Managing time

The cooperation offered her more chances. She visited a stationery company in Japan, communicated with its designers, and it enabled her to promote her own designs, including pens, notebooks and bags.

"From creating planners to sharing planners and stationery, and now designing planners and stationery, it's like having fun in an amusement park. And then I began to draw the design and create the facilities by myself," says Gao.

She published a book, titled Write Here Write Now, recently, telling her stories related to making planners. She spent a year on that.

Many people are attracted by the beautiful and innovative planner pages, so they enter the circle, but at the end of the day it is the feeling of grasping life that keeps them there, she says.

"The planner is a carrier and life is the content. If one lives a boring life, you cannot find good content in their planners. But if one lives enthusiastically, you'll definitely feel the passion from what they create," says Gao.