Alternatives to Highlighters!

If you are anything like me, you hate the bleed though that happens when you use highlighters on Filofax paper! 

People will say "why not try the gel highlighters? They work great!". I tried them and I really dislike the waxy feel of them :)

 **I was the kid who hated crayons and loved markers and leads.** 

So I had no idea what to do.. I like to color code my planner to a point, I don't like carrying many things with me, and only thin pens fit in the pen loop. Needless to say I was frustrated and disappointed! 

Then it hit me! Colouring leads!! They can let me "highlight" without bleed through or that waxy feel. 

So I got to work choosing colours to mean different things. For me, I have 3 classes so each have a color (entrepreneurship is green, accounting is blue, and information systems is purple) and then I use pink for any appointments or personal meetings. 

What I do when I want something I stand out like a doctors appointment or an exam I draw a box around it with the appropriate color lead and shade it in lightly. This draws my eye to it when I open the page. 

When I am making a todo list for class such as work on part of an assignment and read certain pages I will write the class number, draw a box around it & shade it in, then make my list underneath. 

So far this method is working for me really well! I am please with it. 

Here is an example from next week! The numbers are pages to read and take notes on for my classes. (The numbers are the the numbers for my classes). You can also see how I color an appointment on Sunday I coloured my dogs training class. 

Hope you all enjoyed reading this! Hope it helps those of you who have struggled with this like me!! 

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Stephanie xo