Planner Peace: 7 Ways the B6 Companion Notebook Works With My A5 and B6 Journals

B6 Companion Notebook Uses

Achieving “Planner Peace” isn’t about having a single, perfect journal—but for me, it’s also not about having ten. Indexing still lets me keep a lot in one notebook, but I did still run into page economy. Even with the most page-rich planners on the market (like mine), I never had enough space for long journal entries or art sketches, and I got tired of counting pages.

That’s why I created the B6 Companion Notebook.

Before designing our A5 journal, I relied on this small notebook to keep my journal entries, prayers, and art separate from my daily planning. Even now, with so much more space in my main journal, I still believe a small companion notebook is an essential. If your goal is cleaner pages, a companion notebook helps stop the clutter.

Here are seven ways this small but mighty notebook helps me keep my main planner focused—while ensuring that I don’t have to wonder, “Where did I put that note?”

Drawing art in my cosmo air light b6 companion notebook while I keep track of my day in my A5 delphina undated planner. Art is all I need sometimes, even if it’s simple sketches. They make some of my favorite journal entries.

Tools:

• Monteverde Regatta Pen
• Monteverde Black Documental Ink
• Owl Paper A5 Undated Planner Journal
• Owl Paper B6 Companion Journal

An intense day of time-blocking in my tomoe river paper B6 planner and a journal entry in my B6 slim companion notebook. The day was so packed and it was great to have a fallback to journal in so I didn’t abuse the numerous pages in my planner.

Tools:

• Pilot Kakuno Pen
• Monteverde Black Documental Ink
• Owl Paper B6 Dated Planner (2025)
• Owl Paper B6 Companion Journal

Setting up my day in my B6 tomoe river paper planner and then having an anxious day and doing a two page written meditation with art to calm my heart down. I remember the physical feeling of my heart pounding at the beginning and slowing my the time I reached the last words, “IN and OUT.” It’s so helpful to me to mix lettering and art and journaling in my anxious times.

Tools:

• Pilot Kakuno Pen
• Platinum Carbon Ink
• Owl Paper A5 Undated Planner Journal
• Owl Paper B6 Companion Journal

Looking back. I like to be able to page back and read my memories in my cosmo air light notebook while still being able to stay grounded in the week.

Tools:

• Conklin Endura fountain pen
• Conklin Rich Mahogany ink
• Owl Paper A5 Undated Planner Journal
• Owl Paper B6 Companion Journal

As a reminder of the breathing meditation I created two weeks ago while I’m planning the daily spreads in my A5 undated bullet journal planner.

Tools:

• Pilot Kakuno Pen
• Platinum Carbon Ink
• Owl Paper A5 Undated Planner Journal
• Owl Paper B6 Companion Journal

To check on my “future log” while I plan or complete plans, so I’m not forgetting anything and so there’s not as much flipping around.

Tools:

• Pilot Kakuno Pen
• Platinum Carbon Ink
• Owl Paper A5 Undated Planner Journal
• Owl Paper B6 Companion Journal

To journal long prayers. My prayers take on a life of their own and don’t always fit in a daily planner.

Tools:

• Pilot Kakuno Pen
• Platinum Carbon Ink
• Owl Paper B6 tomoe river paper planner journal
• Owl Paper B6 Companion Journal

Tools:

• Monteverde Regatta Pen (right)
• Monteverde Documental Black highlighted with Zebra Mildliners (right)
• Platinum Preppy pens and Platinum blue black and carbon black ink, plus Octopus ink axolotl
• Owl Paper A5 Undated Planner Journal
• Owl Paper B6 Companion Journal

One of my favorite uses for my B6 companion journal is a prayer George Mueller style journal. If you’ve never heard of George Mueller, he was a guy who took care of 1700 children in his life that nobody else was able to care for (or didn’t want to). He kept a book where he asked every single time they needed food, or money for buildings, or healing, and a date with the answered prayer.

Because it already has a left margin for the date, setup is just a dotted lined splitting the remainder of the page in half, vertically. Then I write down specific prayer requests and how and when they were answered. It is a huge faith builder. Would you want to answer prayers for someone who never even remembers they prayed them? Or notices that you answer? But God still does answer our prayers, even when we forget. But imagine how much more meaningful it is when we remember to thank Him. The story of the ten men with leprosy who were healed by Jesus while only one who came back to thank Jesus is always on my mind when I do my gratitude practice or my prayer journal. I always remember that he received a deeper level of healing because he remembered to notice and say thank you.

“I have found it a great blessing to treasure up in the memory, the answers God graciously gives me in answer to prayer. I have always kept a record to strengthen the memory. I advise the keeping of a little memorandum book. On one side – say the left-hand side – put down the petition, and the date when you began to offer it. Let the opposite page be left blank to put down the answer in each case, and you will soon find how many answers you get, and thus you will be encouraged more and more, your faith will be strengthened; and especially you will see what a lovely, bountiful and gracious Being God is; your heart will go out more and more in love to God, and you will say – it is my Heavenly Father Who has been so kind, I will trust in Him, I will confide in Him through His Son.” – George Muller