Any video that you want to make, I feel like you shouldn't even have to ask us whether we want to see it or not because your passion for the things that you like is so transparent in the way you approach them in your videos that it makes any topic you cover an absolute blast to learn about ❤

if anyone has questions about my filofax/commonplacing practice, i'll try and keep on top of comments this week! ❤‍🩹

We will always support you, Megan. Keep up the good work.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s been struggling with the heat! It’s unbearable at the moment.

I look for long videos so I can have background noise while I do chores or journal myself. That's how I found you. Thank you for them, I love them and you have such a soothing voice..

tip for hot weather, shower with warm or hot water not cold!! cold water makes your botdy work extra hard to heat your skin, tires you out and makes it feel hotter, warm water avoids this and hot water makes it so your skins cools instead, so this helps when its really hot at night and you cant sleep

you should look into getting a floor AC unit that you can plug in. its only gonna get hotter and if you can save up and get the accommodation for yourself it will be worth it. if not a dehumidifier and a fan are really helpful. you could also build a swamp cooler which is basically a box fan and a cooler full of ice. take it slow and don't worry about that the norm is to struggle for the heat and do what you need to do

I've read that Didion essay and it's really good! If you want more reading on physical manifestations of trauma, I'd really recommend the book "The body keeps the score". It's one of the best non-fiction books on psychology that I've read. Definitely not a fun reading topic but so illuminating and relevant.

Hey Megan. I haven't commented on your videos before, and am a very casual viewer. But I just felt the need to say given your commentary on the last few videos, and this included, I really appreciate any and all content you are creating, and respect whatever time you need off from KZfaq as well, considering. Your videos have been very helpful for me in the last few months, for many reasons through graduation and just general knowledge and inspiration for journaling and stimming, etc. Recently, my anxiety has been giving me a lot of struggles and it's been hard to be by myself, so your attic archives and the journal with mes are very good to just fall asleep to or keep me company throughout the day. Thank you for all you do and your hard work! Please take your time and again, appreciate everything.

I absolutely love when you talk for most of the video. It is great to come in and out of the tab when I am also working on stuff.

Thank you for this series! I've been having a lot of similar health issues lately that make it really hard for me to get up and do things that I actually want to do like commonplacing, as silly as that may sound, but this series has really helped me. It's nice to have a body double through the screen.

I’m normally quite the lurking watcher, but I wanted to pop by and say that I love your long videos. I find listening to your thoughts very relatable and the overall vibe is very relaxing. The struggle with the heat is real. As someone who struggles with chronic fatigue and living in Texas the heat absolutely sucks what little energy out of me and it’s miserable. I also think the big sad about your blackout curtains is that your room is already hot so when you close then they’re trapping that heat in your space. Maybe something you could look into this an evaporative fan, where you put ice and water in it, so it could help maybe during filming sessions, or just in general for shortish stints. Also absolutely in LOVE with your custom pages. I want to use them so badly but I don’t have a printer which is very unfortunate. Thank you for continuing to show up for us! I’m always looking forward to gloomy vids 🖤

Hi Megan! Love your videos ❤ About storing your pages, I suggest getting those frosted cover binders rather than the transparent ones. The transparent soft ones tend to attract mold and dirt a lot. It also kinda melts in hot weather which makes it sticky through time. The frosted ones are like hard plastic ones that hold out longer and store pages neater hehe. ❤

We've been seeing similar heat here in Germany the past few years. We also have multiple rooms in the "attic" and curtains won't do you much good. We have gotten semi-reflective foil for the window panes which seems to help quite well.

Filofax (and also Plotter, a comparable ring system) sells storage binders that look nice and uniform on a shelf. They come with labels for the spine, too.

Honestly I find the colours and the calm of your videos just so relaxing, I'd very probably watch anything you put out

I love that Didion article too.. "afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss" is one of those phrases that rattles around in my brain all the time lol

Would love to see the in-depth Filofax video! And, love this new format so much - I've had such a peaceful half-hour journalling with this on in the background 😌

You are So right, August is the 'bad' month here and this heat is super early and oppressive. It was nice to hear you talk about it- i felt understood :) Love your videos - especially the long ones :)

I definitely want to see an in depth filofax video! You must complete the channel lore! Lol

Loved this video !! So fun to watch you journal ! I love that you are explain the structure as you go along. It is really making it interactive and making Us think about our writing and topics!

I FEEL YOU on the heat intolerance, I live in the Pacific Northwest in the US where it's supposed to be rainy and foggy most of the year, and pretty moderate in the summer - it was 104º F this week (or 40º C according to google). My art space is in our attic and I physically can't be up there right now, it's absolute misery and I am dying 🙃 Also any videos you make are lovely, but please don't shy away from long ones! I also watch long videos while I work and your voice is super relaxing, so yours are some of my favorites!

Im in the US, but also lived most of my life in incredible heat with only fans. Blackout curtains do help, but black actually attracts and holds sunlight. Find some reflective surface (we always used panels of insulation, the shiny metal colored plastic kind, we get it in rolls from the hardware store, but tin foil will work in a pinch), and fit them in behind the curtains. It reflects the light, it makes a HUGE difference.

I understand your pain when it comes to the heat. Where I live in Canada we don't have air con either and I live on the fourth floor of an apartment building 💀At least my cat enjoys it... We had an unseasonably hot spring this year so I started struggling sooner than usual. Luckily we've had a bit of a break in the weather before summer goes full force. I hope you get a break soon too.

100% for the journal with me vibes. Also, body doubling is amazing.

I was rewatching this with audio this time around and heard you mention the heat; imo the blackout curtains (esp if they’re thick) are just going to trap the heat inside the room and indeed make it worse. When the weather is hot, it’s important to prioritize ventilation and let the breeze in because if your windows are closed the room is *going* to cook you. The lighter the curtains the better (as long as they keep the rays of the sun out). I live in the SEA and the heat here this month is similarly awful

Haha it was very awkward listening to you read my comment. Thank you for answering. 😅 Dividing things (even journal entries) by topics is an interesting idea. Also what you said about blank back of the pages. If I journaled in a filofax, I think I'd get these bookbinding rings to store the loose paper sheets, and make covers for each month. Or even tie them with ribbons or strings. I'm looking forward to that video about how you use your filofax. 😊 I keep looking for The System too and I can relate to the autistic thing. 🙈 Edit: YES, that's what I mean, it's annoying to have really personal journal entries in the back of commonplace ones, especially if they're unrelated.

"a nice cool 33c". And i thought my flat being 28C was bad! But this sounds utterly foul. It wasn't until mid-July last year that the weather was really hot - I remember moving scottish bank holidays to compensate for it.

I really related with a lot of what you said esp on body doubling. I also love your vulnerability in discussing neurodivergence. You should make whatever gives you peace. Hope you’re doing better or were successful in advocating for yourself! You’ve got a new sub w me 😊

I got so happy seeing this video in my yt feed 🥰

A bit late bot black out for Windows has to be on the outside to keep the heat out, because otherwise its reflecting the heat back to the window glass heating it up even more or trapping the heat between the curtain and the window, also heating up the room

You are my favorite to body-double with and write papers :)

Great video, really enjoyed it. And would love to see a video on how you’re using your Filofax now that you’ve got the feel for it.

For those of you who have not experienced living in this heat with out air con, believe me she is NOT exaggerating- at all. If anything she isn’t saying enough. I used yo live in a 2 story so had the option of coming downstairs to sweat myself to sleep on the floor until the weather broke so I do empathize you’re up so high. 💔 I moved to FL where they equip living spaces with window unit air conditioning that you can order from Amazon and stick in your window. Is that not an option in the UK?

as an autistic living in the uk at the moment I ALSO feel like im way more senstive to the heat this summer, i nearly had so many meltdowns and its not even into the yearly like 30s and up that we get for two weeks!

I use the like composition notebook style binders that are meant to be for kpop photo cards to store A5 pages, printouts, etc. I really like the simple aesthetic of them, and they're perfect for holding things and looking like a nice little archive. Enjoyed the calming vibes of this video.

I feel like June is often the warmest month in the uk though, my birthday is in august and it’s always cool and rainy, so a lot of the heat might be behind us 🥺❤️

Blackout curtains are no good in the heat. Get some lace curtains. I have lots of experience from living in Australia 😅 it’s 30c on a cool day in summer here in QLD and then imagine in winter, it’s just a nice day for you. 5-15c. We survive with rotating fans or water coolers, air conditioning & shorts/singlets. You got this girl, just try your best. I could imagine if it ever snowed here I’d die from frost bite, meanwhile you’re struggling with heat stroke! Lots and lots of water too.

Struggling with the heat massively too! I’m a IIH and PMLE sufferer so the change in air pressure is a killer for my migraines and the sun/UV/general heat brings me out in hives soooo bad! It’s just absolutely unbearable! Regardless of having the issues I have, I just find heat SO overstimulating in general! Interested in where you find the images that you stick in your filofax…do most come from tumblr etc? I love the little moon trinket, so pretty!

it’s 40+ celsius here in my country all the time and lowest it goes is 32 or 35. and it sucks. all my candles have melted and my room is like hellplace.

Loving this format! I would love to see how you use the journal (like if you could do samplepages of the printables you have or something like that, I'd love that.. cuz I'm not completely sure I'm using the pages correctly, haha) and also the stickers you've made. ☺

Yes! Please make a “how I use my Filofax” video 💕🙏

Like the videos. I journal with you. Your process demonstrates helpful ideas to use in my process. They are also relaxing.

As someone's whose full job is the archives and is kind of a nerd about it, if you plan to keep your backlog stored with clips remember that metal clips rust and tend to damage the paper (over years obviously but you know)

If you like reading about commonplacing and journaling there’s this Substack called Noted that I’m obsessed with!

Hello! I am late to this video! However, you spent, like, five minutes on the topic of "it's too hot", and I have some suggestions! First: point your fan out of the window, a few feet back - it will pull the hot air out. Don't put it right at the window, though. That'll do absolutely nothing. Also! You can put a bowl of ice in front of your fan, and it will blow cooler air. These are two separate tips, mind you. Don't want to blow the cool air out of your room. Also, you can throw some slightly misted towels in the freezer in some freeze-safe ziplocs, so that you can put them on your wrist/the back of your neck when it gets really, really unbearable. I've heard that fruit juice tends to help more with dehydration than straight up water in unbearable heat, but even just water will help. Keep yourself extra hydrated!! It has been way hotter in your neck of the woods than usual. Also, I think blackout curtains do usually help with heat, it might just have gotten hotter after you got them. Keep yourself safe!!

For storing you pages: you could try mesh storage bags! They’re affordable and they all look more or less the same :)

I use a6 size and I found good storage tin options on Etsy. Might be options for a5 too!

I use archival boxes of a kind the national achieve use. They do not change stylewise over time and are in classic brown cardboard shade - they can fade naturally when exposed to light. They are made in acid free paper and is made to store paper over decades. They come flat so you have to fold them but it makes it easier to get a couple and fold them when I need them. A question: what brand and size is your little cutting mat?

I love this. I actually journaled while I watched this. 😬

I highly recommend buying a fan

Great video ❤

the reason why you're feeling more the heat at this time of the year is because of El Niño. it did not started yet, however, we already can feel it.

I live in south Texas, and we’ve been in the triple digits 🥵 it hit 107 the other day.. It’s hot in Texas but man it’s only June! 🔥 my phone says that due to the humidity, it feels like 118 🔥🔥🔥

I don't want to overstep or anything, so if you don't want health advice from random strangers, feel free to skip past this comment. :) A lot of your symptoms remind me of my own struggle with Hashimoto's/thyroid disease. I was actually diagnosed because of my extreme fatigue and drowsiness. Other symptoms include intolerance of heat and/or cold, intolerance of physical activity, heartburn, nausea, headaches, eye/vision problems, and joint pain. Most people focus on weight gain/loss, but there are SO MANY other symptoms, and I seem to have all of them. So a quick blood test might be in order. And if your T4 and T3 come back wacky, it's important to get your thyroid antibodies checked as well because it can be caused by an autoimmune disorder, which is slightly different. Anyway, I love your videos. I'm a dedicated discbound person myself, but I did decide to make myself some new printables and switch to a different size/layout after watching your videos. I hope you feel better soon and get some answers!

Do you ever not feel like journaling? You’ve established it as a necessary part of your routine, but do you ever get so disconnected from journaling altogether that you take an accidental hiatus? I’m experiencing this currently and have basically switched notebooks this year as much as you, but I can’t get pen to paper right now even with so much on my mind. What’s your take on this?

It's not just you, my girlfriend, who lives in England says this year the weather jumped really fast and is really horrible.

I moved to Northern Ireland from Italy and I am envious of you lol we only reached a peak of 23… kinda sucks. 😢

megan i get you, here in india it gets like 40 degree plus so yeah i hate it too.

I've been using a Cousin this year and I'm interested in your Filofax system, but like you, I'm wary of taking in more information that might draw me away from a system I'm happy with. LOL!

Unfortunately, I think the difference between last year and this year is more climate change -.- . I highly suggest a cooling towel. It is a strange towel that you get wet, wring out, and can place on your neck or chest or wherever. It slowly evaporates and cools you down. Excellent to use with a fan. It does have a weird texture. I like the texture, but some might not. You do get a bit damp of you use it around your neck, but is super worth it.

as a fellow attic gurl you gotta cover all the windows

Hey! I was wondering the name of the article you mentioned, I’m very interested in reading it myself. If you still remember the name, of course! I really love your videos, and it makes me happy to know that there are people all over the world who love journaling just as me, it’s less lonely ♥️

I really like these videos about journaling. I know you feel very tired at the moment. Maybe you could videos about skating in the future? I am very interested in that at the moment

We're dealing with extreme heat rn here in texas😢 we had a heat index of 110°F the other day

13:32 I could see a file cabinet being a nice solution, maybe? You could put each group of papers in one of those hanging file folders? (Edit) omg your next sentence said the exact same thing I wrote in this comment, whoops

Hi megan, feel free to ignore if this is overstepping but I was wondering if you'd ever been tested for coeliac disease? A few of the symptoms you've been discussing the last few weeks (especially the fatigue) ring true with symptoms I was experiencing before my diagnosis.

Some people are afraid of the dark-I’m afraid of the bright.

American here with A/C. I was wondering why people in the UK are not able to purchase window A/C units? In the US, these are affordable and just attach to the window of a room. Thanks!

Also, would love to see a Filofax video

It’s absolutely awful hay fever wise too. Ive joined team pink inhaler as a result. It’s never ever cool!

Will you be restocking the gloomies vol 1 again? Thank you!

Why does the UK not have aircon?

Hi, I think you forgot to link the article which you mentioned at the end. Can you please tell me where it's from? ☺

Do u still use the hobonichi?

I wish I could send you my air conditioning. I'm from the south (in the US) and we know unbearable heat/humidity. Be kind to yourself, drink lots of water, and do what you can when you have the energy to do it!