u/karavasa

Hello r/planners! This post is meant to share some tips and info as we all make our decisions on which planner(s) we'll be picking up in 2027. It'll include both some general suggestions and details on releases for some of the more popular brands that get discussed on the sub.

As a reminder, if you'd like to make a post to ask for a planner recommendation, please give us as much info as you can to help guide the suggestions. At a minimum, it would be helpful to know some basics about what style planner you're looking for (bookbound, discs, rings, daily, weekly, etc.), the size range you're interested in, budget, and the country you live in. Telling us a little about your lifestyle will also be helpful; our recommendations for a college student, a working parent, and a retiree may be pretty different.

Recommendation threads tend to get the most responses when they include enough detail to give users a picture of your needs, but if you're looking for something really specific, you'll probably get more responses if you can split your wishlist into must-haves and general preferences.

Planner Season Tips:

• Once you decide which planner you want, order as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. Many of the brands recommended here are small businesses with limited stock, and they may sell out of the size/color/layout you're most interested in. They may or may not offer restocks.
• If you preorder a planner, pay close attention to the estimated delivery timeline. You may want to keep tabs on the brand's social media channels for news or updates. Remember that preorder shipping estimates are based on things going as planned and that delays from the factory or shipping agent may be outside the brand's control.
• If you want to follow the news about a particular planner, many brands have private Facebook groups that are probably your best resource for this. Signing up for a brand's email newsletter should get you the basics, but the private groups may get extra previews and more detailed information.
• Keep in mind that many of these businesses will be dealing with a very high volume of orders despite having limited space and staff. That's not to say you shouldn't expect good customer service, but having realistic expectations will help. When ordering during peak planner season, your order will probably take a little longer to pack and ship.
• If you're a US customer, remember that tariffs may still be causing higher prices this year—even from US sellers, who still need to pay fees on products they order from overseas. The closing of the de minimis exemption also means that you might be charged extra if ordering from a seller outside the US. Don't like that? Contact your federal representatives, and vote in November for candidates who'll prioritize more consumer- and small business-friendly policies. (The specifics can vary depending on what the product is, what country it's coming from, and how they ship, so these fees may already be built into the cost of the planner. When in doubt, look for details!)

I'll update the release info below as I see updates mentioned, but this is not meant to be a comprehensive list of available planners. It's just the most recent info I've come across for brands that tend to get mentioned in r/planners.

Many planners haven't released much info about their 2027 lineups yet, but more info should be coming out in July-August for most brands.

Preorders are already open for:

• Creffective Paper
• Faded Chronicle
• Hemlock & Oak
• Rosey Life
• Wonderland 222

Feel free to share updates about the brands you follow below. (This is meant to share info on releases our users are excited about though, so the r/planners rule against self-promotion still applies. Please keep all promo to our quarterly promotional threads.)

Welcome to the r/planners sub promotions thread for Quarter 3 of 2026! This thread is for sub members to share their products, shops, and social channels. Please read the full post before commenting, even if you've posted in a promo thread here before.

Users are welcome to leave a comment here to get the word out about their paper planners, rings or disc planner inserts, planner covers, and shops that sell related accessories. You can also link your planner-related social media channels here.

Sticker shops or shops that sell printables suitable for ring or disc planners are welcome to promote here if your products include only your own original artwork. Please don't link shops that feature any AI art or purchased/clip art designs. (Unfortunately this is the only way we can be comfortable that the original artists are being compensated fairly.)

This sub focuses on paper planners, so links to planning apps, Notion/Goodnotes templates, or other digital designs will be removed. Printables are allowed only if they're specifically designed to fit ring or disc planners. Websites meant to design custom printables may be allowed in some cases, but only if they generate pages with sizes and margins suited for ring or disc planners.

Please describe all your work in a single comment below (one comment thread per user/brand), and give readers an idea what your product, shop, or channel is about instead of just dropping a link. Make sure to include any info that you think users might be interested in. Any comments asking users to send a private message for more details will be removed to protect users from potential spam/scam activity.

This thread is designed for users to share their own projects, so comments that include affiliate marketing codes or affiliate coupons will be deleted.

Questions or feedback about these guidelines are welcome through modmail or in any current sub update thread, but please keep this one on topic so users who want to browse here can focus on our members' work. The next quarterly thread will be posted in early July. Thanks!

The previous post for Q2 2026 can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/planners/s/uHFxv6gQ3p

We all have our preferences when it comes to planner design. Horizontal vs. vertical weeklies, months grouped together vs. spread through the year, heavy structure vs. freeform, etc. But at what point do we decide a designer has plagiarized another company's work rather than offering their own spin on a design? Even if there was clear influence, does that matter to users, especially if they prefer one designer's tweaks or aesthetic?

This came up in a discussion under an older thread, and I'm curious about the community's thoughts.

Yesterday, u/Mysterious-One-9537 commented in a thread from last fall about Wonderland 222, including an allegation that Just Scribble copied W222's "tracker" page. The thread is here, but I should mention some of their posts were edited after or during my replies.

At first, the allegation seemed to be that a planner copied W222's tracker page. I've never had a W222 planner, but after looking it up, the tracker looks like a Gantt chart similar to the style that's been popular in bullet journaling for a decade or more? (I also had notebooks that included similar tracking pages for a college class I took in a year that started with 19.) After asking for clarification about if that was the layout they meant, the user said they thought both the tracker and the quarterly were copied. W222's quarterly is a two-page spread with a three month calendar on one side and a notes page on the other. Again, a three month per page quarterly is something I've seen around for quite some time. Maybe W222 originated this, but I've definitely had printables in this style back when I used to be more into rings.

At some point while I was responding to their reply, u/Mysterious-One-9537 edited their post to include a lot more specifics, which I'll quote entirely here:

>Actually I meant the quarterlies, but also the trackers, monthly review and over pages, index, and overall workflow of the planner stand out in comparison.

>While many individual planning concepts already existed separately, Wonderland222’s specific implementation and integrated planner architecture were highly distinctive in the U.S. market at the time of release. The combination of quarterly systems, review pages, numbered index systems, minimalist typography, subdued grayscale styling, trackers, and integrated workflow structure was not commonly found together in a single U.S. planner at that time.

>Given that the Just Scribble owner publicly reviewed Wonderland222 planners, participated in the Wonderland222 community, and later released planners with notably similar layouts, workflow systems, visual styling, and planning architecture, it is reasonable to conclude that Wonderland222 was a significant influence on the development of the Just Scribble planners.

>The similarities extend beyond broad planner concepts and into highly specific workflow structures, page sequencing, visual presentation, and layout styling. Considering the prior public engagement with Wonderland222 products and community spaces, I think many people would reasonably view Wonderland222 as a primary design influence behind the later planner systems.

>W222’s original quarterlies, trackers, monthly review and over pages, index, page numbering, and workflow especially stand out in that comparison.

While I definitely think it's fair to suggest planners influence each other, especially when there's evidence of someone knowing or using a specific system, when does that rise to the idea of "copying?" Would that same "copying" standard apply to the Japanese planners that many US and European brands were clearly riffing off of? Or to including elements that bullet journal users had popularized? When do we say things like "minimalist typography" originated with one designer instead of reflecting an overall trend?

Personally, I thought it was a little unfair to have this kind of lengthy conversation, including allegations against a specific brand, in a months-old post that will likely only be browsed by people who pull it up in a search for Wonderland 222. It seemed important to talk about that more in the open.

I should also mention that u/Mysterious-One-9537's level of detail and passion on the subject led me to review their post history, and pretty much all their content in r/planners involves recommending Wonderland 222 or pointing out potential issues with Just Scribble. Many of their comments show up months to years after a thread was posted, which suggests they're taking part in threads they find via search instead of just browsing the sub. They posted a recommendation for W222 about two years ago, then had no visible activity in r/planners until last planner season, when they took part in some current discussion about W222 but also popped into a thread from November of 2024 to praise the brand's "impeccable customer service." Then they went silent in the sub again until a few days ago, when they started showing up in (once again) months old threads to talk up the product and the company's owners. Two of these newer comments mention the 2027 lineup, which Wonderland 222 coincidentally just started teasing on their socials this week.

They've denied any affiliation, but hey, Aura Estelle did that to me too before a poster went all internet detective on that situation. I've advised the user that our rules say brand-heavy posting may be treated as promotional whether or not there's a direct link. I also mentioned that if they're not a W222 promo account, they're not doing the brand any favors by searching up old posts to hype in during planner season and brand-related news drops because if someone's posting pattern is indistinguishable from astroturf, people may draw their own conclusions.

Like I said, it just felt off to me to slide accusations into an inactive space instead of having it all out in the open where people can talk about the overall issues and form their own opinions. (If anyone's ever started a thread about planner design copying/originality here, I wasn't able to find it with a search.)

Hey folks, welcome to May! Whether you've stuck with one planner since January or have changed it up, hope you're all doing well with your planning through the first half of this year!

As of right now, the wiki bug we were experiencing last month seems to have cleared up, and you can view that new-ish FAQ here: https://www.reddit.com/r/planners/wiki/faq/. Please comment or modmail with any feedback or extra questions you'd like to see addressed. That wiki bug has seemed a little off-and-on, so I may wait another few weeks before adding this link to the sidebar.

Adding the BotBouncer app to the sub seems to be working well so far. Last week it banned and removed content from thirteen users, including an NSFW bot and all those wierdos that loved girly aesthetics but abandon their planners by February. Please keep reporting anything that seems unnatural or off-topic because that can help spot patterns of suspicious activity.

As a reminder, r/planners is primarily a user-to-user discussion space. If you have a shop, sell a service, design planners yourself, run a social channel, etc., you are welcome to talk planners as a regular user here! But please don't post about your work, repost your social content, or post things that are exactly like your social content just a slightly different shot from the one used on Instagram so that you're technically not reposting. Rules lawyering makes me grumpy.

I think this has come up in previous check-in threads, but it's probably worth repeating: mod discretion plays a role in rule enforcement. Yes, this means that folks with a track record of helpful contributions here get more benefit of the doubt than users with multiple post removals that I keep having to chat with. I realize this may seem unfair to folks who have a letter-of-the-law mindset, but from my perspective, the point of moderation is to maintain a community, not to give users chance after chance to poke at perceived loopholes. I am totally open to feedback on any moderation decision, but again, I personally put a higher value on input from folks who've been actively contributing to the sub.

Finally, just as a heads up, the kind of temporary bans that I use after repeat rule violations would usually be 1-2 months, but for now, I'm extending them until fall. This is a short-term thing meant to keep potential issues from cropping back up when I'm deeper into chemo. These are the kinds of bans that would happen after someone has had content removed several times and at least one personal check-in, but I still have some hope they can chill out and participate here. (As opposed to flat-out spammers, who get permabanned quickly.) It shouldn't affect too many folks, but I did want to mention it.

Thanks for all the well-wishes and for helping me out by reporting nonsense in the past month. Chemo hasn't been the most pleasant experience, but I really only have a few bad days in my first cycle and am fortunate to have a really good medical team and a ton of support. My planning routine has also been so important in terms of keeping me on track despite all these new appointments and details, so definitely keep working on your own habits and systems!