Welcome!
I'm Dia Meraz
I’m a lifelong paper lover with a soft spot for planners, journals, and seeing how other people actually use theirs.
I’ve never been someone who finds one perfect planning system and sticks with it forever. My planners change with my life, different sizes, different layouts, different seasons, and honestly, experimenting with all of it is part of what I love.
DiaMeraz.com is where I share those real pages, planner setups, journal flip-throughs, things I’m trying, and little pieces of everyday life along the way.
About me
How it All Started
Hi, I’m Dia! I’ve loved planners for as long as I can remember. I obsessed over a clear ring-bound planner at Barnes & Noble when I was a kid. I never got that one, but years later I bought my first Franklin Covey planner, and I was hooked.
For a long time, planning was mostly practical. I was raising a big family, running a photography business, managing a home, and trying to keep everything from slipping through the cracks. Writing things down gave me one place to hold all the moving pieces.
Over the years, planning became something I enjoyed just as much as something I needed.
I started experimenting with different sizes, layouts and all types of planners. My system is always changing because my life is always changing, and honestly, that’s part of what I love about it. This blog is where I share what I’m using, what’s working, what isn’t, the pages I’m filling, and the everyday life that ends up inside them.
a few random things
Get to Know Me
- Fun Fact #1: Mornings are my favorite. I’m usually up around 5:00 am and genuinely love the quiet before the rest of the world wakes up.
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Fun Fact #2: I’m a total homebody and introvert, even though I somehow ended up sharing my life on the internet.
- Fun Fact #3: I’m an ultrarunner and love long-distance trail running, which also gives me another excuse to make trackers and training pages. 😆
- Fun Fact #4: We’re technically empty nesters…except the nest hasn’t stayed completely empty.
- Fun Fact #5: I will happily spend far too long looking through someone else’s planner, journal, desk setup, or stationery collection.
