”Visioning”Journal FAQs

How to Use Your Vision Board in GoodNotes

A simple guide for adding your photos + words each month.

GoodNotes is a beautiful way to journal digitally — and it works perfectly with your Visioning Journal.

Here’s how to use it with ease:

Import Your Vision Board PDF into GoodNotes

1.   Download the PDF to your device     2.    Open GoodNotes

3.    Tap + New (top right)

4.    Choose Import

5.    Select your Vision Board PDF

6.    GoodNotes will open it as a new digital notebook

✔ Set your scrolling direction to horizontal 

✔ You can now write on it

✔ Add images

✔ Decorate it like a digital scrapbook

Add Photos to Your Vision Board (GoodNotes)

1.    Tap the Image icon in the toolbar

2.    Choose Insert from… Photos / Files

3.    Select the picture you want

4.    Drag to resize

5.    Place anywhere on the template

Tips:

You can crop images by tapping once → Crop

Use overlapping for a collage feel by sending layers back or forward

Add depth by layering images with stickers or handwriting. The journaling card stickers are coming!

Add Text or Words (GoodNotes)

You can add text in two ways:

Option A — Handwriting

• Tap the Pen tool

• Choose colour + thickness 

• Write directly on the page

  
  

Feels intuitive and ritual-like.

Option B — Typed Text

• Tap the Text tool (T)

• Tap anywhere on the page

• Type your intention, word, mantra or description

• Resize the text box 

• Move it to your chosen spot

  
  

Perfect for clean digital layouts.

Save + Revisit Your Vision Board

Your board saves automatically.

To revisit next month:

• Tap on the relevant tab to open a month or year the page

• If one page is not enough - duplicate it! I only kept mine to one page so I could print and frame it for my desk to see it visually everyday!

• Keep each month together like a digital journal

  
  

You can also export your finished board as a:

• PDF

• Image to set as your phone wallpaper

• Page to share in Stories #hookedinrising

  
  

If you don’t have GoodNotes — try these simple alternatives

If You Don’t Have GoodNotes — Try These Simple Alternatives

Your Visioning Journal works beautifully without specialised apps. Here are gentle options for every device:

Option 1 — Your Phone’s Notes App - Free)

Open Notes (iPhone), Samsung Notes, or Google Keep

Insert the Visioning Journal PNG or PDF

Tap Add Image to place photos

Use the pen tool to write. Save to an album called Hookedin Rising Visioning Journals”

✔ Free ✔ Easy ✔ Perfect for beginners

Option 2 — Screenshot + Edit (Instant)

• Screenshot the Visioning Journal page

• Open the screenshot

• Tap Edit → Mark up

• Tap + → Add Photo

• Add images from your camera roll

• Write your intentions with the pen

✔ No apps ✔ Takes 2 minutes ✔ Very intuitive

Option 3 — Canva (Editable Template can be purchased)

Perfect if someone wants a digital collage feel.

• Tap the Canva template link included

• Choose “Use Template”

• Tap Replace on any image

• Add your own pictures + text

• Download or save to your phone

✔ Beautiful layouts ✔ Creative freedom ✔ No Canva Pro

Option 4 — Print it (The tactile ritual)

Some people prefer hands-on creativity:

• Print the Visioning Journal template

• Cut out photos from magazines or your printer

• Paste them on

• Write intentions with pen

• Place it somewhere you’ll see daily

• I’d still save a digital copy so you have it to look back on instead of it landing in the bin!

✔ Grounding ✔ Tactile ✔ Perfect for altars, journals + home rituals

“The practise is not about manifesting from lack - it’s about expanding from alignment.”

Enjoy all the extras - the navigation links and tabs so you can switch from one board to another with ease, duplicate pages if you need extra space and read all the benefits, make it a ritual.

Choose words aligned to the Reiki-infused journaling Oracle deck!

Remember why you are here!