Ruby Granger #29 Is it soon yet?

[gossip_guy]

In that she’s essentially regurgitating an overused cliché… yes.

Ruby's really out here just trying to proudly pass off slightly reworded Hallmark card platitudes as her own original writing.

Affirmations: "I am more than the work I do."

I'd hope so, Rubert, considering you don't do any work.

 

[Griftwood]

”i wrote it x” - this reminds me (baby Griftwood story time) of the time I had learned a poem off by heart in one of my favourite books, and proceeded to write it down, and the teacher asked me if I’d written it all by myself, to which I said yes, because technically, I had. She went off to get another teacher so they could marvel at my genius, and was very disappointed when the other teacher informed her it was from a book. This was in kindergarten and I was five, though. What’s Roobee’s excuse?

 

[TheLadyTea]

”i wrote it x” - this reminds me (baby Griftwood story time) of the time I had learned a poem off by heart in one of my favourite books, and proceeded to write it down, and the teacher asked me if I’d written it all by myself, to which I said yes, because technically, I had. She went off to get another teacher so they could marvel at my genius, and was very disappointed when the other teacher informed her it was from a book. This was in kindergarten and I was five, though. What’s Roobee’s excuse?

OT - I did the same thing. I made a new friend in primary school and I told her that I liked a particular song (it was from some tv show I had just started watching). I sang it for her and then she asked me if I wrote it. For whatever reason I said yes. A couple weeks later she came back to me and I was like I just heard this song on tv and I don’t think you wrote it

I meant she was like not I was like

 

[mooncat]

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Ruby's really out here just trying to proudly pass off slightly reworded Hallmark card platitudes as her own original writing.

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Affirmations: "I am more than the work I do."

I'd hope so, Rubert, considering you don't do any work.

when i write my hand looks like the secret child of gollum and quasimodo (that’s on learning to write before school) so i need a second opinion on this: must it not be extremely uncomfortable to write on the left page with your hands constantly crashing into this huge spiral thing? or is this not how it goes for you? because i could never, it’s actually the reason i didn’t buy a planner from ruby

 

[gossip_guy]

when i write my hand looks like the secret child of gollum and quasimodo (that’s on learning to write before school) so i need a second opinion on this: must it not be extremely uncomfortable to write on the left page with your hands constantly crashing into this huge spiral thing? or is this not how it goes for you? because i could never, it’s actually the reason i didn’t buy a planner from ruby

It's not just you, that thing is a disaster of form and function.

The design of the spreads looks somehow even more cluttered and full of pointless, redundant bull this year, too. They've added 'Weekly Overview' sections just to shove in even more pointless to-do lists within to-do lists and goals within goals.

 

[CatCafe234]

It's not just you, that thing is a disaster of form and function.

The design of the spreads looks somehow even more cluttered and full of pointless, redundant bull this year, too. They've added 'Weekly Overview' sections just to shove in even more pointless to-do lists within to-do lists and goals within goals.

Ruby’s planner genuinely stresses me out - it epitomises Ruby’s belief that being productive means doing lots of unnecessary stuff. It would literally take me all of my time just to fill the damn thing in, let alone it being any kind of aid to productivity.

 

[Ilaariaa]

Ruby’s planner genuinely stresses me out - it epitomises Ruby’s belief that being productive means doing lots of unnecessary stuff. It would literally take me all of my time just to fill the damn thing in, let alone it being any kind of aid to productivity.

I don't think it's very smart to design a planner that's so cluttered with lists and different overviews and stuff like that.
Planning is very personal and I feel like a lot of people like to get sort of "blank-slate" planners with minimal structure that they can then customize as they wish. And for people who don't have the time to customize their planner and want something more straightforward and ready to use, they don't have time to fill out so many different lists either and would probably prefer a simpler layout.

 

[theMoth]

maybe a spiral notebook is cheaper to produce than a *searches for the correct English word* you know... binding ... book binding ... thingy.
I have a gratitude journal by kurzgesagt/in a nutshell (the youtube channel). It's nice. I love notebooks and lists and calendars. But I would never buy Ruby's planner.

 

[GoinDowntown]

when i write my hand looks like the secret child of gollum and quasimodo (that’s on learning to write before school) so i need a second opinion on this: must it not be extremely uncomfortable to write on the left page with your hands constantly crashing into this huge spiral thing? or is this not how it goes for you? because i could never, it’s actually the reason i didn’t buy a planner from ruby

I have big blank spiral notebook that I stole from my office and yes the spiral gets in the way when it's lying open, but I just fold the whole thing over when I want to write on the side where the spiral is higher than the current page, so it's one page on top and then the spiral sits nice and flush at the same level as the top page ;-)

 

[wastelandbaby]

when i write my hand looks like the secret child of gollum and quasimodo (that’s on learning to write before school) so i need a second opinion on this: must it not be extremely uncomfortable to write on the left page with your hands constantly crashing into this huge spiral thing? or is this not how it goes for you? because i could never, it’s actually the reason i didn’t buy a planner from ruby

Speaking as someone who's left handed and refuses to use any type of spiral bound notebook for this reason - it's very uncomfortable! It's poorly designed in general. How many students want to carry around something so bulky in their bag? That's not even taking into account that the spiral bounding seems to fall apart with minimal use.

 

[Mediamusings]

when i write my hand looks like the secret child of gollum and quasimodo (that’s on learning to write before school) so i need a second opinion on this: must it not be extremely uncomfortable to write on the left page with your hands constantly crashing into this huge spiral thing? or is this not how it goes for you? because i could never, it’s actually the reason i didn’t buy a planner from ruby

As a left-handed person, I can attest that writing on the right side of the page with a big spiral like that is extremely annoying, because it always gets in the way, and I imagine that's true for the left side of the page too. We had to use notebooks with big spirals like that in elementary school, but I would never use one now for that exact reason. Big spiral notebooks like that are just a poorly thought out idea. The number one complaint about Ruby's planner is that the pages start to fall out pretty soon after you start using it. That is because a big spiral like that is super flimsy. As someone else said, Ruby really couldn't cough up the money to commission a notebook with a less annoying, higher quality spine?

 

[TheLadyTea]

That is because a As someone else said, Ruby really couldn't cough up the money to commission a notebook with a less annoying, higher quality spine?

of course she couldn’t, that would eat into her charity money.

 

[gossip_guy]

As someone else said, Ruby really couldn't cough up the money to commission a notebook with a less annoying, higher quality spine?

She made the mistake of just nodding along as her management team lazily built her a cheap and crappy company with her name all over it, sourced the most laughably limited selection of lazily-designed, low quality garbage and charged ridiculous prices for it all. The suppliers they use clearly can't actually offer much of a variety of stock to use for their half-assed design templates. Which is why Ruby and Jack Edwards' company both use all the same basic planners and notebooks just with different designs printed on them.

Ruby could've built her own respectable stationery brand of high-quality products if she wanted to put in the work to set up better suppliers and actually put in effort to grow the company. But she's a lazy, greedy toad who doesn't want to work for anything. She doesn't care about the integrity of her personal brand or how badly and how often she grifts her fans. She'll just keep grifting until people wise up and stop buying and then she'll wash her hands of it all.

 

[StatusWoe]

goals within goals.

''Even my goals have goals'' - Ruby Granger, Productivity Queen.

And yes I chose that image because of the outfit. I'll be sorely disappointed if Ruby's collar doesn't expand to this size.

”i wrote it x” - this reminds me (baby Griftwood story time) of the time I had learned a poem off by heart in one of my favourite books, and proceeded to write it down, and the teacher asked me if I’d written it all by myself, to which I said yes, because technically, I had. She went off to get another teacher so they could marvel at my genius, and was very disappointed when the other teacher informed her it was from a book. This was in kindergarten and I was five, though. What’s Roobee’s excuse?

Aww. That's cute when a 5-year old does it, but it'll be somewhat less endearing when 25-year old* Ruby decides she's 'written' a copy-pasted novel.

*I know she's not 25 yet. I'm expecting it to be a while before her book finds a publisher.

I don't think it's very smart to design a planner that's so cluttered with lists and different overviews and stuff like that.
Planning is very personal and I feel like a lot of people like to get sort of "blank-slate" planners with minimal structure that they can then customize as they wish. And for people who don't have the time to customize their planner and want something more straightforward and ready to use, they don't have time to fill out so many different lists either and would probably prefer a simpler layout.

Totally agree. Most people would rather have a planner they can modify to suit their needs. I feel it's another example of Ruby's thought process, where something that applies to her must therefore apply to everyone. I'm surprised she doesn't have a section for 'my favourite teas' or 'tea of the day' in her planner.

 

[Griftwood]

”Study snack ideas” are now ”academic reflections” Her preoccupation with food really is that pervasive.

 

[gossip_guy]

”Study snack ideas” are now ”academic reflections” Her preoccupation with food really is that pervasive.

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And yet again she's pushing the idea that tiny, insubstantial snacks = productivity. I've never once heard her encourage anyone to eat a full, nutritious meal. She's complete rum.

The only microscopic upside is that she didn't pre-fill this section with undeclared ads for all her gifted snack bars.

 

[rubysdeadfly]

Her to-do lists are so strange to me, I know a lot of neuro divergent people have to write very specific to-do lists because they forget things etc so this isn't a comment on that but Ruby has said herself she is neuro typical (whether she is or not is a conversation for another day) but why does she have to specify "get up, make bed, have shower" these are surely second nature so she doesn't need to tick it off and doing them isn't 'productive' (again, if you're struggling to get out of bed then these are achievements but this isn't Rubys case) I feel like she just likes to tick things off but in the process it's making her and her fans feel rubbish when they aren't productive when in reality 80 percent of the stuff on her to-do lists arn't productive

 

[igotosleep]

hi guys, i've been lurking for ages, but finally bit the bullet and made an account because I am desperate to read Erimenty's To Do List, but I don't want to give Ruby money lol. I read the first free chapters on amazon and you know when something is so bad it's good.... Does anyone have a link to download a pdf version of the book by any chance? thank youuuuuu

 

[Ilaariaa]

Her to-do lists are so strange to me, I know a lot of neuro divergent people have to write very specific to-do lists because they forget things etc so this isn't a comment on that but Ruby has said herself she is neuro typical (whether she is or not is a conversation for another day) but why does she have to specify "get up, make bed, have shower" these are surely second nature so she doesn't need to tick it off and doing them isn't 'productive' (again, if you're struggling to get out of bed then these are achievements but this isn't Rubys case) I feel like she just likes to tick things off but in the process it's making her and her fans feel rubbish when they aren't productive when in reality 80 percent of the stuff on her to-do lists arn't productive

It's because Ruby doesn't really have anything to do now but she still has to feel productive. She can't allow herself to relax.
At the moment I'm not doing anything because I just finished my exams, I'm not working, and it's too soon to start studying for the exams I'll have in September, so I'm kinda just hanging out at home every day now until next week when I'm going on holiday. I don't really have anything productive to do other than doing housework and keeping up with my French. But since I worked my butt off the rest of the year and I'm not a productivity freak I can just enjoy the free time and spend most of the day relaxing without feeling guilty or horrible about myself.
Ruby is in a similar situation and will be for the rest of her gap year, so now she just fills her to-do list with dumb routine stuff just to feel productive when she can check it off. She was doing it before but now I imagine it'll get even worse because she doesn't really have anything else on her to-do list.

 

[FolderDuvet]

She made the mistake of just nodding along as her management team lazily built her a cheap and crappy company with her name all over it, sourced the most laughably limited selection of lazily-designed, low quality garbage and charged ridiculous prices for it all. The suppliers they use clearly can't actually offer much of a variety of stock to use for their half-assed design templates. Which is why Ruby and Jack Edwards' company both use all the same basic planners and notebooks just with different designs printed on them.

Ruby could've built her own respectable stationery brand of high-quality products if she wanted to put in the work to set up better suppliers and actually put in effort to grow the company. But she's a lazy, greedy toad who doesn't want to work for anything. She doesn't care about the integrity of her personal brand or how badly and how often she grifts her fans. She'll just keep grifting until people wise up and stop buying and then she'll wash her hands of it all.

The role of PP in her life varies wildly depending on what Ruby is trying to show about herself. One week she'll be billing herself as a successful business owner and stationery designer, the next she downplays it to avoid criticism because it's shittily run by her management.

Pumpkin Productivity is an element of Ruby's brand that is very frustrating. In its current state, she'd be best just distancing herself from it, acting more like Zoella: she had some design say but ultimately it isn't handled by her. I think her management has probably warned her against this honesty because the only reason anyone buys any of it is because they think it's something Ruby was intimately involved in designing and handlng (because she literally says so.)

If she wanted to put in the effort and actually create some good resources, she could. I can't imagine PP being more than a brief concern on her periphery that she only thinks about when she has to do a merch spot or ok some planner designs. It doesn't take more than 5 minutes to come up with some brilliant ideas that would be specific and popular with her audience:

• Reading log. 20-30 pages. On a double page spread we have on the left side a page for writing down the key info and stats about a book (title, author, dates read between, key themes, character names etc) on the right hand side is something to hold sheets of notes you make on the book.
• English Lit study pages (do these as digital download or as a pad like her to-do lists) for various bits of analysis: Character analysis with space for name, traits, and then lined space with a column for quotes and one for analysis; Theme analysis with space for overview, then column for space for examples and analysis; Interpretation analysis pages with space for name of interpretation of text (so for Richard III space to write 2016: Ralph Fiennes Production) space for bits added, space for bits taken away, space for how 4-5 key moments were handled.
• Literature Essay Plan Pages (digital download or as a pad) Essay Q at top, space for 1-2 sentence outline of argument, space for para 1-4, space for introduction and conclusion with perhaps even some CGP style tips.

Thats 5 product ideas she can have, gratis. But you're quite right, gossip_guy, she's lazy and these would have taken 2 minutes to come up with each.

hi guys, i've been lurking for ages, but finally bit the bullet and made an account because I am desperate to read Erimenty's To Do List, but I don't want to give Ruby money lol. I read the first free chapters on amazon and you know when something is so bad it's good.... Does anyone have a link to download a pdf version of the book by any chance? thank youuuuuu

There is, in the first few threads on Ruby Granger, a user who has done an absolutely hysteric breakdown of each chapter of that book. I recc going back and having a look at those.