilize your pen tool to create these shapes as well, or add details to the shapes. I'm going to make some veins on this little guy here. I'm going to tap outside of them, and then I'm going to update my color green to something a little bit darker. Then I'm going to take my pen tool, and I'm going to create a curved shape that goes across the length of this leaf. Then I'm going to use my arms to adjust the curves. Then I'm going to make sure that the stroke is selected and I have that green that I want it to be, so it's a little bit darker. Then I can adjust the width of this as well. Then if I select my node tool again, I can readjust the placement to give it some interest and texture, and then we can go in and add additional pieces if you wanted. But I'm just going to keep it really basic flat. Then I'm going to select both of these pieces, and I'm going to go into my Layer studio. I'm going to go into my Layers and I'm going to select that group icon, and it'll group it together so that I can move it altogether. Then if you select your element, you'll notice you have this arm out here that allows you to rotate things. You can rotate it. Move it. If you don't want it on top and you want it behind, you can just select that item and then drag it so that it is underneath the yellow flower. Select the layer and then drag it all the way down so that it's underneath that element. You can also resize it to make it a little smaller so it doesn't feel so out of place. If you want to add something like a center here, I can just go to my shape tool, hold down on it, and then change it to the ellipse tool. Then I can create a circle. If I hold my finger down, it'll give me a perfect circle. Then I can go in and adjust the colors by just going into my color studio, removing my stroke, selecting my color, and then just adjusting it so that it's a darker color or darker version of the yellow that I'm working with. Then I can just go in and continue to revise as needed. That's just a simple way to make flower shapes. You can also just create these organic shapes with your pen tool. Creating those curves, I'm going to select Use Fill so that I can just create some shapes. Then I can go in, select my node tool and revise as needed. Then just select those and you can duplicate them using your Edit menu, or you can select your pen tool as well, and just create little line segments too. We can select line in our mode options here, and then I'm going to adjust the width of my stroke. I'm going to give this a stroke, and make sure the stroke is the color I wanted. I'm going to select that orangey color, make sure there's no fill by selecting the fill and then tapping that white circle with a blue line through it in my quick colors, and then creating my shape. Then I'm going to adjust the width here in the lower options by just dragging my pen left to decrease and dragging my pen right to increase. Then I can just resize this. Then I can duplicate those little elements as well, and use my move tool to move them around. If you find that it's hard to move things around to the smallest increment, just turn off your magnetics and then you'll be able to move things around very precisely. Then you can utilize elements like this to create a fun design on our cover which is what we're going to be doing. I'm going to actually use these because I like this lighter palate versus the super bright one. I'm just going to select these elements, I'm going to go into my three dot menu, I'm going to select "Copy", then I'm going to select this back arrow in the upper left-hand corner, and I'm going to go back into my file here. I'm going to select this little hamburger menu and I'm going to rename it planner 2022. I'm just going to drag my pencil across to highlight it, select my little keyboard option here and then update the name to planner or 2022. Then hit "Return", and you'll see that it's renamed. I'm going to click on it to open it, and then I'm going to go into my edit menu and I'm going to select "Paste". It will have pasted my elements in to my art board here. What I'm going to do is create a fun little pattern within this. I'm going to update the background though, I think I want to have a darker background and these lighter flower elements on top, I'm going to select that art board and I'm going to go into my color studio and I'm just going to update my fill. I'm going to select the color fill and then I'm just going to update the background. I'm just going to play around with my color wheel here and see what looks best in terms of the color harmony here. I think I like how this looks. It's not too dark, but it still gives me that effect that I'm going for. Then I think I can duplicate some of the color themes from this into our layouts as well. Once I'm done with that, I can start to select these elements, and group them together. For example, all of these little curves are each their own individual layer, I'm going to select these little dots and dashes here, and I'm going to select them all by clicking on the first one, dragging right on the next until all of them are selected, and then I'm going to group them just so that I have them all grouped together and then we can also rename these to keep ourselves organized. In our layers, we've just grouped these dashes. I'm going to select that group and I'm going to go into my three dot menu here, my layer options, and I'm going to select where it says group, and it will allow me to rename. You'll see this pop-up, I'm just going to change this to green dashes so that I know what these are and what this group is. Hit "Return", and then I can go back out and I could do the same thing. Start grouping these flowers together. Once I've renamed all the layers, I'm going to go back into my layers and actually select that art board and I'm going to rename that art board Cover page. With it selected, I'm going to select my three dot menu, tap where it says Artboard 1, and then change the name to Cover page. Again, this all just keeps things organized and I know it seems a bit tedious, but this again, it's a standard way of doing things to keep your files organized and to make things a little easier for yourself, and then in the future, if you were ever to work with, say, a big company to print things and they needed elements grouped in layers and name and stuff like that, you are already in the habit of doing that. Now what I want to do is play around with the placement of these flowers and then add the title to our cover. I think what I'm going to do is make these a little bit smaller and then play around with placing them throughout this page and I can copy and duplicate them as needed. I'm going to select all of them, and then just hold my finger down and resize so that it stays within proportion. Then I think this is a nice size for this. Then what I can do is just duplicate these. These are all already selected, so I'm just going to hit "Duplicate" and I'm going to bring that out and then duplicate it again and then bring it out, and then we can start playing around with placement what's nice to use because we're working in a vector file. We can just bring these elements out to the side off of our art board and just pick and choose as we need. I'm going to duplicate that just so that we have a few out here and then we can just go back into our art board and work on the placement. What I like to do is rotate, play around with giving elements that are the same some breathing room, and then also adding things in between them that are in different colors. When I'm playing around with creating a pattern of fact like this, I think about it the way I think about creating patterns that are seamless and repeats. I just rotate elements, I think about the size of things where I like to put bigger pieces next to smaller pieces just to give visual interest and also to help separate pieces from each other. It's almost like you're working on a puzzle, then once you get a placement that you like, you can just copy that whole thing as well, then just reuse that and piece it together. I think I want this to be an all over print and then we'll do a nameplate at the top here. Or I'm going to take the flower from out here and just pull it into this. Then I'm going to select all of these elements and get rid of any actions that I don't want to have South and then I'm going to select my move tool and just select all of these elements here, go into my layer studio select "Group". Then I'm going to select that group and I'm just going to duplicate that group and then I'm going to move that whole entire duplicated group using my move tool and see where I can place it throughout my art board to create the effect of a seamless pattern. This isn't how you create a seamless pattern, but it is a cheap way to create the effect of a seamless pattern on your page here. You can rotate things as well. If you are interested in learning how to create a seamless pattern, I have quite a few classes on that here. You just have to check out the links in the description box below, and I'll have a list of some surface pattern repeat courses as well as my surface pattern and intensive course that I think will be helpful if you like this thing. I'm going to finish piecing this together and then we'll jump back in just a moment. Okay, now that I'm done piecing everything together, I've created my little pattern here. What I'm going to do is go into my layers and select all of these elements and group them altogether. I can just drag across if I want to. Or we can go into our layers, select the groups individually, and then just group them altogether so that they are one element. Then I'm going to actually select those groups. Then I'm going to go into my layers options at three dot menu and I'm going to select "Lock" that way. Nothing on this page will move. I can add things and it won't move anything out of place, so it's locked in place and safe. Now, what we're going to do next is add like our little title. Then if you want, I'm going to add some stitching around the outside of my planner here to add some additional elements on top of adding the little lake nameplate area. Let's do the nameplate first. You can add a year and your name, you can do whatever you like. I'm just going to do the year. Then my name. I'm going to select the Rectangle tool. I'm going to update my color for this to be like an off-white. Then I'm going to make sure I don't have a stroke that I do have that fill which is that off-white color. Then I'm just going to drag across and create a rectangle. Then I'm just going to align this. I'm going to pull all of my menus off to the side here just so I can see what I'm doing. Then I'm going to turn on "Magnetics" so that it helps me with the placement of my nameplate here. I'm going to pull all of my menus in and then I'm going to place this so that it's at the center and you'll see like a green line pop-up. Then I want this not all the way at the top, but not smack dab in the center. Once I've added that, then I am going to just do some design elements here. I'm going to add, I'm going to duplicate that square by selecting it, going into my menu, selecting "Duplicate". Then I'm going to remove my fill by clicking on my quick colors and selecting "Remove fill". Then I'm going to select that blue for a stroke. Then I'm going to go into my stroke menu and I'm going to select my normal stroke. Then I'm going to resize this so that it's a smaller stroke. Then I'm going to bring this rectangle in a bit to create a border. I'll bring my corners in and then resize it. If you need to turn off "Magnetics" to resize this, you can as well. It might make it a little easier. All right, so once I've done that, I'm going to select those elements. Then I'm going to go into my layers and I'm going to go in and group them together. Now I'm going to go down to my type tool. I'm going to select my frame text tool. I'm going to create a frame inside of this little nameplate here. Then I'm going to get this pop-up at the bottom so that I can edit and revise my font options. On the lower left-hand side, you'll see it says Arial or whatever your default font is. If we click on the down arrow to give you all the options of what you have installed on your iPad you can utilize. I think I'm going to select this Arvo. I like this. I've been liking this like virtually, thin style for the font. They have a bit of personality to them. I'm going to select this Arvo. Then I'm going to select my keyboard here at the top so that I can type. Then I'm just going to type in the year 2022. Then I'm going to select that because it's in this funky purple that I don't want. Then I'm going to select my fill and my color studio. I'm going to go to my recent colors and I'm going to select that blue that I used for the background here. Then I'm just going to resize my frame so that everything fits in one line. I'm just going to bring it over to the center of my nameplate and I'm going to turn on "Magnetics" to just double-check. That's in the center of my art-board. Then I'm going to use my pen tool. I'm going to change my mode from pen to line. I'm just going to create a line to separate the top from my name at the bottom. I'm going to go in and adjust the size of this as well, too small. I think I'm going to do 1.2 so that it matches the size of the frame within this section here. Then I'm just going to adjust the placement. Then I'm going to select the 2022. I'm going to go into my "Edit menu". I'm going to select "Duplicate", and then I'm going to drag that down. Then I'm going to highlight the text in here by just double-clicking. Then I'm going to decrease the size of the font. Then I'm going to adjust the traits to italic. Then I'm going to tap on my keyboard and I'm just going to put my name. If you notice that your name doesn't fit within the frame, just adjust the frame by pulling it out and then we can just center everything. I'm going to select all those elements and then I'm going to go into my Layers panel. I'm going to group that as well. Then I'm going to make sure that everything is just in the center of this. Our cover is almost done. Now I'm going to add a bit of shadow to this white box here just to add a bit of interests. I'm going to make sure I select the white rectangle and then I'm going to go into my effects studio on the right-hand side and I'm going to turn on outer shadow. Then I'm going to tap where it says outer shadow. I'll get the option pop-up at the bottom. I'm going to adjust my opacity. I'm going to increase it just a bit and I'm going to increase my radius. I'm going to drag my pencil to the right. I'm going to keep my offset at zero and then I'm going to adjust my intensity just a little bit. I think this is good. If we zoom out, this is what it looks like. If we zoom in, we get just the slightest hint of a shadow to give it that visual interests in a bit of that 3D effect that I like here. Then when we're done, we can just tap out of this. I'm going to select my move tool. I'm going to create some stitching to go all the way around the notebook. What I'll do is I'm just going to select my rectangle tool and I'm going to make sure that I have stroke turned on. I'm going to select that off-white color for my stroke. Then I'm going to make sure that that stroke is not the normal stroke. I'm going to click on my "Stroke Studio" and I'm going to select the dashed pattern. I'm going to keep the dash at one and the gap at two. Then I'm just going to create the outline of this effect. Then I'm actually going to increase the width of the stroke so that it's a little easier to see. Then with that stroke still selected, I'm going to go into my layer effects studio and I'm going to select "Bevel" and "Emboss". What you'll notice is that it automatically gives it like this depth almost as if the stitching is sewn into the book. But I don't want it to be this obvious, so I'm going to adjust the settings a bit. I'm going to select "Bevel" and "Emboss". Then I'm going to keep the type pillow. I'm going to adjust my radius so that it's not so deep. Then I'm going to adjust the depth. Then I'm going to soften this just a bit. Then I'm going to adjust the elevation just a bit. I'm going to decrease it by pulling it to the left. I'm going to adjust my *** myth by decreasing it and pulling that to the left as well. Then I'm just going to make sure my radius is at 1.5. I like this kind of final feel of the embossing of it. Then what we'll do is we'll go back into our Stroke Studio. I'm actually going to adjust the stroke size to be 1.5 and see what difference that makes. All right, so I've added that in the stroke to be at 1.5. It's just, it's not as huge as that three. Then I can resize and readjust the placement of this as well. I think I liked this placement. Then what I'll do is I'm going to lock that as well, that element so that it doesn't move. I'm going to select that layer and the layer studio go into my layers options and select lock. That way nothing moves and we're all set, so I'll do that with the other elements as well, like the nameplate. I'm going to select the text on it and the background. I'm going to group them together. Then I'm going to go into my layers options and I'm going to lock it so that it can't be moved. You can always go back if you want to revise and edit and things like that. But for now I think this is good placement and I'm going to keep it as is. We're done with our cover. Now, let's jump into creating the first of our layouts. 7. Creating Your Tabs - Part 1: [MUSIC] Now that we're done with our cover, let's jump into designing our index page. On our index page, we're going to want to have access to our tabs, as well as to our tabs on the left-hand side for our months in any of our quick tabs at the top. I'm just going to have some quick menu items that you can access from this layout. The first thing I want to do is get our page layout setup with the paper and then the tabs on the side and the top. What we'll do is select our rectangle tool and I'm going to make sure that I don't have a stroke and that I have a fill. I'm going to use the off-white, I think. Actually, no, I think I'm going use a pure white. What I'm going to do with that is add a bit of a shadow so that I can see where the paper ends and the tabs are going to begin. With that element still selected, I'm going to go to my Effects menu, and I'm going to select Outer shadow. I'm going to increase the opacity, adjust the radius, so that it goes out as well. I'm going to offset it just slightly, so that the focus is more on this side. Adjust the intensity and adjust my radius and my opacity just a bit, bringing it down a bit so it's not as intense. Once I'm done with that, I'm going to select my Move Arrow and I'm going to adjust the size of this. Now we have our page setup here and we can start to build out the actual tabs. I'm going to zoom in so that it's easy to see. You can see it fills, the page is lifted up from the background. Then we're going to go back to that Rectangle tool. We're going to start to create our little tabs that go down the side. I'm going to select the Rectangle tool. I want to make sure though, that in this option for my Rectangle tool that I'm going to have a rounded corner. I'm going to go into my color studio and I'm going to make sure my fill is that white because I want this first one to be the first tab. I'm going to make sure that follows that same color. I'm going to create a rectangle that lines up exactly at the top with this so it's flush. I'm going to make sure that my corner type for this is rounded. What I can do is zoom in and select my Node tool and adjust the roundness of this by pulling on that little red dot. I'll zoom in so it's a little easier to see. You can adjust that. That will give me this first tab. It's hard to see because I haven't added a shadow quite yet. What we do is we're going to select this tab and this rectangle here. I'm going to actually group these so that it actually becomes one. But before I do that, what I want to do is take that rectangle and duplicate it though and pull it off to the side. I have this off to the side so I can access it when I need it. But what I'm going to do is select the new tab and this rectangle. I'm going to go into my edit menu and I'm going to select Add. What this does is add that shape to the current shape that I have, and then what you'll see is you get this nice tab design. But the rest of these tabs will be separate because we want to make sure that we can add different colors and then we have to add additional effects like shadows so that it all lines up and that it looks like it is a different tab, one on top of the other. Once we've done that, I'm going to take that tab that I copied and I'm going to bring it over here and align it with this one. I'm going to update the color and I'm going to pull in some of the colors from my cover here. I'm actually going to select my Eyedropper tool. It is the an eyedropper towards the bottom on the left-hand side. When you click on something, it will pull up that color in your color swatches. I'm going to add those to my swatches. I'm going to select my swatches here. I'm going to go to this Hamburger menu in the upper right-hand corner and I'm going to select Add Current Fill to Palette. I'm going to just pick up some of these additional colors and repeat that process. I'll tap on the next color. Select this little Hamburger menu, Add Current Fill to Palette and then continue with the rest of the colors. Once I've done that, I'm going to go in and duplicate these additional tabs. What we're going to need is 12 tabs for each month of the year. Of course, the tab at the top is the index. I'm going to select that first one and then I'm going to duplicate it 11 times. It's okay if you need to resize things as well. Once I've duplicated it a few times, I can select all of those and then duplicate that group just to make it easier. If you notice that all of them don't fit, you can just select them all, delete them and then just resize. I like to re-color as I duplicate them as well. I'm just going to duplicate it and then select the new color. I'm going to select all of those and duplicate that set and then duplicate that set once more. We can go in and zoom in and adjust placement as needed. Once you duplicated everything that you can select all of those, and then what we'll do is go into our Transform Studio, On the right-hand side, it's that little square with a quarter cut out of it. What we'll want to do is go to our alignment options and we're going to align everything horizontally to the left. We want to make sure that those are then aligned with the edge of this page and it looks like they're all good to go if you're noticing that anything looks at a place like perhaps you want a specific tab to be on top of another. For this one, I want this to be on top of both the pink and the white. I'll go into my layers here. I'm just going to tap to figure out where that is. I'm going to select that rectangle and then just drag it above it. Make sure everything is lined up properly. Same thing with this pink going to drag that so that it's on top of this one and realign it to the same thing with the green. What we'll do is select all of these and then what we want to do is add our layer effects. You can add layer effects to multiple elements. I'm going to group them first and then I'm going to go into my layer effects and I'm going to select Outer Shadow. I'm going to click where it says Outer Shadow. I'm going to adjust my options here. I'm going to adjust my opacity, adjust my radius. Now once we've added our shadow of fact, I kept it at 46 opacity or radius of 12, an offset of 22, and an angle of about 90 degrees. What I'm going to do is just go in and make sure that I'm able to see the shadow from each of the tabs above it and then I can move it underneath the paper. I'm going to go in and direct select each of these layers and move them to the top as needed so I can select that. I can go to my Layer Studio and just move it so that it's at the top of the layer group. We can just double-check and see if that shadow is coming through. If you're having an issue, you can just edit each rectangle on its own and select outer shadow, click on it, and then adjust your angle to be 90 degrees. Then increase your radius and your offset so that it gives you that slight shadow at the bottom. You don't want it to be too big, but I think three should be good enough. You can just go one by one and make sure that each of the tabs is under the one above it, but above the one below it. In this case, the pink needs to be under the blue. I'm going to drag it up so that it stays under the blue, but it's above this green. I like to make it to the order of my tabs on the page is the order in my layers and it just makes life a little easier. I'll go back to this and look at my Effects options. I'm just going to keep that in mind and basically copy those and apply them to the next tab underneath it. I'm going to go into the pink one. Select FX, turn on my Outer Shadow, click on it where it says Outer Shadow. I'm going to keep my opacity at 50 percent, change my radius to 1.4, change my offset to three, hit Okay. Change my angle from 45 to 90, and then everything else can stay the same. You start to see the effect happening as we add these little shadows to the tabs. I'm going to do the same thing for the green. I'm going to go in and adjust my shadow, update all of my settings, and then just repeat this process for the rest of these items on this page. 8. Creating Your Tabs - Part 2: [MUSIC] Once you've applied your effect to one of the tabs, you can actually really easily apply it to the others by copying the effect and just pasting it. I'm going to go into my Layers and I'm going to select this tab here that I already added that shadow to with you. I'm going to go in and I'm going to select the Edit menu in the upper left-hand side. I'm going to select Copy. Then I'm going to go to the next tab down, and then I'm going to go to that same Edit menu and I'm going to select Paste FX. This is going to paste just the effect that I applied to that previous tab. I'm going to do that again, go to the next tab in my series. Select the three-dot menu, my Edit menu in the upper left-hand side, and then select Paste FX. I can select all of the final layers here and apply that effect to all of them all at the same time. I'm going to select that first one and then I'm going to swipe right across the rest of them so that they're all selected. Then I'm going to go to my Edit menu, my three-dot menu over here, and I'm going to select Paste FX and it'll apply those effects to all of these additional tabs. I didn't have to go one by one doing so. Now what I want to do is take all of these tabs and bring them so that they are underneath the paper. I'm going to go into my Layer studio on the right-hand side. I'm going to take that group because we grouped them earlier and I'm just going to drag that group underneath my paper curve. Then you'll see that it drags it underneath. You get a bit of the shadow from the paper and it lines up with a tab at the top. Now what we can do is just go in and add some texts for each of the months. To do this, to make it a little bit easier, I'm going to want to rotate my screen. I'm going to go back out into my main area of my Affinity Designer app. I'm going to go to the little sprocket in the upper right-hand corner, that is our settings. What I want to do is allow for my screen to rotate. I'm going to go down to my Tools option and then I'm just going to turn on Allow Canvas rotation in all tools and then hit "Done." Then I'll go back into my planner file and then I should be able to rotate my screen. This just makes it easier. I'm going to turn this off after I do this. Just because I find that I'll accidentally rotate the screen when I'm working if I don't have it off. For this instance, I'm going to turn it on because I want to be able to add my text horizontally on the tabs here. What we're going to do is I want to make sure that my fonts and all of my colors are all consistent. I'm just going to utilize the same font that I had used for my cover here. I used the oval font. I'm just going to use that same font for the copy that I'm going to be creating inside. I'm going to make sure I'm on the correct artboard, so I'm going to make sure I'm on artboard 2, I'm going to select my text frame tool. I'm going to zoom in so that I can see what I'm doing. Making sure I don't move anything. To make things a little easier, you can also go in and just select the paper by clicking on it in your Layers studio and then drag right over your tabs and then group them together. Then we can go into our layers options, that little three-dot menu in the Layers studio and then just block it so that nothing moves. Then what we'll do is we'll add a new layer with that text frame tool. I'm just going to drag across and I want to make sure that it is going in the right direction. I'm just going to type in it at the bottom here. I'm going to resize everything because right now it's really big. I'm going to bring it down to about nine and then I'm going to actually change my paragraph settings from left align to centered. Then I'm going to just start typing in shortened abbreviated versions of the month. I'm going to tap on my keyboard and then I'm going to double-tap my Shift key so that I have all caps and I'm going to type in Jan for January and I'm actually going to change the color of these, from the blue to a white so that they pop out a little bit better against the dark colors of the tabs. Once I've typed that in, I've updated the color, I can just drag it so that it goes right on top of my tab. Then I'm just going to duplicate this 11 more times and drag each of the text boxes over the additional tabs. I'm going to do that again. Just go back into that three-dot menu, duplicate. Then I can move it to the next tab. Then what I'm going to do is go in and update all of the words so that they are the correct months. I just double tap inside of the text box and then drag over to update the text. Then I'll go to my keyboard. Then I will select my Shift key and just double-click it and the line underneath the Shift will indicate that it's in all caps. Then I'm going to update each of these monthly tabs. Now that I've updated all of the months, then what I'm going to do is select all of these and I'm going to align them. I'm just going to take my move tool and I'm going to drag my Apple pencil across all of those months and you'll see they're all selected because they're outlined in blue. Then what I want to do is utilize my Transform tool. I'm going to go to the right-hand side, select my Transform studio, and then I'm going to go into my alignment options. What I'm going to do is select a line horizontally to the right. Basically that's going to align everything to this edge up top. Then I'm going to go into my Layers studio and then I'm going to group all of these together. Then I'm going to make sure everything is where I'd like it in terms of placement on the tabs. Then I'm going to group all of this together. I'm going to take the text as well as the paper and the tabs and I'm going to select them all so that they're all selected. Then I'm going to go into my Layers studio and I'm going to group all those together so that it's all in one piece. Now I'm going to rotate my screen back to normal and I'm going to go back out of my file, go back into my settings, and then I'm going to go to my tools and then I'm going to turn off Allow canvas rotation in all tools. Then I'm going to hit "Done," and then I'll go back into my file. That way, I don't accidentally move things around. We have our monthly tabs created, now we have to create my little quick links up top on my index page. I'm actually just going to take some of these pieces that I've already made and then just copy them and that's the beauty of this, is that when you're working in this type of software, you don't have to remake everything by scratch. If you make something, it works really well, then you can take that same thing and use it in other places as needed. I'm going to take the tabs that I created on the side here and I'm going to go into my Layers studio, I'm going to go into the group, and then I'm just going to tap that group and then I'm just going to select five of these, these first five by just dragging across. I'll tap the first one and then drag right across the second, the third, the fourth, and the fifth. I'm going to go into my three-dot edit menu and I'm going to select Copy. Then I'm going to close this and then I'm going to just tap outside of that, tapping the artboard. Then I'm going to go back into the three-dot menu, I'm going to select Paste. It's going to paste copies of this for me. Then the nice part is that I can just rotate things around it. If I keep my finger down while I rotate, it'll rotate in 15 degree increments, which will give me a nice 90 degree angle. Then we're going to use these up top. The only thing we're going to have to change is the direction of the shadows. I'm going to keep these all selected. I'm going to go into my FX tools. I'm going to tap where it says Outer Shadow. I'm going to adjust the angle of the shadow. Then I'm going to change it from 90 to 0 for now. Then I'm going to increase my radius just a bit so that I don't have just the shadow on the edges here, but towards the top as well so we can see that it comes up off the page. Once I've done that, I can go to my Layers studio, I can group these and I can take this group and pull them underneath the paper curve so that it looks like it's tabs up top. I can arrange the placement as needed. I want it further into the corner here so it lines up with the tabs on the right side. Again, what you can do is turn on your magnetics in the lower left-hand side to make this a little bit easier and it should automatically line up with these pieces here. Once I'm done with that, I'm going to actually go in and copy the text and update the words up top here. I'm going to go into the group of all the text and then I'm just going to select the first five. I'm going to tap on the first one, drag right, tap on the next one, drag right, for the third, fourth, and the fifth. Then I'm just going to select those. I'm going to go into my three-dot edit menu, select Copy, and then select Paste. Then I'm going to drag those out. I'm going to rotate them. Once I've done that, I can bring these up so that they're right on top of the upper tabs here. Then all we have to do is update the text to whatever words we want this to be. [MUSIC] Because I moved them around they moved out of alignment. I'm going to select all of those in my layers by clicking on the first and then dragging right over the rest of them. Then I'm going to go into my Transform studio, select Alignment options, and then I'm going to make sure I align these vertically up top. I think that looks good. Once I've done that, I can close my group with the tabs, close my group with the text, and then select the text group and the tab group. Then group those together, selecting that puzzle icon. We have the base layer for all of our tabs on that we will apply to all of these pages. What I like to do is basically take everything on this main page, so the paper, the tabs up top, and the tabs on the side. Select all of that and then copy it and then paste them onto the additional pages just to make life easier. I'm going to select this group layer and I'm actually going to go into my Layers options, I'm going to unlock it. Then I'm going to select my Edit menu and I'm going to select Copy. Then I'm going to go back into that Layer, go back into my Layer options and lock it again so that it doesn't move. Then I'm going to go to my next artboard, I'm going to tap on it. Then I'm going to go into my Edit menu and I'm going to select Paste and it'll paste it right in place. Then I'm going to repeat that process for the rest of my artboards. I'm going to select my next artboard, go into that three-dot menu and then select Paste. Then if we go into our Layers, here we'll see that all of the artboards have that layout pasted onto them. Then basically, what we'll be able to do is once we are in GoodNotes, we'll be able to tap on these little icons. Then it'll take us to the specific page that we want to go to or that we're working on. 9. Creating the Index Page: This is basically the skeleton, the bones of everything, and now what we can do is go back and finish up our index page and then jump into the rest of the layouts. I'm going to go into these Artboards now and just rename each of these layers just to keep myself organized. I'm going to select Artboard, this art board that I'm on now, which is Artboard 2, and I'm going to rearrange the layout inside of my layers. I'm going to drag it so that it is right above the cover page, just so that I'm going in the same order as my planner and then I'm going to select that three dot menu, my layers options here, and then I'm going to tap where it says Artboard 2, and I'm going to rename it to index. Then I'm going to go to the next art board, Artboard 3. I'll go into my layers, I'll find it and then I'm going to drag it so that it is above the index by clicking on it and dragging it and my layers, and then I'm going to select the three dot menu, my layers options. I'm going to tap where it says Artboard 3 and I'm going to rename this. Then I'm going to repeat this process for the rest of the layouts in this file. You can update the names to be whatever you'd like them to be, but I'm just naming them based on what layout is going to be on that specific Artboard. Now that we have all of our layers and our Artboards renamed to keep things organized, I'm going to tap on my index page and I'm going to start finalizing my index layout. This is my quick menu, my index, I can tap months on the page itself or on the tabs. It's just a way I like to organize things. You could do things differently based on your needs, but just to make it easy, I'm going to add this index page. I'd like to give myself some space for quotes, and then a little to-do list that is just something that I can clear off weekly or monthly. I'm going to use my rectangle tool. I'm going to update the color, so it's that nice blue. Then I'm just going to create a rectangle down the left side of this page, and then I'm going to create a to-do list at the bottom here, and since this is supposed to be like a monthly to-do, I'm going to add more than I normally would, so I'm going to do about eight, I'm going to select this yellow here. Then I'm just going to create another rectangle right towards the bottom, and then I'm going to make a copy of that one. Then I'm going to go into my edit menu and I'm going to select Duplicate, and then I'm going to drag that down, and then I'm going to duplicate it again and again, and it's going to do that power duplicate because I dragged it, and it's just basically repeating the process that I did before it. I'm just going to duplicate till I have eight total. Then I'm going to take my move tool. I'm going to take my Apple Pencil and drag over those squares. I'm going to go into my transform tool, and I'm going to go into my alignment options, and then I'm going to align these horizontally to the left, and then I also want to align them vertically with the centers so that they're all evenly spaced out. Then I'm going to go back into my layer studio and I'm going to select the little puzzle icon and group these altogether. Then using the same fonts they use for all the titles and things like that, I'm going to select my Text Frame Tool. I'm going to create a frame that goes right above those squares. I'm going to select my keyboard and then I'm going to just type to-do list. Then I'm going to select that making sure it's the regular font, I'm going to change it to the Italic version of this, and then I'm going to go into my color options, and I'm going to select that yellow color. I'm going to put these right in the center here, and then I'm going to select that text box that I just created. I'm going to go into my three dot menu. I'm going to select Duplicate and then I'm going to drag it up to the top here, and then just for some inspiration, I'm going to add an area for great quotes. I'm going to select the text by just dragging my Apple pencil across it, and then I'm going to increase the size just a bit to 11. Then I'm going to reposition this so that it's in the center, and if you need to, you can turn on that magnetics option, and it will make sure that it's aligned to the center of the shape that it's in. Now I'm going to add my index for my calendar, so I'm going to increase the size of this to 14. I'm going to use my text frame tool to create a frame, and then I'm going to type in index. Then I want to make sure that that is in a color that is easy to read. I think I'm just going to do a dark slate gray. Then I'm going to duplicate that, drag it under, and then I'm going to increase the size of this so that I can change the font and then add in 2022 calendar. Then I'm going to adjust the placement of the text, paragraph style. I'm not going to have it centered anymore. I'm going to make sure I tap left aligned. I'm going to update the font to Oswald, and then I'm going to change the size from 14 to 11, and then I'm going to keep the traits regular. Then I'm going to update this to say 2022 calendars, so I'm going to take my Apple Pencil, drag across it to highlight it, tap on the Pen icon, select my keyboard and then update it to say 2022 calendar. I'm going to utilize line work here to help delineate between spaces. I'm going to select my pen tool, in the lower bottom, I'm going to update it to change the mode from pen to line, and then I'm going to create a straight line underneath here. I'm going to keep my finger down, tap one end, and then tap the other side to create a nice straight line. Then I'm going to go into my color wheel in my color studio. I am going to update it so that there is a stroke and I'm going to select that slate gray that we've been using, and then I'm going to go into my stroke options because it's still the dotted line from before. I'm going to go into the stroke options and then I'm just going to change it to a straight line and then I'm going to update the width from that 1.5 to a 0.6. Then I'm going to take my texts and start lining everything up with that line. Now I'm going to take the index, I'm going to tap on it. I'm going to go into my three dot menu. I'm going to duplicate it and I'm going to drag this down, and then I'm just going to re-size this. Select the text by double-clicking or just dragging across. Then makes sure that the paragraph is left aligned, and then I'm going to tap on my keyboard and I'm going to change this to save monthly spreads. Then I can just adjust the frame so that it all fits, and I'm actually going to highlight this and I'm going to bring it down from 13 to 11. I'm going to select this. I'm going to go into my Edit menu, select Duplicate, and then I'm going to drag this down. Then I'm going to resize the frame, and then I'm going to take the 2022 calendar and I'm going to duplicate that, bring it down and then I'm just going to type out the month names. Once I've done one, I'm just going to duplicate that 11 more times so that we have 12 total months. Once I've duplicated it four times, I can just highlight those four with my Apple Pencil. Go into my Edit menu, select duplicate again and duplicate all four of those, versus having to do them one by one. Then I can go in and adjust placement, and then update the text. Then what I like to do is just select all of them and start aligning them as well so I'll select the first row, go into my transform studio, go into my alignment options, align those to the left. Now I can just go into each of these double-click and then update all of the names of the month. Once I've placed all of them, then I can play around with placement until I'm happy with the way things look. Then I can select all of them by dragging my Apple Pencil across all of them. Then I can go into my layer studio and I can select Group and I can group them. Then I'm going to select this line, I'm going to go into my three-dot menu, I'm going to duplicate that as well so that I can separate this from the monthly calendar to the templates, and then I'm just going to bump up my template title here and then I'm going to add in the additional templates underneath. I'm going to go into my rectangle tool here and hold down so that I get the additional shapes to pop up. I'm going to select triangle, and I'm going to add triangles next to these titles so that I know that these elements will take me somewhere so if I tap on them, it'll take me to that month just so that I can visually remind myself as a call to action. I'm going to go into my color studio. I'm going to make sure there's no stroke tap on the fill and update the color to be that gray so that it matches and then I'm going to hold my finger down and I'm going to rotate this triangle 90-degrees so that it's facing the right. Then I'm just going to bump this over just a bit and then I'm going to resize it just a bit, and then I'm going to go into my three-dot menu, I'm going to select Duplicate and I'm going to bring it down so that it's right next to the templates as well. I'm going to take the tax that I created the months with and I'm just going to tap on one of the months and then I'm going to go into my Edit menu, select Duplicate, and then drag it down. I'm going to update this to say, weekly pages and then I'm going to add in the additional templates that I have to weekly pages, daily pages, habit trackers, and my journal page. I'm going to increase the size of the rectangle frame, I'm going to double-click inside of it so that it highlights the text and then I'm going to go into a keyboard here and I'm going to update the text. Once I've done that, I'm just going to duplicate this three more times, so I have four total. Then I'm going to update these two daily pages, habit tracker and journal pages. Once I've added all of these to my page, I'm just going to drag over them with my Apple Pencil. I'm going to go into my layer studio. I'm going to group them all together. Then I'm just going to move everything just a bit to the left so I have more space on the right here. Then I'm going to bring it down just a bit as well on that, I'm going to select the index and I'm going to duplicate that and bring that over to the area right above where it says great quotes. I'm going to resize this and I'm going to change this to say 2022 planner. Once I'm done retyping, I can resize my frame, and then I can adjust the placement so that it's right above where it says great quotes. Then what I wanted to do is leave some space under here for any kinds of notes. I'm going to add a little sticky note area right here. I'm going to go back to my shape tool, I'm going to update it from that triangle to another rectangle. Then I'm just going to create the rectangle towards the bottom and then I'm going to go into my color swatches in my color studio and I'm going to update it to be that yellow that we were using again, just trying to keep everything color coordinated. We could also use that peach, but I think that might be too much so I'm going to keep the yellow. Then I'm going to take the 2022 planner texts. I'm going to duplicate that and then I'm going to drag it so that it is right above this little sticky note area. I'm going to change this to say notes and ideas. That is it for our index page. I'll zoom in a bit so that we can see, I'm going to pull all of our studios into the side so we have a better view. These is our top tabs, these are our right-hand side tabs. We have a quick index so that you can tap on any of the months and get to that calendar. We can tap on any of these templates and get to that page. Then we have an area for notes, a simple to-do list, and then a space to add quotes and then just some titling here and there to make things easier. Then I do want to add one more thing, which is a little Home button, essentially this page is our homepage just so that whenever we tap on it, we get back to this index if we need to. Instead of writing home, I just wanted to create a cute little icon. We're going to use our shape builder to do that. I'm going to go into the left-hand toolbar here, I'm going to select my rectangle tool, and then I'm going to update the color so that it is that gray and it's easy to see. I'm just going to create a square shape. I'm going to go back into the shape tool and then I'm going to select a triangle and then I'm going to create a triangle shape that goes right above it. Then I'm just going to re-size everything and create a house shape. I think that looks nice. I'm going to select it all, resize it just a bit and then I'm going to go into my layer studio I'm going to group this. I'm going to go back into my shape tool and I'm going to add another shape on top of it and a contrasting color. Think I'll just use the heart shape here and then I'm going to go into my color studio, update it so that it is white like the paper. Then I'm going to drag and create a heart shape here and just revise it and then kind of play around with the placement. Then select everything. Then I'm going to go into my layer studio and I'm going to group those elements together. And then it kind of just want to place this in the center of this area so that we know whenever we tap on the Home tab, it'll take us back to this main page. We'll want to make sure we take that little Home tab and copy it and apply it to all of the other pages. I'm going to select it, go to my three-dot menu, select Copy, and then go to my other pages and just go into that three-dot menu and then select Paste. It'll paste it right in the exact same place on that new artboard. You'll tap on your artboard and then you'll go to your three-dot menu, you Edit menu, and then select Paste. It'll paste it exactly in that key spot. I'm just going to do that for the rest of these and then we'll get into our next layout design. 10. Creating the Quote Page: All right, so before we add in our monthly layout, I want to add a really simple quote page here with an inspiring quote to inspire me as I look through the planner throughout the year. There's this quote by Les Brown that I like a lot and it goes ''Your goals are the roadmaps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.'' That is the quote that I want to add to this page. I'm just going to do something similar to what we did on this first page like a border. I'm going to add that here really simple, but something simple like this can also be really impactful. I'm going to select my rectangle tool and then I'm going to create a rectangle that goes down the center of my page. Then I'm going to go into my color studio and I'm going to make sure that I have my filter turned off. Then I'm going to tap on my stroke and I'm going to update it so that it has a stroke. I'm going to utilize the blue from my design here for my stroke. I'm just going to select my color picker tool and then tap on the blue within my tabs. Then I'm going to go into my stroke tool, I'm going to go into my stroke studio and then I'm going to adjust the size of this. I'm just going to increase it just a bit to about 2.1 so it's a nice thicker stroke. Then I'm going and select my Text Frame Tool, and I'm going to create a frame inside of this frame. This is where we're going to write that quote. I'm going to increase the size just a bit. I'm going to keep that oval, and I think I'm going to keep it the italic style. I'm going to bump this up to about 40 and then see what it looks like at that size and if we need to adjust, we can adjust. I'm going to change the text now to center aligned. Then I'm just going to type with my keyboard and type in this quote. I think this is the perfect size for this. Then I'm going to use my pen tool to create a line to divide the quote from the credit that I'm going to add at the bottom. I'm going to zoom in and I'm going to tap my pen tool. I'm going to hold my finger down on the screen, so that I can create a straight line. I'm going to tap one point and then tap across for the other point and then I'm going to decrease the size of this so that it's a bit smaller. I think about 0.9 should work nicely. Then I'm going to change the color from the blue to that dark gray so that it matches the text. Then I'm going to utilize the font that we use here, the Oswald. I'm just going to double tap on this 2022 calendar, go into my edit tool, select "Copy," tap out of that and then go into my quote page. Then tap onto the page and then select the three dot menu, your edit menu, and then select paste. Then I'm going to bring that towards the bottom and I'm going to change it from 2022 calendar to Les Brown. Then I'm going to resize my frame around the text and then I'm going to make sure everything is centered in here. I'm going to turn on my magnetics tool here. Then I'm going to center everything with the text here and then I might adjust my frame just a bit so that I have breathing room. I think this is a nice simple design element to inspire you as you work through your goals and your plans throughout the months and year. All right, so now that that's done, let's jump into creating our monthly layout. 11. Creating the Monthly Page: [MUSIC] We're just going to do a really simple monthly layout design, we're going to have the full calendar on one page. We're just going to create a simple six by seven grid and then we'll add our numbers and then leave some empty spaces for any additional blocks that may need to be in there. To create our table, there isn't an actual insert table app you would have in Affinity Designer desktop. The easiest way I've found to create these is just to utilize your shape tools and your pen tool. What we'll start off with is a simple rectangle. I'm going to go into our shape tool on the left-hand side, I'm going to select the rectangle. Then I'm going to go to the right-hand side right away. I'm going to tap on our color studio. I'm going to turn off our fill and I'm going to make sure we have a color for our stroke. I'm going to use that dark, charcoal gray that we've been using as a neutral color. Then I'm going to adjust the width of our stroke. I'm going to keep it at 0.9. Then I'm just going to create a rectangle that goes all the way across our page here making sure to give a nice amount of room for the outside edges, making sure everything looks centered, but still has some breathing room. Then I'm going to utilize my pen tool to add lines that will divide up this rectangle. We're going to have seven lines across and then we're going to do six rows. We're going to have seven columns and six rows. I'm going to start on one side, I'm going to tap on one end, I'm going hold shift so that my lines stay straight, and then I'm going to tap on the other end. Once I've done that and I've created that first line, I can just tap on that line, go into my edit menu, select "Duplicate", and then I can move it. I have magnetic's turned on, so you'll see the red line that pops up showing me that everything is still in line with the top. Once I've moved it then I can do that power duplicate and basically, it's just going to duplicate it and move it for me the same amount of space that I've moved that first one. I'm going to go into my edit menu, select "Duplicate." It'll move it for me, duplicate again, again, and then one more time so that I have seven columns. Then if you need to adjust placement you can go in and do this by hand as well. Or you can select them by holding your finger down on the screen and then tapping on your next one and it'll select all of the additional lines. Then what we can do is go into our align tool in our transform studio, select our align options, make sure that they're all lined up top, and then we want to go into our align horizontally options and select the center so that everything is basically spread apart evenly. Then we can tap out of this and then adjust as we need here. Once we have that done then I'll go into my layers and I will just select all those curves along with the rectangle and then just group them together. That way they're all together and we can move everything around easily together. Now we can add in our horizontal lines, create the rows. I'm going to do the same thing. I'm going to select my pen tool. I'm going to make sure line is selected for our mode. I'm going to zoom in, tap on one edge, hold my finger down. If you notice, your line is off. All you have to do is select your "No tool" and you can adjust the placement of it so that you get a nice straight line. Then once you've done that you can select your move tool and then you can just tap on that and then you can go into your edit menu, select "Duplicate", and then just drag it down. Now we can do that power duplicate once more because we've already duplicated it and moved it, and it's going to basically move the next line down the exact same amount from our first. Go into edit, duplicate, edit, duplicate until you have six rows. Edit, duplicate, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Let me do it one more time, add a duplicate. Now I can just go in and revise how high up I want these. Once I've moved these all around what I'm going to do is go into my layer studio. I'm going to select the "Curves." Then just click on my first one, drag right across the next, and repeat that until I have all of the lines that are making up these rows selected. Then I'm going to go into my transform studio and then I want to align vertically among my centers so that everything is spread out evenly. Once I've done that I can go back into my layers, I can group these. Then I'm going to select that group, and then select the group of the columns as well as the outside part of the square, and then I'm going to group all of that together so it's one piece. Now, I want to make sure I give myself some space for the month as well as space to add days of the week. What I'm going to do is just take this and I'm going to drag this down to resize it and I'm going to have it aligned with where the tabs are starting. I'm going to add the space for the month here at the top. I'm going to go into my text frame tool and I'm going to create a frame at the top here. Then I'm going to resize this down from 40 to about 20. Then I'm going to add the first month which is January. I'm going to do this in all caps and then I'll add the year as well. You don't have to do this if you don't want to. I think it'll look nice and it's just nice to remind you of the year because I have a tendency for months to write 2021 or the prior year after the new year. Once I've done that I'm going to resize my frame. Then I'm going to center this text in the center of my page. I'm going to bump it up a bit because I'm going to add the days of the week right at the top underneath it, so I want to make sure we have some space. What we're going to do is create another rectangle. This time I want to make sure that rectangle isn't a stroke, but it has a fill, so I'm going to remove the stroke, and I'm going to turn on the fill to be that gray color. Then I'm going to create the shape so that it goes all the way across and matches up edge to edge with the grid that we've created for the calendar. I'm going to resize this just a bit and then I will add the days of the week right above this. I'm going to zoom in really close just to make sure my edges are all lined up. Then once I've done that, I'm going to select that shape, hold my finger on the screen, and then tap the grouped lines. Then I'm going to go into my layer studio and I'm going to group those together as well, and now we can go in and add the days of the week. I'm just going to select the January. I'm going to duplicate it and I'm going to select it and resize it down so that it will fit in here and right above the calendar. Then I'm going to adjust the color so that it's white, so it will stand out from the gray background. Then I'm going to bring this right above the first grid. I'm going to go in and I'm going to delete any text that I don't need, and then I'm going to update it to the days of the week. I'm going to start this on Sunday like the traditional calendar, but if you want, you can start it on Monday so that your weekends are next to each other. Once I've written the word, I'm going to zoom out, see if it's too big or too small. I'm going to highlight it and increase the size just a bit to eight. Once I've done that, I'm going to select it by tapping on it with Move tool, and then I'm going to go into my Edit menu. I'm going to select "Copy" and then I'm going to paste it. Then move these over to the next grid here. I'm going to duplicate this and then move it and use that power duplicate so that it just moves it exactly where I want it. Once I've moved it, I'm going to go into my Edit menu and then select "Duplicate" and then do that for the rest of the days of the week. Once I'm done adding all the days, I can update the days. I'm going to change this one to Monday, and then so on and so forth. Once I've updated all of the days of the week then I'm just going to go in and select them all, and then I'm going to go into my transform studio on the right-hand side. Then I'm going to go into my alignment options and then I want to make sure that they're aligned up top. Then I'm going to then group these with the rest of the calendar layout. I'm just going to take my Apple pencil, drag across everything and select all of it including the grid, and then I'm going to go into my layer studio and I'm going to select the group icon. Now all of these elements have been grouped together and that is the basis of the layout of our monthly calendar. You can opt to add numbers in. I like to leave things blank just to make things easier. I'll show how I add in the numbers very easily. Just like what we did with the days of the week, I'm just going to select one of them by double tapping with my Move tool, and then I'm going to go into my Edit menu. I'm going to select "Copy," and then I'm going to tap out of it, select my Edit menu again, select "Paste" and I'm going to drag this down and then I'm going to update the color by double-clicking inside of the text-box, go into my color studio, selecting that charcoal gray that I was using. Then I'm just going to type in the number, then I can resize this. I'm going to keep this centered, and then you can opt to put the numbers in the upper-right, upper-left, lower-right. I'm going to put them in the upper-left just like a traditional calendar would. January 1st was on a Saturday, so I'm going to drag this all the way over to this Saturday and then I'm just going to copy this. I'm going to go into my three dot menu, select "Copy" and then paste and then drag this next one over and then select "Duplicate" and then drag it over to the next one. Once I've duplicated this whole, entire wall, what I can do now is just select all of these and do the same process, but with multiples at once. I've selected all of these, and what I'm going to do is go into my Edit menu, select "Duplicate" and then I'm going to drag them down. Then I'm going to go back into my Edit menu and then select "Duplicate" and it's just going to fill the rest for me. Then all we have to do is go in and update the numbers here. [MUSIC] Once you've finished updating all the numbers, you can just go back through and get rid of anything that you didn't need. I have all these additional numbers here, I can just select them and delete them by selecting them and then selecting that little trash bin in the lower left-hand corner, and then you can just use the rest of this as areas for notes. You can block it off with colors. I'm going to use the rectangle tool and just block it off, and then I'm going to duplicate this one. I'm going to drag it down and I'm going to actually update the color as well. That is our monthly layout. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to take this monthly layout, this specific art board, and then I'm just going to duplicate that art board 11 more times so that I have 12 total, and then you can go in and update each one for the additional months of the year. I'm going to take this monthly and then I'm going to go in, I'm going to select the entire art board by tapping where it says monthly, and then I'm going to go into my three dot menu and I'm going to select "Copy." Then I'm going to just tap out into the gray area of my workspace, and then I'm going to go into that three dot menu and select "Paste." It's going to paste it right on top so I can just drag it down. Once I've done that, I'm going to tap on the new one, and I'm going to select my Edit menu and I'm going to select "Copy and Paste." Then I'm just going to drag it over, and I'm going to do this until I have 12 months total. Once we're done with creating those four additional, what we'll do is just select all of them using your Apple pencil by dragging across. Then we'll go into our three dot menu and select "Duplicate," and then just drag those down. Then select "Duplicate" again and drag those down, and you should have 12 total here. We can just get rid of one of them because we already made our January. You'll select the one that you want to get rid of. We'll just tap it. Then we'll select the trash can in the lower left-hand side, it's going to ask you if you want to delete or keep objects, you want to delete your objects. Now we have additional duplicated spreads for each of the months and then we can go in and update the text for each of the months and then you can update your numbers as well. 12. Creating the Weekly Page: [MUSIC] Now that we have our monthly layouts all completed and updated, let's jump into creating our weekly spread. For the weekly spread I'm going to keep this relatively simple. I just want to give myself an area for the days of the week and then an area for any appointments. I'm thinking I'm going to just keep in mind the overall style of the shapes that I've been using in all of these other spreads and apply that to this. We're going to be utilizing the rectangle tool. Once again, I'm going to go into my color wheel here, my color studio, I'm going to select that target where we've been working with and just start placing elements on my page. Making sure my rectangle tool is selected, I'm not going to have any type of rounded corner for this. I'm just going to have my corner type at the bottom being none. Then I'm going to drag and create my first rectangle. I want to do six rectangles four the days of the week, my weekend I'm going to split in half. But I want to make sure that I'm creating this not with a fill but with a stroke. I'm going to go back into my color studio and I'm going to turn off my fill, select my stroke, and then turn on that stroke. I'm going to keep my stroke width 0.9 so that it matches all of the other elements I have been creating. Once I've done that I can eyeball and see if it'll fit enough. I'm going to do three total so I'm just going to resize this a bit and then I'm going to go into my upper left-hand menu, select "Duplicate", and then I can just pull that to the side and then duplicate that once more. Then I'm going to select all of these elements on the page and I'm going to go down into my transform studio. Then I just want to go into my align options and make sure that everything is aligned up top and that we have even spacing within our centers here. Then I can tap out of that and then I can move things around together and then I can go into my layer studio here and I can group those by selecting that little puzzle icon. Then I can go back into my edit menu again and select "Duplicate", and then just drag those down. If it's easier you can turn on Magnetics and it'll help you snap everything into place. Then I think this will work nicely from Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and then my weekend. I'm going to apply the same concept to this layout here as well. I'm just going to take my rectangle tool, this time I'm going to make sure that the stroke is turned off and my fill is turned on. Then I'm going to create a rectangle that will go at the top of this making sure everything matches up with my edges. Then I can take that rectangle and I can duplicate it. I can apply these to the rest of the rectangles in this layout. I'm going to make sure that rectangle is selected because you'll not select it because it's outlined in blue. Then I'm going to go to my edit menu, I'm going to select "Duplicate" and then I'm going to move that to the next rectangle and then repeat that process for the rest of these. [MUSIC] Once I've added all of these I want to make sure I can group them all together. I'm going to go in and go into my layers studio, select the layers with the rectangles and then select my group with all of the tall versions of the rectangles. Then I'm going to select that puzzle icon and it'll group everything together. Now, I want to split my weekend in half, so I'm just going to utilize my pen tool. I'm going to select the Pen tool and I'm going to make sure that my mode is changed from pen to line. You can do that in that little popup towards the bottom here and I'm just going to zoom in and start my point here at one end of my rectangle. I'm going to split this rectangle diagonally and then I'm going to go down to the other point. Then I want to go into my color studio and make sure my stroke is turned on. I'm going to tap my stroke and then select the dark gray and then we can zoom out and see what this looks like. I can tap outside of the work board and this looks exactly the way I wanted. Now what we can do is just add titles for the days of the week in the little header area. I'm just going to go back into my monthly layout, I'm going to select my move tool, I'm going to double-tap on the day of the week. Then I'm going to go into my edit menu, I'm going to select "Copy". I'm going to tap out of that layout and then I'm going to go into my weekly layout and then I'm going to select my edit menu and I'm going to click on "Paste". Then I can resize this. I'm going to triple-click inside of the text box and then I'm going to get my edit options towards the bottom and I'm just going to increase the size of the text to 11 points. Then I'm going to click on my Move tool, tap on that text and then just resize the bounding box so that it all fits. Then I'm just going to play around with placement and then I'm going to select that updated text and then I'm going to duplicate that. Then I'm just going to place those in the rest of my weekly boxes here. Then I can go back in and update and fix these so that they have the proper days of the week. I'm going to go in and revise all of these. I'm going to start this off on Monday and then just revise these all as I go. [MUSIC] Then I'm going to update this one to say weekend. I have my weekly layout almost done. I want to add an area for appointments though, so I could use this for notes during the week or any like reminders or deadlines. Then I want an area below it just for appointments. I'm going to take one of these rectangles that I've created, just double-click, triple-click until you get it isolated to just the rectangle. Then I'm going to go into my edit menu, I'm going to select "Copy". Then I'm going to tap out of that and then I'm going to select ''Paste''. Then I'm just going to drag this down and then resize it. I want to just give myself a little area right underneath and then I'm going to split this up into a long style calendar with the days of the week at the top and this will be just for appointments, so I'm going to give myself a little title as well. I'm just going to select the month here, and then I'm going to go into my edit menu, I'm going to select "Copy", tap out of it, and then I'm going to go back to my weekly layout and then I'm going to select "Paste". I'm going to drag this down and I'm going to update this to say appointments. I'm going to resize my frame and then I'm actually going to resize the font as well so I'm just going to triple-click. Then I'm going to go into my lower preferences here and I'm just going to decrease this to about 15 points. Then I'll just resize my frame and then I'm going to duplicate that and then I'm going to pull that to the top and I'm going to resize this to about nine points and I'm going to change the text to say week off. That way you can add your dates in. I'm going to use my pen tool to add a line for you to write on. I'll tap out of it and then I'm going to select my pen tool and then I'm going to make sure my mode is set to line. Then I'm going to tap right next to week of, put my finger down so that I get a straight line. Then I'm going to go into my stroke studio and I'm going to revise this from 0.9-0.5, so that it's just a little smaller. Then I'm going to take this entire days of the week outline here and just bump it down just slightly. I'm also going to select all of the elements in this top area. Just taking my Apple pencil and dragging over it to make sure everything is all grouped together. Then I'm going to go into my layer studio and I'm going to select my puzzle icon and that should group everything. Then that'll give me some space between this little header for week of and then the days of the week here. Then it still gives us some space between that and the appointment section. Now what we're going to do, we're going to follow the same style as we did with these. I'm just going to select one of the gray rectangles in our weekly layout top. I'm going to go into my layers, make sure the rectangle is selected and then I'm going to go into my Edit menu, select ''Copy'', tap out of that, then go down towards the bottom area, go into my Edit menu, select "Paste". Then I'm just going to resize this so it fits across. I'm going to split this into seven days. I'm going to select my pen tool, zoom in and then I'm going to create a straight line. I'm going to tap on one end where I want my line to start keeping my finger down so that it is straight and then tap at the end. If you notice it's a little crooked, that's fine. I'm just going to select my move tool, rotate it so that it is exactly 90 degrees and then I'm going to make sure that my stroke width is 0.9 so that it matches the rest of the line work in this layout. I'm going to hit "Okay" and then I'm just going to play around with the placement of this. I'm going to select that line by tapping on it, and then I'm going to go into my Edit menu, I'm going to select "Duplicate", and then I'm going to move it over. Then I'm going to do that power duplicate so that it just moves it over automatically for me and I'm going to do this so that I get seven segments. Then I'll just go in and revise placement so that everything is even. I'm going to go back in and take my Apple pencil and select all of these line segments and then I'm going to go into my Transform Studio and I'm going to go into my alignment options and then I'm going to select that align horizontally within the center so that everything is spaced evenly. Then once I'm done I'm going to tap out of that and just look over, double-check, make sure everything looks okay. I think this looks good. Now I'm just going to take my Apple pencil and drag across the entire layout here and I'm going to go into my layer studio and I'm going to select that little puzzle icon to group everything. Now all I have to do is add the days of the week here. I'm going to go in and select the days from my monthly layout because I think they're small enough to fit that. I'm just going to double, triple-click until I get it isolated. Then go into my Edit menu, select "Copy", tap out of this, go back into my weekly layout, tap into it and then select my Edit menu and hit "Paste" and then just bring that so that it goes right on top. If you're noticing that you can't see your text, you just want to go into your layers and then make sure that that text is above the grouped elements within that layout. I just went in and I tapped on it and then I just dragged it so that it was above the appointments group. Once I've done that I can just copy this and duplicate it and then revise the text. I'm going to go into my Edit menu, select "Duplicate". I'm going to drag it over to the right and then I'm going to hit "Duplicate" and it's going to do that power duplicate for me. Now all we have to do is go in and edit the days of the week. I'm going to zoom in here. I'm going to select my frame text tool and I'm just going to double-click so that I highlight the text and I'm going to update this the same Monday and then do the same for the rest of these. If it doesn't all fit in one line you can just select your move tool and resize your text frame. I've revised all the days of the week, I've added all my elements for my weekly layout. This is what the final piece looks like. Now we can jump into creating our daily layout. 13. Creating the Daily Page: [MUSIC] Now that we're done with creating our weekly spread, let's jump into designing our daily spread. I'm going go to my next art board that I've labeled daily, and I'm going to create essentially an area for a schedule and then some areas for focuses and top goals for the day and then any specific tasks, and then an area for notes. Just like what we did with this layout, we're just going to be utilizing the shape tools and our type tools to create this layout. I'm going to start with the Rectangle tool, I'm going go to my left-hand side toolbar, select the Rectangle tool, and then I'm just going to go into my layer studio really quick and just make sure that everything on this page currently is locked and this ensures that nothing gets moved. With that art board selected, I'm going to select the group with the paper and the little home icon, I'm going to go to my three dot menu, my layer options, and I'm just going to select the lock icon and that will keep everything locked. Now that everything is locked, I'm going to select my Rectangle tool and I'm going to start placing the elements on my page. I'm going to zoom out so that you can see I want this rectangle to go all the way down, and basically I'm going to break it up into hours for the day, starting at 6:00 AM and ending at 10:00 PM, and I'm going to make sure that I go into my color studio and I'm going to turn off my fill by selecting it and then selecting that white circle with a blue line through it, and then making sure I have a fill and my stroke, I'm going to keep using that charcoal gray that I've been utilizing. Then I'm going to go into my stroke panel and just make sure that my width is 0.9. Then I'm going to create my first item in this layout, which will be this schedule, and then I'm going to utilize lines to break this apart. I'm going to zoom in so you can see what I'm doing here, I'm going to select my Pen tool, I'm going to make sure that my mode is line, make sure that my color is the same color to that I'm currently using, and then I'm going to tap on one side, hold my finger down to create a straight line, then tap on the other side. If it goes off center, it's not straight, that's fine, we can just go and select our Node tool, zoom in and adjust placement of that line so that it's straight, and if we need to go in and adjust the width so it doesn't overlap anything, we can just select our Move tool and then drag that in, and then I'm just going to zoom out and make sure that it's the size I want it to be, and I'm actually going to bring this in a bit because I want to have the hours on this side, so I'm going to create another line that is the same length as the actual full rectangle. I'm going to tap outside of this, and then I'm going to select my Pen tool, I'm going to tap at the top, hold my finger down, so I get a straight line, tap at the bottom, and I think this is good. I'm going to zoom in, I'm going to just select my Move tool, I'm going to move this over just a bit, and I'm just going to zoom in to make sure that there's no overlap and if there is, I'm just going to adjust and bring that line in, and then I'm going to take this line that I've created that goes across and adjust it. Basically, I want to copy this line so that it goes across towards the bottom, and I want to give myself enough space to write here and here, and basically have the time here. I'm going to take this line, I'm going to select it, resize it as needed, and then I'm going to go into my edit menu and I'm going to select duplicate, and then I'm going to drag it down, and if you want, you can turn on magnetics to help ensure everything is lined up nicely, and then what I'm going to do is elongate this side of the line so that it creates an area for the time and then two areas for writing. I might adjust this just a bit. I think that works nicely. Basically, I'll put text right here, that says at 6.00 AM, 7:00 AM, 8.00 AM. But for now let's just get the skeleton done. I'm going to select these two lines here, then I'm going to go into my edit menu and I'm going to select ''Copy,'' and then I'm going to select ''Paste'', and I'm going to drag them down, and I think I'm going to utilize that power duplicate, I'm going to select these elements and I'm going to hit ''Duplicate'' and then I'm going to keep duplicating this. Once I hit ''Duplicate'' again, it'll duplicate all the way down for me until I finish filling up this area. I really like the power duplicate, it makes things a lot easier, especially if we're just doing a simple movement like where you're just dragging something down and even them out, it's easier than having to do it by hand. Once I've done that and I've created this little schedule area here, I'm going to select everything by selecting my Move tool, highlighting it all by dragging my Apple pencil across the whole group, go into my layers menu, and then select the little puzzle icon so that groups everything together, and then I'm going to go back to my monthly layout and I'm just going to select my Move tool, double-tap my numbers, and I'm going to select ''Copy''. I'm going to tap out of this, and then I'm going to go back to my daily layout, I'm going to select ''Paste'', and then I'm going to update this to say 6:00 AM, double-tap inside of here, click on the little a tap on my keyboard and then just update the information in this. If you need to resize this so everything fits, just pull out the edges of your text frame using your Move tool. Then I'm just going to center this. Once I've updated the text, I'm going to go into my edit menu and I'm going to select ''Duplicate'' and then I'm going to drag it down to where I want it and the next square, and then I'm just going to utilize that power duplicates by hitting duplicate again and it will just automatically move it down for me. Once I've done that to fill all of my timestamps and I can go back in and revise them and update them. Basically I'm just going to update them to each of the new hours. So 6:00 AM to 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, so on and so forth until 10:00 PM. If you have to revise your size so that everything fits into your frame, that's fine as well, just double-click on the number and then go down to the bottom area where you have all of your font options and then just tap on it. You can either tap up to increase or tap down to decrease, or you can just go in and type in the size that you'd like. Now that I'm done with this, I can add some labels up top here as well, and then I just want to make sure everything is all grouped together including the numbers here as well as the line. I'm going to select my white arrow tool, my Move tool, I'm going to drag across all of those elements, go into my Layers menu, select the Pencil icon to group everything and now I can move everything together, group it, and adjust it as needed. I'm going to select the 6.00 AM here and I'm going to double-tap it until I have it direct selected, and then I'm going to go into my Edit menu, I'm going to select ''Copy,'' I'm going to tap out of it and then I'm going to go back into the Edit menu, hit ''Paste,'' drag it up, and then I'm going to resize the frame here, and then I'm going to add the word schedule. Then I'm going to copy that, and I'm going paste it, and then I'm going to move it up and then I'm going to give myself an area to write today's date, since this is going to be the daily layout. We're going to just change this to say today's date. When I'm done with that, I can just resize my frame so everything fits on one line, and I'm going to move this to the top here, and then I'm going to use my Pen tool to give me a nice line so that you can write on that area. I'm going to tap next to today's date, hold my finger down, and then tap across to create a straight line, and again, if it's lopsided like mine is, you can just select your Node tool and then adjust it so that it is a straight line. Then I'm going to tap on it with my Move tool, go into my Stroke menu, I'm just going to resize this just a bit so it's a little thinner, and then I'm going to pull it so that it is closer to the date, and then you'll be able to just add a date to the top here, so you know what day you're working with, and now we can go in and add the additional elements for this layout. I also want to have a main focus area, I'm going to select ''Schedule'' and I'm going to actually add the headers first, and then add the areas for the textboxes. I'm going to select ''Schedule,'' I'm going to go into my three dot menu, my Edit menu and select ''Copy,'' and then I'm going to hit ''Paste'' and I'm going to drag it over to the right here, and I want to do is give myself key headers for each area. I know I'm going to have an area here, and then I'm going to need add three additional headers as well. I'm going to copy this one and then I'm going to go into my Edit menu, select ''Paste,'' I'm going to drag this down a bit and then I'm going to paste it again, and I'm going to drag it down a bit again. Because I have magnetics on, you'll see that this green line pops up, it's because it's aligning it with the text above it, and then I'm going to copy this once more and paste it. Now I want to go in and revise this texts so I'm going to zoom in so you can see I'm going to double-tap, and I'm going to change this to today's focus. Then this one I'll change to top three. This next one I'm going to change to tasks. This last one I'm going to change to notes. right that I have the headers for all of my areas, what I want to do now is add the areas to the right. I'm just going to create a box, but filled rather than just outline like we had been doing before. I'm going to select my rectangle tool. I'm going to go into my color studio. I'm going to select my fill and then I'm going to select a lighter or maybe I'll select the yellow that we had been using in our original layout. I'm going to remove the stroke, select my fill, and then I'm going to tap on that yellow color. Then I'm just going to create a box that goes underneath today's focus. Then I'm going to give myself some room between that box and then the text underneath, which will be the top three. What I'm going to do with that one is just select that today's focus box. I'm going to copy it and paste it, bring it down. Then what I want to do is make sure there's no fill. I'm going to use a stroke again. I'm going to show you my stroke, select that dark charcoal gray. Make sure I have my stroke width set to 0.9 so that it matches everything else. Then I'm going to create three of these wider rectangles. I'm going to copy that one, I'm going to paste it, drag it underneath, and then do that once more so I have an area for just three key tasks that I want to work on. I'm going to select these boxes by dragging over them with my Apple pencil. Then I'm going to go into my transform studio on the right-hand side. I'm going to go into my alignment options and I'm going to make sure they're all aligned horizontally to the left. Then I'm going to select "Align Vertically" among the center so that they're evenly spaced. Then I can go into my Layers menu and I can select "Group". Then I'm going to add circles to these just for design element and label them 1, 2, and 3. I'm going to select my "Shape" tool. I'm going to select the "Ellipse" tool. I'm going to zoom in so you guys can see what I'm doing here. I'm going to select a fill color in my color studio and select that yellow again. Then I'm going to make sure my Ellipse tool is selected. I'm going to create an ellipse and then I'm going to put my finger down and it'll create a perfect circle for me. Then I make sure there is no stroke. Then I'm just going to pull this over to the side here. Then I'm going to select my text from top three. I'm just going to copy that and paste it. Bring it down and I'm going to change it so that it just says one. Then I'm going to resize my frame. Then I'm going to go into my layers and I'm going to make sure that layer is above this circle layer. I'm going to select that layer in my layers studio and then drag it so that it goes above. Then I'm going to drag this over on top of that circle, resize it, and then see what this looks like when I zoom out. You want this smaller, so I'm going to select this circle first. I'm going to resize it just a bit. I'm going to resize the number as well. Then place it again and resize my circle once more. I don't want it to fill up too much space. I'm going to select both of them by dragging my Apple pencil across. Then I'm going to go into my Layers menu, I'm going to select the puzzle piece and then I'm going to group them. Then I'm going to place this right on the left side edge in the center. Then I'm just going to go in and I'm going to copy this. Then I'm going to paste it twice. Then just drag them down so that they're in the other boxes here. Then I can just update the numbers to say 1, 2, and 3. So that is our top three task area. [NOISE] Then what we'll do is zoom down to the next one. I'm going to make sure that my text is aligned and that I have some space between the sections. Basically what I'm going to do is just add lines and check-boxes for the tasks that you might want to do throughout the day. To do that, what I'm going to do is utilize my Shape tool. I'm going to select my rectangle tool. I'm going to create squares for the check-boxes. I'm going to make sure that I have an outline and no fill for my color. I'm going to go into my color studio, select my fill, turn that off, select my outlines, select that gray that we've been working with, go into my rectangle tool and then just create my first square. Then again, if I hold my finger down as I'm creating that square, it will give me a perfect in proportion square. I want to have a square size that I like. I'm actually going to adjust the width of my stroke by going into my stroke studio. I'm going to bring it down to, I think 0.5 should be a nice width for this, so it doesn't fill too overwhelming to look at. Then I'm going to resize it just a bit, align it to the left side with the word tasks, and then I'm going to select "Duplicate", and then I'm going to drag it down. Then I'm going to do that power duplicate by making sure that stays selected after I drag it down. Then I can just duplicate a bunch of times until I have the number of squares that I'd like. Once I've done that, I can go in and add lines in between each of these squares. I'm going to go in and select my pen tool, I'm going to make sure my stroke width is at 0.5. I'm going to go into my color studio, make sure I don't have a fill and just a stroke, make sure my pen tool is selected. Then I'm going to tap on one edge, hold my finger down to put a straight line and then tap on the other. Then if I need to select my node tool so I can adjust the angle if I feel like I've made it wonky or anything like that. Once I've done that, I can just resize it as well by selecting my "Move" tool and then just resizing it so that it fills to the right-hand area of this design. Once I've created my line, I can now go into my Edit menu and select "Duplicate" and then drag it down to the next area. Then I'll use that power duplicate to basically copy it and drag it automatically. I'm going to go into my Edit menu, select "Duplicate", we want to make sure that line is still selected in order for the power duplicate to work. Then you can keep duplicating until all of your lines are filled. Once I'm done with that, I can take my Apple Pencil, select all of the elements within that area. If you notice you accidentally select something that you don't want to, have selected, just put your finger down and tap on it and it'll deselect it. Then you can go into your layer studio and you can select the puzzle icon to group it. Now we can add our little section for notes as well. I'm going to do the same thing I did up here with that today's focus. I'm just going to select "Duplicate". Then I'm going to drag it down and just increase the size of this just a bit so we have a little bit more space to write. Then if I need to, I can adjust the placement of the tasks and adjust where it says notes. I'm going to take my Apple Pencil and with my "Move" tool selected, I'm just going to select all of these elements here. Then I'm going to go into my layer studio once more. I'm going to group them by hitting that puzzle icon. Then I'm just going to play around with the placement of this to make sure I have it exactly where I want it on my layout. That is the daily layout. We have our schedule on the left-hand side, we have our focus, our goals, and our tasks, and an area for notes. Then also you have an area to write the date up top. Now let's jump into creating our journaling area. 14. Creating the Habit Tracker Page: For this layout, we're just going to work on a habit tracker. I like habit trackers to keep track of working out or anything specific that I have to do multiple times throughout the month. The habit tracker is a really great way to keep track of all of that information. I'm going to keep this really simple. We're going to have a grid layout on the left-hand side. We're going to have a key on the right-hand side, an area for notes, and the month. You can just fill these in, color them in. We're going to keep it really simple. Because I'm going to create a long grid. I'm going to utilize some of these lines that I've already created to make my life a little easier. I'm going to take my schedule here, I'm going to tap on it, and then I'm going into my edit menu. I'm going to copy it, and then I'm going to go into my habit tracker layout here, and then I'm going to paste it in, and then I'm going to just revise it. I'm just going to get rid of all of the texts in here, so I already have those in my layers grouped. What I can do is select all of the elements within that group so in that case, I'll select all the numbers. I'm going to tap on the first one and then drag right over the next and continue doing that until I've selected all of the timestamps, and then I'll just hit the little garbage can in my layer studio here and it'll delete that for me. I'll delete all of the elements that I don't need and then I'll duplicate all the actions that I do. These middle lines that are shorter, I'm going to select those and just throw them away. I'm going to double-tap until their direct selected, then go to the lower left-hand side of my interface, tap that garbage can and it'll delete it off of my spread. That's the beauty of digital design. You don't have to remake everything by scratching your layouts. You can reuse and then revise those elements as you're pulling them into different layouts and it just makes the work much easier and more convenient. What I'm going to do is create a grid that is 31 days by 12. This way you can track an entire year. What we'll do is we'll revise the separation between each of these lines. Will just edit and then drag individually or we can adjust the first one and then we can delete the rest and copy them and do that super duplicate. I want to make this a little bit bigger. I'm going to select the outline here and then just make sure the outline itself is selected and isolated and then I can just select the key areas that I want to edit. In this case, this outside part give me some more space, and then I can adjust the placement. Once I've done that, I can go in and remove the additional lines, you can just go in and use my pen tool and just create a new line. I'm going to select my line tool. You could also do this with your pen tool as well. You can tap on one end. Hold your finger down to create a straight line, tap on the other. Then again, if your line is a little off, you can just go into your node tool and adjust as needed. Once I've created that line, I want to make sure that the width is the same as the rest of my layout. I'm going to change this to 0.9 after I adjust the placement I'll have enough space for 31 sections and then also so that I have enough space for 12 columns. I'm going to select it by tapping on it with my move tool and then I'm going to go into my edit menu. I'm going to select duplicate, and then I'm going to drag it down. Once I've pulled it down, select duplicate and it'll do the power duplicate and then move it for me. I'll do that until I fill the entire space. I'll just go in and double-check the numbers I have. Once I've duplicated everything, I can select all of the elements here. Then I'm just going to hold my finger and de-select the items I don't want selected like the column line right now, and then I'll go into my transform studio, and then I'm going to go into my alignment options, and then I'm going to align it horizontally to the left so that everything's aligned to the left. Then I'm going to select that column now, and I'm going to select duplicate, and then I'm going to drag it to the right. Then making sure it's still selected. I'm going to hit duplicate again until I fill up the rest of this to create the grid. Then I'm going to go into my layer studio and I'm going to select all of the column lines here. Then what I want to do is go into my transform studio. I want to make sure that they are all aligned vertically up top and then I want to make sure that they're all aligned horizontally within the centers so that they're all evenly spaced. Then I'm just going to adjust the placement by hand a bit. Once I've done that, I can tap back into my layer studio, zoom out a bit so you guys can see what I'm doing. I'm going to select my move tool. I'm going to drag my apple pencil across the whole entire grid. Then I'm going to go into my layer studio and I'm going to group this. Now I just want to add numbers up top and then numbers going down the side. I'm going to actually go into my daily schedule again, I'm going to double-tap the time blocks here, and I'm going to go into my edit menu, select copy, tap out of that, go back into my habit tracker, tap into that artboard and then select paste, and then I'm going to revise this so that it's just a number. Then I'm going to place these up top. I'm going to copy it. I'm going to duplicate it, and then I'm going to drag it so that it goes over the next square. Then making sure that duplicated number is still selected. I'm just going to power duplicate and it will move these over and copy them for me. Then I can go in and update the numbers. I'll just double-tap inside of the numbers and update them and do that for all of the rest of these in the column, and then I'll add these numbers to the left-hand side as well. If you find that you have too many columns, all you have to do is delete those additional elements that you don't need, and then just revising the outside bounding box here, by pulling it in. Then selecting all of these rows here by going into your layers studio, finding the first line, and then dragging right over the additional lines until all of them are selected. Once all of those lines are selected, you can just tap on your move tool and you can revise the width of the lines. Then we'll have this nice grid and then I just want to make sure everything is all grouped together with this grid. I'm going to take my apple pencil drag across it, and then I'm going to go into my layer studio and I'm going to select the puzzle icons so I can group it, and then I'm going to take these numbers though and just select those as well. They'll go into my layer studio. Click on the first one, drag right over the next, and do that until all of the numbers are selected, and then I'm going to go into my edit menu. I'm going to select copy, go back into edit menu, select paste. I'm going to pull them out to the side and then I'm going to add them into this first row. I'm going to select all of these numbers and then I'm going to go into my transform studio. I'm going to make sure they're all aligned horizontally to the left. Then I can revise placement as needed. Then I'll just fill out the rest of the numbers by just copying all of these and then I'm going to go into my edit menu and then I'm going to copy that and I'm going to paste it, and then drag that down, and then update the numbers as needed. Once I'm done with that, now I can add in my month habit key and then just an area for notes. I'm just going to create a rectangle using my shape tool, making sure I have stroke turned on and fill turned off, and then I'm just going to create a rectangle here for my months and make sure it aligns with this grid that I've created. Then I'm going to duplicate that and drag it down, and then I'm going to create a habit key here. I want to make sure this box is a little bit taller than the one above it, and then I'm going to copy this once more. Then drag it down and resize so that I have an area for notes. I'm just going to create another rectangle to give myself a header here. I'm going to remove my stroke and then I'm going to add a fill. Then I'll create a rectangle that goes across the width of this area for my months. Then I'm going to select my numbers here. I'll double-tap so I can get a direct selection. Select My move tool, go into my edit menu, select Copy, and then paste. Drag it over, and then increase the width of the text box, and then I'm going to change it to say month. Then I'll update the color so that it's not gray, but it's white. Then I'll drag that on top of this rectangle here. I have to go into my layer studio just to make sure though that it is above that rectangle box. I'll just tap on it in my layers and drag it so that it's right above that rectangle for my header, and then I'll resize it a bit. Then I'm just going to divide this up so that we have the 12 months in shorthand here. Now that we've added our header, I'm just going to select My move tool. I'm going to drag my Apple Pencil over the gray box and the text. I'm going to go into my layers menu, I'm going to select Group. Then I'm going to go into my three dot menu and I'm going to select Copy, and then I'm going to select Paste. I'm going to drag that down to the second box, and then I'm going to paste it again and drag that down to the third box here, and then we can update this to say habit/key. I'm going to double-click inside where it says month in my second box, and update it to say habit/key. Then I'll resize the text frame so it all fits. Then I'll update this bottom area to say notes. Now I just want to make sure everything aligns up and that it's all grouped together. Once I've added those, I'll just select everything with my Apple Pencil and then go to my Layers menu and select Group, and do that for all three boxes, just to make sure everything is selected. Then I'll just add in some additional lines to create the grid here for my month and for my habit/key. I'll take my Pen tool, make sure that my fill is turned off and that I have a stroke, and that that stroke is at 0.9. Then I'll just start creating the lines to separate and create 12 boxes for the 12 months. Then I'm just going to duplicate that line by selecting it with my move tool going into my edit menu, selecting Duplicate, and then dragging it out. Then I'm just going to select all three of these lines, go into my transform studio and then make sure that they are aligned up top. Then I'll adjust them on the layout here, and then I'll go into my layer studio and group them. Then I'll go back into my Pen tool and then I'll create a line that goes across. Then if it's lopsided, just go into my node tool and adjust the placement. Then I can adjust where this is in the grid, and then I'll copy it, and then I'll paste it, drag it down so that I get three sections. Then I'm going to select everything here by dragging over it with my Apple Pencil and then going into my layer studio and selecting the puzzle icon to group it. Now I can add the months abbreviated in these little sections. I'm just going to select the word month, and then edit. Select copy, and then paste, drag that out, double-click inside of it, update the color from white to this gray, and then actually resize it down to 5.9 or actually seven points should work fine, and then I'm going to update it and then copy it. I'm going to change this to December. Then I'll resize the frame, and then I'll drag this into this first box. Then I'm going to copy it, paste it, drag it over, and then I'm going to duplicate that next one, drag it and then do the power duplicate to fill in the rest. I'm going to select all of them by tapping the first option, holding my finger down and then tapping the next ones, and it'll select all of them at once. I'm going to go into my edit menu, select duplicate, drag them down, and then I'm going to hit duplicate again and it'll drag it to fill in the last section here. Then I'll just go in and revise everything and make sure that everything is filled in, and then I can go in and revise and edit and update the words. Once you've updated, added your months, now we can go down and update the habit/key area. I'm just going to have numbers on one side and then space to write the habit and then like an area to checkmark. Again, we're just going to be utilizing our Pen tool to create lines, to create the divisions. I'll select the Pen tool, go into my color studio. I'm going to tap into the color studio, make sure we have our fill turned off and our stroke turned on, and then we can start to create the dividing lines in this area. Tapping on it with my move tool, going into my edit menu, selecting Copy, and then paste, and then I'm going to drag it over to the end because this is going to create our checkmark box. Then I'm going to select those lines to make sure they're aligned at the same height by clicking on that first one, holding my finger down, clicking on the second one, so they're both selected, going into my transform studio and aligning vertically up top. Then I'll zoom in just to double-check and make sure that there's no lines overlapping, and then I can just select My move tool and adjust as needed. Then I'm going to copy this horizontal line and paste it so that I have 12 divisions total here. Once I've duplicated it, I'm going to go into my Edit menu and just hit Duplicate again to do that power duplicate because it'll move and duplicate the line for me. It just makes things easier. Once I've done that, I've filled in my lines, I can take my Apple Pencil, select My move tool, drag the Apple Pencil across the whole entire set of lines, and then go into my layer studio and select groups so that everything is all grouped together. Then I'm going to go in and add my numbers. I'm just going to go into my layer studio, select them. Select the numbers in my layers by tapping on the first one and then dragging across right on the next ones. I'm going to select all 12, and then I'm going to go into my edit menu, I'm going to select Duplicate. Then I'm just going to move them over and to the side. Then I'll just drag them from the top where I move them in place in my habit tracker key. I'm going to select the one, drag it in place. Again, you can turn on your magnetics just to make things easier so that everything is align. Then I'll continue this process with the rest of the numbers. Then if you have any actions, you can just delete them by clicking on them and then selecting the little trash icon in the lower left-hand side. Then once I've placed all those numbers, I'm going to highlight everything once more with my Apple Pencil and drag across the whole entire thing, including the numbers. Then go into my layer studio and select the puzzle icon to group it all together. That is it for our habit tracker section. We have space to keep track of everything, you can color coordinate, and then you can create a key on this side, explain what the habit is, color in your box. Then you can keep track of everything here. 15. Creating the Journal Page: Now that we're done with our daily layout, let's jump into our next layout, which will be our journaling layout. I'm going to basically utilize this area for some future self journaling. Gratitude, journaling, a place to track water intake, overall feelings, and some affirmations. Very simple. Just a space to write and get your thoughts out. I know it can be a pain having to go through multiple planners or multiple books, so it's just nice to have a template in there that you can always copy and reuse over and over again. What we're going to do is first create some space for affirmation. I'm going to do what I did with this daily layout and utilize some colored boxes and then some outlines and things like that. I'm going to take the today's focus box. I'm going to tap on it and keep tapping it until I isolate it. Then I'm going to go into my Edit menu, select Copy, tap out of it, go into my journal layout, and then select my Edit menu and hit Paste, drag it over, and then just give myself this area to write any affirmations that I have for that day. I'm going to select the text that I have over there as well in my daily layout. I'm going to select Copy, tap out of that artboard and then go back into my journaling artboard, tap into that, and then I'm going to go into my Edit menu and select Paste. Then drag the text right above it and change it to say Affirmations. Then just make sure everything is lined up where I'd like it to be by just selecting my move tool, tapping on that element, and moving it around the page. Right right to it, I'm going to have some space for my water intake, I think and to track my feelings or just how I feel. I'm going to create a rectangle right next to this. I'm going to select the rectangle tool. Then I'm just going to create a rectangle with an outline. You can go into your colors too just make sure you have your stroke turned on. I'm using that gray again just to keep everything cohesive. I have it at a 0.5 for the width of my stroke, but I think I'm going to up it to 0.9 so that it matches the other pages. Once I've created this, I'm going to duplicate it and then drag it down. Then I want to make sure that it's pretty similar in size to the affirmation box. Once I've done that, I'm just going to copy the text I have here. I'm going to tap on it with my move tool. Go into my Edit menu, select Copy, go back into that Edit menu, select Paste, and then drag it over. I'm going to update this to say water. Then I'll resize the text box and then I'll drag it into this little rectangle here. Then I'm going to copy that and then paste it. Then drag that to the second one and then update the text to say feeling. Then what I'm going to do is utilize the shape tool to create water drops. This way you can track how much water you're drinking throughout the day. That's something that I have trouble with and I want to try to pay attention to. I'm going to select my shape tool and then I'm going to go down to the teardrop. Then I'm just going to create a teardrop making sure that there's no fill and just that stroke so that you could fill it in and color it in your digital planner. Once I've created that first one, I'm going to align it in the rectangle here. Then I'm going to go into my Edit menu, select Duplicate, and then I'm going to drag it over to the right, and then I'm going to do that power duplicate, make sure that the element is still selected. Then you can just hit Duplicate and it will duplicate it and move it for you. Now I'm going to do this until I fill the rest of this rectangle. Once I've done that, I'm going to select all of these little teardrops by dragging my Apple Pencil over them. Then I'm going to go into my transform studio. I'm going to select my alignment options and then I'm going to make sure I select a line vertically up top so that they're all aligned to the top. Then I'm going to select a line horizontally within the centers so that they're all evenly spaced. Then I'm going to go into my layer studio, select Group. Then I'm actually going to group everything within this first rectangle and go into my layer studio and select Group. Now for feelings, what I'm going to do is just give myself a bunch of circles and then add faces to them, just basic emoticons. Then I can fill in the one that I'm feeling for that day. I'm going to select my shape tool and I'm going to go to my Ellipse Tool and then I'm just going to create a perfect circle. Then I'm going to duplicate that circle a few more times. I'm going to select my Edit menu. I'm going to select Duplicate, move it to the right, and then I'm going to do the power duplicate by just making sure that circle is still selected and then just hitting Duplicate again and it'll just duplicate it and then move it for me. I think that's enough. I'm going to select all of these circles now and then I'm going to go into my transform studio. Then I'm going to go down to my alignment options. Then I want to make sure that these are aligned vertically up top. Then I want to make sure they're aligned horizontally among the center so they're all evenly spaced. Then I'm going to go back into my layers studio and then I'm going to select my Pencil icon to group everything together. Then I'm going to tap back into the layer studio. It goes back in and then I'm just going to adjust the placement of these. Now I can go in and add the little smiley faces. What's nice is we can utilize the shape tools really easily as well as the pen tools to make these. I'm going to go in and I'm going to select my Ellipse tool first. I go into my color studio. I'm going to make sure that my stroke is turned off and I have a fill turned on I'm just going to match the color of the stroke, which is that dark gray. I'm going to tap back into my color studio, so it pulls it in. I'm going to zoom in and I'm going to create two smaller circles. Put my finger down to create a perfect circle. Once I've created one, I can move it where I want it and then I can just go into my Edit menu. I can copy it and I can paste it. I can then play around with the placement. I think this is good. I'm going to select this. Then I'm going to go into my Layers menu. I'm going to group it, and then I'm going to copy it and then I'm going to paste it and drag it over into the next one. Then in order for them all to steal aligned, I'm going to use the Transform tool again. I'm just going to kind of keep pasting these to get them into the shapes and then we can align them afterwards. Once I've pasted them all, I'm going to select all of them by dragging my Apple pencil across. Then I'm going to go into my transform studio and then I'm going to go into alignment options. I'm going to align them vertically up top. That should align them so that they're all in the same place within the circle, and now we can go in and add the bottom portions of the face. I'm going to use my shape tool again. I'm going to tap onto it and then we have a crescent shape that we can use. We can also utilize the pie shape. I'm going to use the pie shape and what's nice is you want to make sure that you have a colorful. Then what's nice is that with this pie shape, we can create a shape. Hold your finger down and it'll give you a perfect shape and say I want a half-circle smile. You can zoom in and you should see three red dots, tap in to edit those and then we can just click on those dots and adjust the placement of them so that it gives you the shape you're going for. I'll keep adjusting this line until I have half a circle. Once I'm done with that, then I can nudge it up and it'll give me a smiley face. Then I can go back and go back into my shape tool, select the crescent and then create the crescent shape. Again, put my finger down, and it'll create the perfect shape that I'm going for. Then I can utilize the move tool and these handles to adjust the placement of the crescent as well as the angle. You can also adjust how deep the crescent shape is. Then I'll just duplicate this crescent to give me variety within the smile and then the last three will be more like neutral, not too happy faces. Once I've done that, I'm going to go into Copy and then select Paste, drag this over. I'm going to bring the crescent down even more and then adjust the placement. Then for this middle one, I'm going to make just a straight line, so I'm going to select my pen tool. Make sure I have stroke turned on, make sure I have my color fill actually turned off for this one. My stroke fill turned on and then I'm going to tap one end, hold my finger down, tap the other to create more of a straight line. If it looks lopsided, just go in with your node tool and adjust the placement of it. Then what I think I'm going to do is adjust the width just a bit. Then I'm going to take these crescent shapes that I created. I'm just going to tap on them with my move tool. Select the Edit menu, select Copy, and then select Paste, and then drag it over. Then I'm just going to rotate it by rotating the handle on the shape frame. Then I'm going to rotate it so that it goes upside down, create more of a sad face. Then I'm going to select that big smiley face. I'm going to click on it with my move tool. Then I'm going to go into my Edit menu, select Copy, select Paste. Drag it over to my final one. Then I can just rotate it so that it is facing downwards. What I want to do is align everything so that it's centered within the circle. I'm going to turn on my magnetics tool in the lower left-hand side and I'm going to start adjusting the placement of the mouth portions of the face so that they line up with the eyes and what you'll see is when I have the magnetics turned on, you'll get these red and green lines that show where everything is relative to the additional elements within that. Then once I have everything where I want it, then I'm going to select both the circle and the faces within this rectangle and group everything together. Once I've created all the faces the way I like them, then I can select everything with my Apple Pencil by dragging across and it'll select all of the group elements already plus the faces. Then I can go into my layer studio and I can select Group. I have my mood tracker, I have my water intake tracker, and now I want to create space for affirmations and future self journaling. I'm going to select the affirmations texts by just tapping on it with my move tool and then I'm going to go into my Edit menu. I'm going to select Copy, and then I'm going to select Paste and I'm going to drag it down. Then I'm going to update this to say future self journaling. Then I'm just going to increase the width of the text frame and then I'm going to adjust the placement, and then I'm just going to add a bunch of lines to this section here. I'm going to take some of the lines from my schedule here. I'm going to select my move tool, just double-tap until I isolate the line and you'll know the line is selected because you'll see it outlined in blue. Then what I want to do is just go into the Edit menu, select Copy, tap out of that. I'm going to close any additional studios I have open. I'm going to move over to my journaling area, tap in it, select the three-dot menu, my Edit menu, and then select Paste and just drag this down. Then I'm just going to increase the size of this line so that it goes across the entire page because I want to give myself enough room to write. Then I want to make sure that the stroke is 0.9 and it is. Then if I need to adjust the placement, I can if it looks like it's lopsided at all by just selecting the node tool and then tapping on the line and adjust it again. Once I have one that I'm happy with, I'm going to select it. I'm going to go into my Edit menu, select Duplicate, and then I'm going to use that power duplicate. I'm going to go into my Edit menu and then I'm going to hit Duplicate and then continue to do this until I have the number of lines that I want for this section. Once I've done that, I'm going to select all of those by dragging across them with my Apple Pencil, going into my layer studio selecting group. Then I'm going to select both the future self journaling title and then the lines themselves. Then I'm going to go into my layer studio again and then select Group. Then I'm going to go into my Edit menu, select Copy, and then Paste and then drag down. This will be the space for my gratitude journal. I'm just going to change this text by just double-clicking inside of it to highlight everything. Then I'm going to select my keyboard and just change it to, I am grateful for. Then you can adjust placement as needed. The idea is just use these as prompts. That is going to be our journaling place to write. You don't have to add lines if you prefer not to. I just have a tendency to write. I have a tendency to write at an angle if I don't have space to write in a straight line. But you could also leave this blank or use an outlined rectangle to give yourself guidance of where that area you would write in would be. But I think this works well for me. That is our general layout. 16. Animating the Tabs: Now that we're done with all of our layouts, what we'll want to do really quickly is prepare our tabs to be animated. Essentially whatever layout we are on, we want that tab to come to the front so that it lays on top of the paper so that it looks as if you're flipping through your planner on that tab. So, that tab should be right at the top of your layout. What we'll want to do is go to each of these specific pages and we'll revise our layout so that that specific tab is brought to the front. In this case we're on the index page, so we'll want to update our index to come to the front. We'll go into our layers panel on the right-hand side. We'll scroll to that page. This is my index page. I'm going to select it. I'm going to select the little drop-down arrow here, and I'm going to scroll down until I get to my grouped layers. I'm going to keep selecting the drop-down menus until I get to the area that I want to select. In this case, I want to select this index, so it's this top group right here. I'm going to take my move tool and I'm just going to go into the specific layers area. I'm going to select the index text. I'm going to select that blue background by tapping on it and swiping right so they're both selected together. I'm going to select my group icon and I'm going to take this grouped layer so that it goes above the paper. What we'll see is that we're on that index page. We'll basically repeat this process for all of these additional layouts. Let's go to January 1st over here. We'll go to the January monthly layout. What we'll do is go into our layers studio. Again, you can close down all of the other group upwards. I'm going to tap the down arrow. Then what I want to do is go to the background spread and I'm going to tap the down arrow. I'm going to go to my side tabs. I'm also going to go to the side tabs as well, and I'm going to select January, and go to those side tabs, drag right so that they're both selected. You'll see that they're both selected because they're outlined in blue. I'm going to group these and then I'm going to move these so that they go on top of the paper layout. It'll go right to the top. I'll repeat this process for all the rest of the months and the rest of the top tabs. 17. Exporting the File: [MUSIC] This is our final set of designs for this digital planner. Now what we need to do is export this file and prep it for use in GoodNotes. Now that we're done adjusting all of our tabs what we can do is export all of our final artboards. What we want to do is export these all at once. The quickest way that I suggest we do this is utilizing the Slices function. You can utilize the Export persona for this. In the upper left-hand corner, we're going to select the Export persona. Then what we want to do is basically all of these pages can be exported individually at once. If you don't see your pages highlighted. What we can do is select our Slice selection tool, which is the arrow tool we're going to drag over all of our layouts. What we want to do is go into our layer studio on the right-hand side, then you'll see that all of the elements are all selected, every single artboard. Then what we'll want to do is select Create Slice. But before you do that, I always suggest looking through and making sure that everything looks okay. The whole reason why we're working in artboard is so that all of the design elements that we've created all stay within our artboard. But if you're noticing if an element is individually off to itself, you're going to have that in the layers panel here. It's going to be a Slice of its own. If you see anything that looks like it's sticking out and doesn't make sense you want to go back in and just group everything within that artboard to make sure that it's all housed in the one artboard. Once you've selected everything, you can go into your layers studio here, we can select "Create Slice." Then you'll see this little blue bar at the top. Then what we want to do is go into our Slices studio. It's like a box cutter and it's right above your layer studio. You'll see all of your artboards and all of your Slices, outline, and select it here. You could also double-check here as well to make sure nothing is out of the ordinary. Once we've done that, what we want to do is select every single element within this layer or you can just select export all. But I like to just make sure everything is selected so I can go through and double-check everything by clicking on an element in my layers and dragging right to click additional ones. Everything that I want to have exported is all here. But before I export them, I want to just double-check my export settings. To the left of export all what you want to do is tap on that three-dot menu, which is basically your Slice options. You will want to update your file type to whatever makes sense for you. Obviously want to keep in mind the size parameter is the bigger file, the slower it might be to load in something like GoodNotes. But if you want to print it one day, you want to have a higher-quality image so that it prints nicely. I find that if I'm working with something that needs transparency, I utilized PNG. But for this, because these are all just plain pages, what we'll want to do is select JPEG. You can do JPEG best quality, high-quality, medium quality, low quality. That'll determine your DPI and will also determine the overall quality of the viewing experience as well as how fast it'll load. I always try to go somewhere in the middle, medium-quality or high-quality works well. Then you can select either standard, retina, or three-axis this is all going to increase the overall size of your files. I like to just pick the middle one because we're looking at this digitally. But like I said, if you want to print this one day people like to print their planers at the end of the year. If they're digital planning, you might want to go with a higher-quality file setting so that you get a higher-quality print. Once you've done that, we'll go back out of our Slice options and then we can select Export All. Basically, anything that's checkmark or highlighted will be exported. Once you select export all, you'll either get a pop-up that allows you to select a folder or it will export to just a general folder in your file system. I like to select a specific folder. I'm going to go into this little three-line hamburger menu. I'm going to select, "Choose Export folder" and then I'm going to export it into Affinity Designer and then into my class project and hit "Done." Once you're done with that, then you'll want to hit Export All and it'll export all of your files to your chosen folder. Once I've exported, I'm going to exit out of my file here. I'm going to double-check my file system and then I'm going to go into my class project and I'll see all of my layouts within this file project. Then what we'll want to do is load these up into Keynote. 18. Linking the File in Keynote: Now that we've designed all of our layouts, we've exported them. Let's launch Keynote. Once we are in the Keynote interface, what we're going to do is select the plus icon in the upper right-hand corner. Once we've hit that plus icon, we are just going to select, choose a theme, doesn't matter which theme just go with the most basic, theme that they have because we are going to revise it. When we're in this theme, we're going to select our three dot menu in the upper right-hand corner. We're going to select document setup. At the very bottom you'll see two options, themes and slide size, we're going to select slide size and then we're going to hit "Custom." We're going to update our measurement to match the measurements of our GoodNotes Standard file, so it's going to be 455 for the width, by 588 for the height, and then we're going to hit "Done." Once I'm done revising this slide layout, the slide size, I can hit "Done". Then what we want to do is empty and delete everything off of this first page. I'm going to go into my actual slide here, I'm going to tap on it on the left-hand side and I'm going to select edit slide layout. Then I'm just going to use my fingers to select slides and then I'll get a pop-up and I can just hit "Delete" to remove any of the elements that I don't want and then I can hit "Done." Once we've resized, what we'll want to do is add in additional pages so that we can place all of our images that we export it from Affinity Designer into this layout. I'm going to go into my file system just so that I can double-check and see how many we have. In my design we have about 20 pages here. I'm just going to go back into my Keynote presentation, and I'm going to tap the little plus icon on the lower left-hand side. I'm just going to add the same title slide. I'm going to do this until I have 20 pages total. Then once I have 20 pages, we can begin to add our layout design on top of this. I'm going go to Page 1, and then I'm going to go to the upper right-hand corner of Keynote, I'm going to select that plus icon and I'm going to get this pop-up. What I want to select is insert from, and then what we'll be able to do is see recents or you can go into browse. In this case, I want to go on my iPad, select Affinity Designer, click on my class project, and then I can go in and find the pages that I have in this layout. I'm going to select my cover page, and then I'm going to repeat this process for the rest of these files. I'm going to go to Page 2, hit "Plus" select insert from, and then find my index page and just place these in order. I'm going to keep repeating this process until I add all of my pages in the order that I want. The next one I'm going to tap on Slide 3, hit the "Plus" icon, select insert from, and then find my quote page. Then I'm going to go to Slide 4, hit "Plus" insert from, and then I'm going to select my daily layout. Then I'm going to go on to Slide 5, hit the "Plus" icon insert from, and then I'm going to select my weekly. Then I'm going to continue to do this until all of my layout to have been added into my slides. Once I place all of the images, you'll see on the left-hand side, everything is all set and what we will want to do is basically begin to add our links to our dailies, weeklies and then all of our monthly and of course, the little home button for our index page. We'll add our first set of links here. What we'll want to do, we'll go to this first page, our quote page, there's no quick link to this basically when you're in your file in GoodNotes, you can just swipe to get to this page, but all of these little tabs will link you. You'll be able to click on them and go directly to that page when you're in your note-taking app. In order to create a link, what we need to first do is add a shape to our layout. I'm going to hit this "Plus" icon, I'm going to select our shape options. I'm going to go into our basic shapes and then I'm going to select the shape that I think best matches the shape that I currently have, so I'm going to select this rounded rectangle and then I'm just going to re-size it. I'm going to zoom into my layout here by just using my fingers to zoom in by pushing my fingers out and then to zoom out by putting my fingers in. I'm just going to resize this so that it is approximately the size that I needed to be. It doesn't matter what color it is right now, we're just going to resize it so that it matches the overall size of the tabs that we've created. Right over the tab that I wanted to cover. Once I've created that first one, what I can do is then go into my formatting option, that little paintbrush, and then I want it so that I have no fill. I'm going to select style and I'm going to tap where it says "Fill" and I'm going to select no fill. Then I'll go back out of this and it will have no fill now that way it'll be blank, and then what we want to do is tap on that. Then we'll tap on it again and you'll see this little pop-up come up and you'll want to select link. Then what we'll want to do is link this to a specific slide, so we're going to select slide and then we'll want to link it to the third slide because that's the slide of our index page. Then will hit "Back, " and then what I want to do now is copy this and then paste it so that we can add them to all the rest of these and then we can just update the links one-by-one. Once we've done that, I'm going to tap on it once again, and I'm going to select copy, and then I'm going to tap again and I'm going to select paste, and then I'm just going to drag this over to where I need it to be. If you're noticing you're having any type of issues utilizing your Apple Pencil in Keynote, what you can do is you can go into your three dot menu and scroll down to Apple Pencil and what you'll want to do is select and scroll, and this will allow you to select and use your Apple Pencil. Scroll and tap on things and move things around versus writing and using the scribble effect. Once we've done that, we'll tap out of this. We can go back to adding our links. You'll want to make sure that your links are sized appropriately. I'm going to select this new one. I'm going to click on "Copy," tap on my screen, select paste, and I'm going to continue to do that until I have 15 of these link shapes created. Once I've added all the links to the top, I'm going to rotate. I'm going to re-size this new one so that it's more of a vertical option because I'm going to be adding the links to the sides now. What's nice is that you only have to do this once and then you can copy all of these links and paste them onto the rest of your pages. Once I've added all of these you'll see the little blue arrows popping up and now what we'll want to do is go in and update where these links take us. We'll click on our daily and we'll click on the link pop-up here and then we're going to select link to slide and then we'll want to select Slide 4 and then we'll go to the next link for a weekly. I'll tap on that wait for the pop-up select Link and then link to Slide 5 and then tap out of that click on the next one which is our habit tracker select Link and then link to Slide 6 and then tap out of that click on our journal tab select Link and then link to Slide 7. Then our monthly start on Slide 8 so we'll go back to that page and then select January. We'll update the link here again, link to Slide 8 and then repeat that process for the rest of the months linking it to the appropriate slide. Once I've added all my links I'm realizing I have one extra month here so I'm going to select, Slide 20 I'm just going to delete it. I'm going to delete it by holding my finger down on the slide you'll get the slide options that will pop up and we're just going to select "Delete" and it'll delete that slide. All right so now we have all of our links for our tabs created what I want to do now is take our Apple pencil. We're going to select all of these links here so that we can copy them and paste them onto the additional pages. We're going to click on our screen here and in the pop-up we are going to click on "Select Objects" and then, what we'll want to do is select multiple objects so all we have to do is drag across those objects. We want to make sure that just the links are selected and not the actual page. I'm going to tap the actual page to deselect it and then I'm going to select done and then what I'm going to do is tap on "Copy" in this pop-up. Then we'll go to our next page we'll tap on the slide and then we're going to select "Paste", and it should paste all of those links right where we need them. Don't worry, you're not going to see these blue arrows when you're using the file in something like GoodNotes copy and we'll just paste these into the additional layouts as we move forward now so I'm going to select page 4 which is our daily. I'm going to tap into the layout here and then I'm going to select "Paste" and it'll paste everything in place where we need it. Go to the next page same thing tap on the actual spread select Paste and it'll paste it where you need it. Then you'll just want to repeat this process for the rest of the pages in your layouts. Once we've paste all of the side tabs and the top tabs what we want to do is go into our index page and we are going to add our quick links here as well. We have these monthly links to the calendars and then our weekly daily habit tracker journal pages. What we'll do is the same process we are going to select this plus icon, we are going to select a shape. If you are not on the basic shapes you can just scroll across the top and select "Basic" and then I'm going to select a rectangle. I'm just going to resize that rectangle, so that it will go over my months here and then I'm going to go into my format options a little paintbrush and I'm going to tap where it says "Fill" and I'm going to select "No Fill". Then I'm going to tap out of that and I'm going to tap on the actual outline here of that squared that has no fill and I'm going to select "Link". Then I want to link to a slide and we know January starts on Page 8. Then I'm going to tap out of this and then I'm going to click on this and then I'm going to copy it and then I'm going to tap out of it and I'm going to select "Paste" again and then I'm going to move it to February and I'll resize as needed. Then I'll continue pasting until I have, all the additional blank links that I need. I'll pull the rectangle over the month and then I'll just pull those corners in or the sides in, in order to resize it so that it fits just around the actual word versus having it be much bigger than it needs to be. I'll continue this process for the templates as well. Once I've pasted all the links then I can go in and manually update it. I'm going to select January, I'm going to click on "Link" I'm going to make sure I link to a slide and that'll be Slide 8 I'll tap out of this click on February select "Link", link to a slide and that'll be Slide 9. Go to March click on it select "Link", links like to Slide 10 or link to Slide 10, click out of it and then continue that process to link all of the months and the same thing with the templates. Now that we're done we have all of our pages linked you'll see our links pop-up on all of these additional pages. The last link I want to add that we forgot too is this homepage, and this homepage is essentially going to take us, right to this little quote page. I'm going to select the plus icon. I'm going to select a square for my shape and then I'm going to resize this, so that it's approximately the same size as that little house icon that we've created. I'm going to go into my format options here I'm going to tap on "Fill" and I'm going to select "No Fill" and then I'm going to tap out of this. Then I'm going to click on that rectangle I'm going to select "Link" and then I'm going to link it to a slide and I'm going to link it to Slide 2. Then I'm going to select that by tapping on it. Then in this pop-up I'm going to select "Copy" and then I'm just going to paste this on the rest of the pages in my planner. Once I've added all my links now what we can do is export this so that we can use it in GoodNotes. To export our final file what we'll want to do is go to our three dot menu or options menu and we're going to select "Export". What we want to export this is as a PDF. What we'll want to export our layout as is just a print backgrounds so it's just that whatever is on the image and what's on the layers and then we're going to select "Export". We're going to save it to our files or you can directly open in GoodNotes. But I like to save it in my files and then I'm going to go to my Affinity Designer file I'm going to slap my class project. I'm also going to tap where it says presentation 5 and rename it, My Digital Planner. Then I'm going to make sure I select the folder I wanted in and then I'm going to click on "Save". Then we can jump into GoodNotes and look at how we can utilize this planner in the app. 19. Working with the File in Goodnotes: Now that we're done designing our entire layout in Affinity Designer and we've loaded and linked everything up in Keynote, what we want to do now is utilize our planner in GoodNotes. I'm going to launch my GoodNotes app, it's going to take me to this main screen here. This is our documents menu within GoodNotes. It's going to have any document that you've created, a new folder or file that you've added and loaded into GoodNotes, it'll be here. If you've never used the app before, you won't have anything in this documents gallery. To add a file, you'll want to select this little plus icon in the upper left-hand corner and what you'll want to do is select Import. We're going to import the file that we exported from Keynote, that PDF file. I have my file in my digital planner folder. Then you'll just want to find that final file with your digital planner that you exported as a PDF from Keynote. This is the final version, so I'm going to tap on that. It'll load it up and it'll be on our screen. What you'll see is that at the very top, it's your planner name, you can tap down on this and you can tap where it says Presentation 5 or the planner name and you can rename this. I'm going to rename this my digital planner and then once you type it in, you can hit Done, and then you can tap out of it and it'll save that name for you. The big thing you'll want to know is basically how to navigate through your planner. If you swipe to the left, you'll be able to go through your pages. Swipe right, you'll go back to the pages that you were at before. You can select any of these icons at the top and their specific uses. This four-square icon is your gallery view. You can tap on it and see all of your thumbnails, and you can move around pages within your layout. You can reorganize the pages within your layout, you can move, say you want page 2 to be before page 1 and vice versa. You can move things around. If you tap on the little arrows below your page thumbnails, you can add pages before or after, you could duplicate that actual page. You can also export just one specific page from your layout. I would like to duplicate certain pages. For example, we've only created one weekly, one daily, and one journal page. What you can do is select that daily page and duplicate it and you could have multiple dailies and you can organize them after a specific month. Maybe you want to take this daily and move it after January. You can do that and your link won't get broken because the links are already pre-created within these layouts. It's not going to take you to the same page every single time, but it'll take you to the first in that series. If you want to delete a page, you can just tap that little down arrow and select Move to Trash and it'll move it to the trash. You can also close this to take it away. You can search for things within your planner. If you wrote something specific or type something in and you're looking for that entry, you can search for that entry. You can bookmark specific pages, you can export this entire planner, you can share a link to it, you can export specific pages. You can also export everything within the whole entire planner and you can print it. These little arrows up in the right-hand corner, the left-facing arrow, the right-facing arrow, those are undo and redo. You can select this plus and you can create a template, you can add additional pages based off of the template that you're on. In this case, if I selected add a page, you can select to add a page before this page or after this page and then you can select the current template or you can add pages based on the preload of templates that GoodNotes has. You can also add images and add items from your photo roll. The big thing you'll want to keep in mind when you're working in GoodNotes is that in order to use your tabs, you have to have your pen icon turned on. You'll see in the upper right-hand corner, right next to that little three dot option menu, there is something that looks like a pen with a strike through it. Then if you tap on it, it'll be like a pan with a circle around it. You want to make sure that you have this function turned on. You want to tap it so that there's a circle around the pen that will allow you to utilize your tabs. You'll be able to use your Apple pencil to tap on a tab and it'll take you to that page. Tap on a tab, it'll take you to that page, tap on a month, it'll take you to that page, tap on your Home button, it'll take you to that page. That's one of the biggest issues people often will run into when they're first utilizing GoodNotes is that they'll say, oh, my tabs aren't working where my tabs working, when in reality you need to make sure that the function is turned on for you to be able to use your Apple pencil as a selection option versus if it's turned off with the strike through it, you'll get all of these options for your pen mark up. That's how you know that you'll be able to use the tabs. If you have your pen mark up showing that menu with all of your pen eraser, highlight, shape menus, things like that, you won't be able to utilize your tabs. It won't work because it's going to think that you want to write on the page. Whereas if you turn it on, you'll be able to use your Apple pencil to tap on your tabs and it'll allow you to use your linked pages. The next thing I want to show you is how to utilize some of these markup options. What I find is most helpful when I'm trying to write is selecting a pen that works best for me. We're going to turn on our pen option so that we get all of these markup items. I'm going to select a pen. If I tap on that pen icon, you can change the type of pen you use, there's fountain pen, ballpoint pen, brush pen. I'm going to use a fountain pen and then you can increase or decrease the sharpness, the pressure sensitivity, things like that. I'm going to keep my sharpness at 25 percent. You could also go to the right-hand side here and you can tap on your color options and update the colors. Then you can also tap on your thickness, there's a thin option, a medium option, and a thick option. But even if you pick a medium option, you can still adjust the thickness of that option. Then what I find is easiest is zooming into right. Then if you don't like the way something looks, you can just hit undo, that little left arrow, or you can utilize the eraser tool and you can erase as well. If you don't like how your writing looks, you can also utilize the text box option, which is this little t. If you tap on the t, you'll get the different options for the type of fonts that you might want to use. I'm going to select this Arial since that's what I was using for the design. Then I'm going to adjust the size down to 12 and then I'm going tap on the color and I'm going to update the color. Then I'll create a text box here by tapping, and then I'm going to update the color from the orange to black, and then I can write using a text box versus my actual writing. Then I can highlight by taking my Apple pencil and double-clicking and triple-clicking, and then I can increase the size if I need to. Then when I'm done, I can tap my keyboard so that it goes in. Once I'm done writing, I'll be able to move this by just tapping on the box and moving it around. I can also resize things as needed by pulling my edges out. Some people prefer this versus using something like the pen to write notes with. It just depends on what you like and what you're going for. We can also add images to our layouts as well. If we tap that little picture icon, you can add images from your picture roll. Once you've tapped on that picture icon to the right, you'll see a little camera and then you'll see your picture roll. You can just tap on something and it'll add it to your layout here and you can resize by pulling your edges out. This is a good way to add stickers or any visuals that you might want or have in there. If you don't want the image, there should be a little red circle with an x in it, you can just click on that and it'll delete it. You can also create shapes. If you select your shape tool, you can draw a shape and then it will automatically create that shape for you. Say you want to create a triangle. It'll create that triangle for you. You can also utilize the erase tool to erase that. You can do circles as well. We can erase that. Another thing that people like to utilize in these planners are digital stickers. We didn't go into how to create digital stickers because I have quite a few classes on how to do this already. But I do want to show you how you can utilize your digital stickers as well. I'm going to X out of this planner by hitting that little X button in the upper left-hand corner and it's going to take me back to my main menu. I am going to go into a sticker book I already have, which is just like a functional sticker book. What's really nice is that I already have these pre-loaded in my file system. But you can also utilize your side-by-side view to pull in any stickers from, say, a different file that you may have. But if you have them pre-loaded in your GoodNotes, what you can do is turn on your pen options and you'll want to select your Lasso tools and you can zoom in and select a sticker of your choice. Hold your finger down, you'll get a pop-up. What you'll want to do is select "Copy" and then you can go back into your planner. Let's go into our daily again and then hold your finger down on the screen. You'll get another pop-up. You can click and you can add any specific stickers that you'd like. This one is like a meeting details sticker, so I can add that here. I can go back into that sticker layout or that sticker design and select any other elements that I want using that Lasso tool. I'll select the option, hold my finger down over it. Select "Copy", go back into my planner, hold my finger down on the page that I want to paste it on, get this pop-up, select "Paste." Then I can add my little reminder buttons and things like that here as well. You can also rotate and resize by pulling out your corners. Then if you're done with that sticker book, you can X out of it. Another way you can do this is turning your iPad long ways and using the side-by-side view. I'm going to pull up from my doc. Then I'm going to go into my file system here. I'm going to tap on my file system and then I'm going to drag it so that I can place it right next to GoodNotes. I'll have this side-by-side view. Then I'm going to go into some sticker files I have here in my file system. I can do a side-by-side view here. Anything that I have that is a JPEG or a PNG. Typically, you'll have pre-packaged sticker files. You can open those up on your side view in your file system and then you can just drag them over onto your GoodNotes app and then resize things as needed. Then in order to move them around, you just tap on them. You'll see that they are outlined in blue. You can resize as needed, rotate, and then move them to the place of your choice in your layout. Then if you don't want the item there, you can just tap on it and then select the X button and it'll delete it. The last thing that I want to highlight is the use of elements. This is something that's newer within GoodNotes. They already have some pre-designed elements in here, like everyday stickers, text stamps that are really fun. If you tap on that little, it looks like a bubble with a star in it. You can tap on the everyday sticker options and then you'll get these options here. We can click on this like the thanks a lot image. Then you can add them to your layout. You can also select these back to school options. Basically, these are just fun little widgets and stickers that you can add to your overall layout design. Then if we tap on that again and we scroll to everyday stickers, these are just things that are everyday items, food-related, stuff like that. You can create your own collections as well. There's also a mind map shapes if you prefer to utilize something like mind-mapping for your brainstorming. They also have a bunch of predesigned sticky notes that you can utilize within your layouts as well, which can be really helpful. The final thing that I want to share with you is how to add additional pages. Like I said, we have each month of the year outlined, but we only have one index page, one daily page, one weekly page, one habit page and one journal page. I'm going to turn off my pen options so that I can utilize my tabs. Say I want four weekly pages after January. What I could do is go into my weekly page layout. I can go into my thumbnail gallery view. I already have the page that I want selected, which is that weekly. I'm going to select that little drop-down arrow and I'm going to select duplicate this page. I'm going to duplicate it four times. I have four of them. It'll be five total because they have the original because I don't want to get rid of that one or move that one. While I'm in that gallery view, I want to move those four weekly pages behind my January page. I'm going to take that first one that I copied and I'm going to drag it after January. Take that second one, drag it after that one that we just placed and then do this for all four of the layouts so that I have four weekly pages after my January page and that'll allow me to have all of the weeks for that month after that monthly layout. This is a great way to make duplicates, add elements without messing up your tabs. Then I can hit "Close." Then you'll see if we go to our January month and we swipe left, you'll get your four weeklies. Then you can do the same thing. You can add dailies after as well. This just helps to make sure that the file isn't too big. When I'm loading it in onto something like GoodNotes, I can just make one version of each of my spreads and then duplicate those spreads in GoodNotes because it'll be more optimized to the app versus having 500 pages that I'm loading into GoodNotes from a PDF. This is just an easier way that I've found that allows me to keep my files not as large. If we tap on our daily, we still have our regular daily. We tap on our weekly. It's the first weekly in that layout that we already created. We tap on our habit page. It'll take us through a habit page. We can do the same thing. We can duplicate those and add them wherever we want them within our planner and our tabs will still work. But the thing is, you will want to tap on your monthly page. In order to get to those new weekly ones that we've created, you will have to swipe through, but then all the other months will work just fine. Then what you'll notice is that our tabs are animated. You see them popping up as we tap on them and that's because of the design elements that we created when we were working in Affinity Designer as we were laying out the page. Now, if you want to get back to your edit options, just tap on that arrow icon in the upper left-hand quarter. It'll give you all of your options at the top of your GoodNotes interface. Then you'll be able to go back to utilizing all of your pen options once you turn them on. You can write on your quote page, you can add your to-do list. You can draw pictures. You could do whatever you want on top of this without necessarily ruining the design underneath, because the design underneath is basically going to stay the same every single time because it is a PDF. Then you're just adding on top of it with the images, the stickers, and your pen functions and things like that. That is it. That is the design for our digital planner. I hope you found this helpful and I hope you are able to create the planner of your dreams. 20. Course Outro: [MUSIC] Thank you so much for watching and I hope you found this course interesting and helpful. I really hope that you're more comfortable creating digital planners with the Affinity Designer and Keynote apps on your iPad. My hope is that you can begin creating a planner that will bring you planner peace. Remember to load some screenshots or a link to the full version of your final planner to our class project gallery. I would love to see what you made. Remember, if you want to learn more about me and my work, you can visit me online at www.bellasophiacreative.com. If you want to shop any of my digital planning products, you can do so on Etsy at Bella Sophia Creative or on Creative Market. I'll be sure to leave some links in the class description box. Finally, if you want to get a behind the scenes view of the work that I do as a creative freelancer and what goes into making these classes, make sure you follow along on YouTube at The Freelance Life. Thank you so much for learning with me today. I'll see you in the next one. Bye.